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3D Print Your COVID-19 Solution

IdeaScale

I have a personal belief that, when bad things happen, the best reaction is to channel your energy into being one of the “helpers,” as Mr. Rogers put it. So, when the COVID-19 crescendo started to build in the United States, I found stability in redirecting my helplessness and anxiety into what I believe to … Continued. The post 3D Print Your COVID-19 Solution appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Decentralization Can Be Your Friend

Entrepreneur - Innovation

We've all been forced to tele-everything, but the best solution is to embrace it.

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Elevate the Customer Experience with Idea Management Software

IdeaScale

Idea management has become an integral part of customer experience. Now that companies are turning to customers for ideas when creating new products, they’re finding the landscape has changed. According to a recent Gartner survey , over 80 percent of businesses expect to compete based on the benefits provided by stellar customer experience. This competition is driven by the ideas gathered from the customers themselves, which make it possible for businesses to address specific needs.

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The Top Practices That Separate Great Leaders From The Rest

InnovationManagement

How do great leaders separate themselves from the rest? This article will examine how several excellent leaders, including Rich Teerlink and Steve Jobs, were able to inspire their teams, develop incredible products, and transform their companies.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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10 Best CRM For Your Business In 2020

Innovation Excellence

2019 has passed and I hope it has elevated your business in the way you had imagined in 2018. Now is the time for better goals and new achievements. I believe, in 2020, your top priority should be fixing business processes. If you have faced friction in major areas like sales or marketing, you must pick tools that can make tasks easier for your team.

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Here’s how you can come up with outside the box innovations

Viima

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. The phrase has become one of the most overused clichés out there. However, just like so many other clichés, there’s an underlying reason for this being the case even though I personally dislike the term.

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Avoiding the 8 Wastes of Lean While Working from Home

Kainexus

Millions of workers across the globe have suddenly transitioned to working from home. There are many practical and physiological challenges to this abrupt change, so give yourself a break if everything hasn’t been smooth sailing. Fortunately, the continuous improvement principles that help us be efficient in the office apply in much the same way at home.

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IdeaScale Achieves Carbon Neutrality!

IdeaScale

Sustainability is an important part of innovation and requires a great deal of strategic planning. One aspect of becoming sustainable is to achieve carbon neutrality. We’re excited to announce that IdeaScale has become carbon-neutral by reducing our carbon footprint and giving back to the community at large, a success that sets us apart from our … Continued.

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How TOTVS Curitiba gathered over 80 ideas to turn this crisis around

Exago

Because “watching the future unfold without taking part in it is never an option for TOTVS”, the Brazilian technology company leader in the development of business solutions is challenging its staff to find solutions together to thrive in the new business order, says Executive Director Márcio Viana. The post How TOTVS Curitiba gathered over 80 ideas to turn this crisis around appeared first on Exago.

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Three critical skills to get you from big ideas to a real business

Strategyzer Innovation

There are many skills required in entrepreneurship and innovation. In this blog, we outline three learnable ones that are crucial to move from a big idea to a real business opportunity. It is critical for innovators to know how to design a business model, understand its strengths and weaknesses in order to continuously improve it, and also know how to test and validate the critical hypotheses underpinning your business model.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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The Complete Quality Improvement Software Checklist

Kainexus

Most people don’t purchase quality improvement software solutions very often. So if you are in the market for a way to support your QI efforts, but you’re not sure where to begin, you are not alone. Fortunately, you’ve come to the right place. This post will detail all of the features that you should expect to find in a quality improvement platform.

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Free Webinar | June 1: Franchise Bible: Technology Enabled Franchise Systems

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Learn how to use technology to improve your business model and hear about how other business owners are implementing new hi-tech solutions to serve their customers and communities.

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Podcast S3E58: Tendayi Viki – Pirates in the Navy

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Tendayi Viki, innovation expert and associate Partner at Strategyzer. We talk about his new upcoming book Pirates in the Navy , and how to build an innovation culture where intrapreneurs can flourish. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 How intrapreneurs need to act like pirates and privateers within a company. 00:03:30 The problem is that if you act like a pirate, you will have people rooting for you to fail. 00

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How FBNQuest is intensifying innovation efforts to tackle the pandemic

Exago

One of the most enduring financial services brands in Africa and a front-runner in promoting a digital economy, the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) is leveraging the power of collaboration to speed up its innovation efforts in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The post How FBNQuest is intensifying innovation efforts to tackle the pandemic appeared first on Exago.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Innovation traits that are critical now: comfort with ambiguity

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts that examine what skills are necessary to innovate in a post COVID pandemic environment. In the first installment, I wrote about the importance of "beginner's mind" , because in the post-COVID future, some past experiences and knowledge may not be meaningful, and looking at new challenges with a fresh perspective will be valuable.

