Sat.Dec 15, 2018 - Fri.Dec 21, 2018

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An Innovative Culture: Define It, Cultivate It and Use It to Enable Transformation

Wazoku

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. If these mark the beginning of the journey, how do you then take the innovative culture you’ve put so much effort into building, cultivate it for sustainability and use it to drive business transformation?

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6 Ways More Sleep Makes You a Better Innovator | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Listen to the likes of leadership coach and retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, and you will be up at the crack of 4:34am, you’ll proceed to splash some cold water on your face and “get after it”, despite every fiber in your body, more likely than not, willing you to go back to sleep.

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Organizational Agility Requires Psychologically Safe Teams

Innovation Excellence

Psychological safety is the absence of fear of exclusion or loss of status for being one’s self and openly expressing one’s thoughts and opinions. You can tell a team, operational group, or organizational environment is psychologically safe when its members are comfortable with open discussion of their most significant shortcomings Such environments do not focus on.

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How the Internet of Things Drives Innovation

Wellspring

Within the innovation space, one of the key points of expansion is the application of leaps in information technology to the physical world. Just as the internet revolution brought about change by networking computers, another similar revolution seeks to bring about change by networking and digitizing the physical world. As such, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main drivers of innovation within a number of fields, as it seeks to digitize, analyze, and automate numerous consumer and in

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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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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Managing the Sales pipeline is a well-developed executive skill in any company selling large ticket items to business customers. Each sales person has to gather data and input their reports and forecasts. Some of the key actions in managing the pipeline include: Qualification questions have to be answered. Does the customer need our product? Do they have a budget?

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Latest Interview with Voltage Control’s Innovation Series

Braden Kelley

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Douglas Ferguson of Voltage Control, to speak with him for their Innovation Series about my work as a popular keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and thought leader on the topics of continuous … Continue reading →

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How can Lean and Innovation make your business evolve to 4.0?

Exago

Once the go-to strategy for ensuring business efficiency and growth, in the context of the current reality, Lean Management has been branded by some as being outdated. But, in a more evolved form, this business approach has in fact shown that it can complement Innovation Management when it comes to company operations, and could be the answer for businesses to remain competitive in today’s world.

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How to Build Careers with Innovation

IdeaScale

There are a number of ways that participating in or administrating an innovation program can help build your career. If you’re wondering how to build careers with innovation, look to these three IdeaScale examples. Your Great Idea is Recognized ! Marketer, Brian Stearns, suggested a new product idea that generated millions of dollars in sales during its first year.

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Innovation Resolutions For 2019: Choices You Can Make To Be More Innovative

Bill Fischer

Innovation is inherently a social phenomenon; it's who you talk to, and when, and where that can make the difference. By choosing to change the pace by which we work, the spaces that we spend time in, the partners who we converse with we can improve our propensity to be more innovative.

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The 2018 Digital Tonto Reading List

Digital Tonto

One of the things that I’ve found over the years is that innovation needs exploration. It’s a simple equation: If you don’t explore, you won’t discover, if you don’t discover you won’t invent and if. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2019!

Exago

Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2019 from the Exago team! The post Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2019! appeared first on Exago.

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

Education is about more than going to class. In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students.

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The yearly pulse of healthcare innovation

Board of Innovation

We took the yearly pulse of healthcare innovation. Here are the results of the checkup and our prognosis of the future. Healthcare is one of the industries that has the greatest potential — and need — for a sea change in innovation in the coming years. Startups are riding the crest of the medical technology. Continue reading. The post The yearly pulse of healthcare innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Top Posts of 2018

Digital Tonto

2018 was a busy year. Due the the success of my first book, Mapping Innovation, I was inundated with speaking requests that took me not only across the country, but across the world, including. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers.

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Expectation Management: Understanding the “No”

IdeaScale

Sometimes companies are afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program, because they’re afraid that they’ll have to deliver on an avalanche of ideas. And although it’s true that organizations often see an outpouring of ideas from their employees, high levels of innovation are hardly correlated with the ability to deliver on every idea – they are instead related to an organization’s ability to identify and deliver on a few of the most promising ideas.

