Fri.Dec 13, 2024

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Continuing the Work of DEI, No Matter What Your Company Calls It

Harvard Business Review

While DEI has faced significant backlash in the last year, companies across industries are still looking for ways to build healthy, inclusive workplace cultures where everyone can do their best work. New data at shows that even during this year of backlash, companies continued to make progress on many of their DEI initiatives. There are three ways companies should consider shifting their approach to DEI, both to be responsive to the current moment and to achieve greater impact: resetting the nar

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Leading For The Future: Disorder, Trauma, Growth

Bill Fischer

New research indicates that speaking of organizational transformation without including its impact on top management can be hazardous to the individuals involved.

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Joining a Professional Group Where Everyone Already Knows Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Four strategies to help you break in.

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Make the Planet and Your Bottom Line Smile

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski What if the most profitable thing you could do was work that reduced the rise in the earths temperature? What if it was most profitable to reduce CO2 emissions, improve water quality or generate renewable energy?

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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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How Gen AI and Analytical AI Differ — and When to Use Each

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that have recently discovered generative AI are at risk of overlooking an older and better-established form of AI, which the authors call analytical AI. This form of AI is by no means obsolete and is still an important resource for the great majority of companies. While a few applications of AI employ both analytical and generative AI, the two AI approaches are largely separate.

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Innovation or Not – AI Birdwatching

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia Welcome to another installment of the “Innovation or Not” series, where we dissect intriguing products and services to determine whether they truly represent ingenuity, or if they’re just another notch on the belt of incremental progress.

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Classical Music, Jazz, Innovation, and Me Jamming on the Sax

Stephen Shapiro

I recently unearthed some videos from 25 years ago of a speech I gave in Nice, France. In the middle of the presentation, I whipped out my saxophone and started jamming with a band. We hadnt prepared or discussed what we would playit was 100% improvised. That was the point of the talk. I shared a perspective thats just as relevant today: classical music, like many of our business processes, can be rigid and inflexible.

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The Power of the Peer-to-Peer Model – A Professional Growth Opportunity for Leaders

Innovators Alliance

Management comes with its fair share of challenges. Whether its making critical decisions, staying ahead of industry changes, or solving complex problems, senior leaders often find themselves navigating uncharted waters. In these moments, having a trusted group of peers to turn to can make all the difference. The peer-to-peer (P2P) model is a simple but powerful concept: it connects leaders facing similar challenges and gives them a space to learn from one another.

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