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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. However, the approaches advisors take are usually data-driven and guided by previous experiences.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. And now it’s happening with digital transformation.