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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. Fast forward to today.

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Leading the Charge for Sustainable and Inclusive Supply Chains

HR Digest

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. The HR Digest: C. What DE&I strategies have helped C. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry?

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How Prepayment Technology Harms Asylum Seekers

The Horizons Tracker

It examines 53 documents, including policy papers and legal reports, and involves interviews and focus groups with 21 participants, including asylum seekers, refugees, and people from advocacy groups in Glasgow. The study looks closely at the negative effects of the ASPEN card on UK asylum seekers. asylum seekers.

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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. Granted this takes creativity, especially when finances are stretched, but always hearing “we can’t afford that” or “we aren’t big enough to do that” is never motivating to a team.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Find the Reverse Leaders in Your Midst

Harvard Business Review

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. In my work with focus groups, interviews with leaders, and reviews of frontline employees' performance appraisals, I'm seeing more and more of these reverse leaders.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics. Are employees fully engaged and motivated? What do we expect from them and how can we help them meet those expectations? Take Sprint.

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