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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Strada and Burning Glass Institute’s new Talent Disrupted report made headlines this week conveying the indisputable crisis of underemployment that an astounding half of college graduates face. However, each of these outcomes amounts to particular links in the complex value chain connecting learning and work.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability. Plus, innovation as a project demonstrates some investment in innovation but controls for cost and risk.

Project 209
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ANYONE CAN LEARN TO INNOVATE

ImagineNation

Because it is currently being challenged by poor sales performance, it has bunkered down and frozen any change initiatives, learning programs or new projects until mid-2025. The company she works for is acknowledged as an entrepreneurial industry leader.

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Navigating the Shift from Project to Product: A Map for Success 

Planview

The secret lies in transitioning from a project-oriented management approach to a product-centric model. Despite beginning with unwavering enthusiasm, McKinsey reports that initiatives often lose approximately 42 percent of their projected value as they progress into later implementation stages and long-term sustainability.

Project 69
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How to fuel your project with intelligent naivety?

Flying Fish Lab

We’re going to focus on two particular ones that we pay particular attention to during the set up stage of any project. Alternatively, for larger projects, we’ll split documents across the team and work separately (so that no one person has a complete overview).

Project 52
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Why ‘offline’ digital learning is critical to impact children worldwide

Christensen Institute

Glaringly missing from the landscape are adaptive, digital learning solutions that are offline. While we work to increase universal access to the internet, the edtech ecosystem cannot ignore the hundreds of millions of children currently without connectivity but who are eager to learn. The offline opportunity. Click To Tweet.

Learning 105
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Turn the Tables on Product Development Disruptions

Planview

Disruptions to effective product development are constant but don’t need to be detrimental to an organization’s ability to deliver innovation with speed and maintain a healthy ROI. That shift creates constant momentum, making it easier to adjust perspectives and see with more clarity all the opportunities to turn the tables on disruption.