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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. 2: Disaggregate.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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Why You Should Let a 5-Year Old Design Your Next Product

Harvard Business Review

Quirky has created an innovation engine more suited for the Social Era — in which work and jobs are no longer the same thing, and collaboration happens outside of organizations as much as within it — in three ways: It disaggregates the process of innovation from the innovator''s work itself. Now you may not want to be an inventor.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.