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What value does an Innovation Ecosystem offer?

Paul Hobcraft

Converging ideas and thinking brings out creativity and different innovative solutions Innovation ecosystems are gaining good traction to build out a more robust innovation management system that can offer the interconnected network of organizations the opportunity to create and commercialize new ideas, concepts, products and services. Participating in innovation ecosystems does have a number of advantages Greater access to a wider range of resources and expertise through the bringing together o

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4 Ways Leaders Can Break Through Uncertainty and Unleash Meaningful Innovation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Like every year, 2023 will bring us a new set of unforeseen challenges. Despite a changing environment, embracing the right framework means leaders can set up their teams to make more gains and drive innovation.

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What the Experts Are Saying about Innovation in Health in 2023

Wazoku

Healthcare is unrecognizable today compared to even 10 years ago. In order to keep up with the latest developments, trends, and patterns in the industry, we’ve detailed the top innovations and expert predictions for Health, Pharma, and Life Sciences in 2023.

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Unexpected Office Distractions That Zap Productivity

IdeaScale

There are a variety of environmental factors in your office that may have organically evolved into distractions—and the causes may surprise you. While distractions will arise, putting out unexpected fires isn’t what typically zaps day-to-day productivity. Below we discuss the environmental factors that may be negatively impacting productivity and innovation.

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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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Don’t Try To Shape Opinions, Shape Networks

Digital Tonto

The biggest misconception about change is that once people understand it, they will embrace it and so the best way to drive change forward is to explain the need for change in a convincing and persuasive way. Change, in this view, is essentially a communication exercise and the right combination of words and images is all that is required. Even assuming that it is practical to convince people that way, by the same logic they can just as easily have their mind changed right back by counter-argume

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Artificial Intelligence is Forcing Us to Answer Some Very Human Questions

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Chris Dixon, who invested early in companies ranging from Warby Parker to Kickstarter, once wrote that the next big thing always starts out looking like a toy. That’s certainly true of artificial intelligence, which started out playing games like chess, go and playing humans on the game show Jeopardy!

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Defining Problems in the Innovation Process with Matt Mueller

Viima

We’re continuing our series of interviews with innovation experts. This time we’re interviewing Matt Mueller about the importance of problem definition. Why do we fail to define them and why should we slow down in the innovation process? Matt is an innovation consultant, columnist, speaker, and author with over a decade of experience in executing strategy and facilitating change for some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods brands and retail stores.

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Doodle Your Way to a Breakthrough? The Founder of This AI Company Illustrates Her Process.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Sometimes putting pen to paper is key to cracking the code.

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Job One of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act: Closing the Digital Divide

Business and Tech

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. For more than 50 years, U.S. businesses outsourced manufacturing overseas rather than investing at home. For example, engineers invented the semiconductor in the United States, but the nation produces about 10% of the world’s supply today.

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Can you Leverage Human Capital in In-Office Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

As organizations prioritize tapping into the collective knowledge of their employees, the value of human capital is increasingly clear. This goes beyond seeking the input of executives, leadership, and your innovation department—to seeking the perspective of everyone in the office. In-office crowdsourcing has become a popular way to maximize creativity, productivity, and collaboration.

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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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Shifting the conversation from poverty alleviation to prosperity creation

Christensen Institute

In the recently published report , Scenarios for Future Global Growth, Charles Kenny and Zack Gehan forecast how the global economy will evolve by 2050. There’s good and bad news. The good news is that, by their estimates, no country will be classified as low-income (currently defined as having a Gross National Income per capita of $1,085 or less) by 2050.

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Why Sales and Marketing Need to Embrace an Elevated Consciousness: Going Beyond Targets and Revenue

Tullio Siragusa

Why Sales and Marketing Need to Embrace an Elevated Consciousness: Going Beyond Targets and Revenue In today’s fast-paced, results-oriented business world, it’s easy for leaders and their teams to focus solely on achieving targets and driving revenue. However, this narrow focus can often come at the expense of the bigger picture — the impact that a company’s actions have on its employees, customers, and the wider community.

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Sales Teams Need to Stop Focusing on the Customer Funnel

Harvard Business Review

Instead, build an “experience chain” that aligns the customer journey across physical and digital channels.

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What Motivates Participation in Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is becