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3 Questions Every Change Consultant Should Be Able To Answer

Digital Tonto

The ugly truth about change management is that the traditional change models simply don’t work. They aren’t based on any serious research and have shown themselves, over a period of decades, to fail consistently. Often, organizational change management units are used by consulting firms and vendors to cheerlead a larger engagement. That isn’t to say it’s some sort of con.

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Let’s be clear about Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Evolution and Revolution My definition of innovation ecosystems is that they, “innovation ecosystems are dynamic, interconnected networks of diverse actors and resources that come together to collaborate to drive innovation opportunity and create a more compelling value.” They are progressively replacing “just” innovation as this tends to be housed in one organization, to be developed and delivered on the resources and insights they hav

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Are We Doing Social Innovation Wrong?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore The Volume Operations business model kicks in when you have hundreds of thousands of users and goes up from there. 100,000, for those of us who are not math majors, is 10 to the power of 5.

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The Unconventional lies beyond the Conventional

Destination Innovation

In his stimulating and provocative book, Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman gives this advice – originality lies on the far side of unoriginality. The principle is that if you want to be innovative and unconventional it is probably better to serve your time learning a conventional skill before branching out on your own creative route. Pablo Picasso started with traditional academic art training, but later co-founded the Cubism movement, revolutionizing the way we perceive and represent reali

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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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Only One Type of Innovation Will Win the Future

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Very few businesses last. While we like to think we live in a particularly disruptive era, this has always been true. Entrepreneurs start businesses because they see opportunity and build skills, practices and processes to leverage it. Yet as the world changes, these strengths often become vulnerabilities.

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Maker’s schedules, Manager’s schedules and why meetings can destroy productivity

Idea to Value

How you prioritise your work is one of the major ways you determine what you get done. Different people require different times and schedules to do their best work. According to influential tech founder and investor Paul Graham in his 2009 essay, there are two major types of schedules that different people require to work effectively: Makers: Makers are the people who are creating new things (whether it is a design, code, innovative solution concept, scientific formula or piece of art) and solvi

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When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope

Harvard Business Review

All careers have highs and lows, and scope reductions can be particularly challenging. You may feel like immediately handing in your resignation or retreating and disengaging. It’s natural, but neither response is helpful. Your manager and coworkers are watching how you respond, making it even more critical to approach this difficult situation with composure and pragmatism.

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Nine Actions for Building a Great Team

Innovation Excellence

Which Resonates with You? GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard Building a strong team is a multifaceted journey, and there are several key actions that can contribute to the growth and success of a team. Reflecting on the nine actions for building a great team, which ones do you find your team focuses on the most?

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From ‘BIG’ Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group

Qmarkets

Discover how ICL achieved $1B+ forecasted ROI using the Qmarkets innovation management platform. We’re pleased to offer exclusive, free access to this strategic report from Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business School, which brings to life ICL’s innovation journey through real-life business data analysis.

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Understanding the Pillars of Operational Excellence | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Operational excellence is a management philosophy that continuously improves an organization's processes, efficiency, and effectiveness. It involves optimizing workflows, reducing waste, and enhancing quality to achieve better performance and deliver more customer value. A study by the Aberdeen Group found that organizations that adopt operational excellence practices see a 5% to 10% improvement in revenue growth and a 15% to 30% reduction in operational costs.

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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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The Race to Dominate Stablecoins

Harvard Business Review

Stablecoins — cryptocurrencies pegged to an external currency — have the potential to rewire the global financial system, and expose banking and finance to new digital competition. Now, there is intensifying competition among stablecoin issuers, prominent digital wallet providers, and traditional banks, each racing to establish their platform as the dominant one.

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Breaking Free From Stagnation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton As a leader in your organization, you’re under tremendous stress. Not only do you need to deliver against a “growth strategy” that demands constant increases in revenue and profit, but you also need to cut costs and support employees who are more disengaged and burned out than ever before.

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Lessons in Leadership from the movie “Raayan”

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently watched the Tamil language movie – Raayan and really liked the movie. It is a typical commercial movie, following the life of three siblings with the eldest one trying to protect the younger one’s. Here is the plot according to Wikipedia: The film follows Kathavaraayan “Raayan”, a fast-food hotel owner in North Chennai, who begins to protect his family when they inadvertently get muddled in a war between two rival gangs.

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EMOTIONAL ENERGY, CREATIVE THINKING AND AI

ImagineNation

The impact of disruption, hyperconnectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, causes many people to feel fearful and anxious. Causing them to become defensive and reactive and ‘go under’ emotionally and ‘go inwards’ cognitively, often by ruminating about their past and what bad things may happen in the future. Dwelling on past mistakes, failures, and poor performance also causes them to disengage emotionally, take flight and move away, avoid taking action, fight, or freeze and

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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How Companies Can Take a Global Approach to AI Ethics

Harvard Business Review

Many efforts to build an AI ethics program miss an important fact: ethics differ from one cultural context to the next. Ideas about right and wrong in one culture may not translate to a fundamentally different context, and even when there is alignment, there may well be important differences in the ethical reasoning at work — cultural norms, religious tradition, etc. — that need to be taken into account.

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Time to Make a Difference

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When it’s time to make meaningful change, there’s no time for consensus. When the worn path of success must be violated, use a small team. When it’s time for new thinking, create an unreasonable deadline, and get out of the way.

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Unlocking growth through Strategic Partner Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

The need to elevate Business Partner Ecosystems In today’s complex business landscape, leveraging partner ecosystems offers a competitive edge. Building an effective partner ecosystem in systematic stages in thinking and design becomes increasingly critical, to build the mindset, skills and understanding of what this means in undertaking to yield the level of return in different routes to growth and value.

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Types of Coaching in the Workplace

CMOE

“Coaching is a two-way communication process between members of the organization (leaders to team members, peers to peers, team members to leaders) aimed at influencing and developing the employees’ skills, motivation, attitude, judgment or ability to perform, and the willingness to contribute to an organization’s culture and goals.” –Coaching for Results by Steven J.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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

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Why Dropping the E in DEI Is a Mistake

Harvard Business Review

The Society for Human Resource Management’s decision to remove “equity” from its DEI framework sets a dangerous precedent that flies in the face of decades of research.

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Five Keys to Personalizing the Customer Experience

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Earlier this year, we surveyed more than 1,000 consumers in the U.S. for our 2024 State of Customer Service and Customer Experience (CX) Study. We asked about the importance of a personalized experience.

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The Word You Can’t Get Wrong in Your Organisation

IM Insights

A Shared Delusion According to a recent (though entirely fictitious) study, 99% of organisations lack a formalised working definition for the term “innovation.” Only 0.03% of companies possess a shared definition that at least 50% of their staff comprehends and can consistently recall (this is a fact, kinda). The post The Word You Can’t Get Wrong in Your Organisation appeared first on Innovation Metrics.

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The many Partner Ecosystem challenges within the Energy Sector

Innovating4Energy

Considering the design of the Energy Ecosystem through Partner Ecosystems Partnerships are becoming a very effective way to build the Energy transformation. There are a awful lot of challenges in the energy sector where the complexity becomes to much for one player and they need to partner. There is actually a significant interplay between technological, regulatory and market-driven challenges Lets just take a look at six of the most significant issues that require Partner Ecosystem thinking and

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

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.

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5 Tips for Writing Meaningful Thank-You Notes

Harvard Business Review

Thank-you notes are a powerful professional tool for leaders. The author — a senior communications professional at Pfizer — shares her experiences learning about the power of thank-you notes from her high-powered mentor and seeing how it benefitted their business, professional relationships, and personal well-being. She also posits five principles of thank-you note-writing: Take time to reflect; thank those who are often forgotten; be specific; make it matter; and it’s never too late.

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50% Off of Charting Change This Weekend Only

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! In honor of International Women’s Day my publisher is having a 24 hour flash sale that will allow you to get the hardcover or the digital version (eBook) of my latest best-selling book Charting Change for 50% off! What People Are Saying “There’s no denying it: Change is scary.

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What Is Process Innovation in Businesses? – Benefits, Examples, Case Studies

innosabi Innovation Insights

When it comes to innovative businesses, standing still means falling behind. The true differentiator isn’t just about what you do, but how you do it. One such strategy that has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business transformation is process innovation. But what is process innovation – and why does it hold such […] Der Beitrag What Is Process Innovation in Businesses?

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Strategic Thinking in the Data Age: Missing the Forest for the Trees

Focused Momentum

Data is front and center in today's management team meetings. This is not new. We fell in love with dashboards years ago. What is surprising is that its growth is continuing. The global data analytics market is projected to reach $234 billion by 2028, a 13.6% Compounded Annual Growth Rate.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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.

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17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams

Harvard Business Review

Managers sometimes turn to team-building activities to build connections between colleagues. But which activities and practices would work best for your team? And how can you put them into action most effectively? In this article, the author offers advice and recommendations from three experts. Their activity suggestions are intended to inspire ideas that you can then tailor to your team’s size, sensibilities, and circumstances.

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Bullet Point Meetings and Campfire Conversation

Rmukesh Gupta

I was watching a recording of the highly energetic and insightful anthropologist Jitske Kramer, delivering her keynote at the Nordic Business Forum 2022 and was stuck by one of her insights: Bullet Point Meetings: These meetings are all about taking actions and tactical thinking. These meetings are about listing down what needs to be done and checking them once done.

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11 Proven Ideation Techniques and Strategies to Ignite Your Team’s Creative Genius

innosabi Innovation Insights

Tired of the same old brainstorming sessions that lead nowhere? Yep, aren’t we all? If you truly want to unlock your team’s full potential for groundbreaking ideas, don’t be fooled: innovation is the secret weapon that will set your company apart. In this article, we’re diving into the world of ideation techniques – […] Der Beitrag 11 Proven Ideation Techniques and Strategies to Ignite Your Team’s Creative Genius erschien zuerst auf innosabi.

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The Intelligent Way To Harness Content For AI

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Companies want to harness the power of generative AI and get smart answers to important questions, but first they’ll have to discover, classify, manage and secure content from which those answers come from. And they’ll have to do so in a way that avoids content leaks and a black eye to their brand. “You have to sift through literally petabytes of content in order to achieve a.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

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.