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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list. They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I Diane Gherson is a trailblazer in introducing agile technologies in human resource processes. HR’s traditional role was payroll, benefits, and procedures.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

But I think we get closer to the heart of AI in 2018 when we think about small and mundane ways in which AI makes work just a little easier. It is often regarded as the kind of technology that only the most clever and most mathematically-minded people can understand and work with.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

Take the airline control system—the outcomes it delivers vary tremendously by weather, equipment availability, time of day, and so on. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018

Harvard Business Review

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. The remix of this sector, too, started early on, with automotive and airline mergers in the late 1990s and then again around the great recession. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. How we move.

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What Retail Can Teach Health Care About Digital Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. Insight Center.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business Review

According to China scholar Adam Segal’s analysis , the Chinese President Xi Jinping “aims to build an ‘impregnable’ cyber-defense system, give itself a greater voice in Internet governance, foster more world-class companies, and lead the globe in advanced technologies.” billion citizens.