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“Oh, So That’s What You Meant!” Using Scorecards To Simplify Strategy

IdeaScale

We see it all the time – strategies that are meant to align and energize people distract and confuse them instead. Creating a screening scorecard that anyone can use is a big help. The trouble with the term “strategy” is that it has so often come to mean anything important.

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How to Set Transformation Targets That Actually Drive Change

Harvard Business Review

Eleven out of 12 top-down target transformations fail to achieve their goals, with only a fraction of theoretically “executed” or “realized” improvements translating to the corporate ledger. In this article, Bain & Co partner Michael Mankins summarizes Bain research findings that show what actions make the difference between success and failure in setting and achieving transformation targets.

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Going for Gold: What Top Innovators and Olympic Athletes Have in Common

IdeaScale

What an amazing spectacle! The Paris Olympics showcased the world’s finest athletes, from Simone Biles to Katie Ledeky to Léon Marchand to Noah Lyles, each of whom reached the pinnacle of their sport through a combination of commitment, skill, and strategy.

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What Your Website Reveals About Your Brand

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky For the past few weeks, I’ve been sitting in a lot of usability testing sessions for web and mobile sites. In particular, for two sites that we are beginning the process of re-doing for clients. I’ve noticed a consumer pattern jumping out across multiple subjects in tests for both clients.

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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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Bridging Generational Gaps: Aligning Organizational Futureview® in the Workplace

Daniel Burrus

Understanding the Generational War As Baby Boomers delay retirement and Gen Zers enter the workforce, many offices have become a veritable battleground of generational values, differing perspectives, and, in some cases, anxiety. This “Generational War,” as it has come to be called, is reshaping the traditional notion of work culture and collaboration, with each party bringing its own expectations regarding work-life balance, communication methods, and technology to the table.

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The Key to Abraham Lincoln’s Leadership

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn on the power of Lincoln’s emotional discipline.

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How to Build a Dynamic-Pricing Strategy That Works

Harvard Business Review

You can avoid the downsides of dynamic pricing with some basic guardrails, overrides, and communication tactics.

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Interview on Teach the Geek Podcast

Stephen Shapiro

I’m an engineer, and I believe this makes me a better innovator. I was on the Teach the Geek podcast and we had a great time, because, well, I’m a geek! Watch the Video Here Listen to the Audio Here Here’s the session description: Stephen Shapiro: Engineering a Speaking Business Stephen Shapiro is an engineer turned renowned speaker and consultant who helps organizations cultivate a culture of innovation and creative problem-solving.

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Empathy Expansion Kit: The Compassionate Brand Voice Crafting Empathetic Messaging

The Bliss Business Podcast

Join us for the latest Empathy Expansion Kit episode of The Bliss Business Podcast where hosts Stephen Sakach and Tullio Siragusa discuss crafting empathetic messaging that resonates deeply with your audience. Sponsored by Zero Company, this episode provides practical insights on developing a compassionate brand voice that sets your business apart. Episode Highlights: + Building Trust and Loyalty: Discover how empathy in messaging fosters trust and builds lasting relationships with your customer

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From Strategy to Revenue, Your B2B Website Is Your Most Important Marketing Channel 

Brunner

When prospective B2B customers hear a mention of your brand, what’s the first thing they do to check out what you offer? Chances are that rather than making a phone call to a salesperson, they will spend time on your website as their first step to see if your products are a fit. After that, it’s a split second — 0.05 seconds according to one study — before they’ve formed an impression of your business.

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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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Patients Need a System to Compare Healthcare Quality — Not Just Prices

Harvard Business Review

A system for allowing patients and employers in the United States to compare health services on the basis of price would be inadequate. To make such a tool worthwhile, quality comparisons are also essential. This article offers three steps that would put the country on a path to create such a system: 1) incentivizing the adoption of patient-centered quality measures at the condition level, 2) identifying clinicians, such as surgeons, who meet a minimum volume threshold for common procedures, and

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Harnessing Innovation: The Power of a Proprietary Data Base

Yet2

Words by Carlos Pichardo This is the third and final blog in our series on Unveiling Strategic Networks, check out the first two here and here. Comprehensive. Targeted. Quick. Those are the characteristics that make yet2’s proprietary database amongst the world’s finest for technology scouting and solution providing. A new breakthrough in our technology has revolutionized the way we organize, search for, and leverage information.

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