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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

These analyses can identify opportunities for maverick business partnerships, and balance the biases of individual decision makers quickly and effectively. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Instead, together, they are sketching the outlines of a new market.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

These analyses can identify opportunities for maverick business partnerships, and balance the biases of individual decision makers quickly and effectively. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Instead, together, they are sketching the outlines of a new market.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes.

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