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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Often, this focus on just meeting the specific targets can take focus and effort away from meeting the more important overall targets aligned with achieving the company’s strategy. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. What is the strategy?

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

The Grid Edge includes the innovative solutions of hardware, software, and business innovation that are enabling smart infrastructure to be installed at or near the “edge” of the electric power grid. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model. degree mark.

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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.”. After all, institutional knowledge loss can also occur when key employees resign or are lost due to illness, tragedy, or being poached by another company.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”. Employees who feel their voices are heard are 4.6x

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position.

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Overcoming the barriers to innovation in the legal sector

Idea Drop

Barriers to innovation in the legal sector To understand how law firms can better embrace a comprehensive innovation strategy, it is first important to consider the barriers. With innovation comes disruptive change and innovators will inevitably face a myriad of dismissals in pursuit of an ideation strategy.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.