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Just returned to office after attending a two days Digital Marketing Asia conference, organized by MARKETING-INTERACTIVE. Being among fellow marketers and industry experts to listen to thought-provoking presentations and fireside chats about AI and its future in marketing was amazing. The encounter with Neil Patel in person was undoubtedly the high point— a must to commemorate it with a wefie! 📸 I am excited to apply my learnings and insights in preparation for Elmich's growth in Year 2025… Hopefully *fingers-crossed* 🤞, my baby’s 👶 arrival (not disruptive technology but disruptive human being) will not slow me down… #DigitalMarketing #KeepLearning #GrowthMindset #DigitalMarketingAsia

🍪 "On the eighth day of #SaaSmas, Insight delivered to me: Eight global strategies, Seven market signals, Six green innovations, Five aligned budgets, Four marketing pillars, Three growth frameworks, Two intelligence-first designs, and an AI agent streamlining productivity." Leveraging insights from almost 30 years of software investing, “Building locally, scaling globally: Navigating international expansion for European founders” includes strategies, insights, and lessons learned for European tech leaders looking to expand their startups across the EU and into the U.S.: https://lnkd.in/e5SAKWAE Regardless of how you celebrate the festive season, we hope you'll join the conversation in the comments.

As a Business Support Team we did some Linked In knowledge share this week at Oxford Innovation Space. Anna Bravington our Innovation Director at Fareham Innovation Centre went through her learnings from the recent Uplift Live presentations. Some great insight and top tips for us to help embed best practices and see the latest tactics. #BusinessSupport #LinkedIn #BusinessGrowth #Team #BestPractice

This Innovation Skills Accelerator course sharpened my ability to define public policy problems, apply human-centered design, and utilize data analytics to drive innovative solutions that address real-world challenges. The course highlighted the power of partnerships, persuasion, and theory of change in driving results. InnovateUS is an initiative of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. Let’s innovate together for a better tomorrow! #Innovation #PublicPolicy #HumanCenteredDesign #DataAnalytics #InnovateUS

I had the privilege of virtually attending Mirren Live a few weeks back, where over 30 sessions featured more than 60 agency industry innovators sharing strategies to build a faster, smarter, and more profitable agency growth engine. Here are some key takeaways: - AI is here to stay! It won't replace agencies but can create efficiencies and bring more value to clients. Embrace AI to enhance your day-to-day operations. - Agencies must shift from monetizing by time to selling the service or solution itself, focusing on value over hours. - In the evolving landscape of business development, agencies need to provide value efficiently. Meeting clients where they are is key—offer solutions, not just time. - Celebrate your team! During challenging times, recognizing and uplifting your people is vital. Energy begets energy, so stay inspired, be part of the solution, and watch the rewards follow. #foodforthought #thoughtleadership #keepitpositive #mirrenlive #tuesdaytakeaways

🎉 Out Now! The Scaling Toolkit - Your go-to guide for turning proven digital solutions into impactful, sustainable success stories! We are thrilled to announce that the Scaling Toolkit is now available for everyone! Let’s start leveraging digital solutions for relevant, high-value and sustainable change. Check out the link in the comments! What an amazing launch event it was!!!🚀 Huge thanks to Arlett Stojanovic for sharing invaluable insights on scaling at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, John Gargani for shedding light on scaling impact, and a special shoutout to Eva Scholtes and debarun dutta for their enlightening discussion on scaling Smart Africa Digital Academy - SADA to Latin America. A big thank you to about 100 participants from around the globe 🌐 for their engaging contributions and lively discussions. Together, we're advancing the cause of #scalingimpact and enriching our collective learning journey. For those who were unable to attend our launch event last Monday: The Scaling Toolkit is a resource hub tailored to those navigating the intricate process of amplifying the impact of digital solutions. Drawing from practical experience and real-world examples within both inside and outside the German international cooperation context, the toolkit offers actionable insights and concrete tools and templates to guide practitioners through the iterative process of scaling the impact of digital innovations. The toolkit is published under creative commons and is completely free to use. We hope you enjoy exploring, experimenting and learning with the toolkit. Do you have questions or feedback? Just leave us a comment under this post! Jan Schroeder and Pierre Golbach are more than happy to get back to you. The Scaling Toolkit is the result of a collaborative endeavor by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in partnership with Endeva and minds & makers GmbH. Supported generously by the European Union and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). #digitalinnovations #internationalcooperation #socialimpact #socialinnovation

