Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

When your boss leaves for a new company, it can be tempting to try to follow them, especially if you’ve had a strong working relationship and built up trust. But is it a good idea? In this article, the author offers advice from Nancy Rothbard, a professor of management and the deputy dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Arika Pierce Williams, a leadership development consultant and the president and founder of Piercing Strategies.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 10, 2024

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer Your emotional state has a lot to do with how innovative you are, especially when those emotions are negative. How willing are you to act in the face of uncertainty and take those risks? How comfortable are you with new ideas and interpretations that may conflict with those you have?

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Innovation 104

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s no surprise that trust is at the core of high-performing teams. But conversations about cultivating trust at work often focus on the relationship between managers and employees. As important — if not more so — is establishing trust between teammates. To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S.

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Team Building Collaboration Management 137

BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

An organization elected to go the DIY route to implement its strategy. They reached out six months later. The reason? Their overwhelmed implementation teams are confused because progress isn’t happening. Their strategy plan is too much relative to their daily responsibilities. The top executive wondered about holding an event to bring everyone together and do something , but not generating more ideas for things to do.

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Strategy Strategy 52

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

Traditional employee engagement surveys just aren’t working how we need them to. And they’re expensive, too. As the employee disengagement trends upward, the author suggests dispensing with these surveys and reinventing them internally, tailored to your organization’s unique context. She suggests three nontraditional KPIs to track instead to boost engagement: 1) team success, 2) innovation and new ideas, and 3) trends.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

Design thinking is a well-known methodology that generates innovative, user-centric solutions. It applies a human-centered and iterative problem-solving approach. The process emphasizes empathy, creativity, and collaboration in addressing complex problems. End-users take center stage within design thinking; there are specific outreaches incorporated into design thinking to understand end-user needs, desires, and pain points.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

What is a porous organization? A porous organization actively collaborates with customers and partners by creating and supporting a flow of ideas and insights into and from the enterprise to create new value streams. My good friend, Joe Batista, the Chief Creatologist , articulates the concept to underscore that every organization can grow its capabilities and enrich its ecosystem through sharing and capturing value across varied arenas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

And how to use their insights to improve your products and services.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2024

An organization elected to go the DIY route to implement its strategy. They reached out six months later. The reason? Their overwhelmed implementation teams are confused because progress isn’t happening. Their strategy plan is too much relative to their daily responsibilities. The top executive wondered about holding an event to bring everyone together and do something , but not generating more ideas for things to do.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy 52

Ecosystems4Innovating

JANUARY 10, 2024

The value of Ecosystems cannot be understated. Be these “innovation ecosystems”, “business ecosystems” or “dynamic ecosystems.” They form a “ hierarchy of ecosystem needs “, and that is where I will be going in the weeks ahead to explain this integrated and interconnected framing of ecosystems. I have gotten relatively excited about this strand of thinking and ecosystem design as it has been a reasonably extensive period of research building this o

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

What are the immediate impacts of AI on climate?

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ITONICS

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an era where environmental concerns are increasingly at the forefront of public consciousness, integrating sustainability into all innovation activities has become more than a mere trend—it's a necessity. As businesses and technological sectors evolve, the challenge lies not only in innovating to maintain a competitive advantage, but innovating in a way that is environmentally responsible and sustainable.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 10, 2024

"Mastery" is a fascinating phenomenon -- one that many people speak about, but few attain. Is it possible? Yes, it is. But what is it really? Ah. now that's the question, isn't it? The dictionary defines mastery as "possession or display of great skill or technique." OK. Good start. If you're fluent in French, for example, you have a mastery of the language.

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