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6 Ways Green Businesses Make a Difference

Women on Business

They also do their utmost to reduce their use of precious natural resources: by conserving paper, travelling less, focusing on e-delivery of documents, and taking a multitude of steps to “touch lightly on the earth”, these green-oriented companies and producers have a less intensive footprint when pursuing business activities.

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Leadership Lessons from Evidence-Based Medicine

The Practical Leader

In the 19 th century “snake oil salesmen” travelled throughout North America selling unproven or fraudulent oils, elixirs, and various cure-all remedies. ” We badly need the same evolution in leadership development. In their white paper, “Leadership 6.0: In their white paper, “Leadership 6.0:

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business Review

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. They spend their days developing new content — videos, photos, blog posts, and podcasts — and engaging their followers.

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You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. With no travel budget and no field offices, the numbers pencil out nicely. In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment.

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How GE Uses Data Visualization to Tell Complex Stories

Harvard Business Review

How did your strategy around it develop? When we released a white paper last fall on the industrial Internet , data visualization was a great way to tell that story. We released all of it to the Kaggle community of data scientists globally and said: improve travel. An edited version of our conversation is below.

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Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

QAspire

ClickInsights: What is your favorite white paper? Along our journey(or “the walk&# as you call it), it is important to forever challenge ourselves and not to be lethargic in one’s own comfort zone. Thanx again for the thoughtful post. Ambal Balakrishnan´s last blog. Why do you like it? the post): 1) Where are you walking?

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

A collaborative research project has launched in New Zealand to explore some of these larger questions of how governments can harness digital technologies to develop smarter, more inclusive societies. Urban digital nervous system. “Digital transformation is helping people and organizations reimagine work and personal life.