What can the philosopher Nietzsche tell us about a successful skills pilot? “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Whilst we are not talking about the same sort of pilot, the approach is the same. Before we start to run into being a skills-based organisation, we should learn to stand and walk first.   Running small, focused pilots is the best way to get started. To paraphrase our friends at RedThread Research “get started somewhere simple, soon”. Having the opportunity to experiment can give a lot of confidence to a business when it is introducing a new or alternative approach, such as being more skills focused. A pilot – or multiple pilots – provide a safe space to explore, test before widening to other areas of your business. It is a place to start defining, assessing and activating skills focused processes, systems and technology with reduced risk. After each pilot it is important to pause and reflect on the lessons learned, what should be taken into the next phase and what needs to be improved or left behind. And with anything communication is vital, the people involved or impacted by the pilot are bought on the journey. This is when you can test some of the change management that will be needed for the rest of the journey. The results from the pilot(s) form a roadmap for introducing skills to the wider organisation. What’s more it will: 💡 Be a proof of concept 💡 Develop the business case 💡 Get a better understanding of costs and effort 💡 Identify and reduce areas of risk 💡 Help you optimise your skills program Finastra gained a lot of value from the three pilots we ran together, you can read more in our whitepaper ‘The truth about Skills-Based Organisations, Lessons from a Global Fintech’. Link in the comments. What successes have you seen from pilot projects, join the conversation below ⬇️ #skills #HRTech #SkillsBasedOrganisation #FutureofWork #SkillsIntelligence #Rightskilling #SkillspIlot

𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 & 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 🌍 Ready to expand your startup or scale-up into new international markets? Join the new Globaliser edition focused on the Energy and Mobility sectors, kicking off this September in collaboration with Trade and Innovate NL, DutchBasecamp and Holland High Tech. Expanding internationally can be challenging. It demands significant effort from founders, consumes valuable resources, and without the right focus and strategy, it can hinder growth. That's where the Globaliser program comes in! Over 12 weeks, 6 to 8 selected startups and scale-ups will develop a validated international roadmap, accelerating their path to success. Here's what you'll gain: 🚀 In-depth analysis of your target market to identify the best opportunities. 🚀 A customised Go-To-Market Strategy and detailed action plan. 🚀 Connections with experienced founders and global experts for invaluable insights. 🚀 A robust roadmap for international expansion, with step-by-step guidance. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to save time, money and energy while achieving international growth! 📽 Watch the Globaliser Alumni Video https://lnkd.in/evw9WyZt 🔔 Register now: https://lnkd.in/eYbeTN3c ❓ For more information, contact Anne de Vries. #Internationalisering #GlobalExpansion

At London St Pancras waiting for my Eurostar train for Paris and browsing the itinerary and conference agenda for my week ahead. It all starts tomorrow with Future Talent Council's Executive Roundtable event at ESSEC Business School which TQSolutions is presenting some of our research and insights into #Skills. A great looking afternoon: Session 1: Skills-Powered Organizations in the Age of AI Session 2: Career-Paths without Maps: Leading Into the Future of Work Session 3: FTC 2025 Future of Work Predictions Then UNLEASH 2024 kicks off for a couple of days of content immersion, networking and vendor exploration. Sam Schlimper and I are presenting at another Exec Roundtable on Skills and Human Potential in the age of Ai. Here are some of the sessions I have already locked into my schedule: 1) Scenes from the future: How work will look in 2030 and beyond (Amy Webb, Futurist at Future Today Institute) 2) How AI makes skills-based work a reality (Antony Shields, Partner EY and Madeline Laurano, Aptitude research) 3) AI Driven Talent marketplace: Empowering careers and transforming staffing at Pwc (Daghan Or, Head of People Tech and Innovation, Pwc) 4) Skills Driven HR: Transforming for tomorrow’s talent (Clare Courtney, Deputy CPO, Finastra and Laura Biswas , Global Head of Skills for Finastra) 5) AI @Google, (Ola Fadipe, Senior Director, People Experience, Google) 7) The AI Revolution: Shaping the future of HR (Josh Bersin) 8) Transforming into a skills-driven organisation (Liz Elder, Head of L&D, Lego Group) How exciting is that !!! #TQontour #skillsbased #skillspowered #talentacquisition #futureofwork #hrtech

Ulster University are proud partners of the inaugural Responsible Innovation Conference taking place on Friday, 29 November at Belfast Harbour Commissioners Office, Belfast. 🚀 ✨ Keynote address, 'Bridging the Gap: Innovating Responsibly in a Disruptive World', delivered by Thom Kenney, Director of AI and Digital Transformation at Google. ✨ Following on from this keynote is an interactive discussion using Engage Software, facilitated by Lecturer Nancy Brown and Professor Jonathan Wallace from Ulster University and Principal Data Scientist Brian Cleland from Congruity360- Belfast, Northern Ireland. In this interactive and dynamic session, participants will explore current practices, ethical integration, and barriers to responsible innovation. Utilising Engage technology will enable participants to collaborate and create insightful data visualisations in real-time, which will be compiled into a report for delivery to participants at the end of the event. 📲🙋 This exciting new event will bring together a diverse mix of professionals, academics, policymakers, and civic leaders, dedicated to shaping the future of innovation in an ethical, sustainable, and socially conscious manner. 🎟️ More info & tickets: https://ow.ly/T04e50UcKu1 Partners: Aisling Events | Kainos | Matrix, The Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel | Digital Catapult | Belfast City Council | Belfast Harbour #WeAreUU | #UUConnects | #ResponsibleInnovation | #AI