Thu.Aug 03, 2023

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How to Make a Pivot in the Latter Half of Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Changing careers as an older worker can be daunting, especially amid today’s relentless uncertainty. But you already have what you need to set yourself apart as a candidate — you just need to do a little extra preparation to ensure that hiring managers and interviewers can see how your unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives will move their team and organization forward.

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I Left Google Because It Wasn't Innovative Enough. Now I Work at a Startup Doing What the Tech Giant Wouldn't.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Tyler Ashby left Google because his department, customer service, lacked access to innovative generative AI tools. See more about his road to Agents Only, here.

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Don’t Let Your Company’s Culture Stifle Leadership Development

Harvard Business Review

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. Leaders may be asked to think long term in a culture that fixates on immediate results, or they may be taught to collaborate across organizational boundaries when they’re rewarded for work within their own group.

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The Silent Epidemic: The Growing Problem of Digital Addiction

Phil McKinney

Do you constantly check your phone? Are you anxious and irritable when you're away from your digital devices? Are you too engrossed in the screens of your gadgets? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you may suffer from digital addiction. In today's world, we depend increasingly on digital devices, but the consequences of this dependence can be dire.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Meeting Expectations Versus Managing Hope

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken At a recent customer service presentation, the speaker who preceded me said that we must do better than simply meeting our customers’ expectations, and he shared some stories of truly amazing service experiences. Then it was my turn to speak.

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How to Enhance Decision-Making in Innovation with Custom Dashboards

ITONICS

Are you looking for a seamless way to present key performance indicators (KPIs) to your management team? Innovation dashboards present complex innovation data in a visually appealing and easily understandable manner. Interactive charts and graphs help users quickly grasp trends, patterns, and correlations, facilitating data-driven decision-making.

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Harnessing the Power of Innovation Culture for Sustained Competitive Advantage

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation Culture: The Winning Differentiator BCG’s report, “An Innovation Culture that Gets Results,” has revealed a striking truth. It emphasizes that companies with strong innovation cultures tend to lead. They are 60% more likely to be innovation front-runners. They concentrate on four cultural aspects – creating, teaming, leading, and celebrating. […] The post Harnessing the Power of Innovation Culture for Sustained Competitive Advantage appeared first on Innovation

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Reducing today’s Volatility with Innovation Ecosystem Thinking and Design

Ecosystems4Innovating

Much of business today is caught up in managing short-term change that is growing in complexity and challenges. So the challenges in the past year have been highly focused on supply chain disruptions , plugging gaps in technology solutions that can provide a higher flexible, agile, and advanced planning and production environment and continue to keep moving towards securing a more sustainable future that reflects the need to become carbon neutral, net zero.

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Where Does Innovation Fit in the Product Portfolio

Planview

As the world becomes more interconnected, the impacts of disruptions to product development are now felt more widely, which means product-driven organizations need to be more responsive and adaptive in how they manage their portfolios. Fierce competition and market oversaturation are just a few challenges organizations face when struggling to bridge the gap between the innovations they think they need to respond to and disrupt versus those that will offer the most value for the business.

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Unlocking Innovation: Focusing on the Process, Not the Product

Idea Sandbox

Last Updated on 3 August 2023 In our increasingly competitive world, innovation or “re-imagining” is hailed as the key to success in nearly every field. But what if our conventional understanding of innovation is fundamentally flawed? What if innovation isn’t something you do but something that happens as a result? The Misconception of Innovation It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that innovation is a tangible goal that one can simply achieve.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.