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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

Here are examples of eight successful companies which switched from one activity to another in order to meet a customer need. Berkshire Hathaway was originally a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 in Rhode Island. He used it as a vehicle to buy stakes in insurance companies and other businesses.

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

Business and Tech

A company culture that fosters flexibility and transparency is key to employees feeling comfortable, valued, and supported. However, they also feel disconnected from their co-workers and company’s culture, and report higher incidences of anxiety and depression. What works for one company may not work for another.

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How to Be Systematic About Adopting AI at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. Winsor lays out a simple five-step plan — assess, learn, experiment, build, scale — that can help companies get serious about adopting AI.

Company 140
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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business Review

Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help.

Company 143
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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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The Case for More Company Insiders on Boards

Harvard Business Review

Until the 1970s, corporate boards were dominated by inside directors — people employed by or affiliated with the company in some way. As of 2023, Spencer Stuart research found that 85% of directors are independent.

Company 139
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Should Your Company Build an Open or Closed Ecosystem?

Harvard Business Review

Four research-backed principles to help you determine what’s right for your company.

Company 143
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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. Enter Growth Innovation —a focused, measurable approach that directly drives top-line revenue and company value.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role. Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That's what drove the five companies in this eBook to change their approach to analytics. Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today's data-driven applications. And they won’t cut it for your end users, your development team, or your business.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.