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Build AI Skills through your Management Development Programs

Leapfrogging

Practical AI applications can significantly boost decision-making capabilities and strategic thinking. These sessions can improve their understanding of AI’s impact on business operations, making them more adept at leveraging technology for strategic advantages. Strategic Thinking Scenario planning and trend analysis.

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How to Avoid Disruption with SODA

BrainZooming

The authors point to using big data to identify otherwise-imperceptible patterns and emerging market preferences. We agree: if you have the big data, that’s a huge benefit—one you should use aggressively. Let’s build out ideas for activating SODA with your executive team and organization: Scan.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

But how do you hire for creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, and create the right culture to support and develop it? Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand. The future is not a binary world of human vs.

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How Business Intelligence Software can Help you Increase Operational Efficiency

InnovationManagement

Business Intelligence software is an essential tool for analyzing your company's strengths and weaknesses. From inventory management, to accounting, to customer intelligence and beyond, there are many ways you can use BI software to inform your decision-making, increase operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

On the other hand, work that requires a high degree of imagination, creative analysis, and strategic thinking is harder to automate. Their findings so far seem to conclude that the more technical the work, the more technology can accomplish it. In other words, machines skew toward tactical applications.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

Fundamentally, this is what scenario planning is all about: creating insightful stories about the future using good research and analyses, and identifying important patterns unfolding today that will shape the future for a company and its possible strategic options. This is as important today as it was in Wack’s era.