Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

When your boss leaves for a new company, it can be tempting to try to follow them, especially if you’ve had a strong working relationship and built up trust. But is it a good idea? In this article, the author offers advice from Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management and the deputy dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Arika Pierce Williams, a leadership development consultant and the president and founder of Piercing Strategies.

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Leadership Strategy Strategy Management 138

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 10, 2024

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer Your emotional state has a lot to do with how innovative you are, especially when those emotions are negative. How willing are you to act in the face of uncertainty and take those risks? How comfortable are you with new ideas and interpretations that may conflict with those you have?

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Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s no surprise that trust is at the core of high-performing teams. But conversations about cultivating trust at work often focus on the relationship between managers and employees. As important — if not more so — is establishing trust between teammates. To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S.

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Team Building Collaboration Management 134

BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

An organization elected to go the DIY route to implement its strategy. They reached out six months later. The reason? Their overwhelmed implementation teams are confused because progress isn’t happening. Their strategy plan is too much relative to their daily responsibilities. The top executive wondered about holding an event to bring everyone together and do something , but not generating more ideas for things to do.

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Strategy Strategy 52

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.

Data

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

Traditional employee engagement surveys just aren’t working how we need them to. And they’re expensive, too. As the employee disengagement trends upward, the author suggests dispensing with these surveys and reinventing them internally, tailored to your organization’s unique context. She suggests three nontraditional KPIs to track instead to boost engagement: 1) team success, 2) innovation and new ideas, and 3) trends.

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Survey Engagement Trends Innovation 127

BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

Design thinking is a well-known methodology that generates innovative, user-centric solutions. It applies a human-centered and iterative problem-solving approach. The process emphasizes empathy, creativity, and collaboration in addressing complex problems. End-users take center stage within design thinking; there are specific outreaches incorporated into design thinking to understand end-user needs, desires, and pain points.

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Design Thinking Design Innovation Collaboration 52

BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

What is a porous organization? A porous organization actively collaborates with customers and partners by creating and supporting a flow of ideas and insights into and from the enterprise to create new value streams. My good friend, Joe Batista, the Chief Creatologist , articulates the concept to underscore that every organization can grow its capabilities and enrich its ecosystem through sharing and capturing value across varied arenas.

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Collaboration Culture System Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

And how to use their insights to improve your products and services.

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How To Product Development Strategy Strategy 104

BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

An organization elected to go the DIY route to implement its strategy. They reached out six months later. The reason? Their overwhelmed implementation teams are confused because progress isn’t happening. Their strategy plan is too much relative to their daily responsibilities. The top executive wondered about holding an event to bring everyone together and do something , but not generating more ideas for things to do.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy 52

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

The value of Ecosystems cannot be understated. Be these “innovation ecosystems”, “business ecosystems” or “dynamic ecosystems.” They form a “ hierarchy of ecosystem needs “, and that is where I will be going in the weeks ahead to explain this integrated and interconnected framing of ecosystems. I have gotten relatively excited about this strand of thinking and ecosystem design as it has been a reasonably extensive period of research building this o

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Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 52

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.

Data

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

What are the immediate impacts of AI on climate?

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Management Artificial Inteligence Policies Learning 83

ITONICS

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an era where environmental concerns are increasingly at the forefront of public consciousness, integrating sustainability into all innovation activities has become more than a mere trend—it's a necessity. As businesses and technological sectors evolve, the challenge lies not only in innovating to maintain a competitive advantage, but innovating in a way that is environmentally responsible and sustainable.

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How To Trends Competition Innovation 36

Idea Champions

JANUARY 10, 2024

"Mastery" is a fascinating phenomenon -- one that many people speak about, but few attain. Is it possible? Yes, it is. But what is it really? Ah. now that's the question, isn't it? The dictionary defines mastery as "possession or display of great skill or technique." OK. Good start. If you're fluent in French, for example, you have a mastery of the language.

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