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“Retiring? Why? What then?!”

Kai Davis

9/15 of my paid products/books/courses are retiring. Along the way, I realized it would be helpful to trim my product line. This was both metric and sanity driven!). And for that, I used a metrics-based approach. I took some time and: Aggregated all product purchase information since 2015 (!). What then?!

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Why the Technology Economy Matters

BCG

(Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.). For example, annual productivity growth in the US from 2007 through 2015 hovered at a sluggish 1.3% average rate, half the rate from 2000 to 2007.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030. How Data Maturity and Product Analytics Improve Digital Experiences and Business Outcomes. The World Economic Forum suggests that as the utlization of technology increases the in-demand skills across jobs change over the next five to 10 years will continue to shift.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

(Scope 2) but have paid less attention to “indirect emissions resulting from value chain activities” (Scope 3) , that is emissions that occur outside the direct organization, for example in the supply chain, at business partners, or from end-users of their sold products. Companies are increasingly being required to report on Scope 3. .

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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! I wrote and designed websites to help businesses exceed their KPIs — improving metrics like conversion rate, session duration, bounce rate, search engine optimization, page speed, and mobile responsiveness.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments). Studying these companies up close is productive.