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Apple Lays-Off 200 Titan Project Employees

HR Digest

Apple has dismissed not less than 200 of its employees working on the Titan Project. Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies.

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CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT

Harvard Business Review

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers.

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.