Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2025

An HBR Executive Masterclass with Linda A. Hill.

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Phil McKinney

MAY 26, 2025

This post originally appeared in my Studio Notes newsletter on Substack. To get early access to future articles, subscriber to Studio Notes. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" This universal troubleshooting advice contains more wisdom than we realize. When faced with technological problems, our first instinct is often to add another layer—another app, another update, another system—rarely considering that disconnection might be the solution we actually need.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 28, 2025

Leading With Both: Why Purpose and Profit Arent Opposites For many entrepreneurs, the tension between purpose and profit feels like a constant negotiation. Are you building a company to scale, or are you building something that stands for something? For Robin Gagnon, co-founder and CEO of We Sell Restaurants, thats a false choice. On a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , Robin shared her journey as a business leader whos managed to scale a successful national franchise brand without s

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing management consulting by reshaping how consultants analyze data, generate insights, and make decisions. By integrating AI into your practice, you not only streamline operations but also elevate the quality of your consulting services. Whether you’re part of ai consulting firms or ai consulting companies , understanding AIs impact is crucial.

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MAY 30, 2025

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Innovation isnt achieved by creating more ideas. Innovation is realized when ideas are transformed into commercialized products and services. Innovation is realized when ideas are transformed into new business models that deliver novel usefulness to customers and deliver increased revenues to the company.

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Game-Changer

MAY 28, 2025

A client of mine invited me to a team discussion. He wanted me to listen and then give my insight. One question the team was arguing about was whether or not to do what customers want. Essentially: Do you disagree with your customers or clients? I’m all about customer obsession; it all starts with the customer, and we work backwards. But customer obsession doesn’t mean we do whatever they say.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

AI consulting projects involve offering expert guidance and solutions to businesses looking to adopt artificial intelligence in their operational and strategic processes. As a business consultant, you will orchestrate the seamless integration of AI tools and technologies into your clients’ existing frameworks, aiming to enhance efficiency and decision-making.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 28, 2025

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore Portfolio management is the most consequential and the most challenging element in strategic planning.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 25, 2025

The make-up of the Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework provides a radically new way to build your Ecosystem. Firstly, a short explanation of the Integrated Frame and what it provides, and then a set of visuals that provide the critical aspects of the integrated design of each of the parts. These are made up of separate ecosystems that form around each ecosystem, suggested in the order that integrates the complete framework: innovation, start-up and entrepreneurial, business, d

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 28, 2025

Were living in a time where exponential change isnt just acceleratingits compounding. In 2025, generative AI , robotics , and machine learning are transforming every facet of business, from customer service to supply chain logistics. These aren’t emerging trends anymorethey’re the new normal. But theres a catch. This pace of change is leaving reactive organizations behind.

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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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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the consulting landscape by adding a layer of efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. As a business consultant, you can leverage AI to streamline various processes, enabling you to deliver better outcomes for your clients. AI plays a critical role in automating repetitive tasks that would normally consume valuable time.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Wherever I go in the world to speak and advise organizations, I always get the same question: How can I get people to listen to my ideas? The truth is that no one wants to listen to your ideas unless they solve a problem that is meaningful to them.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 26, 2025

What If the Office Was Never thePoint? For years, the office was seen as the beating heart of business. If you wanted to prove your company was real, you needed a physical space. Desks. A kitchen. A place where people clocked in, gathered, and did the work. But as Alpesh Doshi, founder of Kendra Labs, reminded us in a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , the real transformation isnt just about where we work.

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Faisal Hoque

MAY 30, 2025

Bridging the gap between AI hype and business value starts at the top. Artificial intelligence has been the subject of unprecedented levels of investment and enthusiasm over the past three years, driven by a tide of hype that promises revolutionary transformation across every business function. Yet the gap between this technologys promise and the delivery of real business value remains stubbornly wide.

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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.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

AI consulting platforms have become indispensable tools for modern business consultants. These platforms harness the power of artificial intelligence to transform how consultants operate, making tasks more efficient and results more impactful. Why AI Consulting Platforms Matter for You If you’re a business consultant aiming to stay ahead in a competitive market, understanding the potential of AI consulting platforms is crucial.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 25, 2025

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard I recently revisited a comment from one of my older posts on how to train and educate executives on innovation. It went something like this: “Innovation requires time and drive to explore new vistas, so its understandable that busy employees cant be bothered with it.

