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2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report

IdeaScale

Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy.

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3 education innovations to watch in 2024 (hint: it’s not just about skills and AI)

Christensen Institute

Despite these growing proof points, efforts to improve education lean on mental models, theories of change, and investment strategies that routinely ignore the social side of opportunity. I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.”

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Which new developments in K–12 education will prove disruptive?

Christensen Institute

This is an interesting time to be involved in K–12 education. It’s a challenging time, for sure, given the learning loss, mental health crisis, and educator burnout that have come in the aftermath of COVID-19. Or will we be looking back in a decade or two astounded by how much K–12 education has been completely transformed?

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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. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Learning skills and acquiring knowledge are cornerstones of education.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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Achieving Balance With Company Culture, Benefit Design, and Employee Well-Being

Business and Tech

Employees’ sense of security can be strengthened by comprehensive programs that include financial education, and well-being and leave of absence benefit offerings to meet employee needs. The right balance Remote and hybrid employees report being more satisfied and more productive, according to recent IBI research.

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The Reason Why Tenant Credit Scores Are Higher Than Ever

Business and Tech

Alexandra Alvarado Director of Marketing and Education, American Apartment Owners Association. FICO reports that the average credit score now stands at 716, eight points higher than 2020, with consumers in lower score ranges seeing the biggest improvement. Consumers are more educated. How does this change tenant screening?