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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. So, what’s the result?

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. The result was clear: to move into the premium-brand tier, Volvo needed new people with different skills.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

(Think of it this way: Cash, which can be spent in whichever way you choose, is highly fungible; people, whose specialized skills limit your options for deploying them, are less fungible.) Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience. (The

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The Future of You

Harvard Business Review

Having a great job does not guarantee your career success; your competence no longer depends on what you know; and being an affluent consumer matters less than becoming a sought-after product. Welcome to a new era of work, where your future depends on being a signal in the noisy universe of human capital.

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Innovation's Hidden Enemies

Harvard Business Review

If Nestle had gone only by market research — usually innovation's first enemy — the concept would never have gotten off the ground. The Nespresso system, a machine and single dose capsules, didn't fit with the company's mass-market distribution system.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W. After "what", ask "which."