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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. This is more than just a smart marketing campaign. They use software to plan, test, and modify sequences of instructions for a variety of robotic behaviors.

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. 39% of employers did. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating.

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