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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

As a trade, mechanics require a long lead time and many labor hours to gain skills and experience, especially with the technology and alternative fuels of complex and heavy equipment continuously changing. The County established a tier-based system for mechanics to advance within the organization.

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

Harvard Business Review

Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. That’s still true. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Systems are implemented to support local initiatives.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”. Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change. The costs of not doing so—not continuously changing and evolving—are likely to be high.

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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. Growth demands that businesses view change as imperative, not optional. Diversity and inclusion.

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The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor

Harvard Business Review

There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible. The second is technology. The increased difficulty of saving for retirement from continually changing benefits programs. By making adjustments easier, the flexible work system allows firms to adjust faster and more accurately.