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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. There is hope in succeeding on our sustainability journey—and it’s more important than ever.

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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.