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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

Imaginatik

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. By Jaimie O’Byrne. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

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These Xiaogang farmers could have been executed for their innovation in 1978, instead they changed China forever

Idea to Value

The year was 1978. The location was the small town of Xiaogang, China. And the situation was desperate. But what came next should serve as an inspiration to any leader trying to improve the innovativeness of their teams. After years of governmental and agricultural mismanagement, people in China in the 1970s were starving to death of famine. The issue was that not enough food was being produced to feed the growing population, and the communist government tightly regulated all the work of their p

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Using the Power of Crowdsourcing to Combat Humanitarian Catastrophes with Innovation

HYPE Innovation

That old saying - ‘many hands make light work’ - takes on a particular meaning in the world of innovation. Faced with open-ended challenges which require radical solutions, the more minds we have on the task the more likely it is that the innovation ‘light bulb’ will flash on! Whether we are seeking a radical new idea for a novel challenge or suggestions to help improve an existing situation there’s no doubt that shared creativity is a powerful resource.

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Innovation Gift Giving

Jeffrey Phillips

We find ourselves near the end of another fruitful, eventful year, here at December 19, 2017. All eyes turn toward the holidays (actually, the merchandising happened in October and the Christmas muzak started in early November it seems). While there are a few working days left in the month, and year, I thought I'd offer up some ideas for those individuals who are hard to shop for on your lists.

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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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Secure Innovation Management for US Government-Wide Mandates

IdeaScale

In 2011 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a government-wide cloud security memo and guidance policy known as the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). For the first time, government entities were provided a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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Transform Your Business with a Change Success Manager

Braden Kelley

“Stealing the role of customer success manager from the world of SaaS is the key to making your digital transformation efforts a success.

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Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett

Tim Kastelle

What year do you think this quote is from? There are three ways of dealing with difference : domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. How about this one? It has often been thought in the past… that I need be concerned only with doing my part well.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 2: Idea Refinement

IdeaScale

Nothing is built without collaboration. Ideas are simple to find. But, as we all know, good ideas are exceedingly rare. It’s much like finding gold. It rarely comes whole out of the ground; it’s often bound up in rock, various other minerals, and other “scrap” you have to separate to get at the gold you want. Ideas are much the same way.

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Top Posts of 2017

Digital Tonto

The articles you liked the best over the past year Related posts: Top Posts of 2016. Top Posts of 2013. Top Posts of 2012. Top Posts of 2015. Top Posts for 2014. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January

BrainZooming

7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January. Finished your holiday shopping? With a long holiday shopping season, you would think that by now all the buying would be behind us. Yet, advertisements, emails, and online remarketing campaigns demand that we keep shopping throughout the weekend if we are truly going to have positive impacts on our relationships with friends, loved ones, and co-workers.

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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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Is Your Innovation Program Successful?

InnovationManagement

In an Innovation Point article , Founder Soren Kaplan notes that only one third of Fortune 1000 companies have defined innovation metrics. And yet 77% of business leaders see innovation as a priority. How is it possible that something that is so important to business leaders doesn’t have a defined set of KPIs?

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3 Keys To Creating Meaningful Innovation In Your Marketplace

Innovation Excellence

The phrase “disruptive innovation” gets thrown around a lot. The way we describe disruptive innovation has moved far past Clay Christensen’s original use of the phrase. Yet, it’s one of those buzzwords that we often use but don’t necessarily know what it means, or how to create it. It’s hard to achieve the goal of.

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Starting 101

Mike Shipulski

Doing challenging work isn’t difficult. Starting challenging work is difficult. The downside of making a mistake is far less than the downside of not starting. If you know how it will turn out, you waited too long to start. Stopping is fine, as long as it’s followed closely by starting. The scope of the project you start is defined by the cash in your pocket.

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Job Networking Tips – 7 Proven Ways to Screw Up Networking Calls

BrainZooming

Many experienced people, including marketers (who should know better), are ill-equipped to succeed at job networking for new opportunities. It’s scary. And it’s a frequent enough situation that it is easy to list these seven proven ways to screw up job networking calls, along with corresponding tips to improve your performance. 7 Proven Ways to Screw Up Networking Calls.

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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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Ignite 2018: Registration for the Premier Conference for Innovation Leaders is Open

Planview

We’re thrilled to share that Ignite 2018, Spigit’s annual conference for the brightest minds in innovation, will be returning to the historic Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco on May 1st and 2nd – register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing. So, what’s in it for you? Why should you attend Ignite 2018? Well, for starters…. The keynote.

