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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. Businesses use all kinds of tools and technologies to implement these methods, from relatively simple research surveys to complex data modeling tools.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. 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.

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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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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

But more strategic responses identify the essential ensembles of people, processes, and technologies that provide the most valuable — and valued — user experience (UX) for customers and clients. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The failing organizations around us — many of which I explore in my new book , which publishes today — continue to follow the operating rules and ethos of Traditional Strategy. So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media.