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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Disruptive thinking challenges conventional approaches, fosters radical ideas and can lead to transformative innovations. It involves deliberately questioning established norms, encouraging unconventional perspectives, and embracing risks to create breakthrough changes. It is intended to start a revolution. It seeks to overturn the established standards, not for the sake of destruction but in order to create an appealing alternative.

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The value of interconnecting layers within the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystem Needs.

Paul Hobcraft

Interconnecting Layers for the Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs So, the value of establishing this hierarchy of business ecosystem in its needs requires understanding why it is depicted as interconnected layers. Is this establishing a new sustaining excellence for businesses? They are when combined, collective in significance and impact and provide a higher level of radicality to present and offer as an alternative to today’s business and economic growth approach.

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7 Tips to Communicate Innovation Storytelling Effectively

IdeaScale

Stories have been woven into human culture since the beginning of time. You’ve got those spine-tingling tales whispered around a campfire, the heart-wrenching dramas, and the anecdotes passed down through generations at your family dinner table. They’re the best because they appeal to all of your senses. You hear stories with your ears. You see [.

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What are the Barriers when Implementing Ecosystem-designed approaches

Paul Hobcraft

Implementing and Building Ecosystem Designs While ecosystem-based approaches offer numerous advantages, there are also challenges and potential barriers that organizations may face. As I was building out the Hierarchy of Ecosystem Needs , you have to consider many of the (current) issues and challenges being faced by advancing Ecosystem thinking and design.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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What is Digital Transformation anyway?

Innovation Excellence

Digital Transformation is the third wave of digital evolution. GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky The first wave was brochureware. Enterprises created websites that communicated their story. As simple as this idea is, it was revolutionary. The business value of providing instant sales and marketing material at the click of a mouse is hugely valuable.

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Why DEI Leaders Are Burning Out — and How Organizations Can Help

Harvard Business Review

Why do DEI leaders burn out so quickly? Research finds that this job demands constant emotional labor and surface acting, particularly for professionals of color. As a result, frustration and exhaustion mount. One solution stems from the way DEI programs are designed. The authors found that when programs take what’s known as a discrimination-and-fairness paradigm approach, DEI leaders experience more burnout because the organization’s focus assumes employee differences are sources of problems th

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Building a Labor-Employer Alliance to Reform U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

U.S. employers have struggled to curb soaring health care costs. But there is an approach that could help them: involve workers in the design and implementation of health care benefits. There is a model that proves this approach can work: Taft-Hartley health plans, which arise out of collective bargaining, have succeeded in engaging employees and delivering efficient care.

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How Professional Services Subscription Offerings Drive Value

Planview

As a professional services leader, you’re probably all too aware of the limits of one-off software implementation methods. In today’s business landscape, these outdated methods fail to meet clients’ standards for flexibility and optimization. Too often, they create a gap between an organization’s strategy and its actual implementation.

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Refocus Your Strategy for Success

Harvard Business Review

Step-by-step guidance for implementing a value-based strategy in your organization.

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The Bliss Business Podcast - Introduction to B.L.I.S.S

The Bliss Business Podcast

Introducing a new podcast. The Bliss Business Podcast. B.L.I.S.S. stands for Build Love Into Scalable Systems. The Bliss Business Podcast emerges as a sanctuary where the principles of empathy, love, and conscious awareness in business are not just discussed — they are celebrated and sought after. Join Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa , and Ashkan Maher of Zero Company, as they introduce this podcast as a testament to our belief that the core of a truly successful business lies in blissful practi

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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3 Things Great Leaders Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Encourage collaboration, risk-taking, and learning from failure.

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Failure is an Option, Fear is not!

Rmukesh Gupta

Earlier today, I was listening to a panel discussion and something that one of the panelist, Bharathi Vishwanathan, said, stuck a chord with me. She is the chief digital and information officer at Suntory. She said and I quote: Failure is an option, fear is not – Bharathi Vishwanathan She said that this was the motto of her company. When I think about it, it makes a lot of sense, specially if you want to innovate and create a culture of experimentation and exploration.

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