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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Economic uncertainties, recessions, and unforeseen disruptions can shake the foundations of even the most robust enterprises. Just think of Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Nokia, companies that were once dominant in their respective industries.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g.,

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

You can check the list of companies participating in the event on the website. DTX: The North’s Biggest Enterprise IT Event May, 22-23, Manchester, UK The event aims to help leading companies thrive amid ongoing disruptions, develop strategies, and identify opportunities during tough times.

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business

One way to narrow the divide is through the use of worker buyouts, in which ownership of a company transfers from a single person or a small number of people to the workers of the company. million companies employ one in six workers nationwide, or close to 25 million people.

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Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List”

Harvard Business

The Transportation Security Administration’s machines, checkpoints, and rules are analogous to many of the security devices that enterprises use, which include network monitoring tools, firewalls, and endpoint management systems. A large enterprise easily records over 1 billion network and system events per day.

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AI Won’t Change Companies Without Great UX

Harvard Business

As artificial intelligence algorithms infiltrate the enterprise, organizational learning matters as much as machine learning. Privileging smarter algorithms over thoughtful use cases is the most pernicious mistake I see in current enterprise AI initiatives. That unexpected use case led to a retraining of the original algorithm.

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

After seeing just how successful the GDM was, Pratt began talks with Deloitte’s strategy group in the hopes of taking the whole company in this direction. adding a consulting arm came at just the right time, as it let the company transition from being a custom software provider to an end-to-end solutions provider. Automotive.