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Innovation and its impact on creating access to passion at joy at work
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The Billions We Spend on AI — And Why the Old Structures Are Obsolete (opens the original)
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Companies are spending billions on AI. And again and again, I watch it get dropped into organizations built for a world that no longer exists — department by department, silo by silo — where the structure quietly defeats the tool. The technology isn’t the problem. The structure is.In Innovation Ecosystems I call this the Quantum-AI Convergence: AI, digital twins, quantum computing, and the Internet of Things all need people working across functions to deliver their value, and departmental silos
Peter Senge is opening my book launch on October 22 — please join us (opens the original)
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Peter Senge is opening my book launch, Innovation Ecosystems: A Dynamic Blueprint for Organizational Success and Engagement (opens the original)
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Seventeen Methodologies. Five Years. All Failed. Here’s Why. (opens the original)
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Hi friends,I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, and I’m so glad I can finally share it with you.If you’ve ever been in a room where a leader announced the next big innovation program — the one that was finally going to fix things — and felt the collective, silent sigh of everyone who’d already lived through the last five, you’ll understand why I wrote this book. I’ve watched good people and real money get poured into initiatives that quietly evaporated. Not because anyone was lazy or wrong
Save the Date: October 22 — the Innovation Ecosystems launch (opens the original)
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