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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. L-R) Chevron's Global HR Team: Rhonda Morris, VP and Chief Human Resources Officer; Lee Jourdan, Chief Diversity Officer; Brian Chase, Manager of Strategy and Planning, Global Diversity.

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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

This invariably leads to a clear problem statement of the challenges you have to address, the decision context, problem boundaries and success criteria. How you disaggregate or cleave a problem has a big impact on the insight you get into a problem. Have we broken down the problem into key issues to address?

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work. It doesn’t matter that we know that IBM Watson’s success rate in diagnosing lung cancer is close to 90% while our human oncologists average 50%.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. But are they profitable?

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Why AOL Should Double Down on Patch

Harvard Business Review

The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. A successful Patch might have deep integration with high school newspapers to source content and editors. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. Consider the market.