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What exactly is Open Innovation?

Braineet

Here is my take on what open innovation really is and how you can use it to boost creativity in your company.

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Why the Corporate Antibodies are Innovation’s Best Friend

Wellspring

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Going Beyond the Business Model Canvas

Braden Kelley

For decades when business people and aspiring entrepreneurs came up with an idea and became serious about commercializing it, they would, by default, create a business plan.

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Don't break the rules - become flexible and agile

Jeffrey Phillips

I've read yet another good and insightful piece on success in digital transformation, which relies on an unfortunate metaphor - one about "breaking the rules". I've been around consulting just long enough to have "broken the rules" in the business process re-engineering wave, the ERP wave, the CRM wave, the Six Sigma wave, the innovation wave and now the digital transformation wave.

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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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Checking for the global pulse of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. This GII report investigates and reports on 129 countries and then analyzes and ranks them accordingly. When you are caught up in generating innovation within a business these sorts of reports can often pass you by as not so relevant to your everyday job of innovation.

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Best Project Management and Tracking Tools

IdeaScale

IdeaScale encourages all of your employees to be innovative and create ideas no matter their role in the company. Employees are bound to become engaged when they feel valued and are able to contribute their ideas to your business. With IdeaScale, you’ll have a place to put all of your employees’ brightest ideas, but how do you keep track of the progress of them afterwards?

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What To Do When Your Startup Stops Feeling Like A Family

Digital Tonto

As a business grows, leadership and culture need to evolve. That won’t simply happen all by itself. You have to put in the time and effort to make it so. Related posts: How Growth Can Kill a. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Create a Leadership-Development Plan in 9 Steps

CMOE

A leadership-development plan is a detailed blueprint of the professional development and learning activities you’re going to engage in during a certain period of time. Its goal is to improve your leadership abilities. It’s important that your leadership-development plan be well-written, which can take effort, structured thinking, and collaboration.

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Best Practices for Leading Innovation

IdeaScale

For innovation leadership to be more than just empty words, companies must understand innovation, determine the best ways to encourage it, be willing to put resources behind it, and understand the importance of the word “practices” in the term “best practices.”. Best practices can’t just be words on a page either. They have to be put to work every day if they are to have any effect.

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Ten Types of Innovation: 30 new case studies for 2019

Idea to Value

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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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Successful Kids Are Taught This Most Important Lesson

Innovation Excellence

Our kids look to us for answers, advice, and guidance, but what if the best advice was letting them figure it out? If you’re a parent I’m about to push you outside of your comfort zone. One day your child will look at you, with disappointment, perhaps even anger, and say, “Why didn’t you force.

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Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation

InnovationManagement

One of the reasons why so many crowdsourced innovation programs struggle is because it is difficult for innovators to gather, process, select and implement ideas on a continuous basis. The post Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Innovation Leadership by Organizational Role

IdeaScale

For innovation to genuinely become part of an organization’s DNA, everyone within the organization must understand and practice innovation in the context of their responsibilities. Exactly how people do this will vary, depending on their role within the organization. Think of innovation as a textile or a fabric. With textiles, warp and weft are the components that turn individual threads into a cohesive fabric.

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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

Commercialising and communicating academic research leads to more relevant research that improves lives and provides solutions to our global dilemmas. Raising the profile of research, either through commercialisation or communication, results in academics building relationships and establishing networks both within and outside their field. Exchanging ideas and getting feedback in this way encourages thinking in more practical terms.

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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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Six Trends Shaping the Future of Health Care

Innovation Excellence

The healthcare industry is an ecosystem. So are the companies disrupting it. This article is one more in a series I call Everything Transformed where I’m highlighting the disruptive forces revolutionizing just about every industry on the planet, including packaging, travel and hospitality, industrial safety, and more. This time it’s healthcare.

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The Top 5 Workplace-Productivity Killers

CMOE

While the beautifully designed spaces and free coffee of the modern workplace might not look like a 19 th century sweatshop, it might still feel that way to employees slogging through their to-do lists. If you feel like there simply isn’t enough time in the day for everything you need to do, the answer could be putting some techniques in place to optimize productivity and cut distraction from your working life.

