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AI and collective decision-making for 21st-century management

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Information systems will help break down company silos and better inform strategy The future of work is high on chief executives’ agendas. But, at a recent forum where senior managers from major companies agreed that changes, such as automation, artificial intelligence, the rise of non-traditional competitors and advances in manufacturing, were imminent, few had conceived […]

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This is why you’re not a best-in-class company for retaining great employees

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Best-in-class companies know what it takes to attract and retain quality employees. While they make many attempts, most companies haven’t reached this status. But, when it comes to hiring, what exactly makes a best-in-class company? In fact, these companies have a decrease (in terms of overall category statistics) in time to hire, an increase in

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Corporate venturing: Entrepreneurs enter the embrace of bigger companies

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Being nurtured by a larger organisation may involve gratitude mixed with cautionDan Hubert has reason to be thankful for the interest several big companies have shown in his UK-based start-up, AppyParking, a smartphone app that helps drivers find parking spaces. Aviva Ventures, the insurer’s recently created venture capital fund, invested $1.5m seed funding in January.

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