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Enterprise agility and experience management efforts work best when they work together

Many companies achieve early wins with separate transformational efforts, then stall. But if combined and enhanced using “return on experience,” or ROX, measures, these two programs can unlock each other’s potential.

by Sujay Saha, Matt Egol, and Matt Siegel

GMO

Amping up innovation

Leading global utilities are using R&D and innovation to advance their market competitiveness — but investment levels remain low.

by Tom Flaherty, Tom Haddon, and Amy Zhao

How data centers can give back to society

In Stockholm, heat recovered from data centers is captured and deployed to warm homes. Can other cities follow?

by Bobbie Van der List

GMO

Why corporate well-being initiatives need to get personal

In a recent PwC survey, CEOs reported plans for their companies to become more digital and flexible — and more employee focused.

by Bhushan Sethi and Peter Brown

Connecting the dots in an uncertain world

NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

by Suvarchala Narayanan

s+b Blogs

Lessons from COVID-19 about communicating risk

Striking a balance between fear and optimism and focusing on efficacy can help leaders speak more clearly about all risks.

by Michele Wucker

The power of feelings at work

By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.

by Jon Katzenbach, Chad Gomes, and Carolyn Black

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Emerge stronger through disruption

This podcast series focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing business leaders in today’s environment of global uncertainty.

GMO

Adapting to a new world

Facing the challenges of the post-COVID-19 landscape.

by Blair H. Sheppard, Daria Zarubina, and Alexis Jenkins

New world. New skills.

Sustaining productivity in a virtual world

Maintaining productivity levels among remote employees is an enduring challenge. Here are five ways to help people and businesses thrive in the post-pandemic world of work.

by Nele Van Buggenhout, Soraya Murat, and Tom de Sousa

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Forget about the “new normal”: Design something different

Five principles of service design, adapted for the COVID-19 era.

by Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell

s+b Blogs

A CEO who won’t take the gloves off

Philip Roth’s American Pastoral measures the gulf between a careful business leader and his radical daughter.

by Daniel Akst

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The six elements of transforming information into insight

How to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.

GMO

How companies can transform information into insight

Focus on six organizational elements to build a world-class data and insights capability in the post–COVID-19 world.

by Anil Khurana, Roger Wery, and Amy Peirce

s+b Blogs

Don’t kill bureaucracy, use it

Bureaucracies are the scaffolding needed to implement new ideas at scale. Just remember to dismantle them when the work is done.

by Theodore Kinni

s+b Blogs

Clocking in, 21st-century style

In the era of telecommuting, what qualifies as “working time”? A new paper proposes a way to track employees’ hours on the job while respecting their time off.

by Matt Palmquist

s+b Blogs

Stretch or safe? The art of setting goals for your teams

The pandemic has made planning a bigger challenge, and created a difficult balancing act for leaders.

by Adam Bryant

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Three tips for reinventing your employee experience

Applying design thinking principles will enable a quick bottom-up reform, with changes driven by a deep understanding of your people.

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