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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8 years as recently as 1998.

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The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read

Harvard Business Review

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on. Cho is facing a litany of challenges.