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October 3, 2024

How a Bayer CFO is thinking about AI ROI

Your CFO will want to see your plan for proving ROI before they greenlight your AI initiatives. But what we learned from Bayer CFO, Florian Zirnstein, is that not all CFOs need to see hard numbers to measure success.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 mins
For students
AI
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September 27, 2024

Benchmarking Section’s AI Proficiency

We've talked a lot about the AI proficiency of the broader workforce - but is Section even walking the walk? We ran our own AI Proficiency Survey internally - here's how we did it, what we learned, and how we're measuring ROI.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
AI
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September 20, 2024

ChatGPT o1: What’s cool, what’s hype, and what happens next

OpenAI just changed the LLM game with the release of ChatGPT o1. Here's what it means when it says it's "thinking", how to prompt it, and what this all means for the future.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
8 mins
For students
AI
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September 12, 2024

Where’s the AI ROI?

AI is not like software. So how can you measure whether it's worth the investment or not?

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
7 mins
AI
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March 3, 2023

Self-assessment: Does your team trust you?

I’m sure you’ve had a manager you didn’t trust. 

Maybe that manager said she valued your time – but then canceled your 1:1 at the last minute because she just had to run out and get a smoothie. 

Maybe he called you out in front of the team for a mistake he made. (Truly an unforgivable offense). 

Whatever it was, you know that once trust is lost, it’s hard to get back...

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
Management
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March 3, 2023

Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you? ‍

Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).

In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.

Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 mins
For students
Product
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June 7, 2023

5 insights on learning from Section's Annual Outcomes Report

We surveyed your employees on the blockers that stand in the way of learning. Read our post to learn how to engage them in learning and prove the ROI of your programs.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
2 mins
For companies
learning and development
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May 17, 2023

4 steps to attracting and keeping the best talent in business (even if you're not Google)

You don't need to be a big tech firm to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent. Here's our four-step process for doing it right.

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Greg Shove
Mary Fenton
6 mins
For companies
Talent acquisition

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