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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Or perhaps it is difficult to really tell how well a company's innovation engine is functioning — so magazine editors are susceptible to the latest hot product or service. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

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What a Changing UK Can Learn from Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

Previously, there has been a presumption that there was no need for a disaggregation of the interests of the UK as a whole and England, on the grounds that it contains 85% of the UK population. for many of these, in fact, the domestic market still accounts for the majority of sales. The change in perception reveals a paradox.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Or perhaps it is difficult to really tell how well a company's innovation engine is functioning — so magazine editors are susceptible to the latest hot product or service. So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

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The Human Element in Digital Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

Given that few products and services these days exist without a digital component of some sort, companies are increasingly being required to do live prototyping of a digital solution. There’s a common perception that product development for digital solutions is easier than it is for physical ones. As the cost of operating online (i.e.,

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F.