Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Eventually those deeply smart people will depart for good, leaving the same knowledge gap behind them. GE’s Global Research Centers, for example, now hire back pensioners almost exclusively to mentor and share their knowledge with more junior colleagues, not to return to operational positions.

How To 9

How To Incentives Mentor Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Maverick''s uncanny ability to move rapidly through a complex decision cycle, always ending up in a superior position, not only made for great cinema but also represented one of the more complex theories to emerge from 20th Century military thinking. Decision making Knowledge management Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Maverick’s uncanny ability to move rapidly through a complex decision cycle, always ending up in a superior position, not only made for great cinema but also represented one of the more complex theories to emerge from 20th Century military thinking. Decision making Knowledge management Managing uncertainty'

Media 8

Media Knowledge Management Uncertainty CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Sending talented employees overseas can be a promising way to leverage the benefits of a global economy. In some companies, for example, international experience is a requirement for moving into leadership positions. In others, there may be a particular need at an overseas office that only a person with a specific skill set can meet.

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Tips Management Succession Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. Because e-mails are private, the knowledge inside them stays under wraps, but when interactions happen on social-media platforms, work-related communications are visible to everyone.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Rather than determining the attractiveness of a certain customer segment using a traditional approach of gauging size, growth rate, competitor positions, and profitability, the head of global marketing used social-enterprise tools. .” Or take the example of a large industrial group we worked with.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. Each community has a volunteer leader who pledges to promote the community among colleagues.

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Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In the Babson Executive Education analysis of 635 global companies, just under a third of companies with 1-10% growth preferred experimentation over other methodologies, such as statistical analysis, to identify revenue and operational improvement opportunities.

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Analysis Constraint Transportation Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If we can surprise our people with their ability to learn new things, that can be very positive — for them and the company. I could have just supported the Nokia CEO and management team in talking about the need to kick-start a fast catch-up in machine learning. Create a competent pool of experts. But talk is cheap.

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Learning-by-Doing System Course Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

In addition to her other 15,000 skills like playing music and telling knock-knock jokes, she can now also answer economic questions for clients of the Swiss global financial services company, UBS Group AG. Study after study has shown that deep biases affect how groups like women and minorities are managed.

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Consultative Budgeting Advice Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 12