Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture Change Understanding the Stakes: Innovation and Business Growth Culture change within an organization is not just about altering the workplace environment; it is a strategic imperative. You need to understand that the stakes are high, as the right culture can drive innovation, enhance business growth, and ensure your organization remains competitive in a rapidly changing market.

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Culture Change How To Agile 130

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.

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Company Trends Report Strategy 137

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. It encompasses the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions. Recognizing the profound effect of culture on every aspect of your organization is the first step toward leveraging it for business success.

Agile 130

Agile Culture Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 130

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

While gig work has offered workers benefits like flexibility, it has also come at the expense of lower pay, limited protections, surveillance, and limited privacy. Tactics such as petitions and boycotts have been used to effect change for workers in the traditional economy, but these have proven far less effective in the gig economy. To explore why, the authors use sociologist Robin Leidner’s concept of the customer service triangle to illustrate the ways that workers, companies, and customers a

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Company Change 124

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how your company’s employees interact and handle business transactions. It’s the DNA of your organization, influencing every aspect of the work environment, from communication and collaboration to decision-making and problem-solving.

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Culture Change Management Agile 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.

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Marketing 124

IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2024

It takes a special combination of ingredients to land in my “flops” file. You have to lose your parent company at least $50 million. You probably started out with big ambitious goals, all-at-once funding, leaders personally committed to a given approach and most of all, a boatload of assumptions relative to facts.

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Company 100

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

The Imperative of Culture in Organizational Success Understanding Organizational Culture Organizational culture encompasses the shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence how people within an organization interact with each other and work together to achieve business goals. It is the essence of your organization’s identity and can either drive success or lead to its downfall.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Culture Change 100

Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 3, 2024

Leaders must adopt emergent leadership in a rapidly changing world with new workforce expectations, technological advancements, and increasing competition. Becoming intentional, aware, and capable of sense-making is key, alongside viewing actions as experiments and monitoring for unintended consequences, thus necessitating continuous dynamic adaptation and a cultural shift away from rigid planning towards empowerment and engagement.

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Leadership Competition Culture Engagement 105

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 3, 2024

GUEST POST from Pete Foley An inherent contradiction in almost any new innovation is that it needs to be both new, but also somewhat familiar. If it doesn’t offer anything new, there is little motivation for consumers to risk abandoning existing habits or preferences to try it.

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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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Entrepreneur - Innovation

APRIL 3, 2024

Now that he runs a venture fund himself, Spencer Rascoff is sitting on the other side of the table, and he sees what founders get wrong when pitching investors.

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Company 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.

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Leadership Management 107

Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 3, 2024

This is a quote that resonated with me a lot! This one comes from Alexi Pappas, who is an actor, filmmaker, author and an Olympian and she wrote and directed a movie while pursuing her dream to become an Olympian. In a world where everyone is asked to niche down and focus on one thing and one thing only, she has proved that you can not only do multiple things at the same time and be successful at both of them simultaneously.

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Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.

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Strategy Strategy Management 74

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 3, 2024

Designing the Business Ecosystem Approach I have been looking at different ways to pitch Business Ecosystems recently for some evolving and hopefully sustaining work. You can “pitch” to clients in several different ways. Some know their problems, while others don’t recognize them until they are prompted or confronted. If you have a tried and tested way to solve problems, you can become a little blocked from considering something that looks on the surface as radically different,

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