Chart Your Course

MARCH 29, 2016

It’s a feat for businesses to retain employees for five years or more in today’s market, and the cost of losing them is high. years, while in 2015, CNBC reported the median for millennials was two years. years, while in 2015, CNBC reported the median for millennials was two years. Employee Retention and Engagement.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. New skills will be needed.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2015

We live and breathe digital marketing and we know; we see the thousands of voices that are all talking at once online. One thing you can count on in digital marketing is change. New technologies, new generations, and new behavior trends force digital marketers to adapt or get left behind. Be Proactive. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. .” Will Rogers. ” Alan Kay.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Tech Trends Report also found that the gaps in IT skills that used to exist within these core segments are starting to narrow as organizations are uncovering the skill sets needed to use these technologies to their full advantage. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The marketing industry will be no exception. Data-Driven Marketing. Using AI in Marketing. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

If your company is going through a merger and the teams haven’t been merged yet, would the director of the groups that need training be an influencer or a decision maker? SDM: I’m training with William. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. See what I mean? With permission, I placed a call to the owner.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Teaching-Training. One Size Fits All.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. The survey, conducted among 2,200 technology executives, identified critical skill gaps such as cybersecurity and privacy. It’s not that employees are getting less tech-savvy; it’s that the market demands more of each and every one of them. Insight Center.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Just one year later, Glassdoor named Genesys one of the Best Places to Work for 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In 2015, there were 7 million jobs that required some level of coding skills , and programming jobs are growing 12% faster than market average. It’s now time for business, particularly technology companies, to harness the power of technology to help turn the tide. At current graduation rates, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. Otherwise the potential created by technical progress runs to waste in idle capacity, unemployment, and deprivation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But the security industry is a fast-growing market, with IDC pegging it as becoming a $101 billion opportunity by 2020. One of the big reasons is that security businesses tend to look for people with traditional technology credentials — college degrees in tech fields, for example. million unfilled positions by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Email is by far one of the best digital marketing solutions to have in your toolbox. However, with this approach there is plenty of room for error amid an industry rife with regulations; delivery, filtering and other technology concerns and a glut of ever-evolving best practices. Savvy marketers understand this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. When I took the oath of office, in February 2015, with two years left in the Obama administration, I made a specific commitment to ensure that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

One of the major threats facing leaders comes in the form of “horizontal innovation” driven by technology. Increasingly, companies are using digital innovations to expand into entirely new markets. ” According to a 2015 IMB global C-suite study, no single business sector is safe from the threat of new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

PwC’s 2017 Risk in Review report revealed that 47% of corporate officers said they track their risk appetite – up from 36% in 2015. You can train harder than anyone else, wear the latest state-of-the-art performance gear and have the sleekest strategy for running the race. Understand Perfection Kills Progress.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. How should we adapt our training and recruitment policies? Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. But gun manufacturers, guided by senior leaders trained at some of the best business schools in the country, are quite capable of more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. For example, during one project, students assessed the marketing environment of an IBM business partner. But while this has happened, one sector has lagged behind: higher education.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It’s using this development to rapidly experiment with new technologies, policies, and financial systems. In fact, China is innovating at a city level , designating tens of cities at a time as pilots for every viable clean technology. The COD not only dictates the content of training programs but also promotions for government leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Economic research shows that on-the-job training is a more effective means of training than many outside training programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Sourcing for Commitment. Screening In for Aptitude.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1% Many US firms in many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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