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How to Create Value from Nothing

IdeaScale

Doing nothing fuels creativity and innovation, but that fuel is wasted if you don’t put it to use. Idleness clears the mind, allowing fresh ideas to emerge, but those ideas must be acted upon to create value. Why is doing something with that fuel so difficult? Don’t blame the status quo.

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3 Challenges to Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them

Harvard Business Review

Managers struggling to implement hybrid work policies confront three key challenges: scheduling, culture, and productivity. Research into companies allowing employees to be both remote and in-person suggest these obstacles can be overcome. In scheduling, shift to a focus not on how often workers are in, but which activities are better done in the office.

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Embracing The Future: How AI is Reshaping Businesses and Industries

IdeaScale

In the coming years, Artificial Intelligence will play a transformative role in reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace with disruptive innovation revolutionizing the business landscape. This blog will explore several industries that are on brink of substantial AI-induced transformation and delve into examples of innovative startups taking the lead.

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AI Will Increase the Quantity — and Quality — of Phishing Scams

Harvard Business Review

Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts. Companies need to: 1) understand the asymmetrical capabilities of AI-enhanced phishing, 2) determine the company or division’s phishing threat severity level, and 3) confirm their cur

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Six Steps to Creating a Brand Experience Personality

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Two weeks ago, I contributed an article that compared the different concert experiences I had with two rock legends, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.

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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: What U.S. Employers Need to Know

Harvard Business Review

A new federal law requires organizations with 15 or more employees to accommodate all health needs at work arising from pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions.

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Tech at Work: How to Get the Most out of Digital Collaboration Tools

Harvard Business Review

Is your team making good use of tools like Slack, Zoom, and Trello?

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Exoplatform

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Innovation Strategy: Make Winning or Learning Your Organization's Goal

BrainZooming

A CEO client of Brainzooming was matter of fact in supporting a more innovative organizational culture : “We’re not going to have winning or losing. We’re going to have winning or learning.

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Elevate Your Leadership Effectiveness

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise One of the core responsibilities we have as leaders is to think about our business and continuously reflect on how we can improve the overall effectiveness of our leadership, our teams and therefore the business. Here are four questions that we need to reflect upon on a regular basis, and when done well, they can help elevate the effectiveness of our leadership: Questions to ask Yourself Regularly 1} What am I not paying attention to?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Why Do We Miss Deadlines and Overrun Budgets?

Michael Roberto

Source: USA Today We all have experienced projects that miss key deadlines and exceed budgets. It's not a fun experience. In retrospect, it seems obvious that we were overly optimistic in our estimates. Yet, at the start, we thought we had been reasonable, even conservative, in our projections. Why do we make these crucial errors? One study offers an interesting explanation.

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