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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

Ryan Jenkins – how leaders (at any level) can move teams from isolated to all-in Chad Littlefield – help leaders, educators, and event professionals make connection easy Sean Glaze – laugh-out-loud experiences and insights that improve team performance. And your conference’s impact will extend well beyond their session.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The mass customization model leverages technology to integrate a customized consumer experience with the efficiency of mass production processes —it has been applied successfully to numerous industries and specific applications, from jackets and running shoes , to automobiles and housing.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies.

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