Tue.Sep 26, 2023

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10 Signs Your Company Is Resistant to Change

Harvard Business Review

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. The first step is to identify the real problem you need to solve. Often that’s not clear to everyone – because people have developed a number of effective ways to tolerate the problem instead of fix it.

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An Innovation Lesson From The Rolling Stones

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton If you’re like most people, you’ve faced disappointment. Maybe the love of your life didn’t return your affection, you didn’t get into your dream college, or you were passed over for promotion. It hurts. And sometimes, that hurt lingers for a long time.

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The Strategic Benefits of Randomized Decision-Making

Harvard Business Review

In highly ambiguous and challenging contexts, a random approach to decision-making confers a number of advantages. Operations managers have been using randomized decision-making since World War II (randomized search was used to locate enemy submarines in the open ocean), but it has not yet been seriously applied to strategic decision-making, which remains focused on hypothesis formulation and testing.

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When to Guide and When to Listen: A Day in the Life of Global Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics Elvia Martínez

Planview

Elvia Martínez manages two teams across three continents. Elvia uses her unique background from an immigrant family to lead her teams with inclusivity, collaboration, and support. Explain your role as a Global Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics and a few of your responsibilities. I manage two engineering support teams. They’re spread across the US, Sweden, Germany, and India.

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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 One Health System Got Rid of Bureaucratic Busywork

Harvard Business Review

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems. But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout.

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Unlocking the Human Side of Digital Transformation

Moves the Needle

Surviving and thriving in the digital world does not mean merely implementing technology. It also requires instilling new mindsets at all levels in the organization. The way people work needs to align with the speed, complexity, and uncertainty of today’s economic activity while solving real-world problems that benefit customers. The path forward is to create RAD organizations: resilient to endless disruptions, aware of changing market conditions, and dynamically adapting to create real value.

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Digital product development via InnovationOps | Sopheon

Sopheon

In 2023, a bat is more than a blunt object used to hit a baseball. It can be a highly sophisticated, connected piece of sports technology that collects vital information to help enhance individual swings and perfect the art of hitting.

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Improve Your Impromptu Speaking

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Stanford’s Matt Abrahams on an essential skill for leaders.

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Can AI Generate Innovation For You?

Carla Johnson

September 26, 2023 There’s a hefty amount of apprehension and trepidation around generative AI – technologies that can create content such as audio, text, images, and video. And with good reason. People are nervous about getting pushed out of their job by machines. Being outsourced by technology.

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The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger: Competition Vs. Cooperation

Harvard Business Review

Did the PGA Tour take the right actions in response to LIV Golf’s entry?

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Prepare Now: 2025's Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Keeping Procurement and Supply Chain Strategy Rooted in Real Time and in the Real World - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor Content from SAP.

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Video Quick Take: SAP’s Etosha Thurman on Mitigating Risk and Building Resilience in Supply Chain and Procurement - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAP

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor Content from SAP.

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