Smart City: Essentials for city leaders
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The digital revolution is impacting all sectors of our economy including the public sector, and with it the administration and management of cities...
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What is a Smart City anyways?
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The term “Smart City” has lately become a buzzword for anyone involved in governing a city, yet it remains opaque and relatively ill-defined. Curre...
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Connecting every corner of South Africa
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How South Africa is closing the digital divide through SA Connect, expanding affordable, reliable broadband to underserved communities and every citizen by 2030
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EVs accelerate the great automotive rewiring
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Reuters US autos journalist Mike Colias discusses his new book Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles, which explores how the development of electric vehicles is revolutionizing the global auto sector.
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Gripped by uncertainty? How to unfreeze through experimentation
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Steps that are too big can paralyze us. Sometimes we avoid taking action because decisions feel too uncertain or too risky and we choke or “freeze”, making action impossible.
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Sustainable Construction - Baufritz
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Germany’s Baufritz developed sustainable construction over its century-old existence and is exporting its environmentally friendly model across Europe
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Outpacing strategy - Chinese EV Manufacturers
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Chinese EV leaders show how the Outpacing strategy uses fast evolutionary cycles to shift direction early and gain an edge over slower moving rivals.
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Beware the silent fourth: Are you fawning your way through leadership?
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But clinical psychologist Ingrid Clayton identifies a fourth survival strategy lurking in your neural circuitry that most leadership training misses – and it might be sabotaging your effectiveness.
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The End of Job Titles - AI - Skills-powered Strategies
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Gloat’s Jeff Schwartz and Mike Worthington reveal how AI and skills-powered strategies are transforming talent management and workforce strategy.
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The seven dimensions of academic strategy: A systems framework for higher education excellence
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Academic institutions face unprecedented complexity from technological change, evolving funding models, diverse stakeholder demands and pressure to demonstrate societal impact. Traditional strategic planning – periodic exercises that typically yield lengthy reports but little change – no longer suffices. This technical note introduces the Seven Dimensions of Academic Strategy, a comprehensive systems framework for designing, implementing and continuously refining strategy in universities, research institutes and academic departments. The framework encompasses seven interconnected dimensions: Impact (vision and purpose), Defining Choices (where to focus and not focus), Core Capabilities (world-class strengths and make-buy-partner sourcing decisions), Portfolio (resource allocation across time horizons), Stakeholders and Value Creation (partnerships and value exchange), Economics and Resources (financial sustainability), and Execution and Learning (organizational systems for action and adaptation). Unlike linear planning models, this framework presents strategy as a dynamic system in which changes in one dimension cascade through the others. Designed for practical application, the framework includes assessment tools that are applicable at multiple institutional levels. Academic leaders, administrators and faculty involved in strategic planning will find actionable guidance for achieving institutional impact in an increasingly complex world.
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Discovery, with purpose: Reshaping R&D for the future
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Former Novo Nordisk CSO Marcus Schindler on R&D leadership, pharma innovation, scientific discovery, AI, global talent, DEI, biotech, drug development strategy.
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Stressed by ambiguity? How to turn problems into opportunities
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Amy Bonsall and Alyson Meister show how to turn problems into opportunities through reframing your response to perceived threats.
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