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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Will younger workers have the knowledge and skills to run our organizations when they do?

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 2 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 17, 2010 · 2 Comments Now that you’ve looked at your workforce (in The Boomers are Leaving! Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. How far along are you?" The workers standing near him applauded.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. For example, the outposts of a pharma company develop and distribute a company-wide newsletter of the latest trends and news from the hotspot.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Finally, you must develop a keen sense of smell for predictive analytics, the data, and your own intuition.