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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

Many entrepreneurs get to 2/3 of the way through the slides and start talking about the business model and financial projections while I’m still won-dering exactly what their product does and what makes it unique. Typically, it is about your team, market opportunity, technology/product, or market results/ traction.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms.

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My Dad Built a Garage, And I Got A Lesson Of A Lifetime

Terry Starbucker

It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. I think a lot more investment decisions will have considerations about impact and the transparency and accountability that comes with technology and social media is going to propel that. We don’t want to go there.