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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. We grew faster than we thought we would. Yet we still aren’t as large as we need to be to meet the demand from the businesses.” She told me how difficult it was.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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