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Here’s How to Empower Your Employees

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Identify Your Human Assets Modern management vocabulary has moved from talking about human resources to identifying human capital. The new mindset is that the greatest capital asset that a company can have is its employees. Research shows that empowerment can lead to innovation if done organically.

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3 Types Of Market Failure That Facilitate Labor Market Intermediaries

The Horizons Tracker

However, the full benefits of such investments may not be reflected in the wages or other compensation received by the worker, leading to underinvestment in human capital. Similarly, employers who invest in worker training may not be able to fully capture the benefits of those investments, leading to underinvestment in training.

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2018 Workforce Forecast | Herman Group

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That means, companies will be looking at a variety of factors and more importantly, taking action, to optimize the return on investment of everything from advertising to training budgets. Shortage of data scientists encourages innovative solution. Clark, Founder and Chief Idea and Innovation Officer at Ambient Intelligence, Inc.

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Why Trust Matters More Than Ever for Brands

Harvard Business Review

Knowledge: R&D, patents, human capital, IP. Consumers today are trying and bonding with brands through design touch points and their experiences, not through advertising alone. Advertising and marketing can amplify the success of a great design, but they can rarely compensate for a poor one.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Their greatest human capital concerns have shifted. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. And higher education isn''t offering the human capital cure. A recent McKinsey & Co.

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. The former facilitates a transaction; the latter is a value-added human capital investment. What really makes them work? As a buyer, who would you rather be?

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital. To become major branded players away from home, Chinese companies must address their challenges in three strategic ways.

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