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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. And as many companies begin outsourcing at least parts of their R&D, they are creating space for professional "inventers" operating through websites like Innocentive.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. And to them, notions like distributing power to everyone, working in extended community to get things done, or allowing innovation to happen anywhere and everywhere are, well, ridiculously obvious. They live it.

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The Human Element in Digital Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

There’s a common perception that product development for digital solutions is easier than it is for physical ones. While this can be true, we’ve seen many digital solutions fail because the product development process is too far removed from the user and lacks a human touch. As the cost of operating online (i.e.,

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.