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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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