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Four things that are killing productivity in your office

Destination Innovation

What are the biggest barriers to productivity, efficiency and creativity at work? Which activities absorb the most time for the least return? In her book, The Innovation Revolution, Melissa Kennedy accuses four key suspects. Meetings. Typically people in organizations spend 15% of their time in meetings. For middle managers the figure is 35% and for senior managers it is 50%.

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Happy 10th birthday, Exago!

Exago

In a historic building in Lisbon, overlooking the Tagus river, Exago celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday, November 24. It was the perfect opportunity to bring together the people who are part of us and our history: our team (past and present), our clients and our partners. We would like to thank all those who […]. The post Happy 10th birthday, Exago!

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Platform models are the new order of our innovating business need

Paul Hobcraft

Credit: Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University. We have seen the incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Be these Apple, Google, eBay, Amazon, Android, Facebook, Microsoft, Alibaba, Salesforce, Uber, Airbnb, PayPal and many more, all becoming some of the hottest companies in value. They have built out their business on powerful platforms for us to simply connect into and draw down what we value.

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What your language says about your innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I've long championed the idea that to change the way people think, you've got to change the way they communicate. If you want big ideas, you need to encourage them, yes, but also talk about them in ways that open up dialog, thinking and idea generation to a much larger dimension. While language, word choice and conversation may not seem to have all that much impact on idea generation and innovation, in reality these are the building blocks of a corporate culture.

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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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Holiday Incentives – Let’s Get Festive!

IdeaScale

The holiday season is a great time to crowdsource, because creativity will be at its peak when people mix at holiday parties and share new ideas. But, it’s also a challenging time for engagement because there are plenty of competing priorities. To capture the energy of holiday season with lots of ideas, we recommend: Set a goal for idea submission. Set an incentive for idea submission. … and when it comes to outreach, keep it timely.

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Flexing Your (Underused) Creative Muscle: my podcast interview with the Innovation Engine

Idea to Value

I was recently interviewed for a podcast by Will Sherlin for his Innovation Engine Podcast , which I wanted to share with you in the embedded file above. Episode Highlights. Why do we need to strengthen our creative capabilities? Professor George Land commissioned a longitudinal study following the same group of people over time to see what happened as they got older.

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Starting the innovation fire

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been thinking, long and hard, about the correct analogy to describe a lot of corporate innovation efforts. I'm sorry to say that the best analogy I can come up with is a campfire. I hope you'll stick with me on this, because I think it can be illuminating (couldn't resist the pun). Most of us who participated in scouts or went to a summer camp where they had a bonfire are familiar with the idea of a campfire.

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Top Resources for Driving Engagement

IdeaScale

A key goal at Open Nation this year was to share best practices and top resources for driving engagement. To prepare for Open Nation, our team collected and shared some of our favorite resources on community engagement strategies. Now, we want to share them with you: Webinar: How to Engage the Crowd. Take home message: Plan for multiple touch points throughout a challenge both in terms of channel outreach and messaging.

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Bet Your Business On A Platform

Digital Tonto

The basic laws of business have not changed Related posts: The Platform Fallacy. Today, Every Business Must Transform Itself Into A Platform. Is Your Platform Burning? Don’t Be Fooled By These 3. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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8 Strategic Thinking Experiment Starters for Anticipating the Class of 2025

BrainZooming

Matt Britton, a millennial generation expert , spoke about the anticipating the Class of 2025 as the keynote speaker on the closing day of the October 2017 Social Media Strategies Summit in New York. His keynote got us thinking about how today’s ten-year-olds (the Class of 2025) will change the landscape for brands, following in the wake of the impact millennials have created.

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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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Net Neutrality & Failing Business Models

Mills-Scofield

The current fight over Net Neutrality is critical to the openness of the Internet, long supported by some of us that helped make the Internet an every-day utility. It is also the dying gasps of a very old business model - one between networks and end points/content providers. Quick History Lesson : Circa 1990s - a fight was breaking out between the networks (e.g, AT&T) and end-points (e.g, Microsoft) over control of information and intelligence.

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Know Your Innovation Stakeholders

IdeaScale

In order to involve key stakeholders early, you must first understand who your stakeholder are. I recently read a book called Crucial Conversations. In the chapter called “Move to Action,” the authors describe how to identify potential participants in a decision. The authors recommend asking four questions: Who cares? Who has a vested interest in the subject matter of your crowdsourcing campaign?

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Winners Announced for the Nature Conservancy Brainstorm Challenge

Betterific

We’re pleased to announce the winners of The Nature Conservancy’s Demarcate the Lake innovation challenge. Out of 80 ideas submitted, 25 were considered “unique and actionable.” That’s a 31% quality rating! Amazing. Because of the scientific nature of this challenge, we were worried that the Betterific community would not be suited for the challenge.

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29 Ideas to Speed Up Your Strategic Planning Process Right Now!

BrainZooming

Are you still trying to finish your strategic planning process for next year ? Is it to that point where your biggest worry is being about to call the plan strategic without making other executives fall on the floor laughing hysterically? If this sounds like your situation (and we know, based on searches many of you are using to peruse Brainzooming strategic planning content, that at least SOME of you are facing this challenge), then the new eBook from The Brainzooming Group is the answer: Right

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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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How Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) may replace the traditional Chief Information Officer (CIO)

hackerearth

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. Of the CIOs surveyed in India, 51 percent reported that they were heading innovation, whereas 49 percent reported that they were leading digital transformation. The survey collected data from 3,160 CIOs in 98 countries, covering all major industries.

