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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. They see it as the purview of two functions: marketing and service.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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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. Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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Why AOL Should Double Down on Patch

Harvard Business Review

Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. Consider the market. That's what disruptive businesses do; they displace their upmarket competitors by coming in with a low-cost, scalable offering.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. million drivers are active on the platform globally.