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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Put More Effort Into Effective Delegation It is absolutely accurate to state that intuitive delegation is part and parcel of the role of a leader, but if you can admit to yourself that you often hand out specific kinds of tasks and projects to the same people time and time again and without thinking, then this needs to change.

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The Importance of Risk Assessment in Business

Strategy Driven

Risks are part and parcel of everyday life. Risk Assessment Tools and Software. Thanks to technology there are a wealth of tools and software you can use to make the process easier. There are many other benefits to using RSM or Risk Management Software. It also helps protect the welfare of employees.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. They leverage a whole range of services — from the logistics of parcel carriers like UPS to customer analytics software and social media marketing — to build a new business with extremely high customer satisfaction rates.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

At the storage and software company EMC Corp., One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new.