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Electronic Technologies in the Information Mosaic: Where Managers Find Information
McKinnon, Sharon M.; Bruns, William J., Jr.Book Chapter HBS-8268BC-EAccounting and ControlAvailable technology should be a part of the solutions to serving managers' information needs, but technology alone will not guarantee better information for managers. It is important to design systems with managers' needs and preferences in mind. This chapter is excerpted from "The Information Mosaic: How Managers Get the Information They Really Need."Starting at €8.20
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What Gives Information Value to Managers
McKinnon, Sharon M.; Bruns, William J., Jr.Book Chapter HBS-8269BC-EAccounting and ControlEffective information systems cannot exist in isolation from the managers they serve. This chapter looks at how accountants and information system managers can improve the ways in which they provide data and information. This chapter is excerpted from "The Information Mosaic: How Managers Get the Information They Really Need."Starting at €8.20
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A Leap of the Mind: How Integrative Thinkers Connect the Dots
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8217BC-EThis chapter reviews three powerful tools for improving your integrative thinking capacity, offering aspiring integrative thinkers a few lessons from the work of Taddy Blecher, cofounder of CIDA City Campus, an innovative South African university. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20
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Reality, Resistance, and Resolution: How Integrative Thinkers Keep Their Options Open
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8209BC-EThis chapter illustrates how some business leaders have explored the tensions between opposing models of reality, and found creative solutions that go beyond trade-offs. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20
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Transformation Implementation: Execution
Tabrizi, BehnamBook Chapter HBS-8203BC-ELeadership and People ManagementOn completion of a 90 days transformation planning effort, the company stands ready to embark on the most critical phase of the process: the execution phase. This chapter highlights several best practices for transformation implementation and describes some of the more common barriers to implementation. This chapter is excerpted from "Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change."Starting at €8.20
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Cross-Functional Rapid Response Teams: Harnessing the Power--Rapid Transformation
Tabrizi, BehnamBook Chapter HBS-8195BC-ELeadership and People ManagementCross-functional rapid response teams are often considered the heart of the transformation effort. This chapter introduces the concept of these teams and explains their crucial role in the overall transformation effort, highlighting some important advantages to implementing rapid response teams. This chapter is excerpted from "Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change."Starting at €8.20
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Capturing the Value of Intellectual Capital: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8157BC-EThe ability to use intellectual property laws to capture the value of the firm's inventions, proprietary information, and other intangible assets is a key strategic advantage. This chapter shows managers how to use patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks both offensively and defensively. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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Using Contracts to Define and Strengthen Relationships: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8155BC-EThis chapter identifies the web of relationships inherent in any business, and explains how managers can structure contracts to define and strengthen relationships by increasing predictability, allocating risk and reward, creating and retaining options, and aligning incentives. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk."Starting at €8.20
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Cultivating Compliance for Strategic Strength: Mastering the Legal Aspects of Business
Bagley, Constance E.Book Chapter HBS-8153BC-ECompliance with the law is just the baseline for winning legally in business. This chapter shows how managers can practice what the author calls "strategic compliance management," which goes beyond mere compliance with the law to embrace organizational integrity and to seek out and exploit business opportunities provided by regulation and deregulation. This chapter is excerpted from "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal R...Starting at €8.20
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Use Enterprise Architecture to Guide Outsourcing
Ross, Jeanne W.; Weill, Peter; Robertson, David C.Book Chapter HBS-8065BC-EInformation TechnologiesIT and IT-enabled business processes are candidates for outsourcing, which can be a valuable approach to helping mature an enterprise architecture. But a company can lose ground if outsourcing is inappropriately applied. This chapter discusses how enterprise architecture can be a guide to outsourcing decisions. This chapter is excerpted from "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution."Starting at €8.20