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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 the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Sam Walsh: At Rio Tinto, we had an innovation programme called “Mine of the Future”. On with the interview.

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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.”.

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

Harvard Business Review

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Would you communicate with your compliance department that way? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. We manage and innovate with speed and precision, and that will only increase with our English skills.

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Why Your Innovation Team Needs a Lawyer

Harvard Business Review

A regional bank wouldn’t allow sales teams to share a new marketing campaign on their personal Twitter and Facebook pages because they couldn’t officially represent the company. This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process.