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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Nimble digital competitors are showing growth that the largest consumer goods and retail companies are not, for multiple reasons. While disruptive technologies negated many of the advantages historically enjoyed by only large companies with scale, these same technologies have changed the way consumer goods and retail companies create value.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Fast-growing consumer products companies such as Warby Parker, Glossier, and Dollar Shave Club are upending the traditional retail model, which depends on a manufacturer selling to a retailer that then sells to the end consumer. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Case Study: How Much Should a New CEO Shake Things Up?

Harvard Business

She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank. “He hates change.” This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage.