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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. In 2008, thieves simultaneously hit more than 2,100 ATMs across the globe and within 12 hours stole more than $9 million in cash. What if the board does not have technology expertise? Or if their technology expertise is antiquated?

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Why Most Change Efforts Fail and 7 Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A 2008 study by IBM found that over 60 percent of change efforts do not fully meet their objectives, and a 2013 Towers Watson study revealed only 25% are sustained over time. Most change efforts fail, not because of the technology or the topic of the change or even because it was the wrong idea.

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How Startups Benefit From Experimentation

The Horizons Tracker

They examined over 35,000 tech startups that were founded between 2008 and 2013. Each of the startups was examined in terms of their technology adoption and general characteristics to try and understand whether the experimentation they undertook helped their overall performance, and indeed how it did so.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. I began a search for reasons to be optimistic.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Missing out.

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Four Ways to Grow Your Business

Chart Your Course

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. Plus more than half say the bad economy is the main reason for their troubles, followed by changing technologies and an increase in direct competition.

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High Performance Team Building Certificate Program

Mike Cardus

The 2013 program runs from March 6 to May 1. I received a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) in 2008 where I learned the theories on much of what was talked about in class. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development Community Connections of New York. Register early , as it will fill up quickly! "I