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Continuous Improvement Goal Suggestions for 2021

Kainexus

I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that I believe we are all glad to have 2020 in the rearview mirror. While life isn't going back to normal any time soon, there is hope on the horizon. The COIVD-19 vaccine rollout is on the way, and our healthcare professionals have made great strides in treatment for the disease. Last year at about this time, we laid out some suggested continuous improvement resolutions for 2020.

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The art of “Back Casting” needs care

Paul Hobcraft

Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. The fundamentals of the method were outlined by John B. Robinson from the University of Waterloo in 1990. The fundamental question of backcasting asks: “if we want to attain a certain goal, what actions must be taken to get there?

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2021: What Comes After Covid?

Digital Tonto

Today the Covid-19 crisis has given a shock to the system and we're at an inflection point. The most immediate effects have been economic recession and the rapid adoption of digital tools, such as. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Bald spots and blind spots

Idea to Value

I’m coming up to 40 years old soon, and from the front I still have an ok head of hair (notwithstanding it receding a bit on the sides). But on the top of my head, I have a part where my hair is thinning so much that you can see my balding spot. Other people can see it, especially from behind me. The problem is, I can’t see it. And so I keep forgetting about it and am not aware of it.

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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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How to Draw Innovation Inspiration From Customer Data

IdeaScale

Data is the most valuable tool that any business has access to today. With the right insights, you can determine which of your marketing strategies generate the most return on investment or which audience you should target with your new product to earn the most revenue. Data can show you where you sit in your … Continued. The post How to Draw Innovation Inspiration From Customer Data appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Leadership Is Like Engineering: You Need to Start with Why

Entrepreneur - Innovation

To address user challenges, they must first be understood. These principles of why, what and how also apply to management, especially in turbulent times.

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Podcast S4E94: Cyndi Burnett – Creativity in education

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Cyndi Burnett, Director at Creativityandeducation.com. We speak about what it takes to bring creativity into homes and classrooms. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – Cyndi’s start in learning about and teaching creativity. 00:04:00 – The frustration with research and how to make it practical. 00:05:45 – The STAR Model – The 5 Aspects of Creativity. 00:10:00 – Has creativity really been declini

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How COVID-19 Has Impacted the 5G Rollout

IdeaScale

The COVID-19 pandemic has hugely impacted the need for 5G technology. As the way people communicate has changed, companies like Motorola and Qualcomm have bolstered their product development strategies. With so many businesses turning to remote work, technology companies are rethinking how to bring 5G to the masses. They are quickly reacting to challenges in … Continued.

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The Path to Operational Excellence in Healthcare

Kainexus

Across the world, healthcare leaders are increasingly striving to embed the principles of operational excellence and continuous improvement in their organizations. Empowering clinical and operational staff to deliver safe, high-quality, reliable care can significantly change results. Achieving continuous improvement requires a systematic, sustainable approach to enhancing the quality of care and patients' health outcomes.

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KPI Examples - 84 Key Performance Indicators For 2021

Cascade Strategy

You know you need them, but finding the right KPI for you or your business can be difficult. To make things a little easier, we have put together a resource that has KPI examples for all the departments in your organization, and even KPI examples by different industries. Scroll down to check it out, first though, we wanted to include a definition for KPIs just make sure we're all on the same page.

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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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These 2 guys have found a way to make leather out of cactus

Idea to Value

Leather is a luxurious material, but it is also one of the most resource-intensive and pollution-rich materials in the fashion industry. These two Entrepreneurs from Mexico are trying to change that, with a new way to produce vegan leather from cactuses. While most faux-leather is made from plastic, their leather is made from a patented way of drying and treating cactus plant material.

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What Are the Characteristics of a High-Performance Organization?

IdeaScale

Performance is an important part of innovation management. You need a way to tell if your organization is performing high, low, or somewhere in the middle. A high-performance organization possesses common traits that set it apart from the rest. Here are some of those characteristics and how you can benefit from them. What is a … Continued. The post What Are the Characteristics of a High-Performance Organization?

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In The New Year: Learn More, Not Less

Bill Fischer

You can turn that time-honored, but widely neglected, slogan of life-long learning from an aspiration into a real verb; you can change your own learning behaviors, and become a role model; you can become an activist learner!

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Why Employees with High Emotional Intelligence Thrive

Tullio Siragusa

Why Employees with High Emotional Intelligence Thrive. Employers look for certain characteristics in potential employees. They primarily look for dependability, sincerity, teamwork, general intelligence, willingness to learn, and ability to adapt. Among many essential qualities, emotional intelligence is a must if you value resilience and longevity from employees.

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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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This Chinese village used to produce 60% of the world’s oil paintings, Part 1

Idea to Value

There was a time a few years ago when a small town in China produced up to 60% of the world’s oil paintings. That town is called Dafen, and is on the outskirts of Shenzhen (which itself has seen a boom in innovation output in recent years). Dafen specialised in a small trade in original artwork, but was best known for one thing: Making most of the replica oil paintings in the world.

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An Ethics Crisis in 2020 – Here Is To A Better 2021

Phil McKinney

Given the esteem and trust we grant scientists and innovators, how could this happen? How could research fraud, falsified data, and unproven conclusions result in 1,800 papers in leading journals and peer review articles being retracted in 2020? And this is not an anomaly. [1] Two decades ago, journals were retracting roughly 40 papers per […].

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School of Living: Master’s Class of 2021

Inspiring Next

We are about to graduate, why think of going back? After sustaining tough times in classrooms, after long hours of homework, after paying so much in tuition fees, I will not go back. I will work towards graduating. Yet the new year’s theme on social media has been “glad that 2020 is over” If you… Read More » School of Living: Master’s Class of 2021.

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The Car Repair Club works with Brunner to launch new brand

Brunner

Pittsburgh (January 11, 2020) – Aiming to launch their new brand by early 2021, PepperFlare Car Repair Club has named Brunner their agency of record (AOR). “We were drawn to Brunner’s creativity and expertise in building a brand,” said Pete Demko, The Car Repair Club Founder and CEO. “Together with Brunner we can position The Car Repair Club as not only a one-of-a-kind service but also a subscription program that will help customers save money in the long run.”.

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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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This Chinese village used to produce 60% of the world’s oil paintings, Part 2

Idea to Value

In yesterday’s post, we spoke about Dafen , the town in China where previously up to 60% of the world’s oil painting replicas were produced. And how copying other people’s work was not creative, even when it is done with real skill. But Dafen has been evolving, just like the surrounding Shenzhen region. From an area which previously was used primarily to copy other people’s ideas , to now being an area which innovates and produces original work.

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

mjvinnovation

Companies like Amazon have built real empires from customer needs – paying specific attention to constant satisfaction monitoring. So did Netflix, which evolved this vision even further and incorporated user experience into the core of its work processes, generating essential connections with customers. More and more, sectors realize the importance of user experience (UX) for business, more recently, banks.

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How The Washington Post Created Tools to Cover Elections in 2020

Innovation Leader

In order to accurately cover an election pivotal to the country’s history, The Washington Post spent a year testing an election mapping tool and built a lead locator. Here’s how they did it.

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Adapting to Change: How to Unify Online and Offline Aspects of Business

CMOE

The year 2020 made one thing clearer than ever before: shunning the online world is not a viable strategy for any business, no matter how well-equipped it is to attract activity offline. When lockdown measures were rolled out, companies that relied on foot traffic quickly ground to a halt. They had two options: start operating online or shut down for the foreseeable future.

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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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What is worse than making the wrong decision?

Idea to Value

Making no decision at all. Many people struggle to execute their new innovative ideas, or launch that new creative project, because they overthink them. They believe they need to think through every possible scenario and have all the answers to every question before it is safe to begin. They are so afraid of making the “wrong decision” because they have been told their whole life about how important it is to only give the right answer.

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Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban and Design Sprint: how to combine agile practices and gain more efficiency

mjvinnovation

We all know that agile methodologies are not written in stone. In reality, we are talking about a set of practices that should be used to manage projects and demands to adapt to changes and gain efficiency quickly. Squads, Scrum, OKRs, Kanban, and Design Sprints are just a few. To clearly define which of these practices you will embrace with your team, we decided to create this article to show you the benefits.

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Stop Innovation Superhero Syndrome

Innovation Leader

Corporate innovators should avoid falling prey to “Superhero Syndrome,” argues Alex Slawsby, a former innovation director in the aerospace industry. Instead, they should think more like football scouts or orchestra leaders. ”As an innovation leader, you need to be involved in identifying people throughout the organization that can help you.

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2020 is a wrap! What we learned + customers who “wowed” us

Sopheon

It’s no secret that 2020 was one for the history books. Here is a summary of some of the things learned after this unprecedented year of change. The post 2020 is a wrap! What we learned + customers who “wowed” us appeared first on Sopheon.

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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 Temptation of Creative Ideas: How We View Ideas Differently Depending on the Source

Innovation in Practice

The next time you come up with a great idea, don’t share it with anyone! Sounds absurd, right? Here’s a better way of saying that: If you want your ideas to have the best chance of getting accepted and implemented, then be careful how you share them. People evaluate ideas differently. They evaluate ideas based on the source, meaning the person who offered the idea.

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Podcast E10: Blizzards, Crises, and Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Episode #10 of the Invisible Solutions podcast is now live. In today’s episode we explore one of the lenses from Invisible Solutions: #19 PAIN VS GAIN. We often hear the expression “Build it and they will come.” With innovation, a more accurate statement is “Eliminate a pain and they will come.”. 2020 was a year of crises and innovation. Challenges and opportunities.

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How Reliant Energy and Google are Addressing a More Competitive Market

Innovation Leader

Utility companies typically aren’t known for innovation.

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Break the Cycle of Setting and Forgetting this year's strategic goals

Focused Momentum

The start of a year provides an ideal opportunity to define new goals and set a new course for the coming year, and no year has been more anticipated than the start of 2021. Most of us believe 2021 will provide us a way out of this crushing pandemic and put us on a road to a new, safer, more stable future. Finally, we have the optimism to set goals for this new chapter in our lives!

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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.