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3 Drivers for Implementing an Innovation Culture

Achieving the status of the Most Innovative Company of the Year is what most businesses aspire to. Innovation-centric research by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 2014—comprising of over 750 businesses in 17 different markets—brought to light some striking insights, in addition to rating the most innovative companies of the year. The organizations that grabbed top […]

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Strategic Decision Making with Machine Learning (ML)

Automation has a profound role in improving Operational Excellence and Decision making.  Organizations, these days, are increasingly using Machine Learning (ML) to improve the Strategic Decision making expertise of their leaders. Global research by MIT Sloan Management Review in collaboration with Google—involving 4,700 executives and a number of Key Informant Interviews—indicates that ML is gradually […]

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Data Governance Strategy

Data Governance is imperative to create a data-centric, insight-driven organization.  Governance is now high on senior leadership’s priorities owing to huge public uproar over data privacy, data disclosures instigating harm to enterprises’ reputation, and stringent regulations. This warrants adopting a careful Data Governance Strategy; since in the absence of one, the huge data being piled […]

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Data Governance: Roles and Responsibilities

Data Governance is a set of practices that outline the roles and accountabilities related to data and support the organization’s Business Model by generating and consuming data.  It’s all about overseeing the accessibility, practicality, reliability and safety of enterprise data. Data Governance is guided by in-house data standards and guidelines to monitor data usage.  The […]

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How Teamwork Affects the Success of Your Startup

Can one person build an empire without a team? Practice shows that it’s unlikely. In fact, every success story is closely related to a well-coordinated team. This means that everyone who strives for great achievements needs to create a trusted circle of people and make sure that they realize their potential to the fullest! Thus, […]

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Strategic Priorities Identification and Analysis

Listed companies share their strategic objectives for investors’ and public consumption.  Websites, annual financial reports, and Form 10-K report are all critical resources to understand an organization, key offerings, competitive advantage, and market position. Research into the public documents of listed companies brings to light key data about these companies, their Strategies, and their Strategic […]

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Strategic Priorities

Almost every organization strategizes in the hope that it will lead to successful outcomes set by the management.  In several cases, strategies fail or are not as successful as they were hoped to be.  Strategy is innately complicated, explaining it necessitates intricacy, however executing it demands simplicity.  Strategies should essentially be simple enough, for leaders […]

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Corporate Compliance: Ending Unethical Behavior

Corporate non-compliance is a major issue across the world.  Highly public cases involving major corporations point to the fact that the usual descriptions of why business employees perform illegal acts are misdirected. No Compliance Program can completely eradicate unwanted conduct by a few employees.  Behaviorally aware programs, however, show potential of realizing the main goals […]

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Business Model Diversification

Strategic objectives of all businesses are to propel growth and performance, while simultaneously creating value for customers. While it is customary for managers to emphasize financial performance, effective managers pursue new opportunities in order to create added value. Business Model Diversification allows creation of value, if managed astutely, and can aid managers enhance performance and […]

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Core Competence Model

With ubiquitous Disruption threatening the technology infrastructure and Operating Models of organizations on a consistent basis, it’s an unrelenting challenge for senior leadership to create an enterprise proficient in introducing offerings in line with customers’ requirements and of desirable utility.  This can only be possible by developing competencies compulsory to innovate premium-quality offerings that are […]

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