Thu.Jul 25, 2024

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Reality Strikes Back: How to Build Innovation Resilience in Uncertainty

IdeaScale

“This time feels different.” I’ve been hearing this from innovation practitioners and partners for months We’ve seen innovation resilience tested in times of economic uncertainty and geopolitical volatility. We’ve seen it flourish when markets soar and capital is abundant. We’ve seen it all, but this time feels different.

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To Make Your Pitches More Engaging, Appeal to Multiple Learning Styles

Harvard Business Review

When idea pitches fail to resonate, it doesn’t always have to do with the merit of the idea, your presentation style, or charisma; the problem could stem from a deeper disengagement in your organization. To make pitches more appealing and increase the chances of ideas resonating, the author recommends engaging three main learning styles that may be in your audience: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

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Harnessing the Secrets of Successful Customer Engagement

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken What is customer engagement? A Google search will provide plenty of definitions to consider. Here are a few to give you a clear understanding: Qualtrics defines it as “the emotional connection between a customer and a brand.

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4 Ways to Meaningfully Support New Mothers Returning to Work

Harvard Business Review

Interviews and surveys of hundreds of women in the U.S. who recently returned to work after giving birth reveals four key support mechanism they value most: help navigating the HR infrastructure, creating spaces for key motherhood activities, having their identity as a worker validated, and having their identity as a mother validated. The research also explores why these four actions are particularly helpful, emphasizes that anyone can be a good ally, and recommends ways to better support non-bi

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Continuous Improvement in Numbers: Key Findings from the Latest Idea Management Benchmark Report

Qmarkets

If you’re running an enterprise idea management or continuous improvement program, you’re probably obsessed with KPIs and metrics. You’ll be eagerly tracking the number of ideas generated and implemented, engagement rates, ROI, and various other aspects of your program. But how do you what numbers are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’? Without context, any KPI can feel largely arbitrary.

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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business Review

Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help. To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal. To investigate what kinds of innovation AI worked with, the authors performed two studies: first, a survey of 331 firms for practices on process improvement and new technology de

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Mastering Innovation: Effective Strategies for Managing Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

Imagine a symphony where musicians, conductors, and instruments harmonize to create a masterpiece. Innovation management in business is quite similar; it requires a blend of talented people, structured processes, and powerful platforms to orchestrate success. In this article, we explore how to master innovation management from three vital perspectives: people, process, and platforms.