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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017.

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Lean startup, lean company

Lead on Purpose

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Innovation is innovation, no matter where it’s applied and regardless of its source. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU.

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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Supporting innovation.

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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Although Steve Blank and Eric Reis have made customer development and lean startup methodology household names in the startup ecosystem, there is still a lot of reluctance from entrepreneurs to actively start talking to target customers early in the Lifecycle of a company. How do you do this? All the best!

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It always has.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The result: a highly-reactive product development culture in which extra features are continuously bolted on, making the company vulnerable to more pro-active competitors who have a laser-like focus on UX, which can be a potent disruptor in many industries. Design Leadership development Product development'

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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

For companies seeking to innovate, adapt to change, and maintain an edge in fast-moving, competitive markets, a questioning culture can help ensure that creativity and adaptive thinking flows throughout the organization. “One At the same time, leadership should be willing to answer tough questions — from all levels and departments.

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