IdeaScale

MARCH 1, 2024

Amazon has recently unveiled its latest initiative, the AbilityOne Storefront, catering specifically to government buyers and aimed at facilitating easy procurement of products and services made by individuals with significant disabilities. This innovative platform opens up new avenues for federal, state, and local governments to access a wide range of goods while fulfilling their federal [.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), and strategic measurement to influence future outcomes (“Measure to Account”).

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

MARCH 1, 2024

In the face of a tech industry where women are more likely to be laid off than be promoted to leadership positions, it's time to hack the system and reboot the gender balance for good to turbocharge innovation and propel the industry.

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Leadership Change Industry System 101

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

Sadly, purpose statements at all too many organizations are just empty words. The companies that issue them don’t live up to their lofty promises. But research by Bain & Company identified some companies that are the exceptions. They employ four methods to turn their statements into reality.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When your idea is novel, no one will steal it. No NDA required. If your idea is truly novel, no one will value it. And that’s how you’ll know it’s novel. When your idea is novel, no one will adopt it.

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Creativity Innovation 90

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

While many executives and investors were thrown by last year’s interest rate increases, the cost of capital needn’t be a threat. Companies that integrate the cost of capital into their strategy and planning reap real benefits. When something is cheap, people waste it. With the cost of capital back to normal levels, it’s simply irresponsible not to make it a management discipline that changes the way you do business.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 1, 2024

At a Glance Maria Villablanca Co-Founder and CEO, Future Insights Network Focus Areas: Supply chain, Procurement, Digital Transformation Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Maria Villablanca Social Media: LinkedIn | Twitter Podcast: Transform Talks: The Supply Chain Transformation Highlighted Content : #204 – Supply Chain disruptors and trends of 2024 with Richard Howells , We NEED More Anti-Fragile Leaders in Supply Chain.

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Stephen Shapiro

MARCH 1, 2024

This week we launched my new website. I’m still learning the “ropes,” so I might be slow in posting for a little while. On this site, you will find all of the same content from the previous one – just with a fresher design and updated technology. If you encounter any issues, please get in touch with me and let me know. Happy Innovating!

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Brunner

MARCH 1, 2024

If you lead marketing at a B2B company, how do you describe your customers? Do you list off the businesses that purchase what you sell? Or do you talk about Joshua, Jessica, and Javon — the people who buy from you? In today’s rapidly changing marketplace, your B2B customers are not your father’s customers. Increasingly, today’s buyers are millennials, born between 1981-1996, and they bring a very different set of expectations to the buying experience.

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ITONICS

MARCH 1, 2024

A good business strategy should outline a path for future success. This means your company must uncover emerging technologies and trends quickly to spot opportunities before the competition. But how do you ensure you’re effectively scanning and monitoring changes in your trend and tech landscape over time? ITONICS is making it easier and faster to research the forces impacting your business.

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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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