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Why On-Demand Talent Is the Future

Comatch

There is no way around it: on-demand talent is the future of work. An increasingly digital business landscape has meant a growing demand from companies for highly specialized talent to help navigate this changing business environment. . Hiring On-Demand Talent: The Advantages. Advantage #1: A Solution to the Talent Problem.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Keys to Topline Revenue Growth

LSA Global

Create Alignment for High Growth Our organizational alignment research found that when companies align their strategy, culture, and talent for growth, they grow revenue 58% faster with 72% more profitability than their unaligned peers. Which sales growth strategy tips apply to your unique situation?

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

One challenges with the specialist mode is that companies must build these technical capabilities in-house to prevent imitation from competitors; to attract and retain top talent; and to maintain process rigor in the an era of increasing design churn. Companies such as Volkswagen, Boeing, IBM, and Apple are active in this mode.

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The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit: It Should Be Easy to Poach Talent, But Not IP

Harvard Business

The suit will do more than determine the future of an important industry — it is a window into the rising number of disputes over talent mobility and trade secrets. Talent mobility has been the wind beneath the meteoric growth of Silicon Valley. Ultimately, it’s people more than information that should be free.

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Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works

Harvard Business

Anyone who follows the cultural industries — art, music, publishing, theater, cinema — knows of the tussles between artists and those who feed off of their talents. This benefits not just actors, screenwriters, and directors, for example, but also other artists and engineers. That’s a staggeringly long list.

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