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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. These innovations will make the financial benefits that will help societies manage workforce transitions. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years.

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. Returns management should be a major focus.

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It’s Time for a New Partnership Between Labor and Management

Harvard Business Review

Lloyd Blankfein recently told a TV audience that income inequality is “very destabilizing” and that “too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.” Begin with an obvious but often overlooked truth: labor and management don’t have diametrically opposed goals. Compensation Talent management'

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation.

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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference

Harvard Business Review

has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% (to 28% below its 2005 level) by 2025, the EU will cut emissions 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, and China will hit peak emissions by 2030 (or earlier), lower its emissions per unit of GDP by 65%, and increase use of renewables to 20% of energy consumption. For example, the U.S.