Wed.Oct 18, 2023

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The Art of Setting Expectations as a Project Manager

Harvard Business Review

Managing the expectations of a wide range of stakeholders is one of the most challenging jobs of a project manager. Yet there’s no educational program or training for this skill because everyone’s expectations are unique and often deeply personal. PMs need to use a combination of intuition, listening, iterating, and learning on the fly to address them successfully.

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Stringing Together an Innovation Story

Innovation Excellence

How convergence and creative collisions fuel invention GUEST POST from John Bessant It was the Covid lockdown that did it. Got me into compulsive listening. As my physical world contracted so I spent more and more time taking voyages inside my head, carried along by music.

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What Fast-Moving Companies Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Lack of speed has been troubling companies for decades. The difference is that, today, with everything moving so much faster, a lack of speed can mean more than just a few missed opportunities — it can put companies in a very precarious position, especially those in markets where they face competitors that can sense and respond far more quickly. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it.

Company 101
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Anticipating Change: Staying Ahead in a Dynamic World

Daniel Burrus

Change is an inevitability of human life. We go through changes as we age from teens into adulthood by moving out of our parents’ houses and going to college or a trade school. And as we move from early adulthood to our 30s, 40s, 50s, and later years, with starting new jobs, getting married, having kids, and retiring, more change occurs. We have become very adept at handling the various changes thrown at us.

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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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People Are Buying More Experiences Than Things. I Tried the Viral Brand That Wants to Change the Way We Hear Them.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Loop Earplugs, launched by Maarten Bodewes and Dimitri O in 2016, wants you to "live life at your volume." I tested the brand's products, including Loop Switch.

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What’s Derailing Your Company’s Transformation?

Harvard Business Review

Often the real barriers to organizational change are lurking beneath the surface. Three steps can uncover them: act like an anthropologist, use sophisticated tools to analyze the breadcrumbs, and use drawings to tease out subtle dimensions of an organization’s culture.

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How Kenvue De-Risked Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

Global disruptions that cause sudden swings in consumer demand are becoming more commonplace today, changing the way we think about supply chains and de-risking them. This article shows how Kenvue, a former Johnson & Johnson company invested in “real” insurance policies — capabilities and resources that make a supply chain resilient under conditions of high uncertainty.

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How to Create a Learning Culture in the Workplace

CMOE

A workplace culture of learning is becoming increasingly important as organizations strive to keep up with the ever-changing business landscape. Creating a learning culture encourages employees to refine old skills and develop new ones to help them perform their jobs better and contribute to the organization’s success. This guide explores the benefits of creating a learning culture in the workplace and provides actionable tips on how to establish and maintain it.

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Concerned about cookieless marketing? Consider these effective alternatives for targeting and audience tracking 

Brunner

If you’re in marketing, you’ve likely heard what’s coming — the end of cookies, those digital snippets of text marketers use to target key audiences and track how people engage. Google plans to drop third-party cookies by the second half of 2024 as part of an increasing focus data privacy and security. That pivot has marketing teams at companies large and small searching for alternatives to measure their campaigns, content, and digital experiences.

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Episode 17 – Part 2: How to Manage Change and Create Resilient Organizations Through Innovation

IM Insights

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector. The second part of this episode delves into the fascinating world of corporate venturing and organizational adaptability with insights from a research paper that Kumuda co-authored titled, “Enhancing Organizational Adaptability through Corporate Venturing.” The paper’s primary focus is to understand the culture and processes that

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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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How Indra Nooyi Brought Design Thinking to PepsiCo

Harvard Business Review

And how harnessing the power of design shaped the company’s global strategy.

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Career Sponsorship Is a Two-Way Street

Harvard Business Review

How to choose the right protégé and manage your relationship over the long term.

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How Do I Make the Case for My First Raise?

Harvard Business Review

Do your research, get your timing right, and document everything.

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Video Quick Take: FCMA’s Terra Watkins on How the Right E-Procurement Tools Help You Support Your Customers - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM AMAZON BUSINESS

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Amazon Business.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.