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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. The driving force behind digital transformations is adopting and implementing digital technologies to processes, products, and assets to improve efficiency, enhance customer value, manage risk, and uncover new monetization opportunities. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Beyond HR KPIs: Strategic Metrics for Organizational Development

AIHR

In this environment, the main driver for developing their capabilities probably is the workforce ( Gamerschlag & Moeller, 2011 ; Gamerschlag, 2013 ). In fact, different recommendations and directions have been developed from the institutional arena ( Directive 2013/34/EU ; Directive 2014/95/EU ). Clearly not. Wellness at work).

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

A theme in my work with founder/CEOs is what I call "the judicious imposition of structure," which includes the need to clarify who's responsible for what and how decisions get made as the organization scales. [5] When enough people--or the right people--believe a story, it suddenly becomes true. [7] They become constraints in themselves.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. increase in long-term value, measured by the ratio of the firm’s market value to the book value of its assets.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Their business model advantages are clear — the "fleet" renews itself naturally, there are no parking or logistics issues, geographic expansion and scaling is more seamless. Furthermore, these "peer economy" marketplaces transcend the simple trade conducted on eBay, and are instead inventing an entirely new asset-light supply paradigm.

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

They have systematically and significantly eroded barriers to entry and movement on a global scale. Evidence of this pressure is starkly captured in the return on assets (ROA) for all public companies in the US since 1965. Thanks to the forces described above, we are more connected on a global scale than ever before.

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What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund

Harvard Business Review

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore. ”

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