Innovation Excellence
JULY 12, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell I first became interested in transformation in the fall of 2004. I was managing a leading news organization in Kyiv, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out.
Digital Tonto
JULY 10, 2022
When we’re passionate about something, we want to take action. We want to launch an initiative, start a business, hit the streets, get stuff done. Yet our bias for action can be a trap that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Leapfrogging
JULY 15, 2022
Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. Hiring good people is tough. Retaining your best talent can be equally challenging. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. So, how do you objectively know which people are your all-stars, especially in a bigger organization?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2022
Digital financial companies are making big claims about financial inclusion — but are failing to disclose data that backs up their efforts.
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.
Christensen Institute
JULY 14, 2022
This article was first published by the New York Sun on June 29, 2022. Generations of poor Haitians paid France—its colonizer—roughly $560 million in today’s dollars. According to some estimates, if these funds had stayed in Haiti instead of moving out of the country, the Haitian economy could be eight times larger than its 2020 GDP of roughly $14.5 billion.
Wellspring
JULY 14, 2022
Today, Wellspring announced a significant capital raise. You can read the press release to learn more about Resurgens , our new growth partners, and the deal itself. In this post, I’d like to focus on the bigger picture — why it made sense to raise a fresh round of capital, why 2022 was the right time, and why I’m deeply excited for Wellspring’s future.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2022
A look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.
Christensen Institute
JULY 14, 2022
Over the last two and a half years, if there was a glass-half-full way of looking at COVID-19’s effect on education, it was to consider how the challenges created by the pandemic might also catalyze innovation. Remote learning led to substantial investments in devices, software, and connectivity that could serve as basic infrastructure to support innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Wellspring
JULY 11, 2022
Get a look at how the supply chain has missed on innovation in the past, and why strategic innovation is proving to be the way forward. This article was originally published on Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
Kainexus
JULY 15, 2022
Karidja Sakanogo joined us on our Continuous Improvement webinar series to share the core values and dimensions of Lean management that can alleviate parenthood. You can watch the webinar recording here or read the webinar transcript below.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2022
Four strategies to boost your algorithm’s accuracy — especially as it relates to the physical world.
Christensen Institute
JULY 12, 2022
Our nation is in the midst of multiple crises, and it’s hard to see how we’ll get through any of them. But when it comes to abortion, rethinking the categories we use to discuss this particular crisis sheds light on how we can move forward. The Supreme Court’s recent Roe v. Wade decision marks yet another one-size-fits-none approach propelled by an unprecedented era of extreme political polarization.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 14, 2022
GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky When Gordon Bethune took over as CEO of Continental Airlines in 1994, the carrier had just emerged from its second bankruptcy and was headed for their third and potentially final round.
Kainexus
JULY 12, 2022
Mark Graban, Senior Advisor at KaiNexus, joined us on our Continuous Improvement webinar series to talk about My Favorite Mistake, Your Favorite Mistake? Learning From Mistakes as Individuals and Organizations. In this webinar, you'll learn and hear stories about: · Why it’s important to admit mistakes to ourselves · How to reflect on mistakes without being too hard on ourselves · How to prevent repeating our mistakes · Key leadership behaviors that create a culture where it’s safe for people to
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2022
Changing your strategic priorities will inevitably come with downsides. Here’s how leaders can address those losses head on.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 13, 2022
Tip 12 from Best Practices are Stupid… Imagine you are the former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Your state is struggling with myriad issues ranging from a perpetual and growing deficit to a decaying education system to an infrastructure that can’t handle the ever-increasing population. What do you do? Like any good innovator, you turn to crowdsourcing, just as Governor Schwarzenegger did.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 13, 2022
GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Managing with empathy is a leader’s superpower. Empathy opens the door to increased innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
ITONICS
JULY 14, 2022
Which emerging technologies will be game-changers for your industry? Recognizing this early can be a great asset to your business. To adapt to changes in the market, companies must research technological breakthroughs and use them to develop products and services to meet evolving consumer needs.
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Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2022
Developing employees’ skills doesn’t have to be disruptive. In fact, research suggests it shouldn’t be.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JULY 10, 2022
In today's workplace, you need a culture that allows people to be their best -- inclusiveness and acceptance are essential.
Rmukesh Gupta
JULY 14, 2022
Premise: I read a post by Michael McCune on Gartner’s blog about thought leadership and it resonated really well with me. In the post, he talks about the importance of original thought provoking content. Content that deepen’s someone’s understanding of their own challenges and how to solve them by sharing an insight that is either original or is non-obvious has significant impact.
ITONICS
JULY 13, 2022
As a variety of factors continue to impact the global economy, the clear call for companies to prioritize foresight and innovation across business activities is more relevant than ever. In this blog, we look at the role of foresight and innovation in supply chain management to anticipate and respond to future requirements for supply chains. Moreover, we provide three k ey factors to ensure future-fit supply chains.
Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali
Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 14, 2022
Collaborations often start with high hopes — then break down. Here’s how to actually make them work.
Planview
JULY 15, 2022
In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 15, 2022
Tip 14 from Best Practices are Stupid…remember this is from over 10 years ago. Splitting this into two posts. Imagine you are a hearing aid manufacturer and you want to develop the next generation of product. You conduct surveys and focus groups and discover that nearly 80% of the hearing impaired population, despite the recommendations of their health care provider, refuse to wear hearing aids, mainly citing cost as the key reason.
Acuvate
JULY 15, 2022
With the world gearing to reach 175 ZB of data by 2025, many organizations have realized that moving their data to the cloud is the need of the hour. Not only does the cloud offer benefits in terms of scalability and reduced costs, but it also provides companies access to a host of data analytics and ETL (extract, transform, and load) tools, enabling them to process large amounts of information and extract meaningful insights from it.
Speaker: Jamie Eagan
As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2022
SCAN Health Plan reduced the gap by 35% — the equivalent of roughly 700 more Black and Hispanic members taking their medications as prescribed.
InnovationTraining.org
JULY 12, 2022
Top insights from this 2022 Hasso Plattner Institute study. In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. A replicative study was done more recently in 2021 , reviewing the development of the last six years and outlining the future of design thinking in organizations.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 14, 2022
Tip 13 from Best Practices are Stupid. Here I explore the lessons from one of my favorite movies of all time. In 1989’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the nerdy archeology professor Indiana Jones advises students to “forget any ideas you’ve got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and ‘X’ never, ever marks the spot.”.
IM Insights
JULY 11, 2022
By Elijah Eilert. My friend Mark Vaughn recently found this interesting tool – OpenAI. In a group chat with friends, we had some fun with it, writing poems and asking the AI silly questions. Needless to say, I wanted to see how well the answer to this question would turn out: What is innovation accounting? “Innovation accounting is a framework for measuring and managing the progress of innovative initiatives.
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