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Gloria Chen Pushes for Greater Representation

HR Digest

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! As a global software company, we have decades of experience with software teams who are geographically distributed.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Nicholas Bate’s Book ‘Instant MBA’ and Other Great Resources for 2010 Nicholas Bate is a prolific thinker, blogger and author. He shared some of his best work with me in 2009, in form of his books and innovatively done cards. More than that, he is a wonderful friend.

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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate.

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Competing with Platforms That Ignore the Law

Harvard Business Review

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. Zenefits’ HR software has clear appeal, but regulators across the U.S.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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What if a Company Maximized Jobs Over Profits?

Harvard Business Review

These are labor-intensive activities such as website maintenance, data entry, and software testing. With these changes, Friedman has found that not only can AutonomyWorks match traditional competitors, but it can produce better quality at a lower price. Entrepreneurship Human resources Social enterprise'