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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 2: Disaggregate. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem.

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

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working. What spurred your interest and passion for the topic?

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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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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.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.