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Organizations Are Failing To Capitalize On Data And Technology

The Horizons Tracker

Productivity gains According to a survey of CEOs, the top factors for driving growth include using data, technology, and AI to improve performance and productivity (38%), recruiting and developing top talent (38%), promoting collaboration within the company (35%), and modernizing the company’s digital infrastructure (34%).

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. He is graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business’s LEAD program in Corporate Innovation. He is also the creator of various individual and team assessments including the # UltraLeadership 360 and the TeamWork GPS Team Survey.

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The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

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How Design Thinking Turned One Hospital into a Bright and Comforting Place

Harvard Business Review

In this case, a team of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s CEO, CFO, managers, staff, and doctors wanted to understand how their patients felt when they entered the hospital and what could be done to improve their experience. Innovating for Value in Health Care. out of 10) on its customer satisfaction surveys. Insight Center.

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Nonprofits Can’t Keep Ignoring Talent Development

Harvard Business Review

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. The leaders we surveyed identified several factors contributing to high turnover.

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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. Many CEOs underestimate the impact of mental models in the innovation process, often assuming that “thinking outside the box” exercises address the issue.

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What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.