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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Yes, you and your employees are free to ignore that stupid individual development plan form that HR is forcing down your throats. Probably not. Standing still is not an option.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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U.S. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire

Harvard Business Review

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. In this environment, profits come from the company's ability to make the best use of technology to flexibly create high-quality products with continual process improvement and few accidents.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. It’s a reality: Data is going to keep growing and technology options will follow the same trajectory. 13,500 sites, 20 TB, 15 seconds to render).

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. It’s a reality: Data is going to keep growing and technology options will follow the same trajectory.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Building on Logan's success, Renault has now developed an entire line of low-cost vehicles (under the brand Dacia) all modeled after Logan's technology platform. Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market. lakhs ($6,600).

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Trial and Error Is No Way to Make Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. I saw some cool technology.