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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

For instance, a bank might launch a property search platform where it advertises its mortgages, such as the property search site hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Alternatively, an accounting software company might offer additional services that cover legal incorporation, logo design, CRM, inventory management, and invoicing.

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The Pros and Cons of Robot Managers

Harvard Business

Although the idea may sound far-fetched, not least because the automation of jobs is usually discussed vis-à-vis unskilled labor rather than management-level positions, it is actually more feasible than most people think. Workers around the world are disengaged with their jobs, and poor management is a major source of this problem.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Is your small business making enough profit?

Asamby Consulting

If you manage to incur less cost and product stable or increasingly good results , your profits will increase as well. The better you are at finding good deals, the better the internal rate of return of your investment firm. Personal Alternatives Let's get back to our question. How much profit should a small business make?

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology. Depending on your theory of what made the model work, you may suspect different killers.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives

Harvard Business

billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012. They often openly advertise thinly-disguised criminal jobs in countries such as Belarus and Ukraine and use the new “employees” for low-level coding and as money mules.

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