Fri.May 09, 2025

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It All Starts With Wanting Things to be Different

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Wanting things to be different is a good start, but its not enough. To create conditions for things to move in a new direction, youve got to change your behavior. But with systems that involve people, this is not a straightforward process.

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How to Give Constructive Feedback to Managers

CMOE

Providing constructive feedback to your manager can feel like a daunting task. You are offering input to someone who holds significant influence over your career and daily work. However, considering that one in two employees leave their jobs due to poor management, giving feedback could be the key to improved job satisfaction and fulfillment. When given in the right way, managers often welcome feedback as an opportunity for personal and professional growth.

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How to Organize a Hackathon: A Step-by-Step Guide

Qmarkets

The success of a hackathon often comes down to planning, not just passion. It might look like a burst of spontaneous creativity, but behind every productive session is a carefully structured framework that most people dont see. When done right, organizing a hackathon isnt just about booking a room or sending a calendar inviteits about designing momentum, focus, and follow-through.

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Managing Generational Differences in the Workplace

CMOE

Todays corporate landscape is dynamic, bringing together five generationsthe Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Zeach contributing distinct strengths, values, and work styles. While it can create some challenges, this diversity also offers a powerful opportunity to drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience across your organization.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Doing More with Less: How Toolchain Integration Builds Resilience in Uncertain Times 

Planview

In todays climate of economic uncertainty, organizations are being forced to rethink how they operate, invest, and innovate. Markets can shift overnight, and budgets shrink without warning. For technology leaders expected to do more with less, one powerful but often overlooked opportunity stands out: toolchain integration. As demands rise and resources shrink, how well your software development, operations, and DevOps tools work together can determine whether you move forward or fall behind.

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The Value of Companies with Many Occupational Options for Employees

Michael Roberto

Is it valuable for an employee to seek out employers that will offer the possibility of a variety of roles that they may fill over a period of years? New research by Professors Ins Black and Ana Figueiredo suggests that role variety boosts wages, employee retention, and job satisfaction. Duke Fuqua Insights recently summarized their research: workers starting their career at firms with more occupational variety switch occupations internally more often within the first 10 years; as a result, work

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The Integrated Business Ecosystem Value Story

Ecosystems4Innovating

Business Ecosystems are interconnected and integrated networks to build unique value and greater resilience Ecosystems are living adaptive networks: these forms the basis of the integrated Business Ecosystems where Connection, Dynamism, and Evolution Converge. Central to my thinking in my Business Ecosystem offering is a core concept of multi-dimensional applications that combine the different ecosystem types (Innovation, Entrepreneurial or Start-Up, Business, Dynamic, (solo) Enterprise and Ente

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Inside Adobe’s Approach to Assessing AI Risk

Harvard Business Review

While concerns about the risks of generative AI persist, people are increasingly embracing AIs power and practical applications in everyday life. But despite sharing common underlying technology, AI applications range from the mundane to the complex.