Sun.Oct 06, 2024

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Why Incentives So Often Fail

Digital Tonto

Many managers spend a lot of time and energy designing compensation schemes to incentivize performance. Yet as Daniel Pink explained in Drive, decades of studies show incentive pay often decreases productivity, especially for tasks that require creative thinking. He argues that the best way to motivate people is to give them opportunities for autonomy, mastery and purpose.

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Elevate Your Idea Management with Ideascale’s Incoming Moderation Feature

IdeaScale

Innovation thrives in environments where creativity and collaboration intersect. However, to harness the full potential of a diverse community, organizations need tools that ensure ideas are not only plentiful but also relevant and actionable. This is where Ideascale’s Incoming Moderation feature comes into play.

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Hitching a Ride to Higher Productivity

Innovation Excellence

How one man’s innovation provided the missing link for a 20th century agricultural revolution GUEST POST from John Bessant There’s a lot of good stuff which comes out of Ireland.

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Buttons and Threads: A Modern Ecosystem Perspective

Paul Hobcraft

Buttons & Threads: Applying a Modern Ecosystem Perspective In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the “buttons and threads” concept perhaps is a powerful metaphor for understanding and designing interconnected business ecosystems. This updated perspective integrates technological advancements and business practices to illustrate how organizations can thrive in a network-centric world.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

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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Innovation or Not – The Microdosing Revolution

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia In recent years, the concept of microdosing has moved from the fringes of alternative therapy into the mainstream as a potential tool for enhancing mental performance and wellness. But is microdosing truly an innovation, or is it a passing trend destined for the annals of speculative practices?

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First Principles Based Leadership – 4 Ways to Know Anything

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise I was introduced to John Vervaeke and his work by the inimitable Matt Church who leads the Thought Leaders Business School and is based in Australia. John is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto. He says that there are four different ways we can know things, which he calls the 4P’s of Knowing.