Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2019

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Board of Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2019

The post Hiring intrapreneurs: A practical guide with examples appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. We were talking about the "ecosystem" of contributors that can help move basic research from academia and research labs to market. One participant talked about the role that large corporations could play, and sometimes do play, in commercializing new technologies.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2019

On the night of Sunday 19 December 2004, two groups of armed men, masquerading as police officers, arrived at the homes of Christopher Ward and Kevin McMullan in Belfast. Both men were officials of the Northern Bank, one of the largest banks in Northern Ireland. Their families were taken hostage and the men were told to go into work as normal the next day.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 15, 2019

Your innovation strategy should be as unique as your employees. Fundamental to any form of innovation in any company is the voices of employees. Your employees know your company, product, and customer base better than anyone else in the world, but getting them to discuss what they’ve learned can be a challenge. How can companies create a workplace that encourages everyone to speak up?

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Exago

JANUARY 15, 2019

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together pieces of wisdom from our clients, innovation managers, to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 6. The post Lesson 6 from true innovation managers: communication ensures an empathetic connection appeared first on Exago.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2019

Flight Crew of the Challenger. On January 28 1986 the NASA Space Shuttle, Challenger, broke apart shortly after take-off from Cape Canaveral. Five NASA astronauts and two civilian scientists were killed. The cause of this devastating accident was eventually traced to the failure of an O-ring seal in the right Solid Rocket Booster. Due to the cold weather, the O-ring didn’t seal tightly enough and it allowed hot gasses to escape and ignite.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 16, 2019

IdeaScale has worked with partners in Australia from the beginning: in government, nonprofit, and commercial organizations and we’re excited to say that we’re growing our presence in this exciting international market. Here’s why we’re excited about Australia: Resources are Growing. The VC funding market is growing – “the venture capital scene in Australia grew by 12% over the past year to its highest point ever. ” And it’s a strong economy (13th l

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2019

If we’re serious about developing an innovation culture it probably helps to explore a little bit more around what’s involved… Raise your hand if you don’t want an innovation culture in your organization. Ask this question in any gathering of managers, and it’s a fair bet you won’t be seeing a sea of arms waving.

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 13, 2019

Where most movements for change go wrong is that they try to overpower rather than to attract Related posts: If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With A Keystone Change. How Successful. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Acuvate

JANUARY 16, 2019

We are all aware of the troves of data, retail businesses generate on a daily basis. However, this repository of critical data is worthless if it cannot be translated into valuable insights into the consumer’s minds or market trends. While all of the data is being generated and collected, it is not being used efficiently. This paves way for decision-makers to employ predictive analytics to derive the best value of all the data gathered and ensure better sales outcomes in the near future.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2019

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Non-profits are driven by passion. Just like other organizations, however, they can struggle with innovation and change, especially when all ideas come from the inside. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Better Transparency. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2019

Every so often an innovation comes along that becomes a watershed for the next 100 years. For the 21st Century, this is it. Few things are getting as much attention as driverless cars. Google’s Waymo spinoff recently announced that its driverless cars have driven over 3 million miles, rumors are floating about Apple patents for.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 13, 2019

Growing consumption does not increase happiness or health! In industrialized countries there is no increase in happiness or health when consumption grows (Fanning et al., 2019). From a sustainability perspective this can be an important finding as global human consumption today is already outstripping what the planet can reproduce. Due to expected world population growth and developing countries becoming more industrialized, global consumption will grow even when there is no growing consumption

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Board of Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2019

Know your blindspots User centred design is greatly explored terrain, and companies will travel far and wide, searching high and low to fully understand their customers’ experience. Businesses depend on knowing the topography of customers’ needs and wants. And yet, there are major assumptions and innate biases in the process of collecting customer insights.

