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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. Stefan Ries: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders are well-educated and have valuable skills to contribute in the workplace.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

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Build Your Brand as a Relationship

Harvard Business Review

Al Ries and Jack Trout capture the essence of this model in their classic book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. For example, in the hospitality industry most brands operate with the roles of host/guest. In the taxi and livery industry, cabs and limo services have operated with the roles of driver/passenger.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. That''s not right. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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The Most Innovative Companies Don’t Worry About Consensus

Harvard Business Review

We hope they’d be as sure as possible that their teams are ready, that their strategies are sound, and that they’d done their diligence. Nick readily grasps the value in testing his ideas before asking for any full-scale operation. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Don’t punish failure. Punish waste.

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What the Marketing Agency of the Future Will Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Marketing agencies of the future will need to focus on many of the strategies that the lean movement engenders. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Models of leanness.