Elevate Your Organization: Embracing AI and Cultivating a Future-Ready Culture

The 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report, a collaboration between Microsoft and LinkedIn, illuminates profound insights into the rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in workplaces worldwide. This transformative technology is not only reshaping work processes, enhancing employee skills, and redefining organizational strategies.   According to the report, 75% of global knowledge workers currently utilize AI … Read more

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Harnessing AI for Human-Centric Growth: Innovations in Human Capital Development

Harnessing AI for Human-Centric Growth: Innovations in Human Capital Development

Welcome to the forefront of human capital development, where the synergy between technology and talent offers unprecedented avenues for organizational evolution. In this transformative era, strategic alignment in support of the organizational purpose, coupled with the reinforcement of a people-centric culture, lays important foundations for driving positive change and profitability. Now, more than ever, clarifying … Read more

How To Launch A Culture Council

Tap Into Your Icons To Transform Your Culture Explore the possibilities of transforming your company’s culture by tapping into your greatest internal resource. Your company’s “Icons” are those team members who exemplify your company’s values. Utilizing these key players within your company can kickstart a constructive cultural shift within your organization.

Discovering Purpose by Accident

Excerpt from The Search for Meaning at Work: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Purpose to Engage and Fulfill Your Workforce by Steve Van Valin, SVP of Culture Transformation Sometimes, we have serendipitous events in our lives that provide purpose and meaning. One morning, Anne Mahlum, who worked for a political watchdog group in Philadelphia, was … Read more

Q&A with AI2: AI & Remote Patient Monitoring in Eldercare

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Concinnity Partners Jennifer Ayres and Samantha Collins sit down with Algorithmic Intuition, Inc. AI2 CEO Dan Brown and CRO William Glover to discuss how sensors and machine learning will transform Remote Patient Monitoring for the growing elder care market.  AI2 provides an Eldercare monitoring system that combines machine learning / artificial intelligence software and specialized … Read more

Business Leadership Lessons from a Symphony Orchestra

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By: Keiko Tomasini-Hagino, Strategic Advisor Lisa Insley, Partner Perfectly aligned harmonies and dynamic sound is what one experiences when the symphony orchestra fills the concert hall with the beauty of music. Yet, the beauty is not created only through the work of highly trained professionals simply playing the written score. Nor is it about the … Read more

How Solving for the People Side Maximizes M&A Transaction Value

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Authored By: Jennifer Ayres / Contributions By: Samantha Collins Too often, companies determine their Merger and Acquisition (M&A) strategy based on an assessment of the gaps their business currently faces, or the growth opportunities that they envision. Ideally, both elements will play a role in laying out the strategy and will usually include an assessment … Read more

How Purpose Creates Meaning in the Workplace

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Excerpt from The Search for Meaning at Work: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Purpose to Engage and Fulfill Your Workforce by Steve Van Valin, SVP of Culture Transformation For work to have meaning, it must have a special significance to the worker. How does a worker know that something has special significance? The answer reveals … Read more

How Small Businesses Can Survive Inflation

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Rising costs present a new challenge to small businesses, which have fewer resources than their larger counterparts. Though trimming costs is inevitable during economically strenuous times, there are ways to adjust your budget to inflation–with no consequence to your employees. On Season 5, episode 10 of the Survive and Thrive podcast, host Jennifer Ayres shares … Read more