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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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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. I NNOVATION has always been important. New technology will change the way we work.

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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. First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Make Innovation Everyone’s Job. We call the little innovations “Little i’s” and the big innovations “Big I’s”.

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To Gain From AI, We Need Systems Change

The Horizons Tracker

As with many previous technologies, there is a strong sense that we have spent much of the past few years trying to replicate what has gone before (a faster horse if you will) rather than redesigning processes and systems so that they take advantage of what the technology can do.

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What Kind of Innovator Are You?

Leading Blog

When it comes to innovation, it is no different. Jeff DeGraff writes in The Innovation Code , “ Your dominant worldview is your biggest strength —the quality that makes you stand out from other people.” DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Skip Prichard

In Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success , Ron Friedman provides a blueprint for learning and adopting practices that will propel you to the next level of your success journey. Reverse engineering simply means studying the best in a field and working backward to figure out how they did it.

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Do Recommender Systems Help Us Make Better Decisions?

The Horizons Tracker

Recommender systems are pervasive on most websites today, with their influence on our buying behavior considerable as they guide us towards products that our past buying behavior indicates we might like. Research from China’s Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics explores whether such systems are positive for end-users, however.

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