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It Doesn’t Have to Be the Way It Is

Tim Kastelle

Innovation is subversive Are you happy with the way things are right now? Probably not, if you’re reading blog posts about innovation. There’s likely something bothering you. It might be something small, or large. If we’re not happy with the status quo, there’s only one thing that will change it – doing something differently.

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The 10 Most Successful Innovation Blog Posts of 2017

HYPE Innovation

After we have just jumped into 2018, full of new year resolutions and a huge agenda on challenges everyone wants to stand up to, we created an overview of our most successful blog posts of 2017, hopefully being able to support your upcoming projects with some insights and valuable advices. Best of 2017: What a year it has been! A re-designed blog, lots of new reports and whitepapers and not to forget, the blog posts - 45 new ones in total.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 4: Idea Implementation

IdeaScale

How to bring ideas to life? After collecting, refining and reviewing ideas, now comes the big moment; you’re ready to start implementing those ideas. This is the fun part, for most of us, where all the work pays off, and you finally see where your idea is heading and how it might change your business. But even at this late stage, there’s still a lot of room for innovation and experimentation, and you need to leave room for creativity as ideas become reality.

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Why leaders with a clear vision connect innovation and strategic cost-cutting

Exago

A successful cost-cutting strategy is connected to an organisation’s capacity to evolve, to innovate, and to do it as whole. Companies can, in fact, keep innovating in ways that do not require high investments in new products’ research and development, and which can save substantial amounts of time and money. The post Why leaders with a clear vision connect innovation and strategic cost-cutting appeared first on Exago.

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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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Want to Improve Consumer Credit? Keep the Focus on FICO, Elevate Says

Tim Kastelle

EXCLUSIVE— Alternatives to the traditional FICO credit score have become a popular theme for emerging fintechs, but will it actually help consumers improve their credit? Credit solutions provider Elevate, however, will focus on improving its customer’s relationship with their FICO score in 2018 as well as on alternative methods of scoring. “Consumers are more focused […].

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The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads)

BrainZooming

The post The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The FREE, Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library Has Arrived! New for 2018, the Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library of FREE Downloads ! I’ve been blogging since 2014, and I’ve always tried to create free and useful resources for educators.

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The Best Product Person of 2017 is…

100%Open

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 8th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Melissa Perri. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri. ( tweet ).

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It Doesn’t Have to Be the Way It Is

Tim Kastelle

Innovation is subversive Are you happy with the way things are right now? Probably not, if you’re reading blog posts about innovation. There’s likely something bothering you. It might be something small, or large. If we’re not happy with the status quo, there’s only one thing that will change it – doing something differently.

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Why You Don’t Want Brand Strategy and Execution from the Same Partner

BrainZooming

A potential client reached out to us. He was a client team member on a customer experience strategy engagement several years ago. He has moved to a new role leading marketing for an organization shifting from the B2C to B2B market. They need a compelling brand position, messaging, and a content marketing strategy that grows their volume of interested prospects and leads to strong growth to satisfy the global company that just acquired the brand.

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NHIA considers tax on sugar, cigarette to fund collapsing health insurance scheme

IdeaScale

The National Health Insurance Authority may impose taxes on sugar in order to deter people from taking the product and raise funds to support the ailing health insurance scheme. NHIA Chief Executive Officer, Dr Samuel Annor said the decision has been informed by the increasing number of reported cases of sugar-related ailments reported at health facilities.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. To celebrate we've pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017 from our archive of nearly 7,000 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors. Click the link if you missed.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be the Way It Is

Tim Kastelle

Innovation is subversive Are you happy with the way things are right now? Probably not, if you’re reading blog posts about innovation. There’s likely something bothering you. It might be something small, or large. If we’re not happy with the status quo, there’s only one thing that will change it – doing something differently.

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Idea Magnets and their Creative Thinking Formulas – Michael Stipe

BrainZooming

“As soon as he becomes comfortable with something, he invents something else to be nervous about.” – Bill Berry on Michael Stipe of R.E.M. (circa 1995). Are you too comfortable to generate new creative ideas? Would inventing something to make you nervous align with your creative thinking formula and attract more creative ideas? If so, what do you need to invent to make you nervous?

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Daniel Burrus’ Top 20 Technology-Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2018 and Beyond

Daniel Burrus

There has never been a shortage of trends. The real problem for you is figuring out which ones will happen so that you know where to place your strategic bets. I have been publishing a list of top trends since 1983, as well as speaking and writing about their future impact, and if you have read any of my seven books or thousands of articles over the decades, you know they have been highly accurate.

