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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). This culture highlights coming in first.

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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

In mid-2017, we executed a major redesign of our sales organization in response to what our customers needed from us, and to better align our selling approach with cloud services sales model (in this model, customers pay based on usage versus a traditional fixed licensing deal). Are salespeople collaborating with one another effectively?

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

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. Here are some of our initial findings, drawn from the study, “Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World.”

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

Creativity and risk-taking are essential to overcoming challenges, but businesses often reward efficiency and avoid risk. improved operational productivity. An empirical study of over 800 organizations found that effective innovation characteristics are not the same for product innovation and process innovation. Space News.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.