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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

Germany is in many ways a perfect Petri dish, as not only has inequality risen significantly since unification, they have also forgone the shift towards a finance-driven economy seen in Britain and the United States, and have seen few jobs outsourced due to globalization. Boosting productivity. per year in 1992 to just 0.3%

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

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How I Brought Ashley Stewart Back from Bankruptcy

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013. Kindness : Despite our financial plight, we reintroduced a generous local charitable giving program during the 2013 holiday season.

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Toys become total ecosystems of innovation, collaboration and adaptation. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired.

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We Should Want Robots to Take Some Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The witches are the rapid innovation in robotics and computing, slated to replace humans in performing increasingly sophisticated – i.e. “white collar” – tasks and so displace jobs across the employment spectrum. In the 21 st century, creating meaning and innovating will be democratized through technology.

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Drucker didn''t quite frame it in these terms, but perhaps we need to expand our focus on innovation beyond the narrow frame of technology and product innovation. If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation.

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What Government Should Relearn from Business (And It's Not Efficiency)

Harvard Business Review

Public variants of outsourcing were pushed as part of George W. American business remains the country's most vibrant source of innovation. Government would do well to look at businesses that are innovating best and fastest in the area of engagement. Of course, government has long looked to business for new ways of managing.