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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies. Ethical and responsible business conduct can foster trust with customers and partners, enhancing the business’s reputation and long-term success.

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6 Principles to Consider Before Electronically Monitoring Remote Employees

Leading with Trust

Organizations are surveilling employees by using software to record keystrokes, monitor time spent in specific applications, take periodic screenshots, record meetings, and even accessing employees’ webcams, with some requiring “always on” live video feeds for remote workers. How do you quantify innovation and collaboration?

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Strategies to Create a Positive Working Environment

HR Digest

Organizations can enhance the onboarding experience by: Implementing a buddy system or assigning internal mentors to guide new employees through their initial days and weeks. Encouraging transparency, trust, and ethical behavior at all levels of the organization to foster a culture of integrity and accountability.

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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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Unconventional Ways to Sell Your Innovative Idea

Harvard Business Review

A small innovation team in a large confectionary company figured out a clever way to "personalize" their company's trademarked candies. Informality, bootlegging, and gray market intrapreneurship may be vital cultural ingredients for innovation. But, hey, all's fair in love, war and innovation. You have to know your market.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context. An ethical compass.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Before long, we’ll stop referring to the underlying technologies involved — including lasers, radar, cameras, embedded sensors, and advanced machine learning software — in terms of what they’re replacing. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.