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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. The Information Age was exploding.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

Advances in manufacturing technology. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

Harvard Business Review

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. Not Albert.

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