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The Top 5 Ways Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Boost Organizational Productivity

Strategy Driven

In addition, onboarding can become more efficient with a faster learning curve established for new employees. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. An organized network will reduce the risk of duplicating reports or training an employee in areas that exist in another part of the organization.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Living in the past is not good, nor is living in the present without wisdom of the past. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th. Beatles coming to America, 50th.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error. Through an “elements of value” perspective, we see that Blast IQ provides time savings , information and expertise.

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What the Companies Winning at Big Data Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. The reason: There''s a big learning curve with Big Data, one that companies such as Netflix and Amazon had to embrace in the 1990s to deal with hundreds of millions of customer clicks. The company says the series brought in 2 million new U.S.

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Always, Always, Always Show Up

Harvard Business Review

Jules Pieri, who was recently named one of 2013’s Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs by Fortune Magazine, is a woman who is now reaping the rewards of standing up. Another opportunity has come up that I’m well qualified for, and I recently learned that I made the short-list, largely because I raised my hand and said, “I want this.”.

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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. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.).

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Rookie Smarts : Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work by Liz Wiseman Experience has its upside but its downside may hold us back more than we think. What we know will likely impede our ability to learn and therefore perform. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Blog Post ).

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