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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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

HR Digest

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. Lee Jourdan: Continuing to execute our strategy which focuses on four pillars, Accountability, Communications, Training and Selection or ACTS.

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How Demand Forecasting Can Boost Business Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Active Demand Forecasting: A more intensive technique used to evaluate how aggressive plans for expansion and scaling will interact with consumer demand.

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Approximately Correct Is Better than Precisely Incorrect

Harvard Business Review

What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages. While seemingly simplistic, this approach often leads to counter-intuitive product development or marketing strategies. They pore over aggregate results and aggregate averages.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

They enable the disaggregation of physical assets in space and in time, creating digital platforms that make these disaggregated components — a few days in an apartment, an hour using a Roomba, a seat in your drive from Berlin to Hamburg — amenable to pricing, matching, and exchange.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

The ability of such technology to enable traditional jobs to be disaggregated and to supplement or replace routine activities presents opportunities in efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. Cognitive automation like Google Glass can transform the work of a flight attendant , for example.

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The Fight Over Tesla Shows How Little Value Dealerships Add

Harvard Business Review

In disaggregated markets with many sellers and buyers and where search costs are high, intermediaries provide considerable value. Auto industry Innovation Strategy' Beyond finding the right seller, an intermediary might help match the buyer to the best product for her, providing important guidance and product information.