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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Investing in Your Employees

Business and Tech

A competitive advantage. Gaining that competitive advantage involves addressing what Koslow calls the three “pillars” of a healthy company culture: community, purpose, and growth. There are so many unique and wonderful ways for employers to embrace their new cultures—they can lean on software to enable and foster connection online.

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How Leaders Can Reap the Potential of Lean Innovation

Kainexus

When many people think about Lean processes and management , they assume that the goal is to optimize each process with a step-by-step approach to reduce waste and implement incremental improvements. Because people who innovate have bold ideas, but it's Lean thinking that turns fantastic ideas into realities.

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How can Lean and Innovation make your business evolve to 4.0?

Exago

Once the go-to strategy for ensuring business efficiency and growth, in the context of the current reality, Lean Management has been branded by some as being outdated. The post How can Lean and Innovation make your business evolve to 4.0?

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Work Hard, Play Hard: The Scaling Coach Shares Tips for Building a Better Business

Business and Tech

At any size of organization, owners and leaders can deliver improved results by their work to inspire and engage others. It certainly would be likely to have lower turnover, higher engagement, and an easier time recruiting. But, if we embrace the challenge at hand, lean into the struggle, we will find satisfaction and accomplishment.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The tool and techniques that stand out for me, in their contribution, value and my use have been, in no specific order, cover the jobs-to-be-done , ten types of innovation, crossing the chasm , blue ocean, business model canvas and value proposition canvas, building core competencies , lean start-up, agile and design sprints.

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Is What’s Good For General Electric Good For America?

Digital Tonto

He led a new era of “Welchism,” in which CEO’s laid off employees, offshored factories and engaged in “financial engineering,” to goose profits. We can expect the basis of competition to shift away from design sprints, iterating, and pivoting to building meaningful, collaborative relationships in order to solve grand challenges.

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

Business and Tech

Because the CHIPS Act encourages businesses to lean in by providing STEM spaces and equipment, offering scholarships, promoting employee volunteerism, funding competitions, and creating internships and apprenticeships, Broadcom Foundation is doing its part.

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