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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

Our employees embraced our values and so too did our executive leadership. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19. As a technology company, we are used to moving at lightning speed to keep pace with change and innovation.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

Supply chain management (SCM) entails the optimal execution of all these events in a sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient manner using technology to cater to customers’ demands and minimize delays. The more complex a supply chain network is, the more vulnerable it is to source and supply disruptions and market risks.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

Martin describes how executive teams carefully explore the risk of different courses of action, but neglect to make a similar assessment of the risk of staying the course. Armed only with the risks of changing, it’s natural for the team to shy away from decisive action.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

It’s becoming apparent that it will take extra executive horsepower to navigate new organizational hazards, make tough trade-offs, and muster authority when decision rights conflict in the new environment. In sizing these challenges, most companies will find they need more executive capacity. Information & technology Leadership'

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

Because they are pursuing a novel opportunity while lacking access to required resources, entrepreneurs face considerable risk, which comes in four main types. Demand risk relates to prospective customers' willingness to adopt the solution envisioned by the entrepreneur.