Wed.Jul 10, 2024

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Creating Effective Digital Teams

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Creating digital products is a multi-disciplinary process, blending creativity, engineering, strategy, customer support, legal regulations and more. How to structure their teams is a major challenge faced by large enterprises and global brands undergoing a digital transformation.

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Is Humanity's Dependence on Technology Good Or Bad?

Phil McKinney

In today’s rapidly evolving world, technology is both an enabler and a challenge. Its pervasive presence in our lives raises pertinent questions about its impact on our critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. As we navigate this digital age, we must ask: Has our increasing reliance on technology improved or diminished these vital skills?

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How to Reboot Your Innovation System

Cris Beswick

Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. Despite the world of corporate innovation seemingly moving on from when we wrote it, the reality is that the basics still need to be implemented for many organisations.

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PDSA Quality Improvement: A Scientific Method of Change

Kainexus

Dr. W. Edwards Deming is considered by many to be the father of modern quality improvement. Among other important insights into how businesses could become more efficient, reduce costs, and increase customer value, he popularized the PDSA quality improvement method. It is a four-step cycle used to achieve continuous improvement, consistent results, and resource maximization in processes and products.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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ChangeThis Manifesto – Innovate Where You Differentiate

Stephen Shapiro

In 2010, Personality Poker was selected as one of the top five innovation books of the year by Porchlight Book Company (then 800-CEO-READ). In 2011, they selected Best Practices Are Stupid as the best innovation and creativity book of the year. And today, they published my ChangeThis manifesto titled “Innovate Where You Differentiate.” They asked me to create a 2,000-word article that is not an excerpt from or a summary of my book, PIVOTAL.

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Designing a Successful Reskilling Program

Harvard Business Review

In this article, written as a follow up to the award-winning “Reskilling in the Age of AI”, the authors report the results of a reskilling survey that they conducted with chief human resource officers from approximately 1,200 organizations in the U.S., along with business leaders from around 200. Their main finding is that reskilling is on track to becoming mainstream — but that companies still have plenty of work to do.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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How Sodexo’s CEO Manages Global Strategy Across 50 Countries

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Sodexo chair and CEO Sophie Bellon on talent management, supply chain resilience, and global growth.