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5 Strategies for Accepting Constructive Feedback

CMOE

Feedback has a negative connotation for many people: things that I did wrong, places where I did poorly, people who I disappointed. It’s often associated with a moment where a person did not perform their best. But what would happen if rather than seeing feedback as a mechanism for focusing on our faults, we saw it as an opportunity for growth instead?

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We Need To Stop Cheerleading Change

Digital Tonto

My friend Srdja Popovi? once told me that the goal of a revolution should be to become mainstream, to be mundane and ordinary. If you are successful it should be difficult to explain what was won. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Rosy Retrospective: Why we think the “good old times” were better

Idea to Value

Nostalgia can be a powerful force preventing innovation in companies. After all, people often would rather keep the status quo than run the risk of changing something while being unsure that the change will make things better. It also seems to imply that people often think of the past more fondly than the present, as if things were always better in the “good old days” Now, scientists have uncovered an unconscious bias that might explain this phenomenon.

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Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration. Merging companies is complicated. However, if merging is done right, it might lead to competitive advantages. The reality is that many companies do it wrong, resulting in failure rates as high as 70% or more. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration design and planning or faulty integration planning.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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On World Environment Day, let’s focus less on the environment and focus more on people.

Christensen Institute

June 5, 2022 marked another World Environment Day. According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report , the world still isn’t doing enough to combat human-induced climate change. We shouldn’t be surprised. The report follows John Kerry’s worries about the emissions consequences from a Russian war against Ukraine and the international community’s paltry promises at the most recent COP26 conference on climate change.

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Zen vs. Zoom: Is Person-to-Person Interaction Better for Innovation?

InnovationManagement

The author draws upon the theory of “emptiness” and other principles of Zen Buddhism to evaluate the desirability of remote vs. person-to-person interaction during the course of innovation, especially new idea development. This evaluation is pursued within the context of three related idea process parameters: interdependence, intuition and intensity.

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Is Agile killing phase gate? The case for a hybrid approach to innovation and new product development

Sopheon

While a phase gate approach to new product development may seem to be in direct conflict with the principles of Agile, both methods are valuable and can work side-by-side. The post Is Agile killing phase gate? The case for a hybrid approach to innovation and new product development appeared first on Sopheon.

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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens

Christensen Institute

This piece is authored by Becky Klein-Collins, VP of research and impact at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) , an organization that’s been a leader in advocating for Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) for nearly 50 years. CAEL’s members include hundreds of colleges and universities that are seeking to improve and expand CPL and other programs and services that help align learning and work in ways that boost the economic mobility of adult learners and sustain the talent p

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A Day in the Life of a SVP of Sales at Planview

Planview

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our goal is not only to empower our customers to focus on the work that matters most, but also our own teams and there is no denying that when working within a sales organization, collaboration, focus, and communication is crucial to success. Which leads us to our employee spotlight! Today we are learning more about Dave Frechette, a Senior Vice President of Sales at Planview.

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Would you trust a colleague who stole your ideas?

Idea to Value

What is worse? A colleague who steals money? Or a colleague who steals other people’s ideas and pretends they came up with them? According to new research by Lilien Ellis just published in June 2022, it seems like stealing other people’s ideas is seen as being much worse. Through a series of experiments, Ellis investigated how someone would be perceived by others if they found out that they had stolen either an idea from someone else, or had stolen money.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Reducing Employee Churn During the Great Resignation

Innovation Excellence

For those of you struggling with your staffing levels or with finding talent during these exceedingly challenging times, I have exciting news to share! My latest commissioned webinar is now available ON DEMAND: Stop the Madness!

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Drivers of health in action: shining a spotlight on CommunityHealth

Christensen Institute

In our latest research, You are what you treat: Transforming the health care business model so companies—and people—thrive , we set out to discover what makes health care organizations capable of successfully addressing the drivers of health (DOH). In short, the answer lies in their business models. . In order to better understand what allowed certain organizations to succeed in their DOH efforts, we interviewed leaders that are successfully addressing DOH in their work, breaking free from the s

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What is Lean Production? Frequently Asked Questions

Kainexus

Lean production , also referred to as Lean manufacturing or Lean business, is a methodology that helps businesses and non-profit organizations reach their short and long-term goals. Although Lean production originated in the manufacturing sector, it is now used by organizations of all industries and sizes. It is widely used in organizations as diverse as construction, education, software development, and healthcare.

