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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

We love learning about what’s resonating, and most importantly, how teams are applying what they’re reading as they grow leaders and encourage courage and innovation. Incubator process with teams all over the world to apply the tools to strategic business challenges and come up with practical, remarkable, usable ideas.

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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s the ROI that comes from curated conversations and spontaneous interactions, those electric moments of innovation that happen when your team is in the same room. A side conversation can lead to the next big idea or micro-innovation, and a shared laugh can forge a bond stronger than any Slack thread.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. Balance is the key to success; N2Growth , believes that innovation and strategy must come together for businesses to enjoy sustainable growth and maintain customer satisfaction. Then he moved into media — helping Nielsen innovate the first global internet management service.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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The 5 Things IBM Needs to Do to Win at AI

Harvard Business Review

IBM has acquired established companies (such as Merge , a medical imaging management platform; Explorys , with one of the largest health databases; and Phytel , a provider of healthcare analytics services) that can provide immediate ROI to IBM and its customers. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Incubated at Y Combinator, the venture was aimed squarely at the most important, most reliable, most consistent mobility need that consumers have every day: getting to and from work. If Ford applied those same ROI expectations to its new logistics business, it would likely kill it before it has a chance to thrive.