Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski What if the most profitable thing you could do was work that reduced the rise in the earths temperature? What if it was most profitable to reduce CO2 emissions, improve water quality or generate renewable energy?

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Bill Fischer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

New research indicates that speaking of organizational transformation without including its impact on top management can be hazardous to the individuals involved.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2024

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia Welcome to another installment of the “Innovation or Not” series, where we dissect intriguing products and services to determine whether they truly represent ingenuity, or if they’re just another notch on the belt of incremental progress.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Big Consulting Houses vs. Boutique Firms for Innovation: The Costs and Risks of Making an Uninformed Choice We all know, and possibly worked with the Big 4 consulting houses, which include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young and Deloitte. These firms have thousands of consultants and are designed to drive high profits through a Matrixed Organization, as well as what is known as a Leverage Model.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Stephen Shapiro

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I recently unearthed some videos from 25 years ago of a speech I gave in Nice, France. In the middle of the presentation, I whipped out my saxophone and started jamming with a band. We hadnt prepared or discussed what we would playit was 100% improvised. That was the point of the talk. I shared a perspective thats just as relevant today: classical music, like many of our business processes, can be rigid and inflexible.

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Innovators Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Management comes with its fair share of challenges. Whether its making critical decisions, staying ahead of industry changes, or solving complex problems, senior leaders often find themselves navigating uncharted waters. In these moments, having a trusted group of peers to turn to can make all the difference. The peer-to-peer (P2P) model is a simple but powerful concept: it connects leaders facing similar challenges and gives them a space to learn from one another.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2024

While DEI has faced significant backlash in the last year, companies across industries are still looking for ways to build healthy, inclusive workplace cultures where everyone can do their best work. New data at shows that even during this year of backlash, companies continued to make progress on many of their DEI initiatives. There are three ways companies should consider shifting their approach to DEI, both to be responsive to the current moment and to achieve greater impact: resetting the nar

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Organizations that have recently discovered generative AI are at risk of overlooking an older and better-established form of AI, which the authors call analytical AI. This form of AI is by no means obsolete and is still an important resource for the great majority of companies. While a few applications of AI employ both analytical and generative AI, the two AI approaches are largely separate.

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