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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Today savvy business leaders are prioritizing complex problem solving skills in hiring rather than old domain knowledge, and emphasizing agile team problem solving over traditional planning cycles. 2: Disaggregate. 1: Define the problem.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Improving Cash Flow: By the same token, it’s important that businesses keep their cash flow situation agile and not over-allocate resources to projects that aren’t aligned with market conditions. Break down demand by demographics, product lines, regional differences and any other statistical segments that matter.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.