Planview
JUNE 27, 2024
The recent proliferation of digital enterprise tools has allowed organizations to simplify and automate processes, reduce development time, and leverage new efficiencies. Overall, this has been a boon to organizations. But as companies have adopted more standalone tools for nearly every business activity imaginable, their ecosystems have become tangled with apps and software.
Bill Fischer
JUNE 23, 2024
Innovation may be a currently fashionable term, but that does not mean that organizations are prepared for what comes next.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2024
In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Of late, however, loss-making firms are highly sought after by investors — often more than some profitable firms. Unicorns, or startups with valuations exceeding a billion dollars, are examples of such loss-making firms.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 24, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell In the first half of the 20th century, Alfred Sloan created the modern corporation at General Motors. In many ways, it was based on the military. Senior leadership at headquarters would make plans, while managers at individual units would be allocated resources and made responsible for for achieving mission objectives.
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Daniel Burrus
JUNE 26, 2024
A huge buzzword in today’s digital age is “AI” or “artificial intelligence.” AI excites some people and strikes fear in others. Yet whatever your position, this Hard Trend is undeniable and will shape the future of your business or organization in some way. Applications like ChatGPT, deep data algorithms, and others are changing the face of work and how we approach business practices at an unprecedented speed.
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2024
It’s not easy leading innovation. Especially these days. You need to do more with less. Take risks while guaranteeing results. Keep up with competition through incremental innovation and redefine the industry with radical and disruptive innovation. It’s maddening. Until you find the Goldilocks Zone of adjacent innovation.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2024
Starbucks is struggling. It has strayed from its successful strategy of offering customers exceptional experiences and, in the process, has commoditized itself. This article analyzes where it went wrong and offers ideas for how the company can turn itself around. It holds lessons for other companies that compete by providing customers distinctive experiences.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 27, 2024
A Customer Experience That Will Be Appreciated GUEST POST from Shep Hyken When reaching out for customer service and support, most customers still prefer to communicate with a company or brand via the traditional phone call. That said, more and more customers are attracted to and embracing a do-it-yourself customer service experience, known as self-service.
IdeaScale
JUNE 23, 2024
Innovation is the lifeblood of success for organizations across industries. However, fostering a culture of innovation requires more than just brainstorming sessions in boardrooms; it demands a platform where ideas can flourish, evolve, and be transformed into actionable strategies.
Planview
JUNE 28, 2024
When delivery time is slow and unpredictable, demand exceeds capacity, and constraints and dependencies are poorly understood, it’s hard to deliver fast or pivot quickly. And now, paired with a sluggish economic environment, these factors put increasing pressure on anyone who’s focused on creating and delivering business value faster (read: everyone).
Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead
Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2024
The Internet and AI tools are transforming marketing communications within a complex, interactive landscape called the echoverse. While marketing has evolved since the proliferation of the Internet, in the echoverse, a diverse network of human and nonhuman actors — consumers, brands, AI agents, and more — continuously interact, influence, and reshape messages across digital platforms.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 23, 2024
GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Most companies recognize that creating a seamless and unique customer experience is key to success in the digital world, but that’s not always easy to do. How can you deliver the optimal digital experience to your users?
ITONICS
JUNE 28, 2024
The Lean methodology offers powerful tools for driving efficiency, agility, and innovation. Its principles are rooted in the meticulous practices of the Toyota Production System and later adapted to the demands of software development, startups, and—most recently—corporations. As companies face increasing pressures to deliver high-quality products quickly and economically, understanding the origins and evolution of Lean methodologies provides valuable insights into their enduring relevance and a
Kainexus
JUNE 28, 2024
Operational excellence is a management philosophy that focuses on continuously improving an organization's processes, systems, and workflows to optimize performance and deliver value to customers. Operational excellence happens when an organization consistently and reliably outperforms the competition through constant improvement and a dedication to customer value.
Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode
Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2024
Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures. Leaders spend an inordinate amount of time handholding their least productive colleagues, instead of helping their strongest contributors move faster and do more.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 26, 2024
GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore Performance management is a tool for managing Performance Zone commitments. These are the outcomes and deliverables that your organization, or for that matter you yourself, are being funded to deliver.
Phil McKinney
JUNE 25, 2024
In today's fast-paced world, where discussions and debates are often reduced to soundbites and tweets, the art of deep, exact thinking has become a rare gem. Think about it—how many times have you watched or participated in a discussion where facts were twisted, oversimplified, or misunderstood altogether? The consequences of such weak thinking permeate not just individual mindsets but society as a whole.
Qmarkets
JUNE 26, 2024
Considering a new startup relationship management program? Download this practical tool to understand your organization's current approach and capabilities, as well as your needs and requirements for a dedicated software solution.
Speaker: Kat Conner
The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2024
Two studies by the authors demonstrate that the presence of robust shareholder agreements in publicly traded family firms in France adds 18% in market value to shareholders because they protect shareholders against misuse of capital by groups of family members. This article describes the critical provisions in such agreements and presents data showing the impact of these provisions on market value.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 28, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Company leaders deserve to know the truth, but they can no longer take the time to learn it.
Focused Momentum
JUNE 26, 2024
As a leader in a corporation, non-profit organization, or small business, you understand the importance of strategic planning. It's the roadmap that guides your entity towards its goals, aligning resources and efforts to achieve success. However, many strategic plans fall short because they overlook crucial elements. In this post, we'll explore six critical components that your strategic plan may be missing, potentially holding your organization back from reaching its full potential.
Qmarkets
JUNE 26, 2024
Considering a new startup relationship management program? Download this practical tool to understand your organization's current approach and capabilities, as well as your needs and requirements for a dedicated software solution.
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, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2024
Everyone struggles to manage their emotions at times. It’s normal to have negative feelings and we can’t expect ourselves – or others – to leave those behind just because we’re at work. But those negative emotions can be detrimental to our relationships, performance, focus, and overall well-being. So it’s worthwhile to hone our emotional intelligence skills that help us handle negative feelings.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 25, 2024
GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton It’s easy to get caught up in the hunt for unique insights that will transform your business, conquer your competition, and put you on an ever-accelerating path to growth. But sometimes, the most valuable insights can come from listening to customers in their natural environment.
Stephen Shapiro
JUNE 25, 2024
I am often asked how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will impact my business. Of course, it will have a massive impact. When people can get answers quickly and inexpensively through technology, they will often choose that path. In fact, behind the scenes, I often use AI to help accelerate some of my work. For example, I created a custom chatbot that uses the content from my “Invisible Solutions” book to help people quickly reframe their problems.
Brunner
JUNE 25, 2024
News about the leak of Google internal documents has ricocheted around the digital marketing world. This wasn’t just any leak. This was from the world’s dominant search engine and included insights on more than 14,000 potential ranking factors from Google’s internal Search API documentation. Google verified the leak was authentic , even if not all the metrics inside are still actively used.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2024
Even smaller and medium-size enterprises can become more sustainable by finding other companies that need their waste. Pursuing those opportunities — and becoming part of the circular economy — entails four steps: take stock of your materials flow, seek collaboration opportunities, leverage digital marketplaces, and treat going circular as a major change program.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 25, 2024
Premise In this series of posts about First Principles Based Leadership, we have already covered the importance of and how to improve our self awareness, social awareness and cultural awareness. In this post, we will explore the importance of context and contextual awareness and how can we become more aware of the contexts that we operate in. We live in a White Water World (as defined by John Seely Brown and Ann Pendleton-Jullian) where our environments tend to change pretty rapidly.
Planview
JUNE 25, 2024
Every organization is seeking ways to continually refine and optimize their technology management and execution strategies to maintain a competitive advantage. One approach that can offer improvements in both these arenas is Value Stream Management (VSM). This methodology offers a comprehensive view of the entire software delivery workflow accompanied by data-driven insights that enable businesses to optimize their operations from planning to delivery.
Qmarkets
JUNE 25, 2024
Discover Magna Powertrain’s groundbreaking approach to technological innovation in this exclusive recording from the 2023 Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
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