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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools. Quantitative Forecasting: Uses statistical techniques and computer modeling to crunch the hard numbers and create a data-intensive picture of future demand.

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

and governments around the world to develop an equivalent to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), that focuses cross-sector efforts on advancing biological and pandemic risk readiness. And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. It’s not enough.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. A similar phenomenon is happening with traditional professions.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. How talent management is changing.