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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. All other paper-related expenses like supplies, transportation, and storage are altogether eliminated. Electronic Forms Improve Data Accuracy.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business Review

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.