Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

These beliefs about value and how to create it drive the strategies that leaders deploy, the people they hire (and their competencies), and most importantly, the measurement systems that they use to gauge performance and guide decision-making. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, its transmission model reduces the costs of transactions, enables verification and efficient exchange of ownership, and opens the door to real-time micropayments. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. Of course, the $73 is just an average over nearly one billion active users. Remonetizing Media Consumption.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

These software systems can in some cases be so efficient at screening resumes and evaluating personality tests that 72% of resumes are weeded out before a human ever sees them. But there are drawbacks to this level of efficiency. This way, no single metric, such as SAT score, would exclude a qualified candidate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Even the best natural sellers need a strategy around target products and markets and a defined role, along with systems and processes to enable their success and align their efforts around common goals of customer and company success. But talent on its own is not enough. calling on friends and family) over hard work (e.g. Organization.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Workforce Strategies Need to Change From relationship-building and recruiting to billing, culture, and the use of new technologies, workforce strategies across the entire organization are changing in big ways to cope with the impact of disruption. It should be a symbiotic relationship. That said, the strategies are now more sophisticated.

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