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What Companies Should Ask Before Embracing Wearables

Harvard Business Review

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency. In 2013, at the U.S.

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Is Experiential Learning The Future Of Professional Education?

The Horizons Tracker

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. ” Broad experience. Coding for success. “Our students are proof of this.

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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. The permitting time has since been nearly halved for key pilot projects. For example, Gerald Wright, a vice president in technology services at Hewlett Packard, has shown himself to be a master at top-down, bottom-up and lateral mobilization.