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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. Innovation is innovation, no matter where it’s applied and regardless of its source.

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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

During the pandemic, the compassionate leadership of the likes of New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden and Germany’s Angela Merkel were lauded after data from the World Economic Forum showed that countries with female leaders fared better. . Supporting innovation.

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It always has.

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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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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. Fortunately, there is a great training ground for new UX leadership: the startup market. We can only hope that this UX mindset migrates to Crotonville, GE''s vaunted leadership academy.)

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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