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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. Stefan Ries: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders are well-educated and have valuable skills to contribute in the workplace.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks.

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Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect

Harvard Business Review

In a world where competitive advantage is increasingly short-lived, as Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath has described , successful companies have to bake innovation into their standard processes. Here’s how to leverage that setback into even greater success. Recognize that innovation requires failure.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons.