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Victor Assad and Ataman Ozyildirim

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Victor Assad is a Managing Partner at InnovationOne and CEO of Victor Assad Strategic Human Resources Consulting. Ataman Ozyildirim is Director of Economic Research at The Conference Board, where he leads research on Signposts of Innovation. They are co-authors of a new survey on innovation, which readers can view here.

Innovation

CEOs Must Do These 3 Things To Turbocharge Innovation

Victor Assad and Ataman Ozyildirim

Across the globe, one business challenge has the ear of CEOs like few others: innovation.

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