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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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Marketing and Sales Manager.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

We live and breathe digital marketing and we know; we see the thousands of voices that are all talking at once online. One thing you can count on in digital marketing is change. New technologies, new generations, and new behavior trends force digital marketers to adapt or get left behind. Be Proactive.

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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. Gathering market intelligence via the collective is crucial. 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. Gathering market intelligence via the collective is crucial. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. With advances in technology, mobiles are becoming more of a convergence device that replaces so many utilities (calculators, alarm clocks, small digital cameras etc.) First, let us look at these shifts. that we used otherwise.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Those numbers are up from 47% in 2014 and 48% in 2015. This growing trend has some retailers with heavy in-store business models shaking in their boots. Of more than 5,000 consumers surveyed, 51% shared that their purchases are predominately completed through an e-commerce site as opposed to a physical location.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

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? The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. Conclusion.

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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. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. .” Will Rogers. ” Alan Kay. ” Abraham Lincoln.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It’s obvious that emerging markets are facing severe headwinds. 2015 will be the fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. Since mid-2014, against the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2015: The Galleria, 45th. Discern the differences between trends and fads. Technology is but one tool of the trade.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future. We're more than a boom or a trend. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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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 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 from 2000 to 2010. between 2000 and 2010. trillion by 2025. trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The employment shift from occupations that require mid-level skills toward those at the high and low ends is one of the most important trends in the U.S. labor market over the past 30 years. Until recently, economists thought of this trend as a gradual phenomenon that didn’t depend much on the ups and downs of the 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. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. Do they seek to be on the cutting edge of consumer trends?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

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. No AP business journalist lost a job.

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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. While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. So what are we to do?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These 10 cities accounted for more than $100 billion in venture capital investment on average each year between 2015 and 2017, or more than 60% of the total. We can point to three major factors driving these trends, though there are others. The table below shows the 10 leading cities for venture capital investment in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Several dynamics have produced this trend: The U.S. Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending. Customers no longer want anything that is mass-marketed. is over-retailed. Personalization is expected.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. million apps as of July 2015. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Sharpen product strategies for a more digitally connected world. release date.

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