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3 Unexpected Apps for Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Technology is supposed to enhance, not hinder that quest. The core belief “Leadership is service to others” may have you asking yourself “how can I efficiently design my technology to enable my team?” How do you renew your commitment to the work, to your people, every day? Any technology can confuse and distract.

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

In a previous article , I explored how technology is generally not feeding through into productivity statistics. Data shows that despite considerable advances in technology in the last decade, productivity has largely remained flat. and France.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It all adds up to a gradual, or even rapid, erosion of trust and commitment, which in turn undermines productivity. Technology matters – More and more of the workforce consider themselves to be digital natives, so working from home is no big deal as they have the skills to do so. Supporting the foundations.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Harvard Business Review

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

It committed $100 million over five years to one such initiative, "10,000 Women," which provides a mix of practical business education, support services and access to capital for under served women business owners in more than 20 countries. But Intel doesn't just measure the number of participants to gauge success.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5