Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Almon Brown Strowger (1839 – 1902) was born near Rochester in New York state. He served with the Union army in the American Civil War. He subsequently became a teacher and then an undertaker in Kansas City Missouri. He was also an inventor. He suspected that his undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose wife worked as a telephone operator.

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Company Innovation 208

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Time off doesn’t always go as planned. So, what can you do when you come back to work more exhausted than when you left — especially when everyone assumes you’re well rested and raring to go but you feel just as depleted (or more) than before? The author recommends five strategies: 1) Take inventory of your health and energy; 2) Ease back into work; 3) Reflect on the positives; reframe and learn from the negatives; 4) Use the fresh start effect to set up new routines; and 5) Clarify what you nee

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Strategy Strategy Learning Management 125

Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Is it possible to transform existing K–12 schools? Can innovative, future-ready models of schooling be built from the schools that are common across the education landscape today? I suspect that if you were to survey the range of people working in K–12 education today—across school districts, state education departments, foundations, national associations, and intermediaries—the consensus would be a resounding “yes.

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Policies System Change Survey 124

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Networking is critical for senior executives who are making job and career transitions, but it’s hard to find advice on how best to manage the process. In this article, the authors — who have decades of experience working with executives during periods of transition — identify six networking hurdles that executives often encounter, and they provide guidance on how to get over them.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton What if a tool had the power to delight your customers, cut your costs, increase your bottom line, and maybe double your stock price? You’d use it, right? That’s precisely the power and impact of Service Design and service blueprints.

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Design Tools Design Thinking Social Innovation 91

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A conversation with Eccles professor Jay Barney on research about retooling culture.

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Culture Change Strategy Strategy 104

Stephen Shapiro

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

After 16 months of waiting, the USPTO has finally approved my FAST Innovation® trademark. FAST Innovation is more than a buzzword. It stands for the four key steps of the innovation process I have been using for over a decade: F = FOCUS: Innovate where you differentiate. Focus on the parts of the business that have the greatest impact. This is the topic of my book that will be released in 2024.

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Innovation Innovation Programs Innovation Processes Collaboration 52

ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the dynamic world of innovation, a company’s ability to generate groundbreaking ideas consistently is the linchpin of success. Yet, sourcing novel ideas can be a demanding task. ChatGPT emerges as a potent ally in this arena, offering a unique blend of AI-driven creativity. Primarily relevant for innovation and R&D teams, and initiators of an idea challenge, this tool holds immense potential.

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