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Best Practices for Engaging Your Innovation Community

IdeaScale

Developing a broad and deep innovation community puts a wonderful resource at your fingertips. Yet tapping into that resource requires more than just cheerleading. Here’s how to bring your community together and work toward a common goal. Know Your Community Start by truly understanding who your innovation community is. For example, perhaps the unifying factor … Continued.

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The COVID-19 Slingshot and the Evolution of Work

IdeaSpies

Given the circumstances we find ourselves in, there is much discussion about what the future of work looks like for lawyers (and b.

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How companies prioritized innovation during the crisis

Board of Innovation

To hunker down or branch out? We look at how large and small companies budgeted for innovation in the wake of Covid-19. The post How companies prioritized innovation during the crisis appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Who’s Responsible for Innovation? Everybody!

IdeaScale

Innovation is the key to forward movement. It creates value and improves existing systems so new ideas can emerge. Innovation research shows 61 percent of executives embrace open innovation to generate ideas. Positive change is derived through collaboration and sharing, which results in better ways of implementing products and services. So who is responsible for innovation?

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Podcast S3E66: Mark Metry – Overcoming social anxiety and shyness

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Mark Metry, host of the popular Humans 2.0 podcast and author of Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety and Be Yourself in Front of Anyone. We speak about overcoming anxiety, mental illness and living a more fulfilling life. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:15 – How Mark spent the first 18 years of his life trying to hide himself and his message, due to his social anxiety. 00:05:15 – How c

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Can social distancing optimise innovation in a 21st-century pandemic?

Exago

At such a difficult time for everyone, it is not yet clear what the real impacts of the pandemic will be on economies, companies and individuals. What is clear is that it is crucial to find ways to mitigate these impacts, and social distancing and remote work can actually enable us to create innovative solutions, in business and in life. The post Can social distancing optimise innovation in a 21st-century pandemic?

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Crowdsourcing Leads to Civic Engagement: Four Real-World Examples

IdeaScale

Civic engagement is fundamental to good governance, and crowdsourcing is a powerful way to draw in an enormous range of constituencies to hear what they feel is crucial to making their city a better place. Below are a few examples of civic engagement accomplished via crowdsourcing. 311 First established in Baltimore, multiple cities have developed a … Continued.

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Why Underinvesting in Innovation is Riskier Than Ever

Innovation Leader

As the world grapples with the current public health crisis and its long-tail impacts on society and the economy, many CEOs and their boards of directors are looking for reasons not to invest in innovation. That’s riskier than ever, contends Ali Geramian, a Managing Director at KPMG LLP.

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How Inflection Points Define The Future

Digital Tonto

The most important inflection points are often the ones that we create ourselves through the choices we make. No future is inevitable. We can’t predict the future but we can prepare for it. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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10+ Lean Blogs That You Should Be Reading

Kainexus

For a topic with so many authors, students, practitioners, and leaders, it’s probably no surprise that there are a ton of blogs about Lean - Lean manufacturing, Lean enterprise, Lean thinking, etc. This list includes some bloggers I’ve been reading for the longest time, those who are the most active, and those whose insights are really valuable (and sometimes, people fall into all three categories).

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Re-imagining Your Brand Experience after Covid-19

BrainZooming

You’ve heard of virtual hugs. What about shadow hugs? I won’t be demonstrating shadow hugs on Tuesday’s free Jumpstart Your Business Operations webinar. I will discuss, though, how shadow hugs are a simple example of an important concept right now: reevaluating your brand promise and innovating new experiences for your audiences to ensure your brand is positioned to still succeed in a pandemic-shaped world.

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Embrace Diversity & Inclusion with Intentionality

Tullio Siragusa

Embrace Diversity & Inclusion with Intentionality. Diversity at the workplace implies an organization that employs a diverse team of people that directly reflects the society in which it exists and operates. True diversity entails identifying all of the elements that makes us distinctive from one another and respecting and appreciating what makes each of us unique in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and nationality.

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How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge

Innovation Leader

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describes any product that requires routine replacement — from personal care to food. No matter the item, companies in this space have to create new offerings that shoppers will buy again and again. To find out how big bets empower the process, we talked to Ranjani.

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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa twice a year: that's the process we describe in this compelling interview with David L. Ross, Innovation teacher at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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#1,730 – Dog Fitness Tracker

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I used to be obsessed with my Fitbit and making sure that I got at least 10,000 steps everyday. So much so that I even lead my department to a first place finish in our team step challenge at work last year! But then COVID-19 hit and another scorching Phoenix summer came along and now I’m lucky if I even break 1,000 steps a day during the week.

