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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Creating a virtual workforce of software robots can help companies streamline operational processes as well as increase the quality and cost-effectiveness of shared services. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG. How robotics and machine learning are changing business.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. Optimizing customer experiences invariably demands internal realignment.

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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. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more.