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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. Investing in innovation capacity. Across the rest of Europe, the state of digital evolution has been mediocre and the pace of improvement, tepid.

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