Jeffrey Phillips
AUGUST 3, 2021
I grew up on a farm, so to some extent it's no surprise that I have always been fascinated by plants. When I hike in the woods, or work in my garden, I can see how the trees, flowers and other plants position themselves for the sun. Even in the densest forest, where you would think the undergrowth has no chance of direct sunlight, you will find plants that find small patches of sunlight.
Destination Innovation
AUGUST 4, 2021
Image by Ryan McGuire on Pixabay. Have you seen the movie, The Day of the Jackal? In this 1973 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox plays a professional assassin, the “Jackal”, who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. It is a compelling thriller in which it is hard not to admire the cunning and guile of the ruthless killer.
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Idea to Value
AUGUST 6, 2021
How do you manage projects where the requirements are likely to change frequently. Or where teams might be independently working on multiple aspects separately but simultaneously. One management method which might be of interest is KANBAN. It originated as part of the Toyota Production System as part of their Lean Manufacturing Method, and is a method for scheduling in which sequence work should be done to achieve a desired outcome.
Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 4, 2021
Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable future that mobilizes action in searching for new economic thinking incorporates a more circular model of management that builds a more purposeful recycling approach that reduces the pressures on our use of precious minerals and resources.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Business and Tech
AUGUST 5, 2021
Contactless payments aren’t just a COVID trend. What started as a way to limit the spread of germs has gained traction because of its speed and convenience. Blake Morgan Author, “ The Customer Of The Future ”. Cash is out, contactless payments are in. It’s yet another change catalyzed by COVID. Over the past year, many stores stopped accepting cash payments and made the switch to contactless out of necessity to limit customer and employee touchpoints.
Digital Tonto
AUGUST 1, 2021
Technology is a process that involves both revealing and building. Yes, we revealed the power of market forces and the bankruptcy of the Soviet system, but failed to build a more prosperous and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Paul Hobcraft
AUGUST 4, 2021
Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable future that mobilizes action in searching for new economic thinking. One which incorporates a more circular model of management that builds a more purposeful recycling approach that has the objective to reduce the pressures on our use of precious minerals and resources and current consump
Business and Tech
AUGUST 6, 2021
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were once the hallmarks of corporate security to connect remote workers and partners. Today they are an open invitation for hackers to trespass on a corporate network, leaving an organization’s critical data exposed. It is well known that hackers are always looking for opportunity. And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the c
IdeaScale
AUGUST 4, 2021
Overview: The Tokyo Olympics are using innovation to overcome a range of challenges in a Games facing formidable obstacles, including 5G, robotics, and e-waste recycling. Each helps the Games flow smoothly during a difficult event. The Challenge. The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled for 2020 but were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost immediately, work began to hold the games safely and so athletes could compete, even if fans could only watch remotely.
Idea to Value
AUGUST 5, 2021
In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Dr Rob Weiner about the fascinating history of creativity. Dr Weiner is a former Professor teaching creativity (as well as “Lying 101”) and author of Creativity and Beyond: Cultures, Values, and Change , which discusses how different cultures have defined and valued the key concept of creativity and how this has changed over time.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
InnovationManagement
AUGUST 2, 2021
As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes. The post Whitepaper: Stimulating and Measuring Open and Cross Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.
Business and Tech
AUGUST 6, 2021
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were once the hallmarks of corporate security to connect remote workers and partners. Today they are an open invitation for hackers to trespass on a corporate network, leaving an organization’s critical data exposed. It is well known that hackers are always looking for opportunity. And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the c
IdeaScale
AUGUST 3, 2021
Overview: Join us Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT on Zoom for a webinar with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) innovation team. We’ll discuss how they used innovation management technology to diversify their approach to innovation, combined organic innovation with innovation challenges, how leadership drove innovation, their unique rewards and recognition program, and the challenges the current moment presents.
Idea to Value
AUGUST 2, 2021
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. One of the primary biases affecting innovation teams is called functional fixedness. This bias limits a person’s ability to only see an objects only in the way it is traditionally used. So for example, if a person has always worked with a hammer in order to hammer nails, and then needs a paperweight, some people would not think of using the hammer as the paperweight because “ that is not what it is used for “ In a
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Strategyzer Innovation
AUGUST 4, 2021
In 2011, entrepreneur Peter Reinhardt was working with his team within the framework of the Y combinator. After 2 failed ideas and with only 6 months of funding left, he felt a real pressure to figure out what direction they should pursue.
Business and Tech
AUGUST 6, 2021
Under the status quo, banks and card networks take a percentage of each card payment, and during the pandemic, almost all retail payments were made by card. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated everything digital, from how we shop to how we pay. Use of contactless cards and mobile payments by consumers worried about surfaces they touch has exploded.
InnovationManagement
AUGUST 5, 2021
Around the world and across industries, enterprises are facing tremendous market upheaval. Transformation and disruption were the new normal well before the pandemic, but the coronavirus crisis accelerated certain trends toward innovation and digitization and led to the fundamental rewiring of old business models. The post How Can Enterprises Think and Execute Like a Startup?
Kainexus
AUGUST 5, 2021
Most companies today work to improve their performance continuously. The basis of this improvement is practical problem-solving. Unfortunately, many organizations are not very adept at solving the day-to-day, year-to-year problems that they face. Most are very good at emergency firefighting but not as effective at solving the root causes and ensuring that problems don't recur.
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
Tullio Siragusa
AUGUST 2, 2021
Why Encourage Excellence instead of Perfection. Are you a perfectionist? Or do you strive for excellence? I’m afraid you’re mistaken if you assume these are the same thing. Although they are connected, they are the opposites of the same coin. They are so opposed to one another that the only way to accomplish excellence is to not want perfection. So, let’s look at the major distinctions between the two.
Business and Tech
AUGUST 6, 2021
Cloud environments and the security, privacy, and governance controls required to safeguard them are now arguably the top priorities for most chief information security officers (CISOs) and other executive-level stakeholders. . Illena Armstrong President, Cloud Security Alliance. No matter their current stages in the race to cloud, both private and public entities quickly pivoted to leveraging these services to support robust and often far-reaching remote workforces during the pandemic.
PlanBox Innovation
AUGUST 3, 2021
Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe. Understanding the importance of collaboration really is a no-brainer: people and business units alike need to share information and work together.
Kainexus
AUGUST 3, 2021
Organizations of all types and sizes have realized that continuous quality improvement is easiest to spread and sustain if a software platform is used to support it. If you are ready to take your organization's approach to positive change to the next level by doing so, congratulations! Our customers have found that the benefits of using technology to support improvement are vast.
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.
Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 2, 2021
Digital transformation has become an overused buzzword, much like innovation, because consulting and technology companies see it as an opportunity to create FOMO (fear of missing out) in their clients.
Business and Tech
AUGUST 6, 2021
Business owners need a payment processor to help them be more efficient and make better business decisions through the power of payments — one company is streamlining the approach. Stax, a leading provider of integrated payment technology, has a one-stop shop solution that’s helping businesses thrive and grow. . Since 2014, they’ve helped over 22,000 small and large businesses through their only all-in-one paymentsplatform.
CMOE
AUGUST 5, 2021
While businesses believe coaching is one of the top-rated leadership skills , not enough of them are measuring their coaching success. As a result, many organizations do not even know whether their coaching investments are paying off. Monitoring and measuring your coaching programs is critical to making smarter business decisions. Employees are the linchpin that holds organizational strategies together, so investing in the employee experience is critical to your team’s success.
InnovationManagement
AUGUST 4, 2021
In 2020, for the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation. In 2021, the US alone committed to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030. And as of Earth Day this year, more than 30% of the Fortune 500 have made commitments to a carbon-free future. The post The Biggest Adaptations We Need to Make to Accommodate Climate Change appeared first on InnovationManagement.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.
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AUGUST 2, 2021
Business and Tech
AUGUST 5, 2021
Contactless payment and digital currencies are promising technologies that are expanding both in the United States and internationally. Tom Quaadman Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness , U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You probably use cash a lot less than you did 10 years ago, and writing personal checks is a less frequently used form of payment as well.
ImagineNation
AUGUST 3, 2021
I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. This means that I have been able to observe, engage with and participate, from both Israel and Australia, in the evolution of Presencing and Theory U as powerful resources and vehicles for effecting profound transformational change and learning.
CMOE
AUGUST 6, 2021
High-functioning teams consist of individuals who achieve positive outcomes for their team and organization. These groups outperform other teams, going above and beyond to reach high-quality results. Team members demonstrate leadership and earn the trust of their colleagues. Low-functioning teams, on the other hand, are unstable, disorganized, and do the bare minimum.
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