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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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How to Lead On Purpose

Great Leadership By Dan

Take Dell Technologies, as a great example of a company that hit pause and found its purpose. When he left the company in 2004, however, it fell on hard times. We believe the Volkswagen emissions scandal came about because VW used purpose as a marketing strategy, not a core belief.

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Trust in Business Leadership

Coaching Tip

The 2008 global financial crisis, a series of corporate scandals that have eroded organizational trust, including Volkswagen, BP and Enron, and an emphasis on transparency brought about by the combined impact of globalization, technology, and demographic changes have all combined to bring trust in business to what may be an all-time low.

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Using AI To Predict ICU Survival Rates

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers gathered data on around 230,000 patients who had been admitted to intensive care in the Danish health system between 2004 and 2016. Whilst the early results are interesting, the technology is still an awfully long way from market.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. market however, things weren’t quite so straightforward.

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Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

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Social Networking for Business: Does it Really Work? :: Women on.

Women on Business

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.