From setting goals to breaking down barriers, TD is critical to helping leaders and employees break the status quo. Disruption. It doesn’t sound like something positive, but it actually has two positive purposes. The first is to bring an end to a system, process, or practice that is inadequate (that is, not producing the desired result) or wrong (unfair, immoral, dangerous, discriminatory). The second is expressly to innovate. Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, calls that disruptive innovation. Arguably,...

For talent development, this is no different.The fields of artificial intelligence and talent development have been on a collision course for decades, and their convergence has already occurred. On the horizon, AI-powered innovations are transforming the workplace and the role of the talent development professional, affecting recruiting to training to compensation.

Get leadership-fit and see results in yourself and others. And for both, results come only with effort.

Leaders help organizations maneuver transformational changes. The authors, Kartik Hosanagar and Apoorv Saxena, have argued that most of the companies are not approaching the AI-focused initiatives in the right way.

Most organizations see the value of innovation, whether it be internal innovation that revamps processes and systems, or external innovation that creates a new product or service. At some point in the innovation processmaybe ideation, planning, or even implementationcompanies encounter obstacles that stop innovation in its tracks, and ultimately the idea is abandoned.

While these concerns are understandable, dont panic. These concerns dont separate automation from augmentationor innovations that create new markets and new opportunities, but will still require humans to be successful.

Creativity dreams up ideas, but innovation carries them through. How else does a company remain both productive and adaptive?

Talent development is an accelerator for the transition to the "new" IBM.

You can't tackle innovation and creativity like you would finance management and expect to come up with the "next big idea." Innovate. Create. Transform. Invent. These are verbs; they require personal action. In other words, you have to do something to innovate. Here are a few ways C-level execs can make innovation a habit in their day-to-day workflow.

Quick! Without hesitation, jot down your company's innovation process. What's done at corporate headquarters to consistently identify high-potential ideas and translate them into market-share gains and increased profits? A mere glance at the business headlines speaks to the struggles major companies have with innovation. Institutionalizing the ability to adjust course is a...

Investments made to learning technology companies in 2015 were the highest in the history of the ed tech industry by an extraordinary margin, according to new research. The whitepaper reveals that global investments exceeded...