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

leaderCommunicator

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. Will I see you there?

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

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Trend-Driven Innovation , as detailed in our book of the same name, is the end-to-end process of tracking changes in these expectations to make sure that your products, services or experiences don’t fall behind. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Innovations.

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Steve Blank on Why Big Companies Can't Innovate

Harvard Business Review

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. It's not surprising that younger entrepreneurial firms are considered more innovative. So why doesn't innovation thrive in mature organizations?

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”