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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. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics.

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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a transition that is largely driven by improvements in technologies, such as AI and robotics, which mean that both physical and thinking economy work can be done more effectively by machines than by humans. ” Skills for the future of work. . ” Skills for the future of work.

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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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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. One of the benefits of blockchain technology is that it is immune to centralized parties making changes of their own accord. Renee Comet/Getty Images. How ICOs Constrain.

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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 Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models. Transfer pricing inside a company is already a complex issue.