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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. Meanwhile, the payroll-to-sales ratio was also on the decline, with the only exception across all sectors analyzed being finance.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. IT as Process Creator.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

This seemingly banal transaction speaks volumes to the power of how established retail has pervaded our everyday experience in the United States. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. Launch day was a wild success.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Highways can’t keep up with demand. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

Half a dozen companies worldwide are licensed to manufacture the machines and pods and sell them to retailers and distributors, paying royalties to Terranola on each sale. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand. the interviewer had asked. I’m impressed by it, to be honest,” Hughes replied. “I

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Hostility to the internet appeared the moment the Web became a commercial technology , threatening from the outset to upend traditional businesses and maybe even our deeply-embedded beliefs about family, society, and government. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated. It isn’t.