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The Racial Stereotypes That Underpin EDI Appointments

The Horizons Tracker

The finding emerged after several hundred recruiters and HR managers were shown a press release that announced the new senior leader in a fictitious firm. They hope that leaders will begin to understand that discrimination is often something that is baked into employment systems. ”

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston.

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Launching a new product

Lead on Purpose

I recently learned about a new System Design program at Cornell University structured to help you master the skills to take your products to a successful launch. As eCornell’s marketing agency, we partnered with them to launch a new Systems Design program. What problems have you faced when trying to launch a new product?

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

Refreshingly direct and right to the point, this system is based on 12 years of research and thousands of sales prospect interviews. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

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How to Tell If a Company Is Good at Innovating or Just Good at PR

Harvard Business Review

Obviously professionally produced, it highlighted the space the company had set up for innovation. But further investigation showed that the video was nothing more than a beautiful piece of “innoganda” — innovation propaganda describing an effort that had little hope of driving any material impact.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that the phenomenal economic and social potential of commercial drones, more properly called unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), was being stymied by a slow-moving Federal Aviation Administration. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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