Wed.Sep 21, 2022

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Six Simple Growth Hacks for Startups

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Building a new business is tough. These strategies will help your startup succeed without a big investment. As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy, innovation, and leadership. But recently I’ve been asked a lot about how I helped establish Praxie.com as a destination website for hundreds […].

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The Perils of Innovation by Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

It’s an easy trap to fall into when money is cheap. But it’s rarely a good idea.

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

David recently did a live interview on Twitter Spaces with one of our platform partners, HeroX. They came forward with a few questions to guide the conversation, and the consequent hour was full of fascinating insights and quotable snippets. Adam Olsen , who hosts and produces the Innovation Heroes interviews, describes his motivation behind starting the series: “It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to exped

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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder’s Vision

Harvard Business Review

How the next generation can embrace the future — while respecting the past.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Hochschild Mining is a leading silver and gold mining company based in Lima, Peru. In business for over a century, the company continues to be run by the Hochschild family to this day. In 2020 alone, it produced almost 10m ounces of silver and 175k ounces of gold from its three active mines across South America. Hochschild ’s innovation initiatives are focused on optimizing its current operations through continuous improvement, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility.

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To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

Five strategies to get buy-in from DEI skeptics and supporters alike.

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We are now closer than ever!

Flying Fish Lab

Flying Fish Lab is expanding our international reach as part of our commitment to getting closer to our customers and has opened a new office in Europe! We have accelerated our global development and are proud to officially share that we have spread our wings from our headquarters in Singapore. While serving you from Singapore has proven effective, flying closer to you will enable us to meet the growing needs of our European clients even more efficiently with the highest level of service.

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We Are Here To Support Innovation, RBI Governor To Fintechs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Shaktikanta Das also said that the need of the hour is to ensure assurance of safety after following a process of green-lighting and due diligence by the regulated entities.

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3 Stages of a Successful Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

You have to walk before you can run.

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Connection over content: A new era for education technology

Christensen Institute

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. For many students and overwhelmed parents, virtual learning became synonymous with isolation. Algorithms and Zoom rooms were meager surrogates for authentic connection. Students’ relationships with faculty and friends in the classroom, not to mention chance encounters in the hallway, proved hard to replicate in digital environments. .

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Suppressing your emotions doesn’t work. Neither does starting a flame war.