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It's Never Too Late For Innovation Resolutions

Bill Fischer

It's never too late to embrace new resolutions designed to make you more innovative. Here we have ideas from eight well-known observers of today's innovation scene, who suggest easy ways to change your innovation behaviors.

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This Innovation Strategy Gap Should Keep You Up Every Night

BrainZooming

We facilitated a two-day innovation strategy workshop for nearly two hundred members of a prominent, long-established brand’s marketing organization. The innovation strategy workshop covered a variety of topics related to disruptive innovation. Prior to our Brainzooming workshop , a tech speaker addressed external innovation opportunities and challenges facing the brand.

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Great Leaders Learn To Shift Their Mindset

Digital Tonto

In an age of disruption, we need to learn to adapt Related posts: The Shift Economy. 4 Things Leaders Need To Close The Gap Between Aspiration And Innovation. Innovation Starts—And Ends—With Mindset. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Choose the Best Idea

Mike Shipulski

We have too many ideas, but too few great ones. We don’t need more ideas, we need a way to choose the best one or two ideas and run them to ground. Before creating more ideas, make a list of the ones you already have. Put them in two boxes. In Box 1, list the ideas without a video of a functional prototype in action. In Box 2, list the ideas that have a video showing a functional prototype demonstrating the idea in action.

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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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The Top Ten Risks for Business

Destination Innovation

The top ten business risks according to a survey by Aon. Short video. Failure to innovate is #3. The post The Top Ten Risks for Business appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Top Themes from Open Nation DC

IdeaScale

IdeaScale Gov hosted its first-ever Open Nation DC April 12 at the WeWork White House location. For us at IdeaScale, Open Nation is always our favorite week of the year. We’ve been hosting a company-wide Open Nation event in Berkeley for three years now. Open Nation DC was the first spinoff, a gov-focused version situated in the heart of IdeaScale gov work: Washington, D.C.

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Winning the explore:exploit game

Jeffrey Phillips

So we come to the ultimate post on explore and exploit, at least for now. In past posts we've looked at the origin of explore and exploit , the emergence of true innovation explorers like Edison, Bell and a host of others. We've noticed the rise of the corporation to exploit the discoveries of said explorers. Last but not least we touched on the future of explore and exploit and how it might upset existing business models and organizational structures.

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Today’s Common Practices will become Obsolete

Destination Innovation

Joseph Lister. In 1865 an eleven year old boy, James Greenlees, was run over by a cart in Glasgow. He was rushed to the Royal Infirmary with a gashed leg containing a multiple fracture. The normal outcome of this kind of injury at the time was either amputation or death through infection (or sometimes both). Fortunately for Greenlees, the surgeon who treated him was Joseph Lister, At that time doctors thought that infection or sepsis, as it was known, was caused by ‘bad air’.

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How Innovation Helps Address Sustainability Challenges

IdeaScale

Innovation builds more than just better products. One of the greatest challenges facing business at the moment is sustainability. Getting the most out of the resources you have access to, reducing the amount of resources you use, and finding more renewable resources are good both for society and your bottom line. But creating something sustainable starts with the core resource of any business: The people you work with.

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Why The “March For Our Lives” Kids Are Succeeding Where So Many Others Have Failed

Digital Tonto

It's a movement designed for action rather than merely to build awareness around a set of beliefs Related posts: The Science Behind Bernie Sanders Failed Movement, Explained. Innovation Programs. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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The Mega-Simple Way to Generate Tons of Innovative Ideas

BrainZooming

Looking for a quick way to generate tons of innovative ideas? If you need a lot of innovative ideas in a hurry, here’s a mega-simple way of generating them : Select the objective, opportunity, or challenge you are trying to address. Get a magazine with lots of big headlines, great photos, and cool ads. It helps to have a Sharpie and little sticky notes, #OBVI.

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Innovation and digital transformation of the healthcare industry

hackerearth

Global healthcare spending is currently estimated at US$ 7.83 trillion and this figure is expected to increase to US$ 18.28 trillion in 2040. Innovation and digital transformation can improve the quality of healthcare while keeping costs in check. Experts predict that up to US$ 300 billion can be saved, especially where chronic diseases such as COPD and asthma are involved.

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Every Step of the Innovation Journey

IdeaScale

Innovation is a cyclical initiative. It’s like the laundry or the dishes. The innovation journey is never done, you just get better at doing it. And maybe you become more efficient as time goes on. We’ve seen lots of passionate innovation champions encounter barriers as they launched their innovation initiatives. These programs fail to launch for a number of reasons: because people can’t align around a process, because people aren’t sure which ideas they should move forward with, because they di

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Le Village by CA, the open-innovation incubator

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Fabrice Marsella is head of the Le Village by CA Paris or the village’s Mayor as they say! Benoît Bourdin is Deputy Head of Le Village, and responsible for Partners & CA Group connections / International Network.

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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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27 Links to Energize Your Innovation Strategy

BrainZooming

Someone wondered about the range of topics included in the disruptive innovation strategy workshop we delivered recently. Even though the workshop spanned nearly ten hours over two days, we had to narrow the content significantly to achieve the client’s innovation objectives. The reason? We had a tremendous amount of work to get done! The objective involved taking twenty-three tables of participants through innovation strategy exercises to identify disruptive concepts, craft strategies, do

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Don’t Worry About People Stealing Your Ideas

Innovation Excellence

Chester Carlson worked on his idea for years. It was tough, messy work and when his wife tired of the putrid smells, sulfur fires and occasional explosions emanating from the kitchen, his experiments were exiled to a second floor apartment in a house his mother-in-law owned. It took years, but he came finally up with.

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How to Build an Enthusiastic Innovation Community

InnovationManagement

If you’re working with an innovation management platform, then you know the importance of building a community. The success of these programs is intrinsically linked to the spirit and engagement of your community: how much they participate, how they’re participating, why they’re participating.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation.

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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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Innovation and digital transformation of the healthcare industry

hackerearth

Innovation in Healthcare. People understand that innovation in healthcare needs to become routine. That’s not the issue. High costs, no access to quality healthcare, and the dearth of committed medical professionals: those are the issues. Quick fact check. Global healthcare spending is currently estimated at US$ 7.83 trillion and this figure is expected to increase to US$ 18.28 trillion in 2040.

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Energy-Efficient Innovations in Commercial Real Estate

Innovation Excellence

Millennials, now the largest consumer demographic, have redefined how businesses serve their customers, from retail to real estate. With this demographic illustrating a very different set of consumer demands and expectations than the older Baby Boomer generation, the relationships that exist between utility companies, property managers, and manufacturers of household appliances; and the Millennials who.

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Crowdsourcing Designs for China Lunar Mission

IdeaConnection

China is currently planning a manned lunar exploration and it’s asking the public for help. This week the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the national space agency of China launched a crowdsourcing initiative to find novel ideas for the design of manned lunar surface landing and ascent vehicles. “Manned lunar exploration is an important part of the manned space program,” said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s manned space program, in a recent interview.

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How To Prepare For The Unexpected Jolts

Beyond the Obvious

If assumptions keep you safe, comfortable, and stagnant, then jolts are their counterpart. Jolts are the earthquakes and the tsunamis, metaphorical and occasionally literal, that you either don’t or can’t see coming. Jolts can be terrifying; one day you wake up and a fundamental assumption about how you do business has crumbled away. Its absence […].

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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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Innovation and digital transformation of the healthcare industry

hackerearth

Innovation in Healthcare. People understand that innovation in healthcare needs to become routine. That’s not the issue. High costs, no access to quality healthcare, and the dearth of committed medical professionals: those are the issues. Quick fact check. Global healthcare spending is currently estimated at US$ 7.83 trillion and this figure is expected to increase to US$ 18.28 trillion in 2040.

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Changing Change

Innovation Excellence

The business world is showing an increasing interest in the people side of change, and there is a very real reason for this… Companies are spending an increasing amount of their budget on technology and working to transform their operations to be more digital in order to provide a better experience for customers, employees, partners.

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Trust ITONICS – ISO 27001 Certification and GDPR Requirements

ITONICS

ITONICS achieved accredited certification to ISO 27001! ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate. As a leading provider of services and software solutions in innovation management the protection of our customer data assets is one of our major obligations. ITONICS is continuously working to guarantee the security of data and strives for the highest standards in this field.

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Little Ways for Companies to Save Money

InnovationManagement

Are you looking to save your business money? Cashflow is one of the major focuses for all types of businesses. You want to make as much money as possible, while also saving as much money as you can.

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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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Netflix – Delivering Your Value Proposition Is More Successful Than Optimizing Your Value Delivery System

Adam Hartung

To innovate for successful growth, focus on your Value Proposition instead of your Value Delivery System.

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Human Side of Innovation – Innovators Inside Organizations

Innovation Excellence

In the world of continuous changes and new trends it is important to have in your team, department or organization, people who think different and who approach to problem in different manner. Often, it’s difficult to recognize innovative persons. They are shy and mostly they hide their ideas in fear not to be copied.

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ITONICS at CeBIT: Step up in the Innovation Game with us

ITONICS

It is the fourth year in a row now that ITONICS is part of Europe’s Business Festival for Innovation and Digitization taking place in Hanover from June 11-15, 2018. On the conference, you can get to know our highly customizable software features, cutting-edge innovation management methodologies, and our individually tailored consulting and workshops offers.

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Yellow Belt Grading – Dubai

Innovation 360

In the Yellow Belt the Licensed Practitioners get the leading Ideation Platform to resell, knowledge on how to sell and implement an ideation platform, organizational design and change. Templates and Methods included. . PURPOSE. Provide tools, methods and best practices how to implement an Innovation Management System. OBJECTIVES. Innovation Governance Models – How to align innovation with strategy.

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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.