Innov8rs
MAY 19, 2024
Innov8rs | With the right people, process, structure and mindset - innovation teams flourish. Teamwork makes the dream work. Together Everyone Achieves More. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself… As clichéd as these kinds of quotes may be, they all point to an undeniable truth: working together helps us achieve more.
IdeaScale
MAY 20, 2024
Introduction: What is innovation? Solving problems? Creating solutions? Sometimes there is no problem. Innovation is everything all around us. It is existentialism. This is why I say that innovation is nothing more than the laws of nature.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2024
Leadership coach and author Melanie Parish takes questions from listeners who are struggling to manage tough teams and offers advice on how to mitigate common tensions.
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 19, 2024
Dynamics and Knowledge are essential to your future Dynamism and knowledge insights are crucial to unlock success in proactive ways. It is all about actively shaping it, to navigate the changing terrain. We do need to actively navigate the rapidly changing business landscape in multiple ways it is not just about reacting to external forces. It’s about proactively shaping the direction and actively participating in the evolution of your industry, your positioning and your own insights.
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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?
Innovation Excellence
MAY 20, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell While history tends to single out individuals, the truth is that when you look behind the story of any heroic leader, what you find is a network of loyal supporters, active collaborators and outside facilitators that are behind any great achievement. Nobody accomplishes anything significant alone.
Digital Tonto
MAY 19, 2024
Genuine transformation is notoriously difficult, but transformation theater is relatively easy. There’s never any shortage of corporate hucksters, gurus and other con artists looking to sell us the change gospel, weaving visions of “burning platforms,” in a VUCA world. Many build impressive careers, moving from failed initiative to failed initiative, without ever actually accomplishing anything.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2024
The problem with strategy frameworks is that although they can help you determine whether an opportunity is attractive or whether a given strategy is likely to work, they generally don’t help you in the task of identifying the opportunity or crafting the strategy in the first place. This article introduces a framework, built on an in-depth analysis of the creativity literature, that aims to fill that gap by providing a systematic approach to identifying potential strategies.
Sopheon
MAY 21, 2024
Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 23, 2024
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken What is a loyalty program? It’s a program designed to get customers to come back. That’s different than true customer loyalty, but it’s a pretty darn good start.
Christensen Institute
MAY 21, 2024
Compounding Africa’s struggles with an inadequate healthcare system, the continent is dealing with a scientific brain drain problem that demands attention. In January, Tulio de Oliveira and Cheryl Baxter published an article in Science magazine titled “Investing in Africa’s scientific future.” In it the authors described the fact that Africa currently bears a disproportionate burden of infectious diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and cholera, and 25% of the global disease burden, yet “Afr
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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2024
For all the communication around strategy, we know that leaders at many companies don’t provide the necessary context for employees to understand what the words and sentences in a strategy statement actually mean. What can leaders do to help employees understand enough context to understand a strategy? In this article, the authors offer three recommendations: 1) Present the alternatives considered and explain why they were not adopted. 2) Explain how each choice is linked to the organization’s p
Ecosystems4Innovating
MAY 23, 2024
The Dynamic Ecosystem within the Interconnected Business Ecosystems Business Ecosystems are the growing force to galvanize change and build a more collaborative culture, where the partners’ diversity enables solutions to be solving more complex and challenging problems we seem to be facing today. When thinking about and designing business ecosystems, you must recognize that different ecosystems contribute, evolve, and determine their part in a “bigger” scheme of things.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 22, 2024
Braden Kelley is a popular innovation keynote speaker creating workshops, masterclasses, webinars, tools, and training for organizations on innovation, design thinking and change management.
Stephen Shapiro
MAY 23, 2024
We are less than four weeks away from the formal launch of PIVOTAL. Here’s the last paragraph from the book’s introduction: “You are pivotal. Your business is pivotal. And for you to remain pivotal, you need to know where you are now, where to dig deep, when to stay the course, and where to focus your energies to create the greatest value for others and yourself.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2024
With any significant change in your career comes the need for new skills. But that’s even more true when you want a radical career change. In these situations, it’s going to take more than listening to a few webinars to build the knowledge you need get to where you want to go. You must set aside a significant amount of time for self-directed learning, formal training, or even a second job to gain the skills for the big leap.
