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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

These are key questions for anybody charged with developing strategy for a large organization. And in Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr, a legendary venture capitalist, applies an engineer's discipline to the thorny question of how best to use metrics.

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New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied

Harvard Business

We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings. ” Instead of relying heavily on performance metrics, ensure that every raise request prompts a look at market data for the given position.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, for instance, Grid70 houses design, business innovation, and product development teams from a grocery chain, shoe retailer, and consumer goods manufacturer — no coding required.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

In 2018, we counted more than 50,000 fast sessions across the company. By creating this volunteer network, we were able to make dramatic progress in developing other aspects of our innovation agenda. A manager might be struggling with an overly complex process or a new digital competitor. Extending the network.

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How will AI transform strategic planning?

Tom Spencer

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. Developing Digital-Age Project Management Skills to Thrive in the Disruptive Times. Here are some of the most essential ones. References Harrin, E.

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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. On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship.