Thu.Apr 19, 2018

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The Disrupted or the Disruptor: Pick One

Daniel Burrus

What comes to mind when you hear the term “disrupt”? Does it suggest chaos, lack of direction or other unsettling events? Or do you see it from the other side of the coin—when you’re the one causing the disruption and, as a result, leveraging the opportunity that results? If your organization has an anticipatory mentality, disruption is often synonymous with opportunity—that is, if you’re able to accurately anticipate the future and plan to act on it accordingly instead of merely reacting.

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Taking the Path to Digital Transformation

Innovation Excellence

This is the first of three articles on embracing digitization, transformation and innovation. It is becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a moment of profound possibility and enormous disruption. Where the old business paradigms are dying and innovative new ones are emerging, especially creating new ways of integrating people and technology.

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Will Blockchain Change How Financial Businesses Innovate?

IdeaScale

Blockchain will change finance, even if you never buy a bitcoin. The world’s financial system was never built to do the things that it does. If twenty years ago, you’d told your average investor that stock markets would see billions of trades made by amateur investors over their lunch hour, that little bits of computer code would be valued for more than a new car, that trillions of dollars would travel around the world digitally, automatically converted from one currency to another;

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Step 5: Be resilient to create a cost-conscious culture in your innovation agenda

Exago

If you are introducing cost-cutting in your innovation agenda, your ultimate drive is to create a cost culture that sustains itself over time and is not forgotten three months after being announced by the leadership. The post Step 5: Be resilient to create a cost-conscious culture in your innovation agenda appeared first on Exago.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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One Thing Steve Jobs Did at Apple That Will Instantly Improve Your Productivity

Innovation Excellence

Distraction is always the enemy. Here’s one simple technique to maintain focus on what’s really important. Busy Work So, if we are going to talk about productivity we need to get one thing straight from the outset; busy does not equate to productive.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Nasdaq’s Rebecca Cameron

Planview

Since its early days, Nasdaq has been on the bleeding edge of innovation. Like any company that has withstood the test of time and remained a business people count on, Nasdaq has found new ways to reinvent itself. From leveraging new advances in technology to developing and executing strategic initiatives, the company’s ability to focus on where the world is going has helped turn itself into one of the leading stock exchanges for publicly traded companies and technology providers for the capital

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Power Causes Leaders to Miss Opportunities to Connect People

Michael Roberto

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery Blaine Landis and his colleagues have conducted new research regarding how power impacts leaders' actions with regarding to brokering connections among people in different parts of their organizations. They derived their findings from two studies. The first focused on workers in a marketing and media agency. The second study was an experiment conducted with 330 people who were working full-time at various companies.

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