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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017.

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Lean startup, lean company

Lead on Purpose

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU.

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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

. “In the feeling economy, we expect that females will outnumber males for higher pay feeling jobs, such as healthcare and education,” they say. “In fact, those service industries are growing much faster than manufacturing, which is stagnant or declining.” ” Skills for the future of work. Supporting innovation.

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White Gold: A Story of Persistence

RapidStart Leadership

Within seven years, petroleum had become the second most valuable export in the United States, helping fuel industrial expansion and development at home and abroad. After weeks of laborious effort, he had managed to drill through 686 feet of solid limestone with no luck. Eric Ries Click To Tweet. Not as Easy as He Thought.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. This product-centric mindset is not entirely new. Customers" Have Become "Users".

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

If it’s the former, that question you raised will be carefully considered and may trigger ongoing discussion — and possibly action — by the company’s managers and leaders. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. So why open the floodgates?

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