Wed.Oct 23, 2024

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How to Lead Teams to Drive Innovation, Efficiency, Growth or Transformation

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise I watched this short video in which HBS professor Linda Hill shares her experience from engaging a Life Sciences company and how they went about building teams and leading for innovation. You can watch the full video here. I have written many times about this topic (here, here, here, here, here, here and on innovation here). As leaders, we need to adapt and change depending on what we are trying to achieve and what our objectives are.

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Creating More Digital Value for Customers

Innovation Excellence

Creating more value for customers is how highly successful digital companies like Uber, Amazon, Netflix, and Apple got to where they are today. GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky So how do you improve your customer value?

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A Strategic Approach for Meeting Customer Demand as Quickly as Possible

Harvard Business Review

The core premise of the strategic concept of “proximity” is that, thanks to digital technologies, value is being created closer and closer to the moment of demand — not just in time but also physically closer. This means companies can, in effect, procrastinate and wait until customer demand is present before producing an actual product or service. This trend, which is made possible by technologies ranging from AI to 3D printing to IoT, can help leaders make smart strategic decisions, especially

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Enterprise Innovation Is a Black Box: It’s Time to Crack It Open

Sopheon

Innovation is an investment in the future: an enterprise undertakes the project of creating something new in hopes that, once the new thing exists, the enterprise will be better off for it. Ideally, innovation works like a machine: ideas and resources go in, new creations and benefits come out.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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3 Ways to Manage Moments of Work-Induced Anxiety

Harvard Business Review

How to calm your nervous system on the spot.

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Top 2025 Corporate Innovation Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore

ITONICS

For too long, companies have gotten away with throwing flashy ideas at the wall, hoping one might stick. The era of "innovation theater" is over. Welcome to 2025, where corporate innovation needs to show real, measurable results. Or die trying.

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Emotional Intelligence: The Real Currency of Leadership in the AI Era

Tullio Siragusa

Emotional Intelligence: The Real Currency of Leadership in the AI Era Many leaders are focusing on technology, AI, and operational efficiencies as the primary drivers of success. However, a deeper and often overlooked factor is emerging as a competitive differentiator: emotional intelligence (EQ). In a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast featuring Daniel Sieberg, the concept of EQ in leadership was front and center.

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Are Your Best Employees Eyeing the Door?

Harvard Business Review

Two managers share lessons they’ve learned about employee retention.

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Dynamic Ecosystems: why they are so different, they are the core to Ecosystems.

Ecosystems4Innovating

The core of Ecosystems always needs to be Dynamic We shape our destiny through ecosystem-sensing capabilities and those come from the Dynamic Ecosystem we apply in thinking and design. “ At the heart of this interconnected business ecosystem framework lies the Dynamic Ecosystem layer, a core, a powerful engine, the nervous system designed to actively challenge assumptions, validate strategies, stress-test our adaptation and resilience capabilities, and provoke the re-imagination of our fundament

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Sky-High AI Valuations

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

How should investors, startups, hyperscalers and everyone else weigh the impact of OpenAI’s $157 billion valuation? Is AI an existential game? Is another bubble forming? What does OpenAI’s executive exodus mean for the company and the industry? Check out how I answer these and other pressing questions. About Eric Sundheim& Eric Sundheim is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA).

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.