Innovation Excellence
JUNE 3, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell When Steve Jobs and Apple launched the Macintosh with great fanfare in 1984, it was to be only one step in a long journey that began with Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos and the development of the Alto at Xerox PARC more than a decade before.
Digital Tonto
JUNE 2, 2024
Management fads tend to come from people who did well in school. Many of these are business school professors and consultants, who've never operated a business. They are often people who’ve never failed, been told that they’re smart all their lives and expect others to be impressed by their ideas, not to examine them thoroughly. They tend come up with their ideas by talking to other smart, successful people about their experiences.
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IdeaScale
JUNE 6, 2024
Purpose. Goal. Mission. You hear these words a lot this time of year. Not because it’s the start of the annual business planning cycle but because it’s graduation season.
ImagineNation
JUNE 3, 2024
After founding ImagineNation in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking smart risks to invent an experiential business game. This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live business simulation incorporating innovative gamification elements intending to teach corporations how to be innovat ive.
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2024
Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 5, 2024
Four Common Mistakes Managers Make GUEST POST from David Burkus Senior leaders set strategy. But middle managers and front-line managers make the difference in whether that strategy gets executed…and in whether or not people are engaged and motivated in an organization.
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Kainexus
JUNE 7, 2024
Organizations that embrace the continuous improvement approach to business have many great tools and techniques from which to choose. Some organizations use them as part of a structured methodology like Lean, Six Sigma, or Toyota Kata. Others leverage them on their own. Every organization has unique needs and will need to adjust each method for their own environment, but the most popular techniques are flexible enough to be used by organizations of every size and in every industry.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2024
Humans are good at inventing tools, but not as good at adapting to the change these tools can cause. While there has been much focus on the technical impacts and potential dark side of AI, the authors’ research has shown that AI can enhance and empower leadership, actually helping make leaders more human. To do this, we need to invest just as much in the development of our human potential as we do in harnessing the power of AI.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 7, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you want new behavior, you must embrace conflict. If you can’t tolerate the conflict, you’ll do what you did last time. If your point of view angers half and empowers everyone else, you made a difference. If your point of view meets with 100% agreement, you wasted everyone’s time.
IdeaScale
JUNE 4, 2024
State governments, in the contemporary digital landscape, aim to furnish citizens with services that are efficient and user-friendly. But how satisfied are people with the services they receive? A recent survey conducted by Qualtrics in collaboration with Code for America sheds light on this question. Spanning over 14,000 participants from every state in the U.S.
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GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.
Tullio Siragusa
JUNE 3, 2024
Empathy Over Fear: Why Support-and-Thrive Cultures Outperform andEndure Theres a stark difference between companies that operate under a perform or die philosophy and those that embrace a support and thrive culture. At first glance, the perform-or-die approach can appear efficient and even profitable. After all, when you push people to their limits, you often see immediate results.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2024
Typically, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the resources to hunker down at an annual strategy retreat or to stop everything they’re doing to respond to unexpected emergencies or events that threaten the bottom line. This puts them at a disadvantage compared to their larger competitors. This article shows how AI is proving to be a transformative force for small and medium enterprises.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 4, 2024
Jamie Dimon’s Comments on AI Just Proved It GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over and over again – forever.
Sopheon
JUNE 4, 2024
Project managers are the unsung, behind-the-scenes heroes of an InnovationOps-based approach. In such an approach, organizations seek to operationalize innovation by bringing together the company’s culture, ways of working, people and products. Project managers orchestrate the intricate dance between creative ideas, tight deadlines and limited resources.
Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja
Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 6, 2024
In my first post (which you can read here), in a series of posts about “First Principles Based Leadership”, I shared the importance of developing five types of awareness (self, social, cultural, contextual and systems) in order to build that foundation for becoming a First Principles based leader. Today, in this third post, we will talk about how we can improve our social awareness.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2024
As you’re navigating hybrid work, it’s a good moment to assess how your onboarding processes enable or empower your new hires to thrive. Researchers at Microsoft have conducted and identified studies that suggest that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 2, 2024
GUEST POST from John Bessant Why change is not always a good thing…. Forget about the ice truckers who haul their precious cargoes across frozen lakes and tundra in the Arctic Circle. Or those heroes who service remote islands in the Pacific or who fly into inaccessible airstrips in the rainforests.
