Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy? The lack of skill development and leadership development among Generation Y affects every generation. I believe the answer is yes.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2021

This broad trend has worsened during a pandemic that has forced many companies to tighten their belts, even while also demanding more from employees as they adapt to their new circumstances. This decline in job-based training is particularly felt among young people, with lower-skilled workers consistently receiving low levels of training.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Most forecasters project a glass half full or half empty extrapolation of today’s best or worst trends.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Key predictions include: Organizations will need to plan for increasingly chaotic environments that are out of their direct control, and adaptation must involve adjusting to all 10 of the trends. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Key predictions include: Organizations will need to plan for increasingly chaotic environments that are out of their direct control, and adaptation must involve adjusting to all 10 of the trends. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

People analytics is how companies collect and analyze data regarding their employees so they can make improved decisions on workforce planning, training and development, and performance management. Due to this, there are still emerging and new trends in people analytics. What is people analytics?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Software Developers.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

With advances in technology, mobiles are becoming more of a convergence device that replaces so many utilities (calculators, alarm clocks, small digital cameras etc.) And, we are not even talking about automated cars yet – the next big frontier for the technology battle! that we used otherwise.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. How can your business use the power of cloud technology to ensure you are at the forefront of business operations?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. The report reveals that previously emerging trends like Big Data and analytics, cloud, mobile, and social are now being implemented across corporate enterprise beyond just experimentation and wait-and-see. Consider leaving a comment!

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. Readers will quickly become adept at : Leveraging all the lean resources around them , from their own skill set, local community, and personal circles to professional networks, online resources, and technology tools.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. Futurism: developing thinking and reasoning skills, rather than dwelling just upon techniques and processes. .” Will Rogers.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2018

PA is a form of technology that learns from other existing data. According to Deloitte, in 2015, only about 8% of global organizations have adopted PA for their Human Resources groups. Understanding What Predictive Analytics Is. This process results in predictive results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Trends help us forecast the future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. million apps as of July 2015. billion — will have been generated by publishers outside the Top 100 ranked apps in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

2015 will be the fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. 2015 will be the first year since the 1980s to see capital outflows from the emerging markets exceed capital inflows. However, today’s events are not necessarily a good guide to longer-term trends. First, look at developments in the global economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% trillion in 2015 to $3.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. ” When in Doubt, Go Modular.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction. According to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). So what’s the prediction for 2015’s first quarter? As the figure, “Potential Predictions for First Quarter, 2015,” depicts, I can argue for at least three: “We should expect 1Q15 to be like most first quarters. Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Because the algorithms are never far from human oversight, Stitch Fix can confidently test new machine learning technologies without worrying that the experimentation will disrupt the client experience. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

For one thing, political rhetoric has created public tumult about the drivers of middle-class decline: globalization, technology, and immigration’s impact on U.S. An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. There are disturbing trends in economic mobility for African-Americans nationwide.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. In fact, AI has freed up the staff to write more in-depth stories on business trends. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. In a recent Deloitte study, Global Human Capital Trends 2015 , 85% of the respondents cited learning as being either important or very important. To help leaders do that, we’ve developed a process we call Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM), a lifelong learning strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. One step in reversing this trend is to start treating hours like dollars, with a real opportunity cost.

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