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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Best practice only caught up with the great thinker’s ideas in the 1990s.

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Genecians Journey Into Corporate Giving

Mills Scofield

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line. Thumbs Up From the CEO. Ken Pedersen, COO.

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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

Nowhere is this exchange more evident than in the data annotation industry, where people from around the world help to prepare and tidy up the data used by the tech giants to train the algorithms upon which their fortunes increasingly rest. The hidden bedrock of AI.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

The premise of his piece is that the landscape of the Blogosphere is changing radically, and that as such many “A-Listers” have either quit, or are contemplating giving-up their blogging endeavors. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves. Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

Cumbersome legacy system maintenance, hardware and software upgrades, and tire-kicking in the name of research take up far too much of IT's time--time that could be spent building valuable business applications. Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites."

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

I was so confident in her idea that I convinced my former university professor husband to act as COO for the start-up, and we invested not only encouragement, but cash. The magazine got off to a great start: it was written up in the New York Times , circulation after a few months reached 100,000. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.