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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? It’s no wonder that many experienced innovation workers struggle to find an effective way to prioritize features.

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The Responsibilities of a Leader

Rmukesh Gupta

Observe: As leaders it is our responsibility to observe what is happening inside the organisation, within his team, with the people who we are leading. It is our responsibility to observe what is happening at the periphery of our organisation, with our customers (internal or external). And to observe what is happening within the industry that we operate in and at the intersections of the different industries that we might be participating in.

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How to Build & Grow a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Kainexus

Company culture is what makes one organization different from the next. The team's shared values, goals, and expectations contribute to a thriving organizational culture. Leaders who are dedicated to continuous improvement make it the cornerstone of their organization's culture.

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Law Firm places Innovation at the Core of its Purpose and Strategy

HYPE Innovation

For some organizations, an innovation program is a “nice-to-have”, sometimes struggling for time and attention against other corporate initiatives. This is not the case at Linklaters, one of the UK’s “Magic Circle” law firms – which places innovation at the core of its purpose and embeds innovation at the foundation of the firm’s strategy. In this final blog of our three-part series on innovation in the legal sector, learn how Linklaters is transforming legal services throughout the organization

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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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Podcast S6E140: Prof Michael Mumford – The latest in creativity research

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with current editor of the Creativity Research Journal, Prof Michael D Mumford. Dr. Michael D. Mumford is the George Lynn Cross Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma where he directs the Center for Applied Social Research. We speak about the current state of creativity research, the link between creativity and leadership, and where the field is going.

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Change Consultants Recommend You Do These 3 Things. Don’t.

Digital Tonto

There is an inherent flaw in human nature that has endowed us with a burning desire to convince skeptics. So it shouldn’t be surprising that change consultants focus on persuasion. Nothing validates. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Do Your Incorporate Integrity In Your Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

Overview : Integrity in business is ensuring your actions conform with your statements. In order to maintain integrity as part of your innovation process, you should look closely at the spoken and unspoken promises made by your innovation strategy and act on them to the fullest extent possible. What Is Integrity? On the most basic level, integrity is “walking the walk.

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The Einstellung Effect: Why knowledge can make you stupider

Idea to Value

I want you to do a couple of short mental tests with me. It will only take a minute and you will be fascinated by the results. You will be fascinated by what this teaches you about innovation and creativity. Let me explain the rules. You have some water jugs of different sizes which each hold a known maximum amount of water, and I give you a target amount of water to end up with in a target water container.

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Society 2045’s Collaborative Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Collaborative Thinking. We are in a world where social ethics are in a dangerous state, and the earth’s resource pool is getting emptied. Can we save our future? This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society works. Society 2045 is a community of people from around the world seeking to co-discover a vision for the year 2045.

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Wisdom and Leadership

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the key responsibility of a leader is to be able to perceive the difference between reality and what appears to be the reality, i.e., we need leaders who are wise. The question then is what is wisdom and is there a simple way to becoming wise. An old Indian metaphor can come to our help. It is that time of the day when it is neither dark nor light.

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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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GE, Toshiba, J&J: Reorganizing Is Not Transformation

Bill Fischer

GE, Toshiba and Johnson and Johnson (J&J) have each announced serious restructuring, if not transformation. In each instance, major transformation is certainly called for, if not way overdue, but in each instance, simple reorganization will not be enough to realize the possibilities imaginable.

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The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work

Idea to Value

One of the most important pieces of creativity and innovation research from the past couple of decades can be found in the book The Progress Principle: Using small wins to ignite joy, engagement and creativity at work. In it, authors Professor Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer analysed nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies.

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What Are the Real Consequences of a 4-Hour Workweek?

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Work has become a four-letter word, but what will the net effect be on a workforce that clocks fewer hours, takes longer to master skills and 'opts out' of culture-shaping efforts?

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

What if you pilot test your innovations? Most stories follow one fixed pathway or Canon and the author rarely give you a glimpse into how things could have turned out differently. But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter.

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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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9 Easy to Deploy Continuous Quality Improvement Tools

Kainexus

Quality management programs are often associated with large organizations, such as automotive manufacturing or large healthcare systems. These organizations often have teams dedicated to quality control, and they may leverage specific business process methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma. While that level of sophistication may not be possible or even necessary for your business, there are still many continuous quality improvement tools that are easy to implement and can have an enormous impac

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To Change the World You Must First Learn Something About It

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Anybody who has waited for a traffic light to change, in the middle of the night at an empty intersection, knows the urge to rebel. There is always a tension between order and freedom.

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Vision Canvas Templates for Creating Company or Product Visions

InnovationTraining.org

Find vision templates that can help your organization focus on company or product direction and goals. Understanding your direction and future goals is essential – after all, this road-map planning builds the vision needed to make these goals a reality. Whether you are planning a new project or reinforcing your brand, vision planning templates are useful ways to stay focused during your planning sessions and produce a well-thought out statement of objectives to move you forward.

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#1: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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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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If you have 'An idea to change history' you can earn up to 250 thousand pesos in this initiative of History Channel

Entrepreneur - Innovation

If you have a project to improve the world through technology and innovation, History Channel can reward your creativity. See how to sign up for the 'An idea to change history' initiative.

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Black Friday Shows No Loyalty

Innovation Excellence

Marketers love to hold up points-based loyalty programs as proof of their contribution to their company’s financial success through repeat purchase behavior. But traditional loyalty programs are nothing more than complicated, and expensive to manage, discount programs.

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The Role of Discipline in Innovation

Viima

Innovation is, without a doubt, a creative endeavor. However, many people still think it’s all about creativity. There’s a magical a-ha moment, and the rest is history. Well, as we’ve explained before , that’s just not true. Those that have really been trying to innovate know that there is much more hard work than there is fun and games in the process of creating and scaling an innovation.

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

What if you pilot test your innovations? Most stories follow one fixed pathway or Canon and the author rarely give you a glimpse into how things could have turned out differently. But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter.

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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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the future of work: organizing around ideas instead of location

helloFUTURE

One of the most interesting innovations to come out of the coronavirus crisis (and it seems that nothing ever changes unless there is a crisis) is that the myth of location has been dispelled – we no longer need to gather in the same physical space in order to do much work. Sure, there is… The post the future of work: organizing around ideas instead of location appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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Advances in the Management of Worthless Meeting Syndrome

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers Now that we have all been stuck inside for almost two years, many of us are suffering from an exacerbation of worthless meeting syndrome (WMS) , most recently remotely.

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The Best Creativity Advice We Heard in 2021

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Tips and quotes from contributors and interviewees about how to fuel your creative side.

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#1: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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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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Insanely Interesting People: #9 Matt Church

Rmukesh Gupta

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory.

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How to succeed as a marketing project manager

Cascade Strategy

Marketing project managers are an uncanny mix between artists and scientists.

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The Power Of Purpose-Driven Innovation In A Pandemic

ITONICS

Caroline Snyman, Group Innovation Lead at one of South Africa’s leading alcoholic beverage manufacturers, talks in our Innovation Rockstars Podcast about the power of purpose-driven innovation and the smart move they made to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tec de Monterrey presents Faculty of Excellence, an initiative that will add more global impact professors to its faculty

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The first teachers to join Tec through this initiative are: Raj Sisodia, Per-Olof Berggren and Marc Madou.

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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.