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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. Given this context, a recent study exploring the role of online marketplaces in the legal profession is particularly interesting.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth.

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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design

Harvard Business Review

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years.

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Digital Strategy Does Not Equal IT Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. They grow faster.

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To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix

Harvard Business Review

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows. million subscribers.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

And adverse living conditions and poverty are perhaps the most pervasive negative influences on adult health , leading to 20% to 50% higher adult mortality even when, in adulthood, individuals are no longer living in poverty or in polluted or unsafe environments. Health information and other technology.