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Culture Eats Strategy Eats Culture for Breakfast | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Peter Drucker’s famous musings that culture eats strategy for breakfast rings as true today as it did then.

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Integrating Schools and Industry for a More Innovative Society

InnovationManagement

Author is suggesting that with the advent of the 4th industrial revolution children ought to start contributing to progress at the age of 6 years, through a learning-oriented but paid work for 3 hours per day, indeed with involvement in the hi-tech end of things. The future is now, and there is no more learning and preparing for the future.

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New Open Innovation Platform for European Farmers

IdeaConnection

Farmers in Europe are set to receive open innovation help for implementing climate-smart agriculture policies and practices. This week saw the launch of Agrisource, Europe’s first open innovation platform for climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA is a set of agricultural practices that sustainably increase productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Top 20 Innovation Articles of November 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 November’s twenty most.

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Capture your whole innovation strategy on 1 sheet of paper

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Capture your whole innovation strategy on 1 sheet of paper appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How to Evaluate Startups for Corporate Partnerships | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In the past three years, Collective Campus has been home to more than 50 startups that have gone on to raise over US$13M.

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Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett

Tim Kastelle

What year do you think this quote is from? There are three ways of dealing with difference : domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. How about this one? It has often been thought in the past… that I need be concerned only with doing my part well.

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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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Revolutionize Your Business with a Change Success Manager

Innovation Excellence

“Stealing the role of customer success manager from the world of SaaS is the key to making your digital transformation efforts a success.” I was speaking with a headhunter recently about some of the roles she was recruiting for and there was one that captured my attention. It was a posting she had for a.

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Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Swiss Trains

Innovation in Practice

From a distance this newest railway revolution might look like a string of large barrels tied together. But the Stoos Bahn is now the world’s steepest funicular railway which just opened to the public. Taking over 14 years to build, and climbing at 110% gradient, the Stoos Bahn provides another transportation option for children traveling to school in mountainous Switzerland.

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Towards Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools for Suicide Prevention

IdeaConnection

Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest new technologies and research into its use is intensifying across multiple industries, including healthcare where it may be able to help prevent suicide. Every year close to 800,000 people commit suicide which is one person every 40 seconds, according to the World Health Organization. It is a global problem and has become the second leading cause of death among those aged 15-29 years old.

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Use Soft Trends to Influence the Future

Daniel Burrus

There are certain things about the future that we simply can’t change. Some are rather obvious. For instance, spring will always follow winter. New Year’s Day will always be January 1, at least in many parts of the world. Those are chronological certainties. There are other future certainties that have nothing to do with the calendar. For example, are the phones we use in the future going to be capable of doing more or less?

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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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4 Steps to Break Patterns Undermining Your Success and Happiness

Innovation Excellence

Being aware of what you’re doing wrong isn’t enough to change. These four steps are… We’re all works in progress, trying to grow and change. But there’s no way around it, we carry with us good habits and bad ones. Often those bad habits are pretty well entrenched; not likely to be dislodged by even.

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10 tips (and 5 don’ts) to plan an educational strategy for 2018.

Adam Hartung

Pop-up tree stands have appeared along every highway, and the sounds of Christmas music pierce the air wherever you go. Even if have that one neighbor down the street who has yet to take down the Halloween decorations, it officially feels like the holiday season. And, that means the new year is right around the. The post 10 tips (and 5 don’ts) to plan an educational strategy for 2018. appeared first on YourMembership.

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Being Human and Embracing Change

100%Open

It’s been an emotional year with many highs and lows along the way. We’ve worked all around the world from as far and wide as Sao Paulo, New York, Detroit, Amsterdam, Lausanne, Zurich, Hong Kong, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Tallinn, Melbourne and Doncaster! And we’ve also had the privilege this year to be asked to help to reimagine and reinvent the worlds of transportation, hotels, security, finance, policing, ageing, interiors, odour, government policy, food, cities, healthcare and homelessn

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Black Belt grading – New York City

Innovation 360

Black Belt. Purpose. Mastering Innovation Management. Ready for a lifelong learning journey. Content. Insights and learnings. Elements of Innovation – Mastering the Theory. Creating Echo Systems and Eco System Innovation. Regional Development: Triple Helix and Innovation. Competence/People Management – Linking Innovation to HR. Digitalization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Linking to technology.

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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.