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Leaders Need A Clear Model For Dealing With Competing Demands Within Their Organizations

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Organizations are these days perhaps more than ever having to balance competing demands. We have grown familiar with how even the largest corporations are being called to account by consumers and special interest groups. But there are many more examples.

Successful Innovation Leaders 'Make Their Organizations Ready And Willing To Perform'

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In this increasingly challenging business environment, innovation – or, rather, the ability to be innovative on a continuous basis – is the elusive big beast. To judge from the extensive library dedicated to the subject, you might think that the problem is a lack of ideas, a dearth of creative talent, inability to bring the ideas to fruition, a lack of funding – or some combination of all these. However, recent research by Linda Hill, a professor at Harvard Business School, and others suggests that the issue is something else entirely.

LinkedIn Just Completely Revamped Its Mobile App To Help You Make More Connections

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LinkedIn just released a new update to its flagship mobile app that revamps the look and experience to ultimately make it even easier for you to make and strengthen connections.  "We want to help you tell your professional story in the best way possible," Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's head of mobile, told Business Insider. "We want to help you put your best self forward." The goal of the redesigned app is to bring the highlights of your career to the forefront in a more visually appealing way, so that someone can get a feel for who you are and what you do with a quick glance.

Is Bigger Better?

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At the end of the recession, growth slowed, and companies were sitting on cash. As a result, there was a flurry of acquisitions. Some large and notable M&A activity in this period were the deals for Kraft/Cadbury, Dow/Rohm and Haas, Pfizer/Wyeth, and Merck/Schering-Plough.

Gartner Forecasts Tablet Shipments Will Overtake PCs In 2015

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Forecasting 2.4 billion traditional PCs, tablets, ultramobile and mobile phone unit shipments in 2014 and tablet unit shipments overtaking PCs in 2015, Gartner recently released their Worldwide Traditional PC, Tablet, Ultramobile and Mobile Phone Shipments to Grow 4.2 Percent in 2014.

What Cloud Computing Customers Want: Clarity, Simplicity, Support

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The lines between cloud providers and cloud consumers keep getting fuzzier every day. Many enterprises are engaged in both offering services through their own clouds, as well as subscribing to cloud services from public providers. To meet the consumption side of the equation, there is now a mega-industry of public cloud service providers that are aggressively competing for this online market. Vendors within this mega-industry are overwhelming customers with a bewildering assortment of pricing plans and service level agreements.

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