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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Investing in Your Employees

Business and Tech

The way we work is changing. That’s more than a hunch on his part — a record number of employees voluntarily left their jobs within the last twelve months, pursuing new opportunities, higher wages, or changing careers entirely. A competitive advantage. This trend is not going away any time soon.”.

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Working together to shape innovation for meaningful change

Paul Hobcraft

Shaping Innovation for a Meaningful Change Following on from my initial post, “ Our Need is to Shape Innovation Dynamically, ” this post outlines the eight value-adding points that I can help build out and deliver alongside you in different delivery modules to fit your circumstances and budgets.

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Predicting innovation trajectories in K–12 education

Christensen Institute

The concept of value networks explains why districts often struggle to make major changes to their organizational models and why charter schools often find it easier to innovate. There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale.

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Change Management is strategy and vice versa

Jeffrey Phillips

But what struck me about their work is that they also focus on culture and change management. In a time when everyone is focused on analytics, on artificial intelligence, on strategy and on mission, focusing on change and culture is almost counterintuitive, but it's probably what we should be focusing on. Change is difficult.

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Mastering the balance: Value networks and the drive for change in K-12 education

Christensen Institute

K-12 education has a perennial hunger for change, improvement and innovation. Meanwhile, priorities such as school discipline reform, instituting culturally affirming curriculum, addressing COVID-19 learning loss, treating a youth mental health epidemic and curtailing educator burnout have been added to the mix.

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Job One of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act: Closing the Digital Divide

Business and Tech

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. For more than 50 years, U.S.

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Systems Change in Social Innovation Education

The Inovo Group

While this is an article about education for social innovation, it is supremely relevant to the education and practice of any corporate innovator in today’s world. Its central thesis is that we need to start thinking of innovation as a way to change complex systems rather than just attempting to ‘solve problems’, and teaching as such.