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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see. Help your employees be more data-savvy.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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To Innovate Like a Startup, Make Decisions Like VCs Do

Harvard Business

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. paul garbett for hbr. Applying a lean approach in your organization is getting half of the model right, but it is not enough.

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Digital momentum.

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