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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

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In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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Capturing the Innovation Mindset at Bally Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? Through an innovation excellence framework. But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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What Big Data Needs to Do to Grow Up

Harvard Business Review

In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. To understand what that path to maturity might look like for big data, it’s helpful to look at another, similar transformation. Can we make a similar shift with data?

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. ” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fifth major innovation on the horizon is called blockchain scaling. This is slow.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. Adapt your governance model according to your digital maturity.

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