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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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To Stay Relevant, Your Company and Employees Must Keep Learning

Harvard Business Review

” That’s a great question (and one that many fine minds are trying to figure out), but for those of us running large organizations in today’s digital economy, it’s the wrong one. They also need to prepare the workforce to be agile and to adapt quickly to changes in the market. Insight Center.

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

Getting a foot in the door, the first hurdle in closing a deal, requires identifying the right champion within the target organization. In fact, champions rarely have significant power in the organization—but they know who does and their expertise is usually respected. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson.

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Welcome to HBR's Customer Intelligence Insight Center

Harvard Business Review

As early as 1994 Neal Stephenson was envisioning the era of Big Data, and how it might change the work of a market researcher. For managers in customer-serving organizations, we know the challenges of customer intelligence have more to do with achieving the upside than containing the downside.

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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

We interviewed 24 CEOs and asked them to name the biggest challenges facing their organizations. Given that CEOs set the tone and priorities for their organizations, it is important to understand what they interpret as the major challenges and opportunities. CEOs have a lot to worry about, but what are their greatest concerns?

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