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How AI Can Help Us Concentrate At Work

The Horizons Tracker

This rupture presents facilities staff with a fantastic opportunity to refashion the workplace away from the cost center of old, and towards something altogether more supportive of a productive workforce. The results showed that people would often concentrate best in different parts of the workplace. Flexible workspaces.

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation. Worse, too often we find people on both sides fully cognizant that they’re heading for a train wreck, and then hopping onboard anyway. Information & technology IT management'

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Instead, less-impactful and short-lived "initiatives" that satisfy diversity management come across as well-orchestrated efforts to simply acknowledge the existence of Hispanics, but don't invest in real solutions.

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Obama and Romney Are Ignoring Hispanic Voters

Harvard Business Review

As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. Instead, less-impactful and short-lived "initiatives" that satisfy diversity management come across as well-orchestrated efforts to simply acknowledge the existence of Hispanics, but don't invest in real solutions.