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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers.

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The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2023

Comatch

With so much to worry about, some executives have been slow to place sustainability at the forefront of their strategy. A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. .

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The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2022

Comatch

With so much to worry about, some executives have been slow to place sustainability at the forefront of their strategy. A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. .

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Companies do not become more global just because they have added worldwide product and brand teams, or global functions and councils, to manage centrally driven growth strategies and programs.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Or, are these companies failing the acid test for organization effectiveness, stumbling on execution brought about by lumbering, layered, and siloed organizational models, unsuited to delivering on diverse, global strategies?

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Take the subscriber-first strategy of The New York Times. Shift 3: See people as multipliers of value.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. The right composition and metrics.

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