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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

This is coupled with a need to deploy those learnings over longer timescales as problems take on a global and complex nature. Think like a marketer to drive learning and development – Osborne argues that a long period of poor training initiatives has tarnished the brand of learning and development within the workforce.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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A Faster Economy Needs Better Tools

Harvard Business Review

Just as Peter Drucker saw more than half a century ago when he popularized the term "knowledge worker," knowledge drives our world. It is potent with power to disrupt markets and bring on new classes of consumers through affordable and efficient goods and services. The knowledge leads to a new society.

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Three Ways to Succeed by Breaking Convention

Harvard Business Review

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The stakes are high, with International Data Corporation estimating that global business investments in D&A will surpass $200 billion a year by 2020. D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. But that's a good thing.

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5 Tips for Managing Successful Overseas Assignments

Harvard Business Review

Sending talented employees overseas can be a promising way to leverage the benefits of a global economy. Companies can also host special sessions or brown bag lunches on managing global work and intercultural communication, including returning expats alongside outside guest speakers and panel discussions.

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