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Thinking together is the ultimate core competency

IdeaScale

Pick an industry. Any industry. In nearly every case, you'll find two companies that started at about the same time, with roughly the same resources. One of them succeeds and the other fails. Or one prospers while the other languishes. Why? Ask ten people and you'll get as many answers.

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13 Wicked Extreme Creativity Questions

BrainZooming

Extreme creativity questions often emerge when designing a client workshop that needs everyone to expand their perspectives and enter previously unimagined realms of innovative thinking.

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3 Essential Vitamins Tell the Story of U.S. Dependence on China

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to protectionist trade policies, the United States and other Western countries had better look hard before they leap. An unpublished study found that the United States is heavily dependent on China for the supplies of three essential vitamins: folic acid, or B9; niacinamide, or B3; and biotin, or B7. While there are potential solutions that could reduce this reliance, they could not be implemented quickly and they would be expensive.

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Why Reason Matters

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton How many times a day do you ask someone to do something? If you total all the requests you make of coworkers, family members, friends, people at restaurants and shops, and even strangers, the total is somewhere between 100 and 1 bazillion.

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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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Research: How “Buy Now, Pay Later” Is Changing Consumer Spending

Harvard Business Review

A study of 275,000 customers found that the option to pay in installments increased revenue — but was used most by financially constrained shoppers.

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How to Create the Ultimate Employee Development Plan

CMOE

The success of your organization depends on the development of your human capital, the key asset that drives productivity and impacts ROI. However, traditional approaches to workforce training are often fragmented and lack the strategic focus required to drive sustainable organizational improvement. To address this challenge, organizations should implement effective employee development plans to foster a culture of learning, continuous improvement and personal excellence.

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Beware Of Zombie Ideas: Old Ideas That Haunt Decision Making

Bill Fischer

Many ideas live beyond the useful age, and yet still remain influential.

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Tried-and-True Networking Tips from Decades of Experience

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with venture capitalist Heidi Roizen on making networking relational, not transactional.

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Multi-Meta-RAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Complex Multi-Hop Queries

Acuvate

Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical technique for empowering Large Language Models (LLMs) with real-time knowledge retrieval capabilities. However, traditional RAG models struggle with multi-hop queries , which require retrieving and reasoning over multiple interconnected pieces of evidence. These limitations often lead to incomplete or inaccurate answers, especially when the data spans diverse sources.

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Do You Really Need a Big Career Change?

Harvard Business Review

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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.