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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. As a leader, you are constantly trying to maximize the magical effort to effectiveness equation (a.k.a. efficiency).

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

Four times each year, we launch a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS, where they will stay for six months to one year, performing engineering tasks, research, maintenance, and upgrades to prepare for future commercial vehicles. The medical capability in a given space flight program (e.g., Apollo, Skylab, ISS, etc.)

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

Unlike with patents, it is perfectly legal to reverse engineer and copy a trade secret. Is it possible for other companies to reverse engineer it? These choices are strategic, and a company must think about the broader picture too of the overall intangible assets your company possesses. But there is a risk.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

3) Update management and leadership practices: An extended analytics engine fueled by multiple information sources, however, can accomplish little without the ability to act on future predictions. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

After earning a degree in chemical engineering and spending eleven years in production roles at Procter & Gamble, Lynanne was drawn to P&G HR where she spent the next ten years in various roles, before moving over to Whirlpool HR four years ago. The CHRO must step up to the implications of the new world of work.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

3) Update management and leadership practices: An extended analytics engine fueled by multiple information sources, however, can accomplish little without the ability to act on future predictions. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

These are often referred to as “intangible assets,” but it’s worth getting more specific than that. Apple and Nokia both had plenty of the intangible assets necessary to excel in the smartphone business, including software developers, hardware engineers, designers.