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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend

HR Digest

There have been no signs of industry-wide moves to start hiring outside of the U.S. Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world. Google currently has 180,895 employees according to their filings with the SEC.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

The defense industry is changing in the United States of America. For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Try not to get carried away with too broad a range of innovations. Specialize.

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What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about. In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates surveys more than 2,000 C-level executives on the impact, structure, barriers, and enablers of digital technologies across 15 industries. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. They are less affected, but not immune.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Therefore, we are seeing disruption in the hospital industry. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth. They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. In Washington, business as usual.