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How To Overcome Resistance To Change

Digital Tonto

We need to accept that resistance is part of change and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, skeptics can often point out important flaws in your idea and make it stronger. The difference. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to create high-value customer interactions and win in the Low Touch Economy

Board of Innovation

All of the exit scenarios currently on the table take into account a slow and bumpy restart of the economy. Businesses of all sizes will need to rethink how to interact with their customers. And while this new Low Touch Economy will need to factor in a whole range of restrictions: physical distancing, large gatherings, […]. The post How to create high-value customer interactions and win in the Low Touch Economy appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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A Media Diet that Limits Negative News

IdeaSpies

We are now experiencing two pandemics: (1) a COVID pandemic; and (2) a pandemic of negative news. Every day now.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, 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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Innovation traits that are vital now: Beginner's Mind

Jeffrey Phillips

In the face of so much change and uncertainty during the COVID crisis, it is imperative that we do several things simultaneously and well. First, as executives or managers, we need to find ways to cut costs and find somewhat stable footings for businesses. With so much uncertainty and volatility, it can be hard to know when you've reached "bottom" and how to respond when the economy begins to grow again.

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Lessons from Hilti on What it Takes to Shift from a Product to a Service Business Model

Strategyzer Innovation

In a previous post, we explained how business model patterns can help executives shift from outdated to a more competitive business model. Today we illustrate one of the patterns, the shift from product to service, with Hilti. And we go behind-the-scenes with Dr. Christoph Loos, CEO of Hilti, to understand what it takes to lead such a business transformation.

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The First-Ever Live, Virtual Reality Comedy Special Could Only Happen Now

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Entrepreneur Mary Spio and comedian D.L. Hughley break down how CEEK VR's 'The Laugh Experience' came together in lockdown.

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Small Entities, Big Impact: The Surprisingly Sized World of Sustainable Development

Anaqua

By David T Dickens, Senior Technical Support Engineer at Anaqua. When it comes to innovation in green technology, it’s not just the major corporations that are making the difference. While they may be dominant in go-green related patents, a lot of smaller entities are also working on technologies that could have a significant impact on our planet. Indeed, using Anaqua’s patent search and analytics tool, AcclaimIP, it is clear that Small Entities—based on the USPTO definition —are having an outsi

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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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7 Major Data Science Use Cases In Sales

Acuvate

7 Major Data Science Use Cases in Sales Enterprises are embracing data science and analytics across various functions to leverage data to reduce costs, improve efficiency and drive revenue. With respect to sales, there are numerous use cases where data analytics can be applied. And many more use cases are fast emerging. According to a […]. The post 7 Major Data Science Use Cases In Sales appeared first on Acuvate.

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Nobody Puts Innovation in the Corner

100%Open

We have all heard, if not used ourselves, the phrase ‘unprecedented times’ very often over the past few months. It has become a conversational staple, something both businesses and individuals alike have adopted in order to describe the indescribable, in order to make tangible the chaos around us. These two words say everything and nothing, which, in itself, is an encapsulation of where many of us have found ourselves.

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Free Webinar | May 11: How Should You Think About Innovation Going Forward

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Join us as we speak to investor and educator Alexandre Lazarow as he discusses how entrepreneurs can innovate to meet the new needs of consumers.

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Creative Problem-Solving Techniques for Remote Teams

Idea Drop

Creativity is all about finding new ways to look at things. When we step outside of what we already know, we need to draw on abstract associations to make sense of our new environment. Often, this leads to new insights, new ideas and new solutions to problems that we couldn’t have seen before. That’s the […]. The post Creative Problem-Solving Techniques for Remote Teams appeared first on Idea Drop | Idea Management Software.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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How to Get Through Grief with Grace

Tullio Siragusa

How to Get Through Grief with Grace. Life brings opportunities, happiness, and skyrocketing success when we decide to live it fully and without fear. Along with that, we will face challenging times that will cause us to grieve. Globally, we are all facing a form of grief right now. Be it the loss of a loved one to Covid-19, or the loss of our free way of life?

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COVID-19 and Supply Chain: Using AI and 3D Printing to Help Meet Surging Demands

Yet2

No matter who you ask, the COVID-19 pandemic has materially changed our daily lives. Each day we wake up under the assumption that there is a new normal to aspire to. A simple cough or sneeze brings up fears of how the COVID-19 virus might impact our routines and our families, keeping our sense of safety at bay during critical parts of the workday. For businesses, uncertainty based on population health dynamics have left many to equate the pandemic to a “black swan” event, an event beyond what i

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Unlocking Your iPhone While Wearing a Mask Will Get Easier With Upcoming iOS Update

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The change, spotted in the 13.5 beta release, will help users avoid unnecessary hassle.

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Simon Hill shortlisted for The TechXLR8 2020 Tech Leader of the Year Award

Wazoku

Wazoku is a tech company with a big mission – To Change the World, One idea at a time. The brainchild of Simon Hill, Wazoku’s platform operates as a company’s global home for ideas. With innovation such a high priority for organisations, Wazoku is the company which helps businesses to unlock the nascent innovation potential of their employees, partners, customers or the whole world!

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.