Digital Tonto
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
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Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
One question many innovators face at some point in their careers is whether to work in a large, corporate organization, or in a small start up or consultancy. Today I want to revisit and update a blog I wrote a few years ago for LinkedIn that discussed some pros and cons of consultancy versus corporate.
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Board of Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Products and services don’t need to be sexy to work. Here are 40 boring yet impactful examples of innovation that prove it. The post 40 unsexy yet brilliant examples of innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
An integral part of anticipation and becoming anticipatory in your organization oftentimes has to do with catching an opportunity that everyone is either missing or perhaps even ignoring due to the belief that it is not profitable. One way to accomplish this is to simply look where no one else is looking. But how and where you look helps broaden both you and your organization’s anticipatory abilities, and is integral in successfully identifying the Hard Trends shaping your industry, both from th
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Destination Innovation
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
There are many ways. Here are some suggestions: First recognise that we all live inside boxes which frame our view of the world. We all make assumptions. Stay curious and open-minded. Ask many questions about any situation and be receptive to different points of view. List the underlying groundrules and assumptions. Then for each one ask this question, ‘What if the opposite were true?’.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
To get where you want to go, know where you need to go to get there. Product roadmaps are powerful tools to get the team organized and to get a new product launched. However, they can also be used for the conceptualization of the product itself. Innovation roadmaps use the product roadmap technique to drive innovation strategy, and they’re powerful tools regardless of your industry.
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Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP , and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Following the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIV victory, a spate of videos appeared online analyzing the team’s comeback from nearly certain defeat in the game’s final minutes. One reveals an important lesson as you develop employee engagement strategies. An NFL Turning Point video shows the goings-on during a review of an incomplete pass by the Chiefs in the fourth quarter.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
It’s a challenge to prioritize and choose innovation projects. There are open questions on the technology, the product/service, the customer, the price and sales volume. Other than that, things are pretty well defined. But with all that, you’ve still go to choose. Here are some questions that may help in your selection process: 1. Is.
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.
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Will digitalization fundamentally change the way companies innovate? Our answer is no. While digital technologies hold enormous innovation potential, they belong to the sphere of “solutions” and are means to a higher purpose. The post Why Digitalization Doesn’t Change the Way Companies Innovate appeared first on Innovation Management.
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
I had a blast appearing with crisis communications expert, Alex Greenwood , on his Mysterious Goings On podcast to discuss strategy, creativity, and innovation. You may wonder how all those subjects fit together? Well, it’s because Alex is a renaissance dude who is interested in and sees how all these varied topics fit together. Put another way, he’s my kind of creative thinker!
Board of Innovation
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Healthcare leaders: Are you challenging your team at every stage of product development to ensure they’re creating the right value for customers? Find out. The post 3 questions all customer-centric leaders in healthcare need to ask their teams appeared first on Board of Innovation.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
In the last few months, I’ve had a few readers ask me how they could become an innovation manager, as well as how they could succeed in that role. So, I thought I’d give my take on what an innovation manager actually does, how to become one, and how to be good at the job.
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Cascade Strategy
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
One of our most important values here at Cascade is integrity. And for us, that often extends organically to transparency. We try to weave our culture of transparency into everything we do internally, but also externally. That's why I want to share with you a secret process that we use in our marketing team to help us understand more about you - our customer.
Tullio Siragusa
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Balanced Masculine and Feminine Energies Enable Better Leaders. There is no doubt that masculinity is generally considered to be associated with strength and toughness, but that is not what masculinity is about. Fire energy is actually a more feminine quality. I am not talking about men vs. women here, rather I am referring to the attributes that both men and women can embody as fully integrated human beings.
Rebel & Reason
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
We've all heard the expression, "one person's trash is another person's treasure." This figure of speech is something we've all experienced. At some point in our personal lives, we've all found the beauty, usefulness, or purpose in an item that someone else has discarded. . Rothy's Puts New Spin On Sustainability With Recycled Flats. Professionally, it gets a bit more challenging to find organizations that embody the treasure/trash dichotomy.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
In a disruptive era, the only viable strategy is to adapt and that is especially true today. With change seeming to accelerate with each passing year, every organization must transform itself. Those who are unable to change often find that they are unable to compete and soon disappear altogether. There has been a long running.
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
mjvinnovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The key is knowing where each one fits in. Where DT can’t reach, Agile can compensate and vice versa. It is the union between doing and thinking. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Agile: Make Tangible and build.
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
In this article, we'll have a look at translation and localization industry trends. The post Recent Innovations in Translation and Localization appeared first on Innovation Management.
Brunner
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Are you getting the question: “Should we be on TikTok?”. If so, here are a few things to consider. We’ll cover what TikTok is, who’s using it, the advertising opportunity, measurement limitations and how brands can get creative. First, what is TikTok? TikTok describes itself as, “the leading destination for short-form mobile video.” Its user base is primarily GenZ’s who love to flock towards the “fleeting” trend of the moment.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
We’ve reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry – photography. For innovators, it’s been easy to kick Kodak around, for having missed the transition to digital photography while owning many of the.
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.
Rmukesh Gupta
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Every now and then I come across in my reading list something that lies at the intersection of being interesting, useful and practical. The below post is one such example. This originally appeared on Aeon, written by Neel Burton and edited by Nigel Warburton. I have written elsewhere ( here , here , here and here ) about the importance of boredom and how it has an impact on creativity in the least and overall life satisfaction at the most.
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Not everyone knows that NASA has embedded crowdsourcing into their strategy and capabilities. But in fact, back in 2011 (after they ran a highly successful crowdsourcing pilot) NASA established the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). The post How NASA Leads Intrapreneurial Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.
Kainexus
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
We’re pretty sure that almost all business leaders, managers, and front-line workers want to create high-quality products and services that customers value consistently in the most cost-effective manner. But that isn’t always what happens, of course. While we know that good processes lead to good results, implementing and maintaining them is easier said than done.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Of all the things we do to ensure our success, one is more important than all else, and yet it’s only learned in the school of hard knocks. There are uncountable books on how to succeed in business, and all of them have something to teach. From being an efficient operator to being a great.
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.
Innovation Leader
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Relying on intuition often leads teams down the wrong path. Stefan Thomke, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains how to rely on experiments instead.
Peer Insight
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Disruption of markets worldwide has proven that speed is an important attribute of strong innovators. Companies that aren’t optimized for speed often don’t generate the returns on innovation and product development that they’re looking for; in fact, 42% of global innovation executives believe their development times are too long and cite it as the largest barrier to success.
Innovation 360 Group
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Recapture your innovation investments. Three actions you can take to improve your innovation ROI. “Too many companies see ‘innovation’ as something abstract from solving real problems and creating real value. As a result, too much time and investment is spent on efforts at the periphery that have no link to value—and the opportunity to create true change within the companies is missed, once again.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Being truthful and being trustworthy aren’t the same, which poses a problem for both society and the practice of leadership itself In today’s world, it’s hard to know who to listen to and what to believe. Who’s the best Presidential candidate? Is Brexit good or bad? Which college is best for my child? Usually there’s.
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