The Excellence in Marketing and Communications Awards—formerly the Society for New Communications (SNCR) Excellence in New Communications Awards—are accepting case study submissions until March 22nd. The continuation of the awards under The Conference Board's Marketing and Communications Center signifies the culmination of SNCR's full integration into The Conference Board.

Is your company capitalizing on business transformation or collapsing under the pressure? According to KPMG, in 2016, 96 percent of organizations reported that they undergoing business transformation. Meanwhile, McKinsey estimates 70 percent of change efforts fail outright, often due to employee resistance. It's imperative for companies to get employee buy-in for change by inspiring with purpose-based communications.

What do you think of when you hear "Los Angeles"? For many, it's Hollywood, beaches, and palm trees. But the booming metropolis faces a large homeless population, is on the frontline of the immigration issue, and has a troubled school district and aging infrastructure. Companies can help solve some of these issues by collaborating with the local government and nonprofits delivering innovative solutions.

Employers are facing a prolonged tight labor market for the first time in an era when advanced remote working technologies are available. To address talent shortages, companies can use teleworking to broaden the pool of potential workers. Teleworking is especially playing an important role in addressing talent shortages in white-collar occupations, but less so among blue-collar and low-paid service occupations.

The proactive agency costs generated by mutual fund advisers that hold large concentrations of delegated voting power can be partially mitigated by the SEC.

If an industry reported in 2017 that it was 81 percent Caucasian, would you say there’s a problem? The public relations and corporate communications industry says yes and it's fighting to improve those numbers. This interview with Joe Cohen, Chief Communications Officer, Axis Capital and President, PRSA Foundation, and Judith Harrison, SVP of Diversity and Inclusion at Weber Shandwick, dives into a new book, Diverse Voices: Profiles in Leadership.

Mary Young interviews Linda Leonard about overcoming the fuzziness of inclusion with hard evidence and driving more inclusive behaviors at all levels of the organization.

This year’s C-Suite Challenge painted a clear picture of how corporations’ most senior executives see the future, and what priorities and interventions are required to succeed in it. We have been looking at the insights through an Innovation & Productivity lens to help Innovation leaders best influence the priorities and efforts ahead.