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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Our client is a large business software company.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One

Harvard Business Review

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. Instead, seeing the potential in the product and commitment of employees, we came up with financing to buy out the investor and keep the company operating.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform.