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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. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. 2: Disaggregate. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

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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. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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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. However, with technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence accelerating changes to jobs, the relationships between performance and value become even more complex and yield potentially exponential opportunities for value creation.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Top managers in disrupted industries increasingly find this question less rhetorical than newly fundamental. But are they profitable? Does superior UX generate superior returns?

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