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The Effects of Misaligned Business and Analytics Objectives

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Summary: How do companies’ investments in data and analytics contribute to business benefits like profitability and growth? Should investments focus on talent, technology, or culture? Recent research highlights alignment between business and analytics objectives and capabilities as crucial. Even companies early in their analytics journey see value… Continue reading The Effects of Misaligned Business and Analytics Objectives

Decoding Venture Capital: Strategies and Insights

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Venture capital (VC) stands as a cornerstone of innovation, empowering high-potential start-ups to redefine industries and shape the future. In this article, we delve into the strategies and tactics that underpin the decision-making processes of venture capitalists, decoding venture capital. Drawing insights from industry pioneers and empirical… Continue reading Decoding Venture Capital: Strategies and Insights

Elevating Performance: Systemic Solutions Over Individual Productivity

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) Leaders consistently strive to enhance individual productivity, including their own. Yet, this endeavour often stalls at the surface level of time management training provided by the HR department. These sessions cover merits and drawbacks of techniques like Inbox Zero, the Pomodoro method, the Eisenhower matrix, Getting Things… Continue reading Elevating Performance: Systemic Solutions Over Individual Productivity

ESG Initiatives and Shareholder Value Creation: Two Key Factors

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) A significant critique of corporate sustainability has historically been its perceived prioritization over shareholders’ interests. This prioritisation potentially conflicts with managers’ fiduciary duty. However, in 2016, Professors Aaron Yoon, George Serafeim, and Mozaffar Khan published the paper “Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality” that began to challenge… Continue reading ESG Initiatives and Shareholder Value Creation: Two Key Factors

The Power of Dissonance: Why Conflicting Ideas Reinforce Business Strategies

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) In an ever-changing and unpredictable world, successful strategies are those that embrace a portfolio of options, rather than rigid roadmaps. A recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article emphasized the importance for companies to adopt strategies based on radical optionality. The article argues that conflicting ideas reinforce business… Continue reading The Power of Dissonance: Why Conflicting Ideas Reinforce Business Strategies

Second growth engine: what is it and how to develop one?

Second growth engine: what is it and how to develop one?

Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) In the quest for growth, companies traditionally relied on leveraging their core capabilities in adjacent markets. However, a new trend has emerged, with companies now focusing on constructing second growth engine–referred to as “engine twos” by Bain’s Zook and Allen. This shift has become even more critical… Continue reading Second growth engine: what is it and how to develop one?