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hackerearth

JANUARY 13, 2019

Hackathons have been the bastion of engineers for so long! Considered an event that’s right up their alley; engineers and developers have practically staked their claim to it. Having witnessed countless successful hackathons for almost 3 years since I work for HackerEarth which offers hackathon software for organizations, I had a strong feeling that the format would work wonders for marketers as well.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 15, 2019

Charlotte Peleszezak is graduated in International business law and entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. Her professional thesis examined the link between open innovation and corporate social responsibility within large companies. 1) Hi Charlotte, could you explain the topic of your recollection, crossing open innovation with social innovation? Large companies are becoming aware of their role in.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 17, 2019

Over the years, Israel has accumulated a lot of experience with corporate open innovation. Over 350 global corporations selected Israel as their source for innovation, understanding that the rapid rate that technology changes and the fierce competition that exists, does not allow these companies to rely just on their R&D departments.

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Svava

JANUARY 16, 2019

A novel school of thought that’s not so new.

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Swarmvision

JANUARY 17, 2019

When you find candidates who score in the desired Swarm Innovation Profiler range, use interviews to dig deeper into their motivations and behavior patterns. To prepare for such interviews, be sure to study this easy guide to the Eight Innovation Skills. Candidates don’t need to (and rarely will) have all of the eight skills and 26 sub-clusters. Look for candidates whose innovation skills can strengthen the team they will be joining.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2019

The Southern Growth Studio has on-going internships programs with Rhodes College, CBU, the University of Memphis Department of Anthropology, as well as the Temple Israel Fellowship program. This Summer my son, David Graber, also served as an intern. This is his story. This was my first summer wearing a collared shirt. More jarring, this was.

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Carla Johnson - Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2019

January 17, 2019 by Carla Johnson In the world of great ideas, there’s iconic brands that get all the credit. Take LEGO, for example. This is a company that sells little rectangular pieces of plastic. But they consistently churn out great idea after great idea. Go to their website and besides ordering products, you can build things, share them with friends and.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

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helloFUTURE

JANUARY 14, 2019

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: your CEO (or more likely new CEO) decides that your company needs to be more innovative, either generating profitable new products, becoming more of a leader in the space or trying to juice up employee engagement. Let’s do some moonshots! As a career innovator, this is what… The post Is Innovation Career Suicide?

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hackerearth

JANUARY 18, 2019

Problem statements are concise descriptions of an issue that help understand the problems better and come up with effective solutions. They are like navigational compasses – the direction north being your desired outcome. Whether you are conducting an idea challenge, an internal hackathon (hackathon for your employees) or a full-fledged innovation campaign, the problem statement is key in determining the success.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2019

Lisa was the administrative assistant to the CEO of a global consulting firm. Her innovative approach to her work became the best practices that gave the company a competitive advantage. Kelly is an operations manager for the government. Her forward-thinking ideas have helped her department have a stronger, more valued voice to the internal teams.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

As the Co-founder at Viima , an idea management software company, I frequently get asked about the future of idea management. With the amount of innovation that we’re seeing across industries, it’s hardly surprising.

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100%Open

JANUARY 15, 2019

We were discussing “International Innovation” in our Summer Union last year, so, because I am not normally the international one at 100%Open, I tried to take a different and hopefully helpful tack with my presentation: How We, The British, Are Seen by Everyone Else. Now I’m prompted to blog by Neil McGregor’s short series on Radio Four, As Others See Us.

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Exoplatform

JANUARY 16, 2019

Open source just celebrated a major milestone and reached 20 years. As the open source community continues to grow, let’s reflect on the past years of how a once-controversial idea made it big, and see where it might go ahead. The post 20 Years of Open Source: Reflection and What’s Next appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2019

You attend conferences. You read books. You take training classes. All with the goal of learning strategies from those who have paved the path to success before you. But what if following in their steps could lead you down the wrong track? 3M talks about its 15 percent rule–a philosophy that allows anyone in the.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 17, 2019

Our culture has made it pretty easy to put workaholics on a pedestal. Though almost all American employees earn time off, many fail to take advantage of the time they’ve collected.

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