Leapfrogging
APRIL 25, 2022
In 1998, Chuck Templeton started a company called EasyEats.com. I went to high school with Chuck. We discussed the business plan which included providing recipes, food critic review, and much more. He eventually honed the scope and changed the name to OpenTable. As you probably know, the company would become an icon for what it meant to create a two-sided marketplace business model.
Idea to Value
APRIL 25, 2022
My vacuum cleaner sucked, badly. By which I mean, it hardly sucked at all anymore. Years ago when I bought it, it was amazingly strong and picked up everything. Now it could hardly pick up crumbs. Over the years, performance just dropped over time. I could have bought a new vacuum cleaner (I dread to think of how many people would have done this). Instead, I got a new filter.
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Digital Tonto
APRIL 24, 2022
Traditionally, strategy has been seen as a game of chess. Wise leaders survey the board of play, plan their moves carefully and execute flawlessly. That’s always been a fantasy, but it was close. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
IdeaScale
APRIL 28, 2022
Highlights Despite seeming to appear out of nowhere, most great innovations are the culmination of years or even decades of work from multiple entities. Innovation strategy should be built around the idea of industry-changing innovation taking years and broken into smaller, more manageable goals. A well-designed innovation platform can help you maintain the momentum and [.
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Leapfrogging
APRIL 25, 2022
Harvard Research Suggests Pessimism Is Bad for Business. Replace pessimism with “calculated optimism” for better decision-making. Research from Harvard University looked at whether people were afraid of various situations or objects, such as being stuck in enclosed places or coming face-to-face with snakes. These same individuals were asked to estimate the number of fatalities each year for 12 different types of events, such as strokes, cancer, and floods.
Idea to Value
APRIL 29, 2022
Researchers have found that Zoom, Teams and other videoconference tools can stifle creativity. According to a new research study just published in Nature , collaborating with someone using screens instead of sitting face to face resulted in both participants being less creative. This was from a field and laboratory study looking at the creative performance of more than 600 people in a lab, and 1,490 engineers a company across offices in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.
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IdeaScale
APRIL 28, 2022
Highlights Despite seeming to appear out of nowhere, most great innovations are the culmination of years or even decades of work from multiple entities. Innovation strategy should be built around the idea of industry-changing innovation taking years broken into smaller, more manageable goals. A well-designed innovation platform can help you maintain the momentum and energy [.].
Leapfrogging
APRIL 25, 2022
You get what you measure, so make sure you’re tracking the right things. I’ve seen a lot of organizations create strategies, programs, and projects focused on optimizing operations, streamlining processes, and driving innovation. Leadership teams put lots of energy coming up with the next big thing. But amazingly few teams think about how they’ll measure results.
Idea to Value
APRIL 28, 2022
In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with Dr Margaret Webb from the University of Melbourne. Together with her co-author Dr Simon Cropper and Jay Olson, they created and released the Divergent Association Task , a new method to estimate the divergent creative potential of someone based simply on them entering a few words into an online form.
Kainexus
APRIL 27, 2022
If you look at any of the most popular business process improvement methodologies, you'll find that data visualization is a common theme. Kanban , for example, is focused on visualizing workflow. Fishbone diagrams are often used to uncover cause and effect, and histograms are used by Six Sigma practitioners and others. We want to introduce you to one more tool that can play an important role in the quest for continuous improvement, mind mapping.
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IdeaScale
APRIL 27, 2022
Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting failure as part of the process, and a willingness to discuss why ideas didn’t work. Providing the government with what it needs is an enormous [.].
Michael Michalko
APRIL 29, 2022
“What steps would you take,” a question in a college exam read, “in determining the height of a building, using an aneroid barometer?”. One student replied, “I would lower the barometer on a string and measure the string.” The student failed immediately. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.
Idea to Value
APRIL 26, 2022
Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming while still doing an activity, only to then realise you don’t remember anything that happened for a while. A classic example is that people have no idea what happened while they were travelling or commuting. You arrive at your destination and then realise you have no idea what was happening around you during the entire journey.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 27, 2022
When we see someone do something really well, it’s always tempting to try to emulate them. And this is clearly a smart strategy; humans have evolved to automatically copy the successful strategies of others.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
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Sopheon
APRIL 28, 2022
Without the appropriate culture, innovation can stall. The key is giving everyone ownership of a piece of the overall innovation puzzle. The post Creating a Culture of Innovation appeared first on Sopheon.
Michael Michalko
APRIL 26, 2022
Creativity icon. Line style symbol from productivity icon collection. Creativity creative element for logo, infographic, ux and ui. Attribute analysis breaks our propensity to operate at the highest level of generalization. We usually describe an object by listing its function. The way we see something is not inherent in the object itself — it grows out of experience and observation.
Christensen Institute
APRIL 26, 2022
In an interview with TechCrunch, David Yu, founder and CEO of e-commerce company Wasoko (formerly Sokowatch), explained that his company’s previous model “wasn’t efficient because Sokowatch couldn’t guarantee that the goods were delivered to the customer when they made orders.” . The company had developed an asset-light model and depended heavily on partners to fulfill orders.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 27, 2022
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack It’s been a tough two and a half for everyone since the COVID-19 crisis began.
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Wellspring
APRIL 26, 2022
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IdeaSpies
APRIL 23, 2022
Top 100 ideas 2021 copy A Positive Pandemic Plan was by far the most popular idea shared by IdeaSpies in 2021.
Christensen Institute
APRIL 28, 2022
As educators and administrators scramble to make up social and academic ground lost during the pandemic, there are increasing calls for setting aside time and resources for relationship building. Positive relationships are a proven lever to boost troubling attendance rates, to mitigate the effects of trauma, and to motivate students in their coursework.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 26, 2022
GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu The value of intangible assets in organizations is nowadays five times greater than the one of tangible assets.
Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified
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InnovationTraining.org
APRIL 25, 2022
These top ideation activity templates from Miro can be used when working remotely or in the same room. Whether you are working together in person or remotely, design thinking software tools such as Miro can help make the innovation process easier than ever. Miro is a fantastic resource for finding idea generation activity templates for everything from empathy mapping and design sprints to brainstorming.
Strategyzer Innovation
APRIL 27, 2022
We see many teams struggle with pricing and validating the viability of their products/services. How do you identify a price customers are willing to pay? What price will enable you to make enough profit? How do you find the right balance?
Christensen Institute
APRIL 26, 2022
Academic achievement alone will not position our youth for economic stability or mobility. Social capital—the relationships and resources that those relationships might offer—is a critical asset paired with skill in mobilizing that asset that education systems too often overlook when supporting youth in their transition into the workforce. In this virtual session at the ASU+GSV Summit, I spoke with four leaders in the education-to-employment space about why it’s crucial we support our students i
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 25, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell Change isn’t what it used to be. Where earlier generations had leaders like Gandhi, King and Mandela, today’s change efforts seem rudderless.
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Viima
APRIL 28, 2022
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. In fact, usually the only thing separating the winning innovators from the rest is execution. It makes all the difference in the world, and yet, it’s still a vastly underrated capability.
ITONICS
APRIL 28, 2022
The aerospace industry has historically been a paragon of innovation. Inventions from aviation and space agencies over the past 60 years have led the way for some of the most groundbreaking technologies we currently use on Earth.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
APRIL 23, 2022
How DeFi can provide coexistence between crypto and fiat.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 24, 2022
GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Are you stuck? The first step in making a career change is self reflection.
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