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Drowning in Information While Thirsting for Communication

The Practical Leader

Are you over-informing and under communicating? Many managers confuse information and communication: Information Technology/. Information Technology is critical today. Bring them live into your meetings, calls, conferences, videos, etc., They increase texts, posts, and e-mails. Emotional Connection/.

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The Real Power of Enterprise Social Media Platforms

Harvard Business Review

An unusual — and unusually rich — funding opportunity inspired researchers at MIT and several other top-tier research institutions to improvise a comprehensive multi-media proposal on a tight deadline. That''s largely accurate. But those pretty verbs obscure where the real action is taking place.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

that every company is used to capturing, but also unstructured data (data scraped from the Internet and social media channels that may come in a wide variety of formats, from video to voice). Big Data involves not just the structured data (customer name and details, products purchased, how much was spent and when, etc.)

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Four Ways to Scale Digital Capabilities on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

What platforms are approved or recommended for social media? I think of this not only as formal training, whether in-person, conference sessions, or Lynda-style videos, but the kind of focused peer-to-peer training that happens at brown bag lunches or on quiet afternoons. Information & technology Internet Organizational culture'

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

My strategy worked well, and I eventually found a position at Tata Consultancy Services , a leading multinational information technology firm. My job-search strategy was vastly different this time around not only because of the rise of social media, but also because of our current economic climate.

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Technology Is Not Threatening Our Humanity — We Are

Harvard Business Review

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. One early evening a few weeks ago I went for a walk in the streets of Vienna.

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Prevent Email Horror with a 2-Minute Send Delay

Harvard Business Review

Darn it if one doesn’t realize, seconds after clicking send, that she forgot to acknowledge the social media associate, or the company founder! For one, in a meeting or on a conference call, you can’t circulate a document right away away. Exclusion can happen, unwittingly, in messages acknowledging broad-based teams.