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A Little at First and Then All at Once: The Growing Value of Data

Daniel Burrus

Data has quickly become as valuable as gold to many businesses and organizations, especially with how many products and services have evolved to be more digital than not. If we think back to merely a decade ago, or perhaps even a little farther, we already had early iterations of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices while computers and the Internet had quickly become a staple in our everyday lives.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Seeing Self as Cause

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our last two blogs on Taking Personal Responsibility, we stated that when people aren’t taking personal responsibility, they cannot be accountable, they will fail in their jobs, and their teams, and fail to grow … Continue reading →

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In the face of yet another tragedy, we should rethink how to do schooling

Christensen Institute

In this big and interconnected world we live in, it’s easy to become desensitized to tragedy. As communication and media technologies carry information around the world in an instant, reported tragedies can float to the back of our awareness as we carry on with our lives. But even in this state of the world, some tragedies tear our hearts in ways that we can’t ignore.

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How we Created a 20,000 person innovation practice at Accenture

Stephen Shapiro

It took me 25 years to write this article. For the first time, I am writing about how we created a 20,000 person innovation practice at the consulting firm Accenture; completely shifting the culture in just 9 months with the results lasting for years. In the article, I explore the 6-step process used, detailed organization models, specific activities we performed, and structures we used to keep the culture-shift alive.

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Billionaire Naveen Jain Has Mining Rights on the Moon. Here's What He Plans to Do Next.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The restless entrepreneur shares his vision for a brighter, healthier future.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Technology Was Supposed to Solve Our Problems, Instead, They Got Worse

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Techno-optimism may have reached its zenith in 2011, when Marc Andreessen declared that software was eating the world.

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How To Solve Transparent Problems

Mike Shipulski

One of the best problems to solve for your customers is the problem they don’t know they have. If you can pull it off, you will create an entirely new value proposition for them and enable them to do things they cannot do today. But the problem is they can’t ask you to solve it because they don’t know they have it. To identify problems customs can’t see, you’ve got to watch them go about their business.

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1. Survival of the Adaptable

Stephen Shapiro

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, I’m going to try an 8-week experiment. Back in 2011, I wrote Best Practices are Stupid (published by Penguin Portfolio). It was selected as the best innovation & creativity book of the year by 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight). The book contains 40 strategies for driving innovation. The experiment is, for the next 8 weeks (5 days a week), I will post a very short summary of each strategy.

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5 Tips to Boost Strategy Execution in Higher Education

Cascade Strategy

The successful execution of strategy is not the result of perfect planning — it’s the result of a disciplined, well-planned approach that cultivates alignment, prompts active reflection, and forces action.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Future of Global Physician Entrepreneurship

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. What’s your definition of entrepreneurship? Here’s the conventional one.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Digital transformation examples How do you structure a digital transformation process, who needs to be involved, where to start? Table of contents 9 insights from our corporate innovation journey. Learn how to start small: the art of minimum viable products. Form a great team: the hipster, the hacker, the hustler. Unplug from the organization. Have.

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Best Practices are Stupid Cliff Notes

Stephen Shapiro

Hi everyone. I’ve decided that for the next 8 weeks, I will post one of the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book every day here on my blog and on LinkedIn. If you are super eager to get a head start, head over to my LinkedIn page as the first handful have already been posted there. Or if you prefer, just visit here from time-to-time and catch up.

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Episode 095: Fusion! A Clever Little Tool to Boost Your Creative Output

Innovation in Practice

We know that creativity is, simply put, the sudden collision of two previously unrelated things. However, have you ever stopped to think about what would happen if you combined together two related things? . It just so happens that a fun little tool called fusion is used for this very purpose. Fusion is used by marketers, designers, artists, and all other kinds of creative people around the world.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Successful Asynchronous Collaboration

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson The future of work is changing and with it the landscape of how we work.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Table of contents A marker and a sheet of paper PowerPoint / Keynote Smartphone sketch templates Explainer video generators POP-app by Marvel Proto.io Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms. 01.

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5 Digital Transformation Use Cases for the Government and Public Sector

Acuvate

In today’s highly disruptive and digital-driven world, governments and public sector institutions at all levels are leveraging newfound opportunities to use data and emerging technologies to empower citizens and build more transparent, efficient, agile, and cost-effective services and programs. According to Gartner, more than 60% of governments will have tripled citizen digital services by 2023.

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Common Team Communication Problems [5 Signs and Solutions]

CMOE

Studies show poor communication between team members can cost businesses dearly. By some estimates, ineffective communication can cost as much as $1.2 trillion each year. This translates to $12,506 per team member. Simply put—communication is critical to your team and the overall organization’s success. Team communication can be costly if it is not performed well, so let’s dive into the five most common signs that team communication problems exist and show you how to solve them constructively.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib