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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

The tool might suggest that the executive start an email with “Hi Michael” rather than the brusquer “Michael:” or that they soften their “Tell them to do it by 5 PM” to “Could your team get this back to me by 5 PM? Tracking which selves deliver the best performance and outcomes could become a new KPI.

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Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate

Harvard Business Review

” No, Bezos shouldn’t embed a C@D—Crying@Desk—metric on his KPI dashboard. As the New York Times article observed, “Amazon uses a self-reinforcing set of management, data and psychological tools to spur its tens of thousands of white-collar employees to do more and more.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). In general, companies don’t devote enough time to thinking about value capture.

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Four Ways to Scale Digital Capabilities on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

A Center of Excellence model, where an internal unit leads and convenes efforts, can be effective for crafting a digital strategy, driving innovation, and developing guidelines. You can also identify a knowledge sharing goal as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of project success, alongside on time and on budget.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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