Destination Innovation

JANUARY 4, 2019

Until 1954 there was only one television channel in the UK. It was the publicly owned BBC. In that year the government auctioned licences for commercial TV stations. These would be regional operations which could offer advertising on TV for the first time. Various companies were interested in this opportunity and they naturally focussed on the regions with the best demographics – it seemed natural that rich regions would generate more advertising revenue.

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Stephen Shapiro

JANUARY 3, 2019

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2019

Companies come to IdeaScale for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce. Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and act on great ideas when they arrive, as well.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Imagine getting your ears chopped off for being innovative. Back in the 17th century, innovators were considered troublemaking disruptors of peace – and there was a price to pay for that. Fortunately, things have changed! Nowadays, it's not only our bosses who want us to be innovative and move the organization forward, but it's also ourselves. How can we change and improve things in a way no one has done within our organization?

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The bluff is a tactic often used to deceive an opponent into believing that your hand is stronger than it really is. For example, when playing poker, you might bet heavily with a weak hand in an attempt to convince other players to fold. Admiral Graf Spee. In 1939 at the outbreak of WW2, Hitler ordered the German Navy, to intercept and destroy Allied merchant ships.

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Exago

JANUARY 2, 2019

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together our clients' pieces of wisdom to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 5. The post Lesson 5 from true innovation managers: promoting the initiative is essential appeared first on Exago.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2019

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2018 was our seventh full year of operations. To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2018 from our archive of nearly 7,500 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

Were you bombarded with emails in the last week all about coming up with your special focus word, personal exploration, or individual success plan for the new year? EVERYONE seemed to be on the same program based on our anxiety about hitting the ground running with the simplest way to focus our attention throughout the year. One email even offered an automated word-of-the-year generator, just in case you are unable to imagine a word to shape the next 12 months.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JANUARY 2, 2019

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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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 1, 2019

At the start of 2019 I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2019! Whatever in life we are planning to do to be happy and healthy, we have different options to choose when we are buying a product or a service. Do we always choose the most sustainable option? The short answer is no. Shim et al. (2018) show there can be many hurdles in our decision making proces that prevent us from choosing eco-friendly or sustainable products and services (see graph).

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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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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 4, 2019

Matthew Guidarelli is an adviser for entrepreneurs across industries; he supports their venture development throughout the startup lifecycle — helping founders build world-positive companies that combine profit & purpose. He was previously part of the leadership team and participated in the evolution & expansion of the Harvard Innovation Labs.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, the ability to commercialize products quickly and efficiently is imperative. Companies that successfully bring new products to market rapidly, benefit from having a leg up on their competition while diminishing the negative effects of shrinking product life cycles. However, moving a product from lab to market is a process that in itself could use re-invention.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

The key factor to help you leverage your business may be the combination of project management methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Scrum. Below you will learn how these two approaches can complement each other, their benefits and how to properly use them in your business. The Benefits of Design Thinking. Design Thinking respects and understands the needs of the end user.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 3, 2019

Industry-disrupting innovation only occurs every so often, and very rarely in steady and sustainable growth cycles. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of these disruptors, and it’s highly versatile. From picking the next song on Spotify and predicting favorable stock trades, to robot assisted surgery and disease diagnosis, AI is taking every sector by storm.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2018

A survey conducted in 2010 by IBM Global Business Services revealed that a surprising 60% of global CEOs rated Creativity as the most important leadership quality needed in the coming years. Creativity beat out both integrity and global thinking in the study of more than 1,500 corporate heads and public sector leaders in 60 nations.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 4, 2019

Innovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. Like Lincoln, I ultimately win, but painfully fail many, many times before I “git-er done” (FYI: DIY = Do It Yourself.). As an innovation consultant who is a facilitator, team builder, idea person, and strategist, my need for hands-on engineering skills are minimal.

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 3, 2019

Our list of sites for "big company" innovation in the Bay Area looks at the region though the lens of public companies investing in R&D, innovation, or corporate venture capital.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 4, 2019

Marketing a small business may seem to be a daunting, expensive task. But it doesn’t have to be so. These expert marketing tips specifically for small business owners offer proven strategies you can apply immediately to start reaching out to your customers.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the doomsday hype about AI, but the truth is that it may well be the doomsday antidote. AI has been getting a lot of attention lately. Much of it is fueled by the visibility it has received from a large number of well-respected people who have been warning.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 2, 2019

To thrive, innovation requires a culture that supports human-centered exploration and experimentation. Rogue corporate entrepreneurs are not effective at the kind of repeatable innovation a business needs for continuous improvement and growth. While the passion and drive of employees is a necessary part of innovation, it is not sufficient. Without an organizational culture that encourages innovative ideas to be tried, tested, sometimes failed and always learned from, those driven employee’s effo

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 2, 2019

Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, Steve Blank shares how companies can set up a system that fosters innovation and effectively creates change.

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ITONICS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The increasing pressure to innovate through mass digitization of economy and society demands a paradigm shift from incremental innovation to disruptive and strategic innovations. The post How Cisco ignited a company-wide Startup Culture appeared first on.

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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 Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2019

In Mindset, psychologist Carol Dweck argues, based on decades of research, that how we see ourselves is a major factor in what we can achieve. Whether it is children in school or executives in a boardroom, the mindset people adopt has a significant influence on how they perform. Yet what she doesn’t say is that.

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Innocentive

JANUARY 4, 2019

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, Antarctica has lost about 119 billion tons of ice from 1993 and 2016, and Global sea levels have rose about 8 inches in the last century. These are just a few of the effects of climate change highlighted by NASA. In addition to rising temperatures and sea levels, researchers have also noted increases in extreme weather events , which include heat waves, drought, hea

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 3, 2019

In our "Building Idea Challenges that Work" conference call, Kate O'Keeffe, founder of Cisco's Hyper Innovation Living Lab (CHILL), shares how she built a 48-hour bootcamp with impact.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

As we discussed previously, Prototyping is an inherent part of Design Thinking. At MJV’s Innovation Workshops, better known as the DT Experience, multidisciplinary groups have the opportunity to create prototypes in several different formats: paper schemes, storyboards, mockups, role-playing, among others. Creating these representation models allows you to demonstrate how a product or service should work in practice and validate hypotheses with the users.

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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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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2018

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.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 3, 2019

In today’s competitive world, it’s no secret that organizations struggle to come up with competent and innovative solutions to facilitate growth and stay ahead in the game. One of the best ways of improving service, product or efficiency parameters is to tap into the effective intelligence of your employees. Employees are the front runners in driving any specific initiatives of the organization.

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Wellspring

JANUARY 3, 2019

For most organizations, the R&D pipeline represents the aspirations and goals of the company. As such, it is typically the sole source of future product developments and potential innovation, as most organizations do not fully realize the potential of external innovation to complement their research efforts. Given this reality, pipeline management is a crucial organizational process that needs to be managed, measured, and optimized in order to generate consistent returns.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 3, 2019

To meet this need for innovation in processes, we present a full path to analyze problems and implement new actions. The combinatorial approach to Business Intelligence with Design Thinking achieves an unprecedented level of comprehension of corporate realities, and it does so in a concrete way, incorporating the subjective factors of the human relationships involved.

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