Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations. If poor design is a primary culprit of failed gamification, how can you improve your chances of success?

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

The Arc platform is not Noah’s ark, the vessel in the Old Testament that saves Noah’s family and the world’s animals from the planetary engulfing flood, but it may only be a modest overstatement to analogize Arc scored existing green buildings saving life as we know it. As I described in my recent blog post, LEED v4.1

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. However, global first-year demand turned out to be 14% above projections; the demand for Audi turned out to be 80,000 Q7’s. Playmobil toys have become a staple for young children.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

What’s more, the digital age has further highlighted the importance of getting timing right, because many markets have quickly transitioned from local to global, winner-takes-most markets. In essence, this means that usually the time isn’t right for most innovations. How can timing go wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Despite the clear signs of working-class distress in the 1980s and early 1990s, most pundits insisted that the real story of the era was “the explosion” of new and ever-cheaper consumer conveniences produced by technological advances and globalization. In the U.S.,

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