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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”. “They avoided distractions of the moment by returning like a broken record to their original rationale for believing in the stock.

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Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Drive Innovation. Employ Internal Multisourcing. It is how people communicate, work, and connect. About the Author.

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Skills necessary to compete in rapidly evolving markets

Strategy Driven

Speed, agility, communication, delegation, innovation. Instead, what we see now is a demand for more speed, more agility, more innovation, because the competitive landscape is shifting. Consumers demand new products spawned from innovation. What kinds of people are necessary to conduct maneuver strategies and tactics?

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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How Gaming Is Shaping the Future of Work

Harvard Business Review

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Digital transformation is not just about technology.

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What Would It Take to Disrupt a Platform Like Facebook?

Harvard Business Review

Facebook’s tactic appears similar to that of other established companies: It controls possible disruptive events that appear to pick off customers based on initially niche cases by buying the competition. What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side?

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