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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 2: Disaggregate. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. This is the reason airlines invest in elongated career paths for pilots. Insight Center.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work.