Thu.Mar 24, 2022

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3 mistakes CEOs and CFOs make when investing in innovation

Strategyzer Innovation

Investing in innovation isn’t the same as making traditional investments in your business. So when you apply the same thinking, it just doesn’t work. Three of the top mistakes we see CEOs and CFOs make when investing in innovation are asking innovation teams to write business plans, thinking they can pick the winning innovation projects and refusing to retire projects that aren’t working.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

Three business leaders discuss the importance of fostering a healthy company culture and creating a safe space for employees to feel supported in their mental health. Arianna Huffington Co-Founder, The Huffington Post. Why is company culture so important for employee well-being? It’s important because we now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work.

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What were your first creative outputs like?

Idea to Value

Over the past few weeks, I have been reviewing every one of my previous blog posts. It is part of a review I am doing to consolidate the research I have done over the past 9 years. And what I have to admit is a bit painful… Compared to the quality of the articles I have produced in the last few years, some of my first articles were bad. Like, really bad.

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Taking “navigation and guidance” to church

Christensen Institute

According to new research, a quiet force appears to curb men’s troubling decline in college attainment: religion. In a New York Times essay last week , sociologist Ilana M. Horwitz detailed her study of the relationship between religious upbringing and educational outcomes among teenagers. She found that strong religious affiliation doubled the likelihood that men from low-income households secured bachelor’s degrees. .

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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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The Benefits Of Building Your Digital Innovation Ecosystem

ITONICS

Ecosystems rely on systems, communities, and participants working in synergy. According to the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Innovation Management Techniques, 2021, innovation ecosystems can be very beneficial for organizations. When interdependent players leverage each other's strengths and capabilities to transform data to knowledge and knowledge to action, ideas become a reality, and sustainable proficiency gets developed.

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ACO-REACH: Can a new model make health disparities a priority?

Christensen Institute

How can innovators create lasting change in health care? One of the biggest influencers is payment models, particularly how providers are reimbursed for care. A new Medicare payment model, ACO-REACH, holds potential to change health care in two ways: incentivizing the development of new business models to address health disparities, and enhancing care access by leveraging nurse practitioners.