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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Rapid-action, agile automation engines have emerged as the only resource for businesses to become fully functional, integrated, robotic enterprises that can adapt with the dynamic economy, consumer demand, internal logistics, business goals, and social landscape. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

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Don’t Abandon Innovation — Simplify It

Harvard Business Review

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

James Fallows has a lovely piece about why the moment is significant for journalism; Kara Swisher writes about what the Post didn''t see coming and offers Bezos some excellent advice; and (on our own site) Bill Taylor and Justin Fox explore new leadership and investment models related to the acquisition. Compare that to the U.S.,

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

Harvard Business Review

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. For example, the invention of more efficient train engines allowed for cheaper transportation that catalyzed the industrial revolution.