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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. So we started digging.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Strategy and business development executive with substantial experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. It should match what they’re looking for. And be sure to avoid clichés.

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Give Yourself A Chance

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith has been nominated for the Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013. How did these expectations affect my development? Bob asked, “Why is it that you can shoot pool, but you can’t hammer nails?” To cast your vote (before September 1st): [link]. by Marshall Goldsmith. around tools. (As

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Four Major Changes in Global Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Our annual Prosperity Index –- the 2013 edition of which we released yesterday –- measures national prosperity based on eight core pillars that combine “hard” data with survey data.