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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

Edwards Deming argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the system, not the individual. Personal productivity systems are certainly useful, but the most effective antidote to low productivity and inefficiency must be implemented at the system level, not the individual level.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

This means that companies must leave behind traditional models of proprietary systems, rigid processes, and reliance on a few longtime partners and move toward models that embrace open and flexible structures in which partners can solve business problems together. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies.

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Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations

Harvard Business

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth. Here’s what that entails.

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