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The Pentagon’s “Force of the Future” Reinvents Hiring

BCG

Article Thursday, September 15, 2016. On June 9, 2016, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the latest and culminating parts of his sweeping reforms to the Pentagon’s antiquated personnel system.

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

According to a study by McKinsey & Company, it is projected that by 2030, the time spent during a workweek on information technology and programming tasks will increase the most. Leadership is a relationship, and technological innovations change the work, worker, and workplace. Acemoglu, D., & & Restrepo, P.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most. While some skills will be less in demand it is important to consider the human leadership skills that remain in the technology-driven workplace. HarperBusiness. Mulinge, P.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. The result: hospitals lost $49 billion in 2016 treating Medicare patients, a number that’s surely higher now. Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Yet there is no place in financial accounting for the concept of network effects, or the increase in the value of a resource with its use. billion and $0.8

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals. Leadership and teams find it hard to come together to scope and resource projects appropriately as well as put projects on the shelf (or kill them) when needed.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem. With more than $64 billion worth sold in 2016, it looked like a great opportunity.