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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process? In these settings the most effective teams follow the 7 steps process for bulletproof problem solving, by asking themselves the following questions: 1. Have we broken down the problem into key issues to address?

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. 2: Disaggregate. 1: Define the problem.

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

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. We’re in the process of recruiting broad and wide, and it’s not just for women, and not just for former Chevron employees.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. There are currently three technological enablers of work automation: robotic process automation, cognitive automation, and social robotics.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Experience with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) seems to confirm this prediction. To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work. the legally required element).

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Right now, in the blockchain world, every computer in the network processes every transaction. A scaled blockchain accelerates the process, without sacrificing security, by figuring out how many computers are necessary to validate each transaction and dividing up the work efficiently. This is slow.