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Making It Naturally Difficult To Go Back

The advent of the fiduciary rule led the industry to make changes that may not be reversed, according to Aron Szapiro, Morningstar Inc.’s director for policy research. After the Labor Department’s announcement in 2016, financial companies began moving to comply with it. Bank of America...
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Support Bottom-up Innovation It Is Happening With Or Without You

IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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We Solved The Hard Problems

We Solved The Hard Problems
“We had solved a lot of the hard problems, “ says Jeff Hammerbacher, one of the first data scientists at Facebook, who left in 2008 to start Cloudera, which makes data analytics software.  “I kind of knew what it would look like in five years,...
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Overcome The Culture

Overcome The Culture
At Jet, there will be no annual performance reviews, because [Marc] Lore thinks feedback should be immediate and civil.  … And Lore isn’t making any of his employees sign noncompetes; he says that … without such stipulations “there’s more loyalty and trust that is built.”...
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Mix It Up

Mix It Up
That’s exactly the mix you want to foster in a team. On one hand, you have your innovators. These are your dropouts and visionaries.
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