The year’s most popular articles on strategy and finance

Top Ten | Strategy and Finance 2018

Most digital strategies don’t reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Companies should watch out for five pitfalls. More →

2. Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win

Yesterday’s tentative approaches won’t deliver; you need absolute clarity about digital’s demands, galvanized leadership, unparalleled agility, and the resolve to bet boldly. More →

3. Strategy to beat the odds

If you internalize the real odds of strategy, you can tame its social side and make big moves. More →

4. Eight shifts that will take your strategy into high gear

Developing a great strategy starts with changing the dynamics in your strategy room. Here’s how. More →

5. Telling a good innovation story

Appealing to people’s emotions helps new ideas cut through the clutter. More →

6. Memo to the CFO: Get in front of digital finance—or get left back

Companies are still in the early stages of applying digital technologies to finance processes in ways that will create more efficiencies, insights, and value over the long term. Here is how the CFO can lead the way. More →

7. Debiasing the corporation: An interview with Nobel laureate Richard Thaler

The University of Chicago professor explains how executives can battle back against biases that can affect their decision making. More →

8. Five Fifty: Strategy vs execution

What matters more—great strategy or great execution? New research finds that strategy wins, especially disruptive strategies that respond powerfully to digitization. More →

9. Five Fifty: The lifecycle of a CEO

A CEO’s job starts out tough—and then gets tougher. Here’s advice for the early, middle, and late stages of a CEO’s tenure. More →

10. Bots, algorithms, and the future of the finance function

Automation and artificial intelligence are poised to reshape the finance function. Knowing what to automate and managing the disruption can lead to a new era of productivity and performance. More →

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