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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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“That Will Never Work”

Leading Blog

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public. After a slew of ideas like customized shampoo, dog food, and baseball bats, Randolph hit upon renting VHS tapes online.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

Henry Chesbrough's seminal book on the topic wasn't published until 2003. And the Australians — always up for trying something wild and new — saw fit not only to endure a speech on the topic but four years of public-private partnerships to test it, refine it, smash it apart, remake it, and test it again.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.