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How Ajay Banga can “write a new playbook” and become the World Bank’s most consequential President

Christensen Institute

Jim Yong Kim left the bank abruptly in 2019 (a move that necessitated Kristalina Georgieva to serve as acting President for two months); David Malpass didn’t finish his first five-year tenure and left in June, 2023; and now, Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard Inc., Banga has his work cut out for him. Banga’s task ahead will not be easy.

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

The Avengers teamed up with the squad from Guardians of the Galaxy to face down Thanos. It’s important to get a sense of how the tectonic plates of the innovation landscape are shifting in order to anticipate the new opportunities of 2019. Often times, this data can be gained through crowdsourcing projects. Let’s dive in!

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Creating high-performing and faster-moving teams

ImagineNation

It is described as the “blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create high-performing and faster-moving teams and companies”. By drawing on the wisdom of their coach to help them manage and lead their people to be more effective in their jobs, and to grow and develop.

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#1,582 – The Coolest Ideas of 2019

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Promethean AI – This is a new AI program that would let anyone become a game developer, no formal training required. And while rendering a bedroom is a far cry from creating an entire game world, it still goes to show how quickly the technology is developing and how easy it’s becoming to build a game or any virtual world for that matter.

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Emergent See Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Emergent See Innovation from GFi Available February, 2019. The bad news : In the frenzy to do something fast you might make big mistakes or take risks that could be avoided. A quick turn-around Emergent See project plan. Research and Homework thinking assignments for team. Innovation Emergencies Happen.

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5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons

hackerearth

HackerEarth has 8 years of experience conducting hackathons across industries, and it took the team only a short time to regroup and work out a process for conducting these events online. . Allow me to share these lessons we learnt from running 200 remote hackathons: Lesson 1: Developers LOVE fighting real-world challenges with hackathons.

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What is Digital Transformation in Business and Why is it Important?

Moves the Needle

While just like for startups, large enterprises benefit from the tumbling costs of developing digital products, they face deep-rooted problems that come from being large and successful. But enterprise organizations have been known to exhibit “not built here” syndrome, meaning, they don’t trust solutions that weren’t developed in-house.