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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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Voting Open – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017

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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How to Use Gamification in Mobile Apps: A Case Study

Boxes and Arrows

Gamification, or the addition of game-like elements to anything that isn’t a game, pops up all over the design world. In my last post for Boxes and Arrows , I focused specifically on gamification in mobile app onboarding. The moment when users first open your app is critical to the app’s success , and you can use gamification as a tool to get a new user through the learning curve.

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Smarter Groups Through Learned Ignorance

100%Open

The more you know, the more you know that you don’t know. For instance, how well do you think you know about how a bicycle works on a scale of 0-10 (where 0 is nothing and 10 is everything)? Having assessed your level of knowledge about bicycles, now complete the following sketch of a bicycle below adding pedals, chain and frame etc? Now using your sketch can you now give a detailed and causal explanation of exactly how you think a bike works?

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Innovation SOP: Overcoming the Hurdles of Digital Transformation

Qmarkets

Welcome back to Qmarkets’ Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. Digital Transformation is something that everyone needs to do, but is not always carried out properly, for a number of very different reason. This week, we take a look at the obstacles standing in the way of successful digital transformation and provide a strategy for your own successful digital transformation.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Vulnerable Leaders Inspire with Authenticity and Humanity

Innovation Excellence

Personal vulnerability is considered a liability for leaders. Conventional wisdom holds that it is difficult to lead or negotiate or make demands from a position of perceived weakness. In business, vulnerability is generally seen as weakness. Recent headlines scream for business to avoid vulnerability or suffer the consequences: “30% of Auto Parts Retailers’ Business Is Vulnerable […].

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Hack: Organize Fuckup Championships and celebrate failure

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Hack: Organize Fuckup Championships and celebrate failure appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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6 ways to grow your curiosity

Rmukesh Gupta

Holding a curious mindset is a great starting point when you’re leading your team or organization. If you’re in a truly new space, you won’t always know the answers. Your team won’t either. You’re going to venture into the unknown together. Curiosity is a great way to lead that charge.”. –Tim Brown, IDEO CEO. Premise: It is human tendency to look for answers or solutions, the moment a question or a challenge is posed.

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It’s time to stretch yourself.

Mike Shipulski

If the work doesn’t stretch you, choose new work. Don’t go overboard and make all your work stretch you and don’t choose work that will break you. There’s a balance point somewhere between 0% and 100% stretch and that balance point is different for everyone and it changes over time. Point is, seek your balance point. To find the right balance point, start with an assessment of your stretch level.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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The Value in Personal Innovation Learning Journeys

Innovation Excellence

If you don’t have time, how can you learn? We are in need increasingly, of faster understanding, to quickly learn or resolve an immediate need, or we have this determination or essential requirement within our innovation role to deepen our knowledge and understanding of innovation. These are usually split into two parts, called are “micro.

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Hack: Run daily standups (or twice a week to start with)

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Hack: Run daily standups (or twice a week to start with) appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Customizing Beyond The Obvious

Beyond the Obvious

I don’t know what your needs are. I don’t know what drove you to pick up Beyond The Obvious, read it, and (hopefully) work through the exercises. It’s possible you weren’t completely sure of your needs at the beginning of the book either. However, you should now have a sense of how you can use […].

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How ITONICS’ customers practice trend and technology management

ITONICS

Having a good instinct for new trends can be worth a fortune for companies. Who wouldn’t have wanted to be the originator of the idea for Facebook or for programming the first online garage sale? Innovation does not only involve expenses, it also pays. It is, therefore, all the more surprising that even major corporations frequently tend to rather follow their gut instincts instead of proceeding systematically and on a sound database when it comes to trend scouting.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of December 2017

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most.

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Open Innovation and IP Contamination: Are you at risk?

Yet2

Open Innovation (OI) refers to the practice of accelerating innovation by leveraging ideas and technologies from outside sources. Since the introduction of the term in 2003, OI has become a way of being for companies looking to keep an edge on the competition, from large corporations to small and medium size enterprises. The blossoming of an OI community, expansion of the crowdsourcing craze, and accessibility to a wider pool of startups, universities and inventors all encourage companies larg

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In Diversity, We Trust

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: There is a lot of talk about the importance of building diversity in our workforce and how it is to be considered as an investment in top talent, new ideas, and better connections. Then there is a lot of talk about integrating millennials in our workforce and giving them a lot of exposure and opportunities to bring in their perspective to the business.

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Hack: Ask 5 Whys

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Hack: Ask 5 Whys appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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!