A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.
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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary
Mark Sanborn
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Innovative Commitment Google and Tesla exemplify the power of fostering a culture of innovation. Innovation isn’t just the breakthrough concepts which often sets the course for extraordinary companies, but ongoing innovations small and large. In a crowded market place, extraordinary products stand out.
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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
This entails assessing the workforce requirements and identifying key talent needs to drive innovation and growth. The CPO ensures that HR drives organizational success by leveraging data analytics, benchmarking, and industry best practices. It ensures the organization remains competitive in the ever-evolving business landscape.
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Coaching Versus Consulting: Which Is Right for Your Organization?
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 23, 2024
By tapping into their expertise, organizations can benefit from fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and best practices that can drive business success. They stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that can impact businesses.
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Estonia Highlights The Progress Made With Government-As-A-Platform
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 31, 2022
technologies, that were at the time growing apace via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, could transform governments and better enable them to address the many challenges facing the world. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies. Bedding in innovation. Digitizing government.
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The Art of Conducting a Comprehensive Training Needs Analysis
HR Digest
MAY 15, 2024
By regularly conducting training needs analyses, organizations can cultivate a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering employees to stay up-to-date with industry trends, technological advancements, and evolving business requirements. The Three Levels of Training Needs Analysis What is traning needs anaylsis?
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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary
Mark Sanborn
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Innovative Commitment Google and Tesla exemplify the power of fostering a culture of innovation. Innovation isn’t just the breakthrough concepts which often sets the course for extraordinary companies, but ongoing innovations small and large. In a crowded market place, extraordinary products stand out.
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Managing the Power and Promise of High-Performance Computing
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 7, 2020
These new exascale systems combine the latest technologies in AI, engineering and science, to achieve performance faster than any supercomputer before. But perhaps most surprisingly, these computers will use technology from videogames to achieve this goal. Managing this computing power will pose a challenge. About Codeplay.
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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry
Strategy Driven
MARCH 30, 2020
Sustainability is the new business benchmark. Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face.
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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2010
If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Want to find out? On with the exam… Section I: Character. Section X: Results.
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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2023
The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.
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Learning Trends Quiz: Are You Pacing With The Current Trends?
Experience to Lead
OCTOBER 22, 2021
I use data-driven learning for employees’ performance data, financial data, work analysis, and benchmarking data to keep pace with market trends. Immersive technology is definitely the future. It would be great if learning systems could adapt to each person, but it seems complicated. You use new learning trends optimally.
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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.
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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2017
A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology.
To Improve African Education, Focus on Technology
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2013
These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. All through, Africa was on my mind as I benchmarked my new environment to what I left behind. s 21 million ) in its four-year tertiary education system. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies. Even at three times the U.S.
Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 5, 2010
Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. By its very nature politically correct thinking is most often disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.
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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future
Strategy Driven
JUNE 19, 2015
Change is innovative. University of Texas System, 50th. Benchmarking. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy. Great organizations work tirelessly to celebrate and involve their customers. The Astrodome, 50th.
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Skills Innovations For An Ever Changing World
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 25, 2019
Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills improvements complement other key building blocks of an innovative and inclusive economy,” the authors explain. Reinvention.
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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2013
"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.
Technology Can Save Onboarding from Itself
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 25, 2015
Competition among the most innovative companies is growing ever more heated for one of the most highly-coveted resources on the market: talented employees. Ineffective onboarding has been a systemic challenge for as long as I can remember.
You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2015
I recently got a call from a CEO of a health system that encompasses several hospitals, medical practices, and clinics. The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation.
A Chart That Shows Which Industries Are the Most Digital (and Why)
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 1, 2016
When business leaders talk about going digital, many are uncertain about what that means beyond buying the latest IT system. And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. First, digital assets.
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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 28, 2015
Ask anyone in technology. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. FedEx isn’t in the business of optimizing supply chain activities using global benchmarks. Sometime soon, the world around us will be smart. Everything from mugs to mailboxes will be context-aware.
Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2014
How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.
Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage
Strategy Driven
MARCH 18, 2011
Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.
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57 Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2016
A traditional energy overhaul of a building (retrofits that include replacing mechanical systems, windows, insulation, and other features during a remodel) requires significant investment, and is therefore typically timed with major renovations or capital-intensive building system replacement. Innovation in Cities.
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Data Scientists Don’t Scale
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2015
Our ongoing obsession with data and analytics technology, and our reverence for the rare data scientist who reigns supreme over this world, has disillusioned many of us. These systems examine the facts, determine which of these facts are most notable, and output these facts as readable narrative text.
Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2013
His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.
What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 31, 2017
In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.
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8 How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
The Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda has become a benchmark for how prioritizing patients’ health can prevent the spread of infectious disease and send patients home faster. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation. Make the invisible visible. Experiment continually.
Diagnose Your Customer Culture
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 17, 2014
Our research, based on a quantitative study across more than 150 businesses, spanning various industries and functions, identifies seven cultural factors that drive customer satisfaction, revenue and profit growth, innovation, and new product success. They can be measured and benchmarked for any organization: 1. Customer Insight:?
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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
health care system shift from fee for service to value-based approaches that pay providers for quality, they are turning to two models: One is procedure- and DRG-based bundled payments that pay one price for all the care related to treating a condition. Innovating for Value in Health Care. As payers and providers in the U.S.
The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As As with many assessments, Benchmarks® delivers insights to many leaders about their actions and behaviors through feedback from a broad range of groups they interact with inside their organization.". "An
From Good Teachers to Good Teaching
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2011
Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The article draws from the work and writing of Ashish Rajpal, founder and CEO of iDiscoveri and its innovation thought leader.
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15 The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. the ride-sharing company, the social media platform, and the digital payments technology) of trust. But is it possible to measure digital trust and compare it across countries?
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9 How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2014
Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.
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11 How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling
Harvard Business Review
MAY 10, 2018
From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ.
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8 Getting to Zero, by Elephant or F-18
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2012
A launch event for my new book, this gathering was designed to celebrate a new breed of innovators pushing towards net-zero-impact on various dimensions such as zero carbon, zero waste, zero toxics—even zero poverty and zero pandemics. (If This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.
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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2013
Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it. Similar to health systems across the country, during the financial crisis Banner experienced substantial declines in patient volume and reductions in reimbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Vision before action.
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8 Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product
Harvard Business Review
MAY 19, 2016
But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.
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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors
Harvard Business Review
MAY 5, 2016
They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Are our user experience designs and delivery systems appropriately aligned with use cases? Delightful user experiences are delightful.
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What is HR Analytics?
HR Digest
JUNE 24, 2023
Competitive Advantage: Organizations that embrace HR analytics gain a competitive edge by leveraging data to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and make better decisions. This type of analytics is commonly used for reporting, benchmarking, and monitoring HR metrics.
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Getting to Zero, by Elephant or F-18
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2012
A launch event for my new book, this gathering was designed to celebrate a new breed of innovators pushing towards net-zero-impact on various dimensions such as zero carbon, zero waste, zero toxics—even zero poverty and zero pandemics. (If This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.
Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago. Indeed, much of the distinction in a powerful capabilities system stems from the sparks created when people with different backgrounds, skills, technologies, and perspectives build practices and processes together.
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