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Deutsche Bank Private Bank is building an AI academy for 20,000 staff·Cognizant is putting 25,000 people behind OpenAI delivery·SUTD is opening CoLab so people build with AI, not only know it·ANZ is putting Banker Academy graduates onto the frontline·CelcomDigi is asking Huawei to co-design how its people learn·Singapore is measuring its AI training by what officers change, not courses finished·Canva is reshaping a fifth of its roles to get back to small, empowered teams·Go1 is putting OpenAI Academy courses inside the corporate learning catalogue·Why Your AI Program Isn't Delivering Business Outcomes·Kier is judging its Oxford programme by what leaders take back·HSBC is building an AI institute in Hong Kong to bring 200,000 staff along·Services Australia is growing its staff AI trial to 2,000 people, one thumbs up at a time·Deutsche Bank Private Bank is building an AI academy for 20,000 staff·Cognizant is putting 25,000 people behind OpenAI delivery·SUTD is opening CoLab so people build with AI, not only know it·ANZ is putting Banker Academy graduates onto the frontline·CelcomDigi is asking Huawei to co-design how its people learn·Singapore is measuring its AI training by what officers change, not courses finished·Canva is reshaping a fifth of its roles to get back to small, empowered teams·Go1 is putting OpenAI Academy courses inside the corporate learning catalogue·Why Your AI Program Isn't Delivering Business Outcomes·Kier is judging its Oxford programme by what leaders take back·HSBC is building an AI institute in Hong Kong to bring 200,000 staff along·Services Australia is growing its staff AI trial to 2,000 people, one thumbs up at a time·
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Adobe handed employees a red box before a manager had approved the idea

Mark Randall's December 2014 interview describes Kickbox as a red box, a prepaid card and six checklists an employee finishes before the company funds the idea.

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Amazon writes the press release before the build

In November 2006 Werner Vogels described Amazon's Working Backwards process: the press release and the FAQ come before implementation, including when the customer is inside the company.

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How Bezos keeps a big company fast

His 2016 shareholder letter names four habits: obsess over the customer, doubt the proxy, take an obvious outside trend, and make reversible calls with about 70% of the information you wish you had.

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Innovation theatre is the busiest room in the building

Idea challenges, accelerators and incubators fill the calendar. Steve Blank's test is whether anything gets through the sales channel into a user's hands.

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Big companies keep buying startups, then smothering them

Acquired startup employees leave at twice the rate of similar hires, and a vesting schedule does not hold the people the buyer wanted.

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You're freezing innovation spend and still expecting growth

Nearly 60% of executives are freezing or cutting innovation budgets while a third still expect a quarter of revenue from offerings that do not exist yet.

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Kill criteria for an innovation portfolio

Rita McGrath's questions for a venture that already has approval, and a review that can stop a bet.

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