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Unleash Your Teams Potential: Leading Team-Building Experts for Corporate Events

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Elevating Team Performance The success of any corporate entity heavily relies on the collective efforts of its team members. At the heart of high-performing teams is the core principle of effective team-building. Understanding its critical role in the corporate setting can shape the way your organization achieves its goals and operates on a daily basis.

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Before You Start Collaborating with Someone, Talk About Your Work Styles

Harvard Business Review

When you’re working with new people, spending time upfront to have an explicit and open conversation about each other’s work styles and preferences can prove to be one of the best time investments. This “style alignment” conversation can lay a foundation for trust and understanding and help you set agreements for how to successfully work together. Yet, many people shy away from having these conversations for two reasons.

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AI on the Farm: How Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing the Food Industry

IdeaScale

From farm to fork, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the food industry. This powerful technology has the potential to transform every step of the food supply chain, from ensuring food safety and optimizing production to personalizing our food choices. One of the most pressing concerns for consumers is food safety.

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Here’s Why “Creating Awareness” Is Usually A Waste Of Time

Digital Tonto

In one of my favorite essays the physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.” I can think of no greater example of this simple axiom than the practice of change management, especially with regard to communication. There is an enormous track record of failure—study after study finds that the vast majority do not succeed.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Rethinking global rankings: Moving beyond one-size-fits-all metrics

Christensen Institute

On April 24, early registration to the largest anti-corruption event of the year opened. Almost 30 years ago, in 1995, Transparency International published the first Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Since then, the organization has ranked countries and territories based on the perception of public sector corruption. Investors and multinational companies use the CPI and other global indices to make decisions on whether or not, and how much, to invest in a country.

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Unleash Team Power: Motivational Speakers on Team Cohesion

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Importance of Motivational Speakers on Team Cohesion Enhancing Team Dynamics As you plan your corporate event or leadership program, one key element to consider is the influence of motivational speakers on team cohesion. These speakers offer more than just inspiration; they are catalysts for improving the dynamics within your team. By engaging a speaker who specializes in team-building, you’re investing in an expert who can analyze, understand, and suggest actionable strategies that will s

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How I Use AI to Understand Humans

Innovation Excellence

(and Cut Research Time by 80%) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton AI is NOT a substitute for person-to-person discovery conversations or Jobs to be Done interviews. But it is a freakin’ fantastic place to start…if you do the work before you start.

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Your Teams Should Drive AI Adoption — Not Senior Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Whenever a new technology comes along, large companies think you need to appoint a designated senior leader — a “czar,” in popular parlance — and it will get taken care of. This, however, is a mistake. The process usually starts when teams are pitching leadership on wildly optimistic and conflicting use cases, and the board, excited but unsure how to proceed, puts some poor, unsuspecting soul in charge of the whole thing.

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Sniff for Myth

CorporateIntel

The mantra of modern business decision-making is often tied to the basic concept of data-driven reasoning. If you hold a leadership position within an organization, you know that understanding data is a mandate. Data is the foundation for supporting a thesis, building consensus around a point of view, or building an argument for change. Data won’t tell us everything we need to know, and data can easily be misinterpreted, but if we aren’t looking at objectively collected data in formi

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Unlocking Success: Helping Executives Change Mindsets for Strategic Thinking

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Understanding Strategic Thinking for Executives Strategic thinking is a critical component of successful leadership, particularly for senior executives who chart the course of their organizations. It involves the ability to anticipate market trends, identify opportunities for growth, and create long-term plans that align with the company’s goals.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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 Ideas for Healthcare to Improve Patient Care and Outcomes

IdeaScale

Innovation in healthcare has become a necessity in recent years as the healthcare industry has been facing several challenges. With the advent of new technologies and medical breakthroughs, it's high time for the healthcare sector to embrace innovative ideas to improve patient care and outcomes.

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Are Your Customer Surveys Costing You Business?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Why does a company send out a customer satisfaction survey? Generally, it is to find out if they did a good job or what they can do to make the experience better. In the weekly Super Amazing Show I do with Brittany Hodak, we talked about surveys.

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How to Answer an Open-Ended Question from a Job Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Interviewers should prepare for interviews just as thoroughly as candidates do. Being equipped with compelling stories and setting aside dedicated preparation time, such as 30 minutes beforehand, allows interviewers to mentally prepare and be fully present during the interview. Like with candidates, it’s not only the content of what is said that matters, but also the manner in which it’s conveyed.

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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

Cris Beswick

First, let’s unpack a Culture OF Innovation vs A Culture FOR Innovation. Innovation is not a monolithic entity that can be injected into an organisation’s cultural fabric. Instead, it emerges as the synergistic product of elements intentionally combined within a nurturing environment. With this understanding, we can delineate two distinct cultural paradigms regarding innovation: The false narrative of ‘A Culture OF Innovation’ depicts innovation as an intrinsic core compo

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Unlocking Success: Helping Executives Change Mindsets for Strategic Thinking

Leapfrogging

Understanding Strategic Thinking for Executives Strategic thinking is a critical component of successful leadership, particularly for senior executives who chart the course of their organizations. It involves the ability to anticipate market trends, identify opportunities for growth, and create long-term plans that align with the company’s goals.

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Keeping Your Innovation Team United and Focused on the Big Picture

IdeaScale

Innovation teams face a big challenge: how to stay together and aim high when everything around them is constantly changing. This time, it isn’t about ideas but creating a team that can quickly adapt, work together smoothly, and always keep an eye on their main goals, no matter what new technology or trend comes along.

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Iterate Your Thinking

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer One of the things that all sound innovation processes have in common is some way to iterate. To repeatedly work through a process that allows you to refine whatever you’re trying to create. That might be building a prototype, testing it and building another version based on what you’ve learned.

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Preventing the Next Big Cyberattack on U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The cyberattack on Change Healthcare that devastated the U.S. health care sector made painfully clear that much more needs to be done to address vulnerabilities that exist throughout the ecosystem. This article offers five actions that can go a long way to improving cybersecurity throughout the sector and make it much more resilient.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Digital Transformation Outcomes: How to Improve ROI | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Today, more than ever, businesses are navigating a landscape characterized by rapid technological advancements, shifting consumer behaviors, and heightened competition. In this context, embracing digital transformation isn't merely an option—it's imperative for staying relevant and competitive. Digital transformation entails the strategic integration of digital technologies into all facets of a business, fundamentally altering how it operates and delivers value to its stakeholders.

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Building Stronger Teams: Unveiling the Top Motivational Speakers for Team-Building

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Choosing the Right Motivational Speaker When the goal is to forge a high-performing team, a motivational speaker can be a pivotal element in your strategy. The right speaker can ignite a spark within your team, instilling enthusiasm and a renewed sense of purpose. Importance of Motivational Speakers in Team-Building Motivational speakers play an integral role in team-building.

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Generative AI will fuel loneliness: Do we care enough to combat it? 

Christensen Institute

Loneliness is killing us. The Surgeon General’s advisory on our loneliness epidemic includes the chart shown below. It highlights the fact that lacking social connection is the new smoking. About a decade ago, sitting was the new smoking. But lacking social connection, it seems, may be even worse. This isn’t really new news. We knew social connections were critical long before the Surgeon General’s proclamation.

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Problems are Required for Progress to Occur

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Without a problem, there can be no progress. And only after there’s too much no progress is a problem is created. And once the problem is created, there can be progress. When you know there’s a problem just over the horizon, you have a problem.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

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

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GenAI Can Help Companies Do More with Customer Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Companies that are struggling to find the right place to deploy new AI tech should consider use cases involving “voice of the customer” applications — parsing, interpreting, and responding to customer input from all different channels. They are typically easier to implement than employee productivity use cases because they don’t require as much behavior change, and easier to measure improvements in economic value because improving customer satisfaction often has a financial payoff.

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Lunch & Learn with CBTW

Qmarkets

Join us in Brussels on May 28 as we host an exclusive idea management workshop. Hosted by Qmarkets director of innovation solutions Emma Sendra and Enrico Maset of innovation consultancy CBTW, we'll walk you through the entire process of implementing an idea management program, from establishing a strategy all the way through to choosing a technology solution.

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Achieving Team Synergy: Engaging Corporate Speakers on Fostering Teamwork

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Importance of Team Synergy Benefits of Fostering Teamwork When you invest in fostering teamwork within your organization, you’re setting the stage for a multitude of benefits. These benefits not only enhance the performance of the team but also contribute to a more positive and dynamic work environment. One of the primary benefits of effective teamwork is the pooling of skills and strengths.

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How ZF improved their Innovation System.

Strategos

How does ZF Commercial Vehicles use Innovation to build the next generation of commercial vehicles and enable the future of automotive? Gandert van Raemdonck, Head of Innovation, explains how they tackled this challenge and prepared ZF for future growth. Michel van Hove… Source The post How ZF improved their Innovation System. appeared first on Strategos.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Why Quiet Geniuses Excel at Breakthroughs

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When you think of breakthrough innovation, someone like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk often comes to mind. Charismatic and often temperamental, people like these seem to have a knack for creating the next big thing and build great businesses on top of them.

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How to Gracefully Decline a Promotion

Harvard Business Review

How can you decline a promotion without making things awkward? In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on how to navigate this complicated situation. First, explore the underlying reasons behind your hesitation. If you are 100% sure you don’t want the promotion, decline as swiftly as possible. Be tactful and tactical. While there’s no need to provide an exhaustive account of your decision, framing it strategically is important.

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Lunch & Learn with CBTW

Qmarkets

Join us in Brussels on May 28 as we host an exclusive idea management workshop. Hosted by Qmarkets director of innovation solutions Emma Sendra and Oliver Della Maggiore of innovation consultancy CBTW, we'll walk you through the entire process of implementing an idea management program, from establishing a strategy all the way through to choosing a technology solution.

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Mastering the Art of Team Unity: Keynote Speakers on Team-Building Strategies

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Keynote Speakers for Team Unity Importance of Team-Building Keynote Speakers Keynote speakers on team-building strategies are a pivotal element for your corporate events, conferences, and leadership programs. These speakers offer a wealth of knowledge and insights that can transform the dynamics of any team, propelling them towards greater unity and performance.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

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.