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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business

To investigate what kinds of innovation AI worked with, the authors performed two studies: first, a survey of 331 firms for practices on process improvement and new technology development, and second, an archival analysis of patent data on new technology development for a broader sample of more than 2,000 publicly traded firms.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project?

Epicflow

Now, let’s examine why it’s important to develop a business case document. . A business case is somewhat similar to a feasibility study, which is why they sometimes get confused. A business case vs. a feasibility study. Both a business case and a feasibility study are decision-making tools that present a project’s viability.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. By the time that substantial U.S. simply couldn’t provide.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business

These self-starters need no external cues to help a co-worker learn a new skill; offer suggestions for process improvement; recruit a new employee; or volunteer for an assignment. To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Career paths. Today’s take-home is important to workers — but so is tomorrow’s.

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Hidden Heroes: Business Operations in Companies of All Sizes

Tom Spencer

They contribute to the development of long-term plans, identify growth opportunities, and align operational activities with the strategic vision of the organization. Process Improvement One of the key functions of business operations teams in big companies is to analyze existing business processes and identify areas for improvement.