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Diverging and ConvergingDiverging & Converging on the Road to Innovation

Trying to go further with less? Now more than ever, innovation has a critical role to play. The development of new products and services can act as an engine of growth and a remedy for theeffects of the ongoing worldwide economic uncertainties.


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Talent BrandingLeveraging Talent Branding for Innovation

Can your team adapt when opportunities and conditions demand it?
In broader terms, does your organization have the ‘right stuff’ to innovate successfully? This should be among the most important questions leaders ask as they assess their organizations’ readiness for the changing demands of operational success today.

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The Chief, the Guru, and the Shaman: Storytelling and LeadershipStorytelling and leadership

It has been said that the one thing all great leaders have in common, be they politicians, artists, educators or opinion-makers, is that they are good storytellers. Joseph Campbell once said that a culture’s storytellers are those individuals whose “ears are open to the song of the universe.” According to Campbell, whose work inspired George Lucas to create Star Wars and has influenced generations of authors and filmmakers, our cultural myths and histories permeate everything we do and create as human beings. Why is storytelling becoming fashionable today?

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Deep Knowledge
Deep Knowledge
The idiom “still waters run deep” refers to people who may say little but who often have complex and capable personalities. A more apt metaphor would be hard to find to describe the concept of tacit knowledge and its role in decision-making. Tacit knowledge was described as far back as 1966 by Michael Polanyi who pointed out that much of our most complicated but important knowledge is inexplicable, learned through experience, and difficult to share.

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Ideas Becomes BrandsWhen Ideas Become Brands

Business Architecture is essentially about creating and continually refining the business artifacts that allow for appropriate automation of business and technical processes. In terms of the well-known Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture encompasses the top two rows, the Scope (contextual) row, and the Business Model (conceptual) row.

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The Human Capital RenaissanceHuman Capital Renaissance

The invention of the printing press in the 15th Century did more than revolutionize the spread of knowledge. It opened a door to a new way of thinking about science, authorship and the importance of the human mind in the pursuit of knowledge. The internet has been widely cited as the most important development since the printing press, but like the invention of moveable type, the greater value emerged from the congress of minds who were doing the moving.

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Managing IntergrationManaging Intergration in a Federation Architecture Environment

As government agencies struggle to integrate their information systems horizontally and vertically, having everyone on the same page in terms of the organization’s strategy and enterprise architecture is key. An enterprise architecture is blueprint of how an organization’s systems should interoperate in the fulfillment of the mission and business objectives of the organization.

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