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Why R&D Spending has Almost No Correlation to Innovation

Innovation Excellence

A newly released infographic by Visual Capitalist shows that while the US leads in the amount of dollars spent on research and development ($463 billion), it only came in fourth place with the percentage of GDP spent on R&D (2.79 percent), just over half of the GDP percentage invested by South Korea. Beyond Korea, the US is trailing Japan and Germany.

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When It Comes to Trends, Know Which ones to Trust.

Daniel Burrus

Mention the word “trend” to some people and you may receive a smirk in response. Why? Because many people simply don’t trust trends. That can be a significant mistake. Some trends are, in fact, very trustworthy—so much so that they can be considered future certainties. Others are somewhat less certain, but open to influence. Understanding and embracing this different view of trends can unlock enormous opportunities for both you and your organization. 4 Ways to Spot a Trendy Trend .

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Ten Years Now and Mike Brown Has a Blog

BrainZooming

Ten years into the Brainzooming blog , it seemed right to have someone else tell the story from a fresh perspective. Emma Alvarez Gibson, who helped shaped the Brainzooming brand before it even launched , is exactly the person. Ten Years Now and Mike Brown Has a Blog – Emma Alvarez Gibson. It’s 2009, and I’ve just gone into business for myself, doing branding and copywriting.

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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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Six Myths about Open Innovation

Yet2

You have heard about Open Innovation in the news, but are hesitant to implement OI because you think it won’t be successful. Below are 6 myths about open innovation that will make you rethink your reluctance. Nobody Has Success Using Open Innovation. No success? Open innovation has brought significant benefits to companies from enterprise to startup size, including GE, Lego, Samsung, and even NASA.

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Preparing for an AI Driven World

Innovation Excellence

Even if dystopian visions of robots taking our jobs are overblown, Josh Sutton, Global Head, Data & Artificial Intelligence at Publicis.Sapient sees significant disruption ahead. AI will transform every industry and not every organization will be able to make the shift. The time to prepare is now.

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Why is collaboration vital for innovation?

hackerearth

A couple of years ago, there was an article in Forbes which said, “innovation is often produced over time with a lot of collective sweat equity by many people.” It is hard to put it any better—but there is rarely innovation that hasn’t its origins in collaboration. Innovation and collaboration aren’t separate. Collaboration drives innovation and value creation, thereby helping businesses create wealth.

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Innovation Simplified

InnovationManagement

Organizations rely on innovations to sustain competitiveness. Managers often talk about innovations. Some use it as an ornament. Perhaps innovation is the mostly abused word by organizations and practicing managers. There are dozens of definitions for the word innovation.

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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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Quotes to Give the Imagination a Boost

IdeaConnection

With creativity and imagination, anything is possible. So here is a handful of quotes to inspire your innovation endeavours. “Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?”. Robert Kennedy. “Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”. James Bertrand.

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Have You Tried New Ways to Innovate?

Innovation Excellence

After relying on cost and operational efficiencies to grow the bottom line, many businesses are emerging from an innovation slumber post-recession. Now there is an imperative to refocus on organic growth. The importance of innovation in driving this growth is resurfacing to the top of the agenda. For many organizations, there are some radically new behavioural, structural and operational models of meeting this challenge are gaining popularity.

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InnoSurvey™ accreditation – Dubai, UAE

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey™ and how to implement an innovation system in an organisation. InnoSurvey™ is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Generating Ideas or Focusing on Problems?

Viima

People typically tend to look for solutions by focusing on the problems at hand, but is that truly the best approach? Although straightforward, it might not be the most effective way to find sustainable solutions to long-term issues. In fact, it has been shown that just by focusing on the positive implications that solving your problem may have, you can stimulate your brain to find solutions in an entirely new way.

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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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2018: Innovation - Trends and Opportunities

hackerearth

Technology is moving at an incredible pace. We live in an amazing era where things like autonomous cars, personalized medicine, and quantum computing are becoming real as we speak; Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrencies, advanced automation, deep learning and concepts like Universal Basic Income are about to reshape our world -- what an exciting era to live!

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Leonard: 4 pillars of a wise corporate Open Lab

Innovation Excellence

Leonard is the new innovation entity initiated by VINCI, a major player in construction, and concession agreement indutries. VINCI designs, finances, builds, and operates infrastructure and facilities that help improve daily life and mobility for all. I spoke with Matthieu Lerondeau, Leonard Head of Communications & Communities, about the missions, and organization of Leonard.

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When Your Biggest Strength becomes Your Biggest Weakness

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: . Once advice that almost everyone agrees to, when it comes to defining our strategy (personal, professional or organisational) is that we need to. “Play to your strengths” If you are a business that has already seen some amount of success, the chance is that you know what your core strength is. So, you build on it. You continue to invest in your strength to get even better at it.

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A three-pronged approach for making progress

Mike Shipulski

When you’re looking to make progress, the single most important skill is to see waiting as waiting. The first place to look for waiting is the queue in front of a shared resource. Like taking a number at the deli, you queue up behind the work that got there first and your work waits its turn. And when the situation turns bad, prioritization meeting spring up to argue about the importance of one bit of work over another.

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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.