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Board of Innovation

MAY 29, 2025

Back to all insights The AI-Powered Marketer Marketings new reality Marketing has never been more challenging. CMO and marketing teams are now expected to be strategists, data scientists, digital experts, and business growth drivers ; often with fewer resources and constantly shrinking timelines. Meanwhile, AI is rapidly transforming the marketing landscape, solving existing pain points but also adding new complexities.

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Qmarkets

MAY 30, 2025

Making decisions is easy when theres only one clear option. The real test is when you have ten. Or fifty. Each with its own potential, trade-offs, and advocates. The idea prioritization matrix is a tool designed specifically for that kind of challenge. It helps teams compare ideas using clear criterialike potential value, feasibility, or alignment with strategic goals and visualize which options offer the best return on effort.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

As you navigate the future of consulting, embracing artificial intelligence (AI) can transform your practice. Understanding the potential and integrating AI into your management consulting firm can set you apart from the competition. Embracing AI in Management Consulting AI is revolutionizing management consulting by introducing new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 29, 2025

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken It was about 50 years ago, in or around the mid to late 1970s, when a brands legendary story was born. This true story perfectly articulates this brands culture. It perfectly demonstrates how empowered employees should act and defines how customers should be treated.

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Phil McKinney

MAY 29, 2025

This article first appeared in my free Studio Notes newsletter. Subscribe for early access to new posts. In the headquarters of Nokia in 2013, executives faced an existential crisis. The once-dominant mobile phone manufacturer was selling its devices division to Microsoft after watching its market share evaporate. Nokia—a company that began life as a paper mill in 1865 before transforming into a rubber boot manufacturer, then a cable company, and finally a telecommunications leader—

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Qmarkets

MAY 30, 2025

The companies defining tomorrow are already building it todayone idea at a time. Thats why more enterprises are turning to innovation labs to accelerate progress and open new sources of value. These purpose-built teams and environments are designed to test, validate, and scale bold ideas with speed and structure. But corporate innovation labs arent just creative playgrounds.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

To truly grasp the impact of artificial intelligence in consulting, it’s essential to explore its foundational aspects and the benefits it brings to the table. Overview of AI in Management Consulting AI is revolutionizing the consulting landscape by offering tools and methodologies that enhance decision-making, optimize processes, and deliver high-value insights.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 27, 2025

Five Questions to Laura Weiss GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You need friction to create fire. Its true whether youre camping or leading change inside an organization. Yet most of us avoid conflictwe ignore it, smooth it over, or sideline the people who spark it.

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Wellspring

MAY 28, 2025

Strong innovation leadership is essential for enterprise growth. Discover key leadership traits, common challenges, and strategies for driving innovation.

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Kainexus

MAY 29, 2025

If you want Operational Excellence to deliver the same strategic value as other core business functions like Sales, Marketing, or HR, it needs to be supported like one. That means equipping your team with tools purpose-built for the complexity and scope of OpEx. Many companies cobble together general-purpose tools, spreadsheets, and custom builds in an attempt to force-fit their OpEx processes into platforms that were never intended to handle them.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 28, 2025

AI is transforming the landscape of management consulting. By integrating artificial intelligence into your consulting practice, you gain access to powerful tools that can handle large datasets, automate complex tasks, and provide deeper insights into client challenges. AI is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s a practical, indispensable resource that enhances your consulting services.

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Acuvate

MAY 25, 2025

Imagine a world where industrial diagrams are no longer hidden in dusty archives or siloed systems but come alive with intelligence, real-time insights, and global accessibility. At Acuvate , weve reimagined what industrial documentation can be. In this blog, well take you on a journey from static P&IDs to dynamic digital ecosystems powered by AI.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 30, 2025

In a world first, a baby with a rare genetic disorder has been treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy. CRISPR gene editing has already been used to treat a few other more common afflictions, but this marks the first time it was used on an individual basis targeting changes in just one person’s specific genome. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia explains: “In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully

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Information Age

MAY 27, 2025

By Alex Adamopoulos on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO Transformation has become a constant in enterprise life. For IT teams, it’s no longer a question of whether change is happening, but how often they’re expected to handle it. Most CIOs will tell you that it’s about continuous change and business as usual, given that the word transformation has lost its lustre for some.

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Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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