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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. As described well within the book this difference is best illustrated by this Apple leadership comparison. He constantly sought out more radical creativity in design and end product results. The front-end leader.

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Managed Services vs Professional Services: Explained

Planview

Professional services , unlike managed services, are typically offered on-demand or project based, offering a wide range of services including digital transformation, business strategy, management consulting, data architecture & visualization, UX/UI design and more. A Comparison Between Managed Services and Professional Services.

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How to Influence People and Drive Change

Leapfrogging

Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with? Every minute of every day, individuals engage in various forms of persuasion in order to get what they want. This style of persuasion is effective in competitive sales environments or environments in which people are open to debate and collaboration.

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The High Art of Designing Scaffolding

Mills-Scofield

A modern variation of a similar design used in the recent restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[2]. Woodworkers, for example and by comparison, will often design jigs to position a part in relation to a tool in order to augment the function of that tool. In this way, scaffolding is a form of learning.

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How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

IdeaScale

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison.

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

BrainZooming

” That question relates to something we do all the time: walk into a new client in an unfamiliar industry to design and facilitate a strategic planning process. As a new strategic planner, you can quickly gain advantage by bringing intriguing comparisons to the table. Making Great Comparisons. via Shutterstock.