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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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7 Steps to Bulletproof Problem Solving

Leading Blog

Step Two: Disaggregate the Issues. How do you disaggregate the issues and develop hypotheses to be explored? Having a diverse team allows for different viewpoints to be brought together. A weak problem statement is a common problem. Every problem needs to be broken down into its basic issues. “We

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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

How you disaggregate or cleave a problem has a big impact on the insight you get into a problem. Have we brought outside perspectives and diversity of views to bear in the team? This invariably leads to a clear problem statement of the challenges you have to address, the decision context, problem boundaries and success criteria.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Although there are many ways to do demand forecasting right, these key tips can help a business get more out of their investment in the practice: Remember that demand is not monolithic and try implementing a disaggregated model. Most businesses consider demand forecasting to be critical for achieving a better deployment of resources.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

They enable the disaggregation of physical assets in space and in time, creating digital platforms that make these disaggregated components — a few days in an apartment, an hour using a Roomba, a seat in your drive from Berlin to Hamburg — amenable to pricing, matching, and exchange.

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job. Instead of spending summers helping students build a diverse portfolio of gigs, they offer full-time internships and traditional jobs with a single employer. Startup businesses used to create about 3 million jobs a year in the U.S.

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