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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. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Ash Maurya.

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Digital Pioneers on Paper

Harvard Business Review

Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. For now, many people still prefer to read long-form content on a collection of printed pages, and there is probably some healthy overlap between that group and the cohort that needs advice on technology.

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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. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand

Harvard Business Review

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. Approaches like these overlook the importance of brand strategy as the foundation for a successful launch.

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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.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. Many organizations are developing strategies to increase their UX capacity and promote product-centric entrepreneurship. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".