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Purchasing Managers Have a Lead Role to Play in Cyber Defense

Harvard Business

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. If one cannot meet sufficient levels of performance, supply managers should be empowered to end the relationship. Hold supply managers accountable. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. They should be.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Marriott International: Marriott International is a global hotel chain recognized for its commitment to servant leadership. Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Manage each minute. Most reps miss the mark.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening. Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

” Explaining the tag line in a company statement, KPMG marketing officer Tim Pearson said, “The emphasis on clarity – not simply knowledge management or insight – in our brand advertising campaign strongly differentiates KPMG in the increasingly crowded business advisory arena and articulates KPMG’s business strategy.”