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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Executives Fail to Execute Strategy Because They’re Too Internally Focused

Harvard Business Review

Consequently, they pay less attention to external strategic issues like competitor moves, customer needs, and technology trends. In successfully executing companies, 77% effectively translate their strategy into operational mechanisms and monitor day-to-day progress. Research confirms the importance of this.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Adapted from.

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Does Hardware Even Matter Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. ” This style of “more electric” control by software also means big gains in energy efficiency.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Ideas make the future happen.