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Creating Effective Digital Teams

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Creating digital products is a multi-disciplinary process, blending creativity, engineering, strategy, customer support, legal regulations and more. How to structure their teams is a major challenge faced by large enterprises and global brands undergoing a digital transformation.

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Is Humanity's Dependence on Technology Good Or Bad?

Phil McKinney

In today’s rapidly evolving world, technology is both an enabler and a challenge. Its pervasive presence in our lives raises pertinent questions about its impact on our critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. As we navigate this digital age, we must ask: Has our increasing reliance on technology improved or diminished these vital skills?

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How to Reboot Your Innovation System

Cris Beswick

Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. Despite the world of corporate innovation seemingly moving on from when we wrote it, the reality is that the basics still need to be implemented for many organisations.

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PDSA Quality Improvement: A Scientific Method of Change

Kainexus

Dr. W. Edwards Deming is considered by many to be the father of modern quality improvement. Among other important insights into how businesses could become more efficient, reduce costs, and increase customer value, he popularized the PDSA quality improvement method. It is a four-step cycle used to achieve continuous improvement, consistent results, and resource maximization in processes and products.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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ChangeThis Manifesto – Innovate Where You Differentiate

Stephen Shapiro

In 2010, Personality Poker was selected as one of the top five innovation books of the year by Porchlight Book Company (then 800-CEO-READ). In 2011, they selected Best Practices Are Stupid as the best innovation and creativity book of the year. And today, they published my ChangeThis manifesto titled “Innovate Where You Differentiate.” They asked me to create a 2,000-word article that is not an excerpt from or a summary of my book, PIVOTAL.

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Designing a Successful Reskilling Program

Harvard Business Review

In this article, written as a follow up to the award-winning “Reskilling in the Age of AI”, the authors report the results of a reskilling survey that they conducted with chief human resource officers from approximately 1,200 organizations in the U.S., along with business leaders from around 200. Their main finding is that reskilling is on track to becoming mainstream — but that companies still have plenty of work to do.

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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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How Sodexo’s CEO Manages Global Strategy Across 50 Countries

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