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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

What makes successful people succeed? A number of factors they come up with if you ask them may include: Hard work. Grit and being willing to keep going through challenging times. Having the resources to develop what you are thinking of. Focusing on quality, delighting the customer, being the best. A supportive network around you. etc. But one aspect which is often forgotten is also one of the most important: luck.

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Good Management Is Not Good Strategy. Here’s What Is:

Digital Tonto

One of the most annoying things I hear from leaders is that “we had a great strategy, but just couldn’t execute it.” That’s simply not possible. If you can’t execute it, it’s not a great strategy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Biggest Barricades of Innovation and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

Highlights Institutional inertia, narrow perception of innovation or what it needs to flourish, and short-term thinking can all be barricades of innovation. Break through these barriers by uncovering the reasons behind them and offering a clear and detailed innovation strategy. An effective innovation management platform can address organizational obstacles.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

Credit Chrisnaton, Flickr. I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. Sadly, it rings true as much as it did those (many) years back. “ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao.

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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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Waiting for inspiration

Idea to Value

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”. ? Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. While in some cases the brain is still forming creative new connections in the background , the real professional creatives know that the most important thing is executing.

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Book Review: A new way to think by Roger Martin

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful. His book - Opposable Mind - is a great book about capturing and merging two disparate ideas or opinions to form new viewpoints, products or services.

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Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others

Tullio Siragusa

Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others. The cornerstone to growing as a company is teamwork. Teamwork is about getting excited for our peers’ wins and helping them win. Authentic leaders primary focus is caring for others and championing their success. Employees need to feel supported instead of being tested. Support leads people to work as teams instead of trying to stand out as individual heroes.

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Copy, transform, combine

Idea to Value

When people first start developing their creative skills for the first time, they often go through a similar sequence of learning and trying new things. They take something they already know and like, such as a drawing or song produced by a famous artist, and then: Copy it, until they can reproduce or perform it to a decent standard. Transform it, to change it and put their own mark on it.

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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

Learn more about this CPS innovation methodology here. When it comes to developing innovative solutions to unique organizational challenges or your own life, using tried and true methods to brainstorm ideas and find the best possible solution can be a great way to achieve your goals. One such methodology is creative problem solving, which will be defined and explored in this latest article from Innovation Training.

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Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools

IdeaScale

Remote work is here to stay. And despite two years of practice, many companies worry about what working remotely means for creativity, innovation, and culture—so to put those fears to rest, let's look at how remote work opens the door to diverse perspectives, and gives businesses the flexibility to face larger changes. Owning Remote Work [.

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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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How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

InnovationManagement

To run a successful business, you must be able to complete individual and shared tasks regularly and reliably. One of the most significant components to achieving this is making sure you create actionable results in your meetings, conversations, and workflow. The post How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Don’t worry what other people are thinking of you

Idea to Value

They aren’t. People think that any small mistake or embarrassment is going to be noticed and judged by everyone around them. Yet in reality this is not what happens. Even if you do something embarrassing, like falling over, forgetting a word while speaking, spilling coffee on your shirt or snorting while you laugh, and you feel like everyone in the world noticed, in reality that is just you suffering from the spotlight effect.

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How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Pacific Islands

IdeaSpies

Suddenly the Pacific Islands have become a hot election issue. That is because the Solomon Islands agreed to China using its own security guards to safeguard Chinese businesses and projects from attack and looting in the wake of recognising China instead of Taiwan. It raises the question; are the Pacific Islands Australia’s “backyard” (a description to which Solomon’s PM took umbrage), and if so, what could be done to keep out other powers such as China?

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Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools

IdeaScale

Remote work is here to stay. And despite two years of practice, many companies worry about what working remotely means for creativity, innovation, and culture—so to put those fears to rest, let's look at how remote work opens the door to diverse perspectives, and gives businesses the flexibility to face larger changes. Owning Remote Work [.].

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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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What Does a Coffee Cup Tell you About Yourself ?

Michael Michalko

A motivational speaker had a table with a coffee urn and cups. Some of the cups were exquisite and expensive and others were plain. After an hour into his presentation, he announced a ten minute break and invited the participants to enjoy a cup of coffee. When the break was over and the participants were back in their seats, the speaker looked at them thoughtfully and then went over to the coffee table.

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Quantity breeds quality

Idea to Value

If you want to improve your creativity , what is more likely to make you better in the long run: Creating a large volume of average-quality work, or focusing on a single piece and working tirelessly to try and make it perfect? A large number of creatives think that in order to make anything worthwhile, you need to strive for perfection. In that case, they work on a single piece for a long amount of time, constantly trying to improve it before they finally feel like it is “done”, and

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Advancing Radical Innovation is Critical to the New Product Development Process

Sopheon

Understanding new product idea challenges early—and overcoming them—is critical to moving radical innovation forward. The post Advancing Radical Innovation is Critical to the New Product Development Process appeared first on Sopheon.

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Schools that aren’t measuring students’ relationships are leaving their economic mobility to chance

Christensen Institute

It’s become common knowledge that students who’ve returned to in-person school this year in the wake of the pandemic are not only experiencing potential setbacks in their learning progress, but also severe mental health challenges. Students most affected by these challenges continue to be those from under-resourced communities and homes across a range of needs from healthcare to basic WiFi access. .

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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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The Leader’s Guide to Making Innovation Happen

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Jesse Nieminen Many would-be innovators obsess over ideas, wait for inspiration to strike, and believe that with the right idea, success can miraculously come overnight. However, as we’ve written before, that’s just not going to happen.

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Turning Ideas into Innovations: An In-depth Guide

Viima

Every innovation starts with an idea. We all have ideas, even great ones, yet few people can bring them to life, and even fewer can turn them into innovations. The topic of how to turn ideas into innovations has sparked many conversations and filled the internet and libraries with potential solutions. However, we realized that many online articles on this topic barely scratch the surface or don’t dig deep enough to explore the ins and outs of turning ideas into innovations.

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The CEO of GoDaddy's Secret to Creating a Culture of Experimentation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

You can't just encourage people to try things nilly-willy, says Aman Bhutani. Effective experimentation requires a system.

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Telehealth’s promising foothold in mental health

Christensen Institute

Since COVID-19 caused a spike in virtual care usage, innovators have been capitalizing on its growth in popularity. Digital health ventures raised over $29 billion dollars by the end of 2021, by far their biggest year to date. . Virtual mental health services were just one area that saw a massive boom in use as a result of the pandemic, and that momentum is lasting.

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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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Innovation Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Steve Blank Portions of this post previously appeared in ‘War On the Rocks’ Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Capital: The Power and Profitability of an Idea

Daniel Burrus

Intellectual property, or intellectual capital, is not a concept constrained only to technology companies like Instagram, Meta, or other social apps. This powerful business asset is present in every single organization in one way or another. While tangible products or measurable services that a business or organization sells to the public are certainly assets, and it goes without saying that physical locations and business equipment used to make products or facilitate services also fall under th

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10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux. Waiting until you can get it totally right misses the point.

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The latest ten Governance ideas shared by IdeaSpies

IdeaSpies

Governance is very topical now in Australia with the Federal Election to be held very soon.

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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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The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Most doctors, scientists, engineers, business school grads and lawyers I’ve taught don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Making Time to Be 'Useless' Is a Vital Part of Creating Anything Valuable

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Many of the inventions that changed our world were useless for a long time.

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How To De-Risk Innovation Investments And Prioritize Opportunities

ITONICS

If a company wants to create new products from unproven technologies, risk is unavoidable. In innovation management, you have to anticipate possible futures and emerging societal needs. To deliver on what customers will expect five years from now, you have to ideate and plan for that now.

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Using KPI’s to drive Peak Performance with Stacey Barr – The Performance Measure Specialist

Rmukesh Gupta

In this episode of Pushing Beyond the Obvious, we host Stacey Barr – The Performance Measure Specialist. Stacey is a specialist in strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She specialises in using practical performance measurement as the catalyst for creating a high-performance culture that achieves measurable success. She is also the creator of the PuMP® methodology.

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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.