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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent.

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How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

The Horizons Tracker

As Columbia University’s Jason Resnikoff explains in his recent book Labor’s End , the concern around robots taking our jobs has been commonplace at least since the term automation was first coined by Ford in the mid 20th century. Complementary investment.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Technology at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental question: How do people learn leadership? Kouzes and Barry Z. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Contagious: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Contagious: Why Things Catch On Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (2013) “What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more?” ” That’s what this book is all about…and much more.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Women lean in The other big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the increased number of women featured.

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To Save Everything, Click Here: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Solutionists) the Problem Solvers To Save Everything [comma] Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov'

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