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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) will give protection and resources to workers who join in the U.S. and Canada, and is intended to push the tech giant to live up to its motto: ‘Don’t be evil.’.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. and Patricia E.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. It also migrated outside the firm to an ever-growing crowd of vendors who offer enticing claims about the benefits of their prediction software. Human resources Information & technology Talent management'