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The Critical Difference Between Core And Strategic Innovation

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:03:55 -0500

Imagine two different companies, each funding the same innovation program. They are both pursuing a technology that shows disruptive potential in their industry, but that faces an uncertain path to market viability. Each company has poured millions of dollars into upstream R&D. After three years...

Featured Resource: Complete Project & Quality Management Certification Bundle

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Scrum is the most popular hybrid of AGILE it provides a framework that allows teams to address complex adaptive problems, while efficiently and creatively delivering products, services, or results of the highest possible value to their internal and external customers.

10 Steps to Disciplined Innovation

Fri, 24 May 2019 01:00:00 -0400

Innovation is hard. It’s messy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is doing something different. Generating early momentum can be the trickiest part of all-particularly...

9 Best Practices To Master The New Performance Review

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Grab your slate chalkboard and jot this down: “The old performance management model is dead.” But of course you don’t own a slate chalkboard, because its time has come and gone. And just as it no longer makes sense to use an antiquated method to take notes...

Jeff Bezos On Innovation: Five Big Takeaways

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 06:36:37 -0400

Jeff Bezos is about as close to Oz as the business world has right now. Despite being world's richest man, and an omnipresent force in global commerce (as well as owner of one of America's most important news outlets, The Washington Post), the founder and CEO of Amazon is approaching cipher-status when it comes to discussing the outlook for his business, or his plans for the future...

The Tough Decision Checklist: Finish It And Sleep Soundly Tonight

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:57:15 -0400

Stop second-guessing yourself and get out a pen. After you go coolly through this checklist point by point, you'll be ready to stand up and make that difficult call-no hesitation, and no regrets...

How Automation Will Rescue Middle Management

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:05:41 -0400

The rise of AI has sparked worldwide fears that technology will soon become advanced enough to replace human workers on a grand scale. If you share those fears, I have good news and bad news for you. First, the bad news:...

A Look Ahead At Management: It's About To Get Harder

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:03:26 -0400

Over the last few decades, organizations have slowly transitioned from promoting employees based solely on technical ability to recognizing the critical importance of soft skills. For many managers, even those who are successful in the management role, this transition has been a difficult one. Unfortunately,...

70 Percent Of Companies Will Eventually See Unengaged Employees. Here Are 6 Ways To Prevent It

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:56:14 -0400

Between the initial excitement of launching a business and the stability of running an established company is a rocky and moody adolescence. For startups, "no matter how happily employees burned the midnight oil at the outset, there's an almost universal dip in morale a few years in," says...

Why Empathy Makes For Stronger Organisations

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:53:28 -0400

The strategy meeting was running smoothly. For days, the senior management team had been preparing intensely for their final presentations about a planned corporate transformation to the CEO. He was quite unpredictable. Would he go for their plan, or shoot them down?...

9 Best Practices To Master The New Performance Review

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:12:32 -0400

Grab your slate chalkboard and jot this down: "The old performance management model is dead." But of course you don't own a slate chalkboard, because its time has come and gone. And just as it no longer makes sense to...

Designing Spaces For The Connected Leader

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:32:23 -0400

The nature of leadership has changed. In a more complex, unpredictable and connected world, executives have evolved, finding new ways to manage their responsibilities, navigate the risk and reward landscape and seize opportunities for growth. The old hierarchical structures of the past are no longer...

Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The Atoms In The Universe

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:35:01 -0400

Dirk Uhde isn't the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital's European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding equipment of the industrial plant he manages in southeastern France, he struggled to follow their technical parlance. When he tried to explain how his machinery worked, they didn't have an easy time either...

Bank Of America Has Opened 3 Employee-Free Branches

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:25:30 -0500

Bank of America Corp has opened three completely automated branches over the past month, where customers can use ATMs and have video conferences with employees at other branches, according to spokeswoman Anne Pace. Like many U.S. banks in recent years, Bank of America has been...

The Traits Of Leaders Who Do Things Fast And Well

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:59:00 -0500

An exceptional leader we know would occasionally get a question from his direct reports in a variety of forms but with the common message, "Do you want this done fast or right?" His answer was always the same: "Yes!" He chose not to compromise on either dimension. For this leader and for most highly effective leaders we know,...

What Are The World's Best And Worst Airports For 2016?

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:46:42 -0500

"Oh great, a 10-hour airport layover," said no-one. Ever. Or, maybe they did. With more airports trying to reinvent themselves as places to visit and relax in rather than just endure, "transit" is becoming less of a dirty word. But how pleasant can an airport actually be?...

Why Companies Are Boosting R&D While Other Business Investments Lag

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:39:54 -0400

While U.S. companies are building fewer buildings, ordering fewer machine tools and laying less pipe than a year ago, frustrating policymakers and taking much of the starch out of the domestic economy, they made private fixed investments in R&D at a 17% increased annual pace in the second quarter, according to...

Young tech companies out to change supply chain management

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:31:09 -0400

Looking at what changes will impact supply chain management, Logistics Viewpoint highlighted a few young companies that are working on robotics, IotT and the sharing economy...

Everything you missed today at apple's WWDC event

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:06:01 -0400

11:59am: Tim Cook wrapping up. "We believe technology should lift humanity and enrich people's lives in all the ways people want to experience it - whether that's on the wrist, in the living room, on the desk, in the palm of their hand, in the car or even automating their home." 11:50am:...

What it takes to build a manufacturing digital enterprise

Fri, 20 May 2016 11:07:54 -0400

The first Industrial Revolution conjures up images of grimy 19th century factories, belching smokestacks and newly mechanized production equipment. The dawn of the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, could not be more different and it is laying the groundwork for the Digital Enterprise. None of us will escape the impact of Industry 4.0, so it's vital to comprehend what likely lies ahead. The stakes are high. Consider that since 2000,...

25 Geniuses Who Are Creating The Future Of Business

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:51:47 -0400

Soon, software will know how you feel-and will use that data to sell you things. The gig economy will go global (but it's not Uber-take-all). The tech industry will finally be inclusive. AI will achieve something like common sense, and it will be open source too. But that future won't build itself. Actual people (at least for now) have to...

America's Secret Weapon

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:54:11 -0400

This presidential election has the country captivated. As many commentators have pointed out, the primaries are more focused on personalities than policy. While the parties focus on who is going to represent them in the fall, I want to make the case for something that I hope every candidate will agree on in November:...

Top 12 Things I Learned At TED 2016

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:13:48 -0500

I just returned from the TED Conference in Vancouver, and I met many great people and learned hundreds of new things. I have tried to pick out twelve interesting things from everything I saw and heard to share with you here...

Top 10 U.S. Patent Recipients

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:00:15 -0500

IBM may not grab as many headlines as some other tech heavyweights, but that doesn't mean the company has stopped innovating. In fact, 2015 marked the 23rd straight year in which IBM was awarded more patents in the United States than any other company. During those 23 years,