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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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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

million self-employed people in the United Kingdom are in ‘project’ roles, which basically means work performed by highly skilled freelancers that has a clear and identifiable end point, with projects usually lasting for weeks or months.

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The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO

Harvard Business Review

These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader.

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Don’t Draft a Digital Strategy Just Because Everyone Else Is

Harvard Business Review

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” — digital strategy is on fire as today’s “it” strategy.

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CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT

Harvard Business Review

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. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. In fact, 76% of staff on pro bono projects stated that they gained significant, job-relevant skills. At Deloitte, we treat these projects exactly the same as a paid client engagement.

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