Ecosystems4Innovating
JUNE 6, 2024
The Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework Are you considering building a greater understanding of where Ecosystem thinking and design can fit within your organization? The Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework is a pioneering and holistic approach that redefines how organizations create value, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success in an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment.
Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton
Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
CMOE
JUNE 5, 2024
Employee engagement is the connection that a worker feels to the job. It’s about how enthusiastic a person feels toward the work and the objectives the team and organization are trying to meet. An employee’s level of engagement influences their dedication to the team and organization. Do the employees care about the work? Are they interested in the performance of the team or organization as a whole?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2024
Despite all that one-on-one meetings can offer, they can be challenging to navigate, whether you’re new to management or have spent several years in a leadership role. Here some signs that your one-on-ones have gone stale, are unproductive, or are falling short of their potential: you don’t want to go to the meeting, you always go over time, you can’t fill the time, you leave every meeting feeling deflated, or you and your direct report are both on second screens.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 6, 2024
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Often, the best companies to do business with are the best companies to work for. When you look at the Google ratings for Round Room Holdings’ TCC and Wireless Zone, two Verizon Wireless retailers with approximately 1,200 retail stores throughout the U.S.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 5, 2024
In my last post, I shared the importance for leaders to work on five different kinds of awareness (self, social, cultural, contextual and systemic). Today and in the next four posts, I will delve into how can we go about cultivating and improving each one of these awareness. Today, let’s explore how we can go about cultivating and improving our self awareness.
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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
Brunner
JUNE 4, 2024
Like many brands that need to reach consumer and business audiences, YellaWood wanted a way to win the hearts, minds — and business — of B2B and B2C lumber customers by engaging with them equally, across all its marketing channels. “Six years ago, we came to Brunner with a very simple request — to cut through the clutter,” recalls Rob Pongonis, CMO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, maker of YellaWood.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2024
In a mentorship, having clear boundaries — along with responses to share when those limits are transgressed — is important for safeguarding your mental health, your privacy, and your productivity. To establish them, have a conversation with your mentor, preferably at the start of the relationship. You can start by flipping the script and asking your mentor about their boundaries first: “Since this is all new, though, I wanted to ask: What boundaries do you want to have around our mentoring relat
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 3, 2024
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 4, 2024
Premise: One of the foundations for First Principles Based Leadership is for leaders to be aware. Leaders need to work on their awareness on five different levels. 1. Self Awareness: First and foremost is for us, as leaders, we need to work on improving our self awareness. When I talk about self awareness, I am referring to knowing what we want to achieve and why we want to achieve it.
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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?
Ecosystems4Innovating
JUNE 3, 2024
The selling of Business Ecosystems needs facilitation and realization So often, you get the question, “What are the arguments for selling B2B business ecosystems?” Then why would enterprises invest in such a significant change to their systems and structures? Where is the value and payback? It should be recognized that selling B2B business ecosystems to enterprises can be a compelling proposition as it offers several potential benefits and value propositions.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2024
A critical but often overlooked part of the recruiting and hiring process happens before the job description is posted — or even created. Hiring managers should conduct a thorough assessment of their team’s current skills, aspirations, and culture to make sure they’re courting candidates with the skill sets and capabilities will truly add value to the team and organization — both now and in the future.
Exoplatform
JUNE 2, 2024
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Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 3, 2024
Earlier today, I read a blog post by Greg Satell titled “This Is One Big Reason Why So Much Business Thinking Is Crap“ In the post he shares his insight on how business fads are created, propagated and result in much waste before fading away. I agree with him whole-heartedly. Building best practices through case studies and interviews, in my opinion is somewhat similar to how blind men would define an elephant, just by feeling a part of the elephant.
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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