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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

The HR Digest: How has Walgreens Boots Alliance responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure employee safety, managing relationships with clients, collaboration with industry leaders and internal workforce management? plant as the Human Resources manager.

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Google Chrome: Focus moving to capturing "Real Estate" | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Of course, hindsight 20/20 – we see that Google is entering into the “real estate&# game in a big way. Take a few things that people do normally online. They search 2. They communicate 3.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. More like a chasm, really.)

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The Hidden Costs of Cash

Harvard Business Review

There is no fee charged to retailers who use it and no exorbitant interest rates lying in wait for consumers. For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. It’s safe from hackers. How can this be?

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy.

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