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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

How robotics and machine learning are changing business. However, with technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence accelerating changes to jobs, the relationships between performance and value become even more complex and yield potentially exponential opportunities for value creation. Insight Center. The Automation Age.

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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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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. Now we have global nomads building new businesses straight from their phones. These groups are called “miners” and operate vast data centers to provide this security, in exchange for cryptocurrency payments. Insight Center.

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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.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets).

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. The failing organizations around us — many of which I explore in my new book , which publishes today — continue to follow the operating rules and ethos of Traditional Strategy. They live it.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets).