Sat.Aug 06, 2022 - Fri.Aug 12, 2022

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Getting more curious: Research shows that curiosity can be enhanced

Idea to Value

Curiosity has long been linked to being more creative. Along with being open to new experiences , being curious makes it more likely that you discover new and interesting knowledge which can then be combined in a creative way. A 2019 meta-analysis of 2,692 individuals showed that there was a strong positive link between being more curious and being more creative.

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How to Make Your Training Stick: 7 Methods to Transfer & Sustain Learning

CMOE

In the latest 2021 Training Industry Report , conducted by Training Magazine, results indicated that U.S. training expenditures rose nearly 12 percent to $92.3 billion in 2020-2021. While this increase can be attributed to various factors, it seems safe to conclude that corporations find value in offering their employees learning and development opportunities and are willing to pay a pretty penny for it.

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The fear of business contagion requires different innovation response

Paul Hobcraft

Business contagion requires different innovative responses. We are presently facing a profound set of changes in the conditions that businesses operate within in the immediate years ahead, that of the fear of business contagion; these will need a different set of innovation shifts and responses to counter this and seize new opportunities. Over two posts, I want to lay out the underlying concerns (here) and the new dynamics we can deploy by changing how we undertake innovation as my second post.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. The point of his book is to recognize and acknowledge that many people, either intentionally or often unintentionally, play roles or "wear hats" that represent a specific point of view. De Bono identified six perspectives or "hats" that people wear.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Happy 13th Birthday Digital Tonto!

Digital Tonto

When I started this blog back in 2009, the world was a very different place. First, and perhaps most obvious, we used to come up with brand names for our blogs instead of just using our real names. Social media was just becoming a thing and there was still debate about whether digital media was […]. The post Happy 13th Birthday Digital Tonto! first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential.

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Innovation time machine: Putting primitive fire making through a new product development process

Sopheon

What would a new product development process look like during the prehistoric invention of fire? Let’s take a closer look. The post Innovation time machine: Putting primitive fire making through a new product development process appeared first on Sopheon.

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A Day in the Life of Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Planview

Planview

Picture this: you have accepted a job offer from your dream company. It is your first day and you are excited yet nervous to start your new journey. You have a ton of questions before you can even get started, but who do you direct your questions to? The People Team (also known as Human Resources), of course! The People team handles everything from hiring and recruiting, to compensation and benefits, to training and development.

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What is Stakeholder Theory? The Benefits of Applying it

Cascade Strategy

Stakeholder Theory Overview. Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists of all time. He put forward a theory (among many others) that companies are ultimately beholden to just one stakeholder - their shareholders.

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A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?

Harvard Business Review

A star AI researcher was forced out of Google when she raised concerns about bias in the company’s large language models. Now tech companies must rethink their AI ethics.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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.

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Automaticity: A Thinking Trap?

Phil McKinney

Just as a car can be driven more smoothly and efficiently when the driver doesn't have to think about each action, so can our lives run more smoothly when some tasks are done automatically. For example, if you've ever ridden in a car with someone learning to drive, you know it's not a very smooth […].

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Rethinking Development Can Turn “Latin America’s Vicious Circle” Into a Virtuous One

Christensen Institute

The article, “ Latin America’s Vicious Circle is a Warning to the West ”, claims that Latin America is stuck in a development trap, citing lack of opportunities for educated youth, corrupt and unstable governments, and not enough innovation. This developmental trap is leading to the fall of democracies, and the rise of autocracies, and the problem, as the article states, is “not just that democracies devolve into dictatorships, but that Latin America drifts away from the orbit of the West”.

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This 9-Box Grid Can Help Grow Your Best Future Talent

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Hiring good people is tough. Retaining your best talent can be equally challenging. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. So, how do you objectively know which people are your all-stars, especially in a bigger organization? And not just the best talent today, but the best […].

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Nudging Consumers to Purchase More Sustainably

Harvard Business Review

People say they want sustainable products — and that they’re willing to pay for them — but find excuses to not follow through.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Achieve Alignment with Hoshin Kanri

Kainexus

Hoshin Kanri , also known as Policy Deployment, is the Lean approach for ensuring that an organization's strategic goals are driving process and action at every level. Hoshin Kanri translates from Japanese to English as "direction setting" or "management compass." It is a seven-step process incorporated into strategic planning, during which goals are communicated and operationalized through the company.

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Turning Reverse Engineering of Business Goals into Strategies

Tullio Siragusa

Turning Reverse Engineering of Business Goals into Strategies. A lot of learning can come from reverse-engineering many things. In business it can be a creative process on how to bring about new change, and innovation. Tech Backstage interviewed Jason Jepson to learn more about reverse engineering. We talk about reverse-engineering outcomes into strategy, building and positioning for technology, and the ins and outs of storytelling.

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How Consensus Kills Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell “I hate consensus,” legendary Silicon Valley coach Bill Campbell used to growl. The problem, as the authors explain in the book, Trillion Dollar Coach, wasn’t that he didn’t want people to get along, but that an easy consensus often leads to groupthink and inferior decisions. It’s often just easier to […].

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What Are Your Decision-Making Strengths and Blind Spots?

Harvard Business Review

Understanding your style will help you identify which biases that may get in your way.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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

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4 Ways to Increase Cross-Collaboration in Trend & Technology Scouting

ITONICS

Y ou have a list of super-relevant trends and technologies for your business but not yet an efficient way to select the most strategically valuable ones? In this blog, you’ll learn about the power of cross-functional collaboration in trend and technology evaluation and how to improve knowledge exchange between different experts or teams.

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Moving from Project to Product: A Five-Stage Journey

Planview

The way we work and organize is changing. And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts.

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How To Attract, Grow and Retain Your Best Employees

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken In a recent article, Why Employees Stay, I shared seven reasons why employees would want to continue working for a company. No. 5 on the list was that the company offers career growth and promotes from within. Let’s unpack that one, as it seems to be a top reason some […].

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Stop Ghosting and Start Saying No

Harvard Business Review

Five ways to manage your time and energy while following through on commitments.

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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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Walking the Sustainability Road

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The innovation in the sustainable footwear industry has undergone a lot of changes over these years and the current trends speak for casual sneakers and canvas shoes, which are made with recycled rubber soles, upcycled products and sustainable or eco-friendly materials.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

Genius is created, not born. The right geographical, cultural, and economic environments can create an ecosystem that facilitates innovation and creativity. This was illustrated amply in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers The Story of Success where he demonstrates that certain eras, situations and geographies created the right environments allowing people to flourish.

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The Power of Stopping

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If when you write your monthly report no one responds with a question of clarification or constructive comment, this may be a sign your organization places little value on your report and the work it stands for. If someone sends a thank you email and do not mention something specific […].

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Keeping Hybrid Employees Engaged

Harvard Business Review

A manager’s guide to staying together when your team is often apart.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential.

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More schools should offer a year-round schooling option

Christensen Institute

Few events spark as much nostalgia as summer for parents. Heat waves notwithstanding, camps, vacations, jobs, and time in the neighborhood pool spark fond memories, which ripple into pop songs devoted to the joys of summer. Yet for many parents from all walks of life, the summer break from school can be simultaneously painful. That pain is why I argue in my new book, From Reopen to Reinvent , that it’s well past time that many more schools began offering year-round schooling.

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Land Mines of Intrapreneurship

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity under VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) conditions with the goal of creating user/stakeholder defined value through the deployment of innovation using a VAST business model. Intrapreneurs are employees trying to act like entrepreneurs within their organizations or non-profits.

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4 Ways to Communicate with More Empathy

Harvard Business Review

Not everyone is naturally empathic, but it’s a critical leadership skill.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.