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Employee Engagement and Productivity – Strategies for Success

Strategy Driven

Engaged employees willingly invest not only their time but also their energy and creativity, resulting in heightened dedication and output that directly impacts overall productivity. Embracing Technological Advancements In the digital age, leveraging technological advancements can significantly boost employee engagement and productivity.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire. If companies get better at hiring candidates who correctly match the work ethic, job description, and company culture of the organization, they immediately reduce the likelihood of these candidates leaving.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?

Harvard Business Review

Technology is changing every facet of work, including how companies profile and select their employees. The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization. That is not enough. Not at all.