Ecosystems4Innovating
MAY 22, 2024
Interdependence and Feedback Loops are pivotal to Interconnected Business Ecosystems In any interconnected business ecosystem design, two pivotal components work in tandem to ensure the system’s overall health, adaptability, and success. The interdependence and feedback loops are intrinsically linked and mutually reinforcing. This recognition and emphasis on their importance are critical to building a robust business ecosystem.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 21, 2024
And How Moneyball Fits In GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Last week, pitchers and catchers reported to MLB Spring Training facilities in Florida and Arizona.
Planview
MAY 22, 2024
We’re excited to announce four Vision Award winners at this year’s Planview Accelerate conference – a recognition given to just a handful of organizations each year. This post highlights their stories and how you can use their insights at your own organization. Planview’s Vision Awards, now in its 13th consecutive year, recognizes forward-looking organizations that have excelled at achieving their strategic goals by leveraging Planview solutions.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2024
Research shows that people feel more pressured to agree to requests than we realize, frequently agreeing to do things they would rather not do, such as taking on burdensome, low-promotability work tasks. As a manager, what can you do to ensure that your employees aren’t taking things on because they feel like they have to, but because they actually want to?
Ecosystems4Innovating
MAY 19, 2024
Applying Super Governance to Interconnected Business Ecosystems I have been working on further developing and creating a comprehensive framework for the Interconnected Business Ecosystem that addresses various aspects of ecosystem design, management, and governance. I debated if I needed to add a super governance layer that ensures alignment, stability, and ethical practices across the entire ecosystem.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 20, 2024
GUEST POST from David Burkus A sense of belonging on a team is crucial for its success and productivity. Belonging is that sense of acceptance and inclusion when people feel they can bring their authentic self to work.
Innovators Alliance
MAY 24, 2024
Research has shown that an organization’s culture is linked to its performance. James Heskett and John Kotter, in their book, Corporate Culture and Performance, make a compelling case. They demonstrate that organizational cultures that facilitate adaptation to a changing, disruptive world are associated with stronger financial performance than those that don’t.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2024
The “mighty-middle” segment of startups falls between venture-scale unicorns and small businesses. These startups aim for valuations in the high single-digit to high tens of millions within 5-10 years, targeting midsize niches with significant growth potential. Enabled by internet tools, global advertising, and affordable tech, mighty-middle businesses often bootstrap, use contractors, and require entrepreneurs to acquire diverse skills.
Ecosystems4Innovating
MAY 24, 2024
Building Effective Business Governance has multiple challenges. We must emphasise the importance of ecosystem governance, providing a comprehensive structure for designing a practical framework. The robustness and depth of Governance understanding make or break Business Ecosystems. Building a robust governance framework clarifies that managing business ecosystems is not for the faint-hearted or light-of-pocket in all the aspects that need to be considered.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 24, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski You can look at people’s salaries as a cost that must be reduced. Or, you can look at their salaries as a way for them to provide for their families. With one, you cut, cut, cut.
innosabi Innovation Insights
MAY 23, 2024
Innovation and invention are both vital for success, acting as twin pillars of corporate vitality, each contributing uniquely to a company’s growth and competitive edge. Despite their frequent interchangeability, it’s essential for businesses to grasp the nuanced disparities between these concepts to effectively leverage their potential.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2024
The creator economy has given many young people an opportunity to eschew a more traditional career path and monetize their talents via social media. But, what if, you’ve discovered your priorities have evolved and you are now considering a job in the business world? The daunting process of reassessing your goals and then converting your value to this new space can feel overwhelming.
Christensen Institute
MAY 23, 2024
In a striking piece in Education Next , Laurence Holt dives into a series of research studies that show strong results for edtech math products Khan Academy, DreamBox Learning, i-Ready, and IXL— when the programs are used as recommended. The results across the studies are great—0.26 standard deviations (equivalent to several months of additional learning), 0.20 SD, 0.22 SD, and 0.14 SD, respectively.
Innovators Alliance
MAY 22, 2024
Jeremy Robinson, Professional Implementer with EOS Worldwide , the pioneering organization dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and leadership teams with simple, practical tools, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Innovators Alliance , a community fostering innovation and growth among business leaders. EOS Worldwide, renowned for its Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), provides a comprehensive set of tools and processes designed to align leadership teams, crystallize vis
Innov8rs
MAY 20, 2024
Innov8rs | RTI International, a not-for-profit dedicated to addressing the world’s most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future, has joined Innov8rs CoLab to augment its efforts. Mike Kaelin, CFO, Strategy, and Transformation Officer of RTI, Inc. states, “As a leading global research institute, innovation has always been a critical component of our success.
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Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.
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