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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

All of this is about revenue, the top line in the balance sheet. All the costs: marketing costs to acquire customers, onboarding costs to activate customers, and product development costs for the product itself. See Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation for some of those ideas.)

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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. The goal of compensation teams is to develop competitive compensation packages to recruit and retain strong talent. Learning and Development.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.