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The Tech Industry Can Be An Accelerator for Change. Here's How

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Instead of focusing entirely on company cultures and HR practices, we need to put our tech to better use.

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How AARP is Pivoting Innovation in 2020 and Investing in Startups

Innovation Leader

At Innovation Leader’s recent online event for nonprofit organizations, Andy Miller of AARP discussed how his team helps build an innovative culture that permeates the organization — and how they’re making new investments in startups.

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How to Write a Good Vision Statement, Step-by-step and with Examples

Cascade Strategy

A vision statement is the anchor point of any strategic plan. It outlines what an organization would like to ultimately achieve and gives purpose to the existence of the organization. A good vision statement should be short, simple, specific to your business, leave nothing open to interpretation. It should also have some ambition. This comprehensive guide will take you through the entire process of writing a good vision statement, with examples and resources to help along the way.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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#1,716 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: Alien Neighbors: With everything going on in the world it’s nice to have a fun distraction every once in a while and what’s more fun than thinking about alien civilizations?! In fact, according to a recent report we may have as many as 36 inter-stellar neighbors in the Milky Way alone.

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Importance of Employee Productivity Analytics In a Modern Workplace

Acuvate

The Importance of Employee Productivity Analytics In a Modern Workplace The COVID-19 pandemic has forced business across the globe into the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Enabling high productivity and performance among a workforce that is still adjusting to the concept of remote working has become super critical for sustainability.

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Pulling Back the Curtain on Disney’s Storied Imagineering Department

Innovation Leader

Leslie Iwerks discusses growing up in a family of Disney creatives, and her new docu-series “The Imagineering Story.” She is joined on the call by her father, Disney legend Don Iwerks.

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The Future of 3D Printing in a Post-COVID World

Wellspring

Of the many procedural and technological changes in manufacturing over the past few decades, 3D printing is one of the more futuristic concepts to emerge. When the world stabilizes from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects, 3D printing is one emerging technology with a trajectory that may look quite a bit different than before.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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#1,718 – Humidifiers To The Rescue

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It has long been rumored that heat may be able to counteract the devastating effects of the coronavirus which is why UV lights have proven to be an effective sanitation tool and why a lot of people think that the virus might subside in the summer time before a second wave hits later in the year. However, two new studies seem to indicate that it is actually relative humidity that plays a key role, not heat itself, with dry air like that found inside offices, or on airplanes, that allows the viru

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Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal

Acuvate

Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal Supply Chain leaders across enterprises were already dealing with various issues in trying to do their best to achieve their service levels such as End to End Supply Chain Visibility. Lack of Data in some cases to analyses why a particular SKU went out of stock. […]. The post Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal appeared first on Acuvate.

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How Three Different Tech Companies Are Tackling the Common Fight Against Coronavirus

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Innovating in real-time to stop the pandemic.

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When Zero is the Only Acceptable Goal

Kainexus

The Utah Department of Transportation has an audacious goal. Zero fatalities. According to its website, “Zero Fatalities is all about eliminating fatalities on our roadways. Some people may think zero is an impossible goal, but when it comes to your life or the lives of your friends and family, what other number would be acceptable?”. Has the department reached its goal?

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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#1,732 – Spider Web Cognition

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Need a distraction from all the craziness in the world? Then let me weave you a story that will blow your mind. In this tale that I will spin you’ll come to find out that spiders may be offloading cognitive tasks to their webs! That’s right. Those engineering marvels that help them catch their prey are more than just spooky Halloween decorations.

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How Being Agile Can Help Your Company Win In The Post-Covid Economy

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on SalesTechStar. Amid the unprecedented economic uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic , one thing is becoming clear. To survive – and even thrive – in the post-Covid economy, companies will have to be faster than ever in responding to change. As yet, we can only surmise how quickly customers will book air travel again or how soon they will return to places like shopping malls.

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Fostering Supplier-Driven Innovation

ITONICS

As competitive environments rapidly change, technological leaders in manufacturing have to find efficient solutions to foster innovation. Crucial innovations are developed using internal sources of innovation , but at the same time, external sources of innovation are increasingly being identified and leveraged. Among external such sources, suppliers are known to have especially large innovation potential because they have a unique perspective of what the companies — that is, their customers — ar

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Stop Trying to ‘Bounce Back’ to Normal

Innovation Leader

Rather than trying to restore all of the activities from February 2020 in the US, we should be thinking about how to “bounce forward” toward something new.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.