Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2019

Human capital is vital, and with many startups consisting of the founding team, and the founding team alone, the need to tap into external resources is vital. It would be dangerous to think this might just be an Indian thing, or even a software engineering thing. Supporting or strangling growth?

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 10, 2013

This hit home in the span of less than a week when 4 separate ‘events’ screamed Status Quo Alert at me: In finishing Raj Patel’s, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy , one of our society and economy’s basic assumptions, the concept of private property, is challenged.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. Guest post by Nancy Vason: As leaders of global businesses, you draw from a deep well of talent. Most are highly educated, technically competent professionals. But are they effective communicators?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

He argued that far from some form of miraculous perpetual motion machine that would deliver economic growth in perpetuity, the engines of our economy need a constant flow of new innovations in order to thrive. “Knowledge transfer between countries is an important driver of innovation,” they say. “In

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

It proves that technological developments are the need and requirement of every business unit, especially marketing. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to consider the marketing department the most crucial one for the business. CDP Marketing Cloud. Personalization.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

The Institute for Corporate Productivity and ROI Institute have released the results of a new research study, which looks at positive trends and the state of human capital analytics. Jennifer shares, “Nearly 70% of executive teams use workforce analytics to make strategic business decisions. ” Tweet i4cp at @i4cp.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You are giving high-skill people the incentive to say, ‘Well, I may look like an engineer but I’m really just in charge of cleaning the equipment,” the researchers explain. Treated equally. Indeed, for Texas alone, the state collects $1.21 in revenue for every $1 spent on providing public services to undocumented immigrants.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

On one side is the frontier economy, populated by highly skilled engineers pushing the boundaries of technology, and investors making highly risky bets on which new fields will take off. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. It was U-shaped. It looked like a cross-section of a bathtub.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In short, executives aren’t jumping at every opportunity to relocate, even though international assignments are popular because of growing world trade, saturated domestic markets, and increased competition. Your Human Capital. Your Human Capital. It’s your engine, your juice.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Your star engineer? Your best marketer? The reason is that it has higher human capital productivity (HCP), which we know correlates closely with financial results. You can’t know the magnitude of the task you’re facing until you know exactly where your human-capital strengths and weaknesses lie. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

If you want to boost the productivity of your organization’s human capital, you also have to deploy those high performers effectively — put them to work so they can deliver the results they’re capable of. Its engineers worked long hours, probably longer than their NASA counterparts would have. billion to achieve the same result.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. What kind of device-agnostic digital training platform will yield the richest returns on human capital investment? Look no further than Amazon, Uber, or Alibaba for validation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Most organizations focus on building short-term product innovation engines. Human capital assets which are under-utilized and disengaged from an organization’s creative capacity: When organizations become huge, their pace of change and pace of action often slows down. How could such a great product innovator strike out so fast?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease. This percentage is expected to grow in the coming years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

For example, in many states, trade secrets now include lists of actual or potential customers and suppliers, as well as pricing lists and marketing strategies, making it virtually impossible for a former employee to compete over clients. The result may be less innovation and a depletion of human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital. times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth. Companies with more than 500 employees not only do 5.75

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Similarly, Sony gave sound labs engineer Ken Kutaragi enough latitude to progressively develop the Sony PlayStation gaming platform. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). This same logic holds in the case of climate change adaptation. cities to adapt.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Technologists, engineers, and designers not only have their own expertise, they have their own way of applying their expertise. That brief, Nanoparticle Halide Salt: Formulation and Delivery , was then "marketed" to a broad audience of technical experts. They were literally unable to "think outside the box.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In the course of our research, we have found that some human capital-intensive industries are more inherently receptive to social innovation than others. Accounting and consulting firms are often highly responsive to the social demands of their employees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 human capital resources; specifically, the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills that American companies need to remain competitive and that the educational system is failing to supply.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

One strategy might be investing in your own human capital to become the board member corporations need. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., but also by looking at what skills boards already possess and what skills boards need.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving.   Why You Should Follow This Report:   I really like the approach that LInkUp has taken with its job search engine portal.  Enjoy!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve had the opportunity to interview Charlie Ackerman who provided some illuminating insights on how Bosch is equipped to drive change in its workforce, and what lessons have been reinforced over the past year to help the innovation engine become future ready. . Mexico and Canada.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Appsbar: www.appsbar.com. Robotic Process Automation works effectively in an agile development environment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. All too often, however, startup leaders are less savvy when it comes to human capital, until it’s too late.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As cloud technology improves, however, it is becoming easier for companies to create products and services within the cloud, or model new products or marketing campaigns as cloud-based software prototypes. Pearson uses Kubernetes to develop, deploy and manage new kinds of online learning systems in developing markets like India and Mexico.

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