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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Change Documentation Develop and implement a standard set of training modules on key skills-based aspects of the new way of working.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

“When Dr. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing. Such insights lead to a reassessment of the benchmarks set for capacity.