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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. How do we add value in ways that others do not?

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How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business Review

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. And third, various machine-learning techniques should be combined to effectively identify insights and foster innovation. Stitch Fix, which lives and dies by the quality of its suggestions, has no choice but to do better.

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The Best Digital Strategists Don’t Think in Terms of Either/Or

Harvard Business Review

” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. Their mission to increase the number of women engineers led to an entirely new kind of product that combines storytelling and building.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country.

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Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders

Harvard Business Review

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.