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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

From the $68 billion CVS-Aetna deal to the $27 billion merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn , 2017 set records with more than 50,000 deals , valued at $3.7 Over the past year, we carried out an online survey of 2,500 reorgs (you can still complete the survey and benchmark your reorg here ). japatino/Getty Images.

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How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good

Harvard Business

By the end of 2017, Yelp had amassed more than 140 million reviews of local businesses. Choose a broadly accepted benchmark, and set a narrow goal to see whether and where you can meaningfully add value. Successfully repurposing data requires taking benchmarks seriously and cross-validating against them.

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How to Create and Sustain Financial Inclusion

BCG

Focus Tuesday, April 11, 2017. At one extreme, benchmarks of financial inclusion track only the share of adults who have opened a basic transaction account. Financial inclusion helps propel socioeconomic development. That correlation is well-known but not well understood. Financial inclusion is a complex topic.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal. To learn more about the flexible workforce, download the June 2017 commissioned study Address Critical Skill Gaps With On-Demand Knowledge conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Catalant Technologies.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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