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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Stories like LoL and Vans illustrate a profound truth about strategy and business.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT."

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. This is also true of executives.