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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

As professionals in the instructional design community, we often pride ourselves on being at the forefront of learning innovation. There are many shiny objects available to corporate development training companies to infuse their programs with from a wide array of technologies (i.e.: badges, leaderboards).

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.