Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

T O THRIVE in a new, more tumultuous era of social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution, you need to go beyond great. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. But there are two types that are important for success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company. This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. .” Create win-win incentives. Incentives are a powerful lever to convince people they need to forget the old ways.

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