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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. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU.

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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Some entrepreneurs quip back citing examples from Alexander Graham Bell to Steve Jobs who could not or did not do market research respectively but went ahead with amazing innovations. Because the ecosystem has to match the market needs and the phase of the company and both keep changing along the way. How do you do this?

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture.

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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

For companies seeking to innovate, adapt to change, and maintain an edge in fast-moving, competitive markets, a questioning culture can help ensure that creativity and adaptive thinking flows throughout the organization. At the same time, leadership should be willing to answer tough questions — from all levels and departments.

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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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