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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Newport, 2016, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World) This leaves employees with little control over their workdays - which reduces productivity even further. For one particular reason: it involves the most human resources, requires preparation and a follow-up, the latter drawing in even more resources.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. Embrace renewable energy.

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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. Challenges.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

That takes time and resources – and it also requires bringing creative thinking to unfamiliar problems. Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The result is an ability to quickly adjust and re-allocate resources. These members are 2.6

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This means that they simply do not have the human resources to perform the onerous data analysis and behavioral segmentation needed to inform true one-to-one marketing.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

To help test drive the future, in 2016 Ford paid about $50 million to acquire Chariot, a startup mobility service. Only when the service was successfully operating did Ford begin to expand it, adding dozens of new routes and growing its local fleet to more than 200 vehicles. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.