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How to Protect Your Boundaries When Your Company Is Struggling

Harvard Business Review

Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization. In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run.

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How to Actually Execute Change at a Company

Harvard Business Review

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), (..)

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How to Create Company Values That Actually Resonate

Harvard Business Review

To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories. Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them?

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How to Make Peace with a Company Decision You Don’t Like

Harvard Business Review

By decelerating and reflecting on eight prompts, you can learn how to process difficult emotions, clearly articulate problems, identify potential upsides, broaden your perspective and develop empathy, and visualize what executing an unpopular decision will actually look like.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How to Build a Broader Network within Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Professional relationships, like all interpersonal connections, tend to form between individuals who are similar to each other. And having a fixed belief that relationships tend to develop spontaneously can inhibit one from reaching out and building diverse relationships.

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How to Reward Innovative Thinking in Your Company

IdeaScale

The post How to Reward Innovative Thinking in Your Company appeared first on IdeaScale. Innovation management is about thinking outside the box. It involves creating new opportunities rather than waiting for them to arise. This, however, cannot occur in a vacuum. … Continued.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. It will also illustrate how to select the right solution and what investments are required for success.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. It will show you how to select the right solution and what investments are required for success.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. But don't worry, Logi Analytics' Blueprint to Modernize Analytics will help you define your new solution, plot out how to get there and determine what you'll need in terms of time and resources.

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Game-Changers 911™: How to Change the Game in 2020

Speaker: John Storm, President, BrainStorm Network

Do you want to “change the game” in your company or industry? Join John Storm, President of the BrainStorm Network, to learn how to identify game-changing opportunities within your company and industry, and then brainstorm ways to capitalize on these ideas. There are BIG rewards for people who challenge the status quo.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date. The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. The result?

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Choosing the Right Tech Stack –– The Only Way to Grow

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal - CEO and Co-Founder of Chameleon

Why are tech stacks vital to your company's growth? But how do you choose the right tools to meet team and business objectives now and in the future? In this can't-miss webinar, join Pulkit Agrawal, CEO and Co-Founder of Chameleon, to learn: How to justify purchasing the best tech stack (and how to choose the right one).

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Short and Sweet: A Deep Dive Into Concise Feedback Loops

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

We want our products to make a difference for our customers as well as our company. But how long should those feedback loops be? And how do we see all of those loops? In this webinar you will learn: How to see the three major feedback loops. How those loops intersect. And more!

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Never Miss an Opportunity: How ISO 56000 Enables an Innovative Organization

Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.

In addition, companies who are serial innovators are using a system approach and manage innovation to continuously generate new ideas. This webinar will cover the newly published ISO 56000 series on Innovation Management, specifically the Guidance Standard ISO 56002 that discusses how to establish an Innovation Management System (IMS).