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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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McDonald’s Already Knows How to Manage Its Franchisee Labor Practices

Harvard Business Review

McDonald’s should apply to franchisees a model similar to the one it uses for its suppliers: The company engages in long-term relationships with suppliers to make it clear that they’ll work together on tough issues, not just issue fines; brings suppliers together periodically to learn from each other; and rewards innovation.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”. labor force by 2025.

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Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles

Harvard Business Review

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Where was it?

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” Construct a prenup.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. In a remarkable April 2013 posting, Kalanick all but admitted that casual drivers were unlawful, calling Lyft’s approach “quite aggressive” and “nonlicensed.”