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

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. 2018, May 23). Sustainability. 10.3390/su16031295. Harris, J.

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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

These are key questions for anybody charged with developing strategy for a large organization. And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy. And how can you set goals and objectives effectively to make sure your company succeeds?

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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business

Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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How will AI transform strategic planning?

Tom Spencer

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR. Strategic Planning.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. Building an agile network. More than 600 were selected.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. It is the ability to use cognitive skills and strategies to increase the probability of the desired outcome when problem-solving. McKinsey & Company.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

This momentum is continuing into 2018 with the bidding war for UK media company Sky ($24–$30 billion) and Microsoft’s $7.5 Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. From the $68 billion CVS-Aetna deal to the $27 billion merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn , 2017 set records with more than 50,000 deals , valued at $3.7 Insight Center.

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