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Thank You For Your Service!

Lead Change Blog

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Author information Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb Mills-Scofield has her own consultancy helping organizations create and implement highly actionable, adaptable, measurable, and profitable innovation-based strategic plans.

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Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Matthew T Fritz is a leader and mentor in the field of complex organizational change, emotional intelligence, and organization strategy. He and his wife, Stacy, enjoy life with their daughter and son in California.

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The Future of How We Consume Things

Harvard Business Review

We often look at innovation in terms of the new products and technologies that come to market. They'll probably invite you to share clever ways to use refrigerators, or comment on their own ideas, and innovate even better offerings next time. We don't often think about how we consume these new offerings.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The result is different data definitions, inconsistent business logics, multiple workarounds, unrealized synergies, redundancy, re-invention rather than re-use, and a myriad of different technologies. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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How to Select the Right Freelancer for the Work

Harvard Business Review

The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management. As organizations confront new competitive challenges and disruptive technologies, an agile approach to talent provides both a means of rapid strategic change, as well as a way to increase strategic capability.

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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Being unafraid of new challenges and proactively reaching for them is extremely important for long-term business survival.