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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. Stefan Ries: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders are well-educated and have valuable skills to contribute in the workplace.

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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. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU. As the title indicates, the book’s content is geared towards people starting new businesses.

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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.

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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. Eric Ries Click To Tweet. His discovery set off a frenzy that attracted speculators and dreamers from far and wide who wanted to cash in.

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Digital Pioneers on Paper

Harvard Business Review

Thanks to the digital revolution, big ideas — those that change industry, or topple governments — can spread easily and rapidly without ever being committed to paper. Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books.

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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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