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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Businesses across the world have become an integral part of the networked economy. Managing risk will start drifting away from only identifying the risks that have to be avoided towards taking risks to drive value, performance, and productivity. Interconnectedness and Collective Risk Management.

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Professors must think of themselves as experiential movie directors for a production of Global Business in the Networked Economy , orchestrating and coaching a multinational cast of actors through experiments – and stepping off of the stage for a broader purview.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network. But as corporate leaders join this trend, they should be mindful of the two types of networks.

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

Handy was mostly correct in his predictions, but even he probably did not foresee the explosion and extent of the technology and networks that would make this possible. I will probably not want to work there, nor will I purchase their products or services. I will also be more likely to purchase their products or services.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential. They look beyond controlling the pipe that delivers a product and instead build platforms that enable others to create value.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. Lew Platt, the former chairman, president, and CEO of Hewlett-Packard once said: “If HP only knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive.”