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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls. Redbox, the innovator whose DVD dispenser machine rents DVDs for $1 per day, had also grown quite rapidly.

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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. But the real benefit for Vans was that its strategy made the sport mainstream and opened it up to the masses, which ultimately had huge benefits for its core shoes and clothing businesses.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. million Health Care Innovation Award and several other pediatric ACOs have also been formed with the assistance of Medicaid funding. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time). pediatric primary care remain.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT."

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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. This is also true of executives.