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How to Avoid the Unexpected Consequences of Your DEI Policy

Harvard Business Review

Will the DEI policy you’re about to implement actually hurt some of the people you’re trying to help? Think about variation within the group of people the policy is aimed at helping; for example, whether the experiences of most women employees might differ from women managers. First, consider subgroups. Second, think big.

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Maternal health policy change won’t save enough mothers’ lives

Christensen Institute

Policies are a critical lever for change. But as I’ll detail here, policy alone is not enough. Getting the diagnosis right has profound implications for how to roll out any proposed change. However, there has not been, and is not yet, broad consensus on the cause-and-effect, that is to say how we can reduce maternal deaths.

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What is Policy Deployment and How To Reach True North

Kainexus

Policy deployment, known in Lean circles as Hoshin Kanri or Strategy Deployment, is a technique for ensuring that an organization's strategic goals and objectives drive activities at every level.

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How to Build an Intersectional Approach to Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Many organizations now realize that their struggles with workplace culture and recruitment may stem from a monolithic approach to policies, processes, and mindsets.

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How to Scale Your Innovation Program

IdeaScale

Unexpected legal or internal policy issues. What happens to your brilliant Facebook poll if your organization has a standing “no social media” policy? Meanwhile, your team has worked out the obstacles to growth and how to get around them. To learn more about how to scale your own innovation project, contact us today.

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How to Teach Innovation

Idea to Value

Say, for example, that you need to upskill your employees in certain computer skills – one of your employees already knows how to use said software. Your employees will have fun learning how to pronounce new sounds and suffixes together. Ask that employee to lead that training. An Innovative Culture.

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How to Train Generative AI Using Your Company’s Data

Harvard Business Review

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how. As such, a company’s comprehensive knowledge is often unaccounted for and difficult to organize and deploy where needed in an effective or efficient way.