Mon.Dec 21, 2020

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7 of the Best Tools for Bringing Serendipity Back

Innovation Leader

One thing is painfully absent from the work-from-anywhere era: serendipity. You can schedule Teams meetings and ping colleagues with instant messages, but it’s not the same. We’ve been testing out tools that support serendipity this year. These are seven of the best.

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Critical Insights from McKinsey’s “Closing the Capability Gap” 2020 Report

InnovationTraining.org

COVID-19 has changed much about how we live and work. During this post-pandemic age, companies have been forced to shift their attention to virtual working and learning environments. When it comes to employee training and development, then, it seems obvious that a successful virtual environment is also needed to help employees reach their full potential and continue to grow and improve upon their skillset.

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How McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index Relates to Innovation

InnovationManagement

McKinsey's Organizational Health Index (OHI) is an exhaustive assessment of an organization’s effectiveness and its management’s performance based on an organization-wide survey. It’s a tool that numerous public and private sector organizations have leveraged in order to benchmark their company’s health, align around core areas of improvement, and improve overall organizational performance.

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Improvement Software Rollout: How to Overcome Resistance to Change

Kainexus

By the time an organization invests in software technology to support continuous improvement , they've usually embraced the idea that improvement should be a daily activity practiced by everyone in the organization. They realize that the people closest to the production of value for the customer are the ones who are in the best position to identify and resolve problems.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Learning in Organizations: Takeaways from McKinsey’s 2020 “Rethink Capabilities” Report

InnovationTraining.org

In a recent McKinsey survey , leaders at organizations across the world say the COVID-19 pandemic has made them aware of the urgency of getting learning programs right. Yet companies are failing at delivering positive training outcomes, and executives can and must do more to help. The value of capability building. Company leaders report that COVID-19 has accelerated the value of capability building.

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Business books of 2020 – my choice

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No Filter – The Inside Story of Instagram Sarah Frier Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade.

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Building A Business After Covid

The Human Factor

source. Covid has been the biggest challenge we’ve had to face in our lives to date. For many, no one has seen a time quite like this and the change in lifestyle we have had to endure has been hard. . For many businesses the pandemic has brought many challenges such as moving operations to home and having to downsize their staff – with many sadly failing and falling by the wayside.

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#2,041 – My Greatest Ideas of 2020

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

My creativity wasn’t in quarantine this year that’s for sure. Here’s a quick recap of my greatest ideas of the year: Hyper-Local Weather: Current weather reports are too general. It may be 78 degrees today but what is the actual temperature you are experiencing right now while hiking through a shaded canyon? Knowing the exact temperate you are feeling at all times would be super helpful.

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