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Business Model Shifts: A Sneak Peek at the Invincible Company

Strategyzer Innovation

Have you heard? We’re writing a new book. The Invincible Company. The book builds upon Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design. And it takes a deep dive into how world-class companies continuously reinvent their business models. In Business Model Generation we discussed business model patterns, and in The Invincible Company we are taking this one step further with Business Model Shifts and Transformations — how existing companies reinvent themselves to stay competitive in a rapidl

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The Battle for Customers

Beyond the Obvious

Odds are that you and your competitors are actually competing in two distinct ways. The obvious battle is the one to win customers from each other. The less obvious, but equally important, one is the battle for the resources required to produce your product. We touched on the concept of unexpected jolts, and how the […].

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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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How a Shortage of Innovation Leads to Unemployment

Innovation Excellence

Some believe that robots will take over all our jobs and therefore innovation (specifically in the area of robots) will cause unemployment. But in reality, it’s the other way around. You may be familiar with the product life cycle diagram. Every product (and when I say “product” I also include service, process, or business model).

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NIST PSCR 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting

Yet2

I recently attended the NIST PSCR 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting from July 9 th -11 th. I was very honored to get to speak on one of the featured plenary panels where I discussed a project yet2 did for NIST on the benefits of prototyping devices for first responders in virtual reality. This was a great event to not only hear more about NIST’s work and advancements, but also to hear directly from first responders about technology that will make their job easier and safer.

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70:20:10 Rule of Innovation

ITONICS

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to innovate at scale. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? Or maybe entering new markets with existing products? Many organizations have adopted the 70:20:10 model to drive innovation.

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Understanding Data Governance and Who Should Own It

Acuvate

Introduction. Data governance is the foundation for managing data efficiently and making the organization’s data reliable and trustworthy. The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. The aim of data governance is to: Minimize risks of data inconsistency and breach.

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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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Leaders Need Members – Optimizing versus Maximising

Innovation Excellence

I help businesses innovate their business more quickly than they innovate their products. What that means is I help businesses modernize their leadership to become more coaching and co-constructive. I help businesses create cooperation across silos. I help businesses engage their customers, to co-create their products. And I help businesses to integrate their commercial and.

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Change Management vs. Change Leadership: Which One Makes Sense for Your Business?

Rebel & Reason

At some point, every enterprise must confront one of the biggest challenges faced by modern organizations across the world: Change. Or, more specifically, successful change. In today's rapidly evolving business terrain, true corporate rebels recognize that without effectively and successfully incorporating a culture that embraces change within their companies, failure is almost imminent.

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70:20:10 Rule of Innovation

ITONICS

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? Or maybe entering new markets with existing products? Many organizations have adopted the 70:20:10 model to drive innovation.

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Slow down and move ahead - sounds like summer to me.

Focused Momentum

A slower pace, time to reconnect with friends and family, spending more time out of doors, or finally setting off on a trip months in the planning; these are all hallmarks of the summer months. Summer is also a time to start planning for next year. A bummer? Maybe. Too nerdy? Absolutely. However, also super smart.

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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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So, if patients are customers, how do you sell to them?

Innovation Excellence

Consumerization of sick care is on everyone’s lips. I think patient consumerism, i.e. the belief that if given the right information, patient-consumers will make smart sick care choices based on value , is a myth. However, since the holy grail is changing doctor and patient behavior to move sick care to healthcare, we should learn from.

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Handshake vs Heart Attack

Tembosocial

PICTURE IT: a customer walks into a bank and has a heart attack. A teller jumps over the wicket to revive them, winning the admiration of onlookers and the client's entire financial portfolio. WHAT A STORY!

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ITONICS at the Innovation Campus in Berlin

ITONICS

Since this year, ITONICS is part of the further training program Innovation Campus of zero360 GmbH and Gründerszene. The Innovation Campus is aimed at managers, professionals, and innovation drivers across all industries and combines project-based learning modules with expert lectures from practice. In four consecutive modules, the participants are trained to become innovation lead.

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How’s Your Lean Software Implementation Working Out?

Kainexus

We’re not going to lie. Implementing any kind of software solution in an organization is not easy. First, you must make sure you select a solution that will actually help address whatever challenge is at hand. Then you have to get it implemented and work out the kinks (there are always kinks). You have to get users trained, and then you face the biggest hurdle of them all – getting people to use the system.

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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.