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The future interplays between design thinking, technology and AI

Paul Hobcraft

Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? By embracing Design Thinking principles differently in the future of innovation, organizations can foster a more profound culture of creativity, empathy, collaboration, and user-centricity.

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4 Ways to Make Work More Meaningful

Harvard Business Review

Curiosity is not just a medium by which we achieve professional success, it’s also imperative to unlocking purpose and meaning at work. Curiosity about ourselves, our work, and our colleagues is the key to unlocking the significance behind our work. Adopting the mindset of curiosity with the intention of discovering purpose is made possible through four simple practices: crafting your work, making work a craft, connecting work to service, and investing in positive relationships.

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Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment

Tullio Siragusa

Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment Life’s journey is peppered with unpredictable twists and turns. Among them, unemployment often casts a formidable shadow, marked by anxiety and doubt. Yet, beyond the immediate challenges, it offers a chance for introspection, reinvention, and growth. This article sheds light on how to transform this phase into a period of rejuvenation, offering practical strategies to ensure hope, positivity, and evolution.

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Operations in an Era of Radical Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage. In recent years, winners have focused more on ensuring their operations and strategies were adaptive to changing and unforeseen circumstances, with resilience driving outperformance.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Fix Corporate Transformation Failure

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell We live in an age in which change has become the only constant. So it’s not surprising that change management models have become popular. Executives are urged to develop a plan to communicate the need for change, create a sense of urgency and then drive the process through to completion.

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Does Your Hybrid Strategy Need to Change?

Harvard Business Review

Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.

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Better Ways to Support a Colleague with Breast Cancer

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Chances are, you’ll work with a person who is diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in your career. Do you know how to best support them during one of the most challenging times of their lives? In this article, five women who have undergone treatment describe ways their colleagues did — and didn’t — lift them up through their words and actions, both at the time of their diagnosis and beyond.

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4 Practices to Foster Challenging Feedback as You Develop Strategy

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What best practices set the stage for employees and other audiences to share sensitive, challenging, and aspirational perspectives ? Which aspects are most important, especially, when the perspectives relate to authority figures, organizational leaders, officials, or anyone else participants answer to in some fashion?

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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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