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Thinking about innovation and strategy

Jeffrey Phillips

Of course, innovation can span a range of impacts and outcomes, from very incremental product innovation to industry changing business model innovation. It's just one of several, but I think I like it the best: a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. Strategy is not a momentary action or a project.

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How HR Impacts Corporate Innovation

IdeaScale

It starts with the policies and approaches of which employees can take advantage. For example, an HR department might institute a life-long learning policy. This is a bit different from tuition remission, although this is also an excellent policy for encouraging innovation. Encouraging Innovation.

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Leading the 6-Generation Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Giving each generation — and, importantly, each individual — the opportunity to be seen, understood, valued, and leveraged in the workplace throughout the course of their career is essential for personal, social, and even societal well-being. This author offers five steps leaders can take to create healthy six-generation organizations.

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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it’s not just about skills and AI)

Christensen Institute

I’ll also continue to read work from researchers like Matthew Hora, who delves into the experiences students themselves say they want and need in the course of work-based learning to make it worth their while. Figuring out the business models and enabling policies that sustain these models is key.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course? What will be needed on the corporate policy and governance side to drive this? Much more evidence all around us. Industry 4.0 How fast and at what scale can the Linear Economy curve be bent toward the Circular?

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How to Teach Innovation

Idea to Value

Training need not be confined to purely necessary courses and qualifications. Creative courses can also spill over into your employees’ work. You can also extend peer-to-peer teaching to personal development courses. By going down the creative route, you can focus on personal as well as professional development.

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Days of Empathy

CorporateIntel

The challenge he agreed to tackle was similar to another he had turned around, and I asked him if his approach was likely to follow the same course. Recently I was reviewing a difficult business situation with one of our company’s top problem-solvers.