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The Scale-Up Canvas: a tool for intrapreneurs who want to scale-up

Rapid Innovation in digital time

There is less framework when it’s time to move your start-up to a scale-up in the corporate environment. Why not designing a canvas for scale-up, borrowing the familiar business model canvas structure?

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Why Don’t You Have Enough Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Nearly every company’s strategy these days is to grow through innovation, yet many fall short. We all know the standard reasons: innovation is hard, innovation is uncertain or innovation grinds against the gears of the operating organization. They are all more or less true, but they are also simplistic, not really guiding executives on how to actually get more innovation.

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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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Brussels Airport holds an Innovation Challenge to improve passenger experience

Board of Innovation

Employees at Brussels Airport help passengers' airport experience take off through a customer-centric ideas contest. The post Brussels Airport holds an Innovation Challenge to improve passenger experience appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Nominate the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2018

Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.

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Keeping Up is a Fool’s Game

Daniel Burrus

Many business consultants agree that benchmarking is imperative to strategic planning. By using metrics, a business will study the practices, designs, and financial outcomes of industry leaders with one distinct purpose: To keep up with the pacesetters. There’s just one problem. Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game.

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5 ways Chief Product Officers can Foster Innovation

InnovationManagement

A chief product officer’s (CPO) job description often contains two tall tasks: Drive innovation, and create a compelling product roadmap that delivers business value.

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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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Back to the Future: A Retrospective of our Future Scan tool

Board of Innovation

Perhaps we’re becoming nostalgic about the past-future, or the future-past, but we dusted off our innovation predictions from 2015 to see what we could learn about tomorrow. In 2015, we put our heads together to ideate about the future. The goal was to create 200 possible scenarios as a tool that could be used during. Continue reading. The post Back to the Future: A Retrospective of our Future Scan tool appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How do you do innovation?

Innovation Excellence

If you had an idea for a medical device, would you know where to go at work to get help commercializing or deploying it in your organization? Most of the time, based on my experience, the answer is no. Giffford Pinchot, who originated the term “intrapreneur”, has suggested that you rate your organization in several.

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Celebrating the ’12 innovations of Christmas’ – a Festive Infographic from Qmarkets

Qmarkets

Christmas is the time of year for good food, good times, and good will to all. However, it’s easy to forget that many of the beloved traditions of the season began as incremental ideas for overcoming yuletide challenges. That’s why this year, we at Qmarkets are paying homage to 12 of the most outstanding (and unusual) innovations of Christmas, as well as shedding a light on some of their origins.

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How To Use A Stage Gate Funding Model To Create Your Innovation

Beyond the Obvious

My motto throughout my career has been “Ideas without execution are a hobby, and I’m not in the hobby business.” Execution is a risk; it requires commitment, money, and manpower; but there’s no point going through the process of ideation if you’re not going to do anything with the end result. In the end, successful […].

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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 to Impact, Amplified with Planview

Planview

Today is an exciting day for the Spigit business and all the customers we serve, as we announce that Spigit has agreed to be acquired by Planview , the global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Spigit’s mission and commitment has long been to support our customers as they drive sustained innovation by engaging employees in crowdsourced ideation and managing the entire innovation lifecycle.

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Steve Jobs Masterclass in Leadership via this 5 Second Strategy

Innovation Excellence

One of the simplest and most powerful things you can do as a leader takes almost no time at all. I have a confession. I’m a pain in the ass (arse, for my colleagues speaking proper English) to work with. I thrive on impossible challenges and expect those I work with to do the same.

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Are you the only one in your company who is passionate about innovation?

IdeaSpies

Employees could contribute many more ideas than they do now You might think that you're the only one in your group who is passionate about innovation however many more are- they're just not being heard. IdeaSpies Enterprise , a platform for ideas that will improve business performance, has revealed the results of an Employee Innovation Survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed.

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Innovate Much? Then, EPIC Is for You!

BrainZooming

Hello, and happy Monday! Emma here. You may remember me as the woman who so disliked conferences that Mike felt compelled to write a blog post for her. And that’s okay if you do — but you should know that I no longer dislike them. Along with all 23 of those helpful tips for introverts in that post, what helped was attending the right conferences.

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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.