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Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One

Digital Tonto

When Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, it was still unclear what his legacy was going to be. He made it possible for the nearly century-old firm to become a pioneer in open-source development, artificial intelligence and genomics. Welch increased profits largely by “financializing” the firm.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Low investment in Research and Development. Only 37 per cent of UK workers surveyed felt they were encouraged to be innovative and fewer than half felt valued at work, according to HR magazine. Poor management.

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Don’t Lose Your Best People. Use the 9-Box Grid to Grow Your Future Talent.

Leapfrogging

Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. Magazine column. My team at Praxie.com created an online 9-Box app and I was stunned at how much interest there was from across industries for this solution. Will likely become part of the future leadership team.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. It’s a common cause of slow adoption speed, poor customer experience, retention/renewal difficulty (aka “churn”), and undelivered customer outcomes. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Empathy: The Currency of Human Connection—and Innovation.

Leapfrogging

Having worked with innovation teams from global companies like Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Disney, Medtronic and many others, there’s one consistent success factor when it comes to innovation, no matter what you’re doing: it all starts with the customer. The team was shocked. Empathy Reveals New Opportunities.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

According to the Corporate Wellness Magazine , at the core of the Great Resignation is dissatisfaction with the conventional work model and inadequate workplace wellness offerings. So here lies the new corporate priority, the new currency of the work experience, and the new driver of post-pandemic business success: a culture of wellness.

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IAOIP Webinar with Magnus Penker

Innovation 360

During this webinar which is hosted by IAOIP the leading international membership-based organization dedicated to the professional development of individuals working in the field of innovation, Magnus Penker, international thought leader and author, will dive into how to assess and measure innovation.