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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Systems Thinking: The Superpower You Didn't Know You Needed.

Rich Gee Group

Enter Systems Thinking – a cool way of approaching problems that's all about seeing how everything connects. Instead of focusing on one part of an issue, Systems Thinking helps us understand how all the parts fit together. Ready to become a Systems Thinking master? For example, imagine you're trying to lose weight.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. Using her life experiences and lessons learned, she draws out principles that define good power. She observes that power that doesn’t produce tangible results is pointless.

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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

Great Leadership By Dan

To make this happen, we put a system in place with six key focus areas: 1. After developing a clear strategy and setting its direction throughout the organization, we quickly evaluated our operations and moved to reorganize around the client into one company. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. In a world of pandemic, it’s the only way forward.

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Unlocking Excellence: The Role of a Chief Procurement Officer

N2Growth Blog

One of their primary responsibilities is to develop and execute effective procurement strategies that align with the organization’s overall business objectives. The CPO must engage with suppliers to establish mutual trust, foster innovation, and drive continuous improvement.

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IT Professional Search: Discovering the Tech Leaders of Tomorrow

N2Growth Blog

From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.