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I Would Recommend Applying the Innovation Value Proposition

Paul Hobcraft

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Hiring intrapreneurs: A practical guide with examples

Board of Innovation

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It's past time to reintroduce risk into corporations

Jeffrey Phillips

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. We were talking about the "ecosystem" of contributors that can help move basic research from academia and research labs to market. One participant talked about the role that large corporations could play, and sometimes do play, in commercializing new technologies.

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How to Build a Company Culture That Promotes Innovation

IdeaScale

Your innovation strategy should be as unique as your employees. Fundamental to any form of innovation in any company is the voices of employees. Your employees know your company, product, and customer base better than anyone else in the world, but getting them to discuss what they’ve learned can be a challenge. How can companies create a workplace that encourages everyone to speak up?

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Lateral Thinking in the Fight Against Crime. The Northern Bank Robbery Story.

Destination Innovation

On the night of Sunday 19 December 2004, two groups of armed men, masquerading as police officers, arrived at the homes of Christopher Ward and Kevin McMullan in Belfast. Both men were officials of the Northern Bank, one of the largest banks in Northern Ireland. Their families were taken hostage and the men were told to go into work as normal the next day.

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How Google Partners With The World’s Top Minds To Power Its Innovation Machine

Digital Tonto

It's a long-term game plan designed to establish deep relationships based on cutting edge science and embed that knowledge deeply into just about everything Google does Related posts: Google’s (not. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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IdeaScale Visits Australia

IdeaScale

IdeaScale has worked with partners in Australia from the beginning: in government, nonprofit, and commercial organizations and we’re excited to say that we’re growing our presence in this exciting international market. Here’s why we’re excited about Australia: Resources are Growing. The VC funding market is growing – “the venture capital scene in Australia grew by 12% over the past year to its highest point ever. ” And it’s a strong economy (13th l

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Bad news does not Travel up the Hierarchy

Destination Innovation

Flight Crew of the Challenger. On January 28 1986 the NASA Space Shuttle, Challenger, broke apart shortly after take-off from Cape Canaveral. Five NASA astronauts and two civilian scientists were killed. The cause of this devastating accident was eventually traced to the failure of an O-ring seal in the right Solid Rocket Booster. Due to the cold weather, the O-ring didn’t seal tightly enough and it allowed hot gasses to escape and ignite.

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If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With Small Groups, Loosely Connected But United By A Shared Purpose

Digital Tonto

Where most movements for change go wrong is that they try to overpower rather than to attract Related posts: If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With A Keystone Change. How Successful. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Sustainable consumption to be happy and healthy?

Norbert Bol

Growing consumption does not increase happiness or health! In industrialized countries there is no increase in happiness or health when consumption grows (Fanning et al., 2019). From a sustainability perspective this can be an important finding as global human consumption today is already outstripping what the planet can reproduce. Due to expected world population growth and developing countries becoming more industrialized, global consumption will grow even when there is no growing consumption

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Crowdsourcing for Non-Profits: A Look at the Benefits

IdeaScale

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Non-profits are driven by passion. Just like other organizations, however, they can struggle with innovation and change, especially when all ideas come from the inside. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Better Transparency. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear.

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User research vs. market research: the lowdown

Board of Innovation

Know your blindspots User centred design is greatly explored terrain, and companies will travel far and wide, searching high and low to fully understand their customers’ experience. Businesses depend on knowing the topography of customers’ needs and wants. And yet, there are major assumptions and innate biases in the process of collecting customer insights.

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What You Must Know Before Creating an Innovation Culture

Innovation Excellence

If we’re serious about developing an innovation culture it probably helps to explore a little bit more around what’s involved… Raise your hand if you don’t want an innovation culture in your organization. Ask this question in any gathering of managers, and it’s a fair bet you won’t be seeing a sea of arms waving.

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How to Use Interviews to Confirm Candidates’ Innovation Potential

Swarmvision

When you find candidates who score in the desired Swarm Innovation Profiler range, use interviews to dig deeper into their motivations and behavior patterns. To prepare for such interviews, be sure to study this easy guide to the Eight Innovation Skills. Candidates don’t need to (and rarely will) have all of the eight skills and 26 sub-clusters. Look for candidates whose innovation skills can strengthen the team they will be joining.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Why You Have Brand Detachment Disorder

Carla Johnson - Innovation

January 17, 2019 by Carla Johnson In the world of great ideas, there’s iconic brands that get all the credit. Take LEGO, for example. This is a company that sells little rectangular pieces of plastic. But they consistently churn out great idea after great idea. Go to their website and besides ordering products, you can build things, share them with friends and.

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Is Innovation Career Suicide?

helloFUTURE

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: your CEO (or more likely new CEO) decides that your company needs to be more innovative, either generating profitable new products, becoming more of a leader in the space or trying to juice up employee engagement. Let’s do some moonshots! As a career innovator, this is what… The post Is Innovation Career Suicide?

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Social Innovation and Open Innovation – Two Sides of the Same Coin

Innovation Excellence

Charlotte Peleszezak is graduated in International business law and entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. Her professional thesis examined the link between open innovation and corporate social responsibility within large companies. 1) Hi Charlotte, could you explain the topic of your recollection, crossing open innovation with social innovation? Large companies are becoming aware of their role in.

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How to create effective problem statements for idea challenges and hackathons

hackerearth

Problem statements are concise descriptions of an issue that help understand the problems better and come up with effective solutions. They are like navigational compasses – the direction north being your desired outcome. Whether you are conducting an idea challenge, an internal hackathon (hackathon for your employees) or a full-fledged innovation campaign, the problem statement is key in determining the success.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Why It’s Vital for Business Managers to Take Vacation Days

InnovationManagement

Our culture has made it pretty easy to put workaholics on a pedestal. Though almost all American employees earn time off, many fail to take advantage of the time they’ve collected.

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20 Years of Open Source: Reflection and What’s Next

Exoplatform

Open source just celebrated a major milestone and reached 20 years. As the open source community continues to grow, let’s reflect on the past years of how a once-controversial idea made it big, and see where it might go ahead. The post 20 Years of Open Source: Reflection and What’s Next appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.

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Untold Stories Of Everyday Innovators Inside Organizations

Innovation Excellence

Lisa was the administrative assistant to the CEO of a global consulting firm. Her innovative approach to her work became the best practices that gave the company a competitive advantage. Kelly is an operations manager for the government. Her forward-thinking ideas have helped her department have a stronger, more valued voice to the internal teams.

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As Others See Us.

100%Open

We were discussing “International Innovation” in our Summer Union last year, so, because I am not normally the international one at 100%Open, I tried to take a different and hopefully helpful tack with my presentation: How We, The British, Are Seen by Everyone Else. Now I’m prompted to blog by Neil McGregor’s short series on Radio Four, As Others See Us.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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The Future of Idea Management

InnovationManagement

As the Co-founder at Viima , an idea management software company, I frequently get asked about the future of idea management. With the amount of innovation that we’re seeing across industries, it’s hardly surprising.

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What is Idea Generation? – Definition, Techniques and Success Factors

Viima

Ideas are the key to innovation. Without them, there isn't much you can execute. Because execution is the key to learning, new ideas are necessary for making any kind of improvement.

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Why Following Someone Else’s Success Can Lead to Your Failure

Innovation Excellence

You attend conferences. You read books. You take training classes. All with the goal of learning strategies from those who have paved the path to success before you. But what if following in their steps could lead you down the wrong track? 3M talks about its 15 percent rule–a philosophy that allows anyone in the.

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Build New Capacity Thru New Leadership Capabilities

Focused Momentum

Implementation of a new strategic direction typically starts strong when the energy unleashed from the fun of strategic thinking is fresh. Later, once the transactional aspect of operations takes over everyone’s mindshare, it is harder to keep this energy alive, and thus the momentum on strategic goals can wane. One factor in lagging strategic focus is that leaders slide back to their comfort zone forgetting that they too must evolve.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Increasing R&D Spending Will Not Lead to Innovation, But This Will

InnovationManagement

In an analysis of high performance innovators (called in this article the “Global Innovation 1000”), researchers made a surprising discovery: “spending more money does not open the doors to innovation.”.

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Top 10 yet2 Blog Posts of 2018

Yet2

Our team wrote a number of widely read blog posts in 2018, spanning the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, adjacency in tech scouting, startups and their comparative value proposition, anonymous searches in tech scouting and more. Here’s a recap of those blog posts. Tech Scouting Blog Posts. Tech Scouting: When to Initiate an Anonymous Search.

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Welcome to Innovation Resorts

Innovation Excellence

Dear Innovator, On behalf of the staff at Innovation Resorts, welcome. We hope you enjoy your stay and please do not hesitate to contact us via our app if you need anything. Our model is a cross between Canyon Ranch and Techstars and our mission is to help you get your ideas to customers in a supportive and healthy.

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Innovation Leadership; into the wilderness or into the future?

Cris Beswick

In my recent article looking at why innovation transformations fail I called out innovation leadership (or lack of) as one of the prime causes of failure. And OK it’s not that hard to see why. After all, if CEOs and senior leaders are merrily setting off, compass-less, into the innovation wilderness then there isn’t much … Continued. The post Innovation Leadership; into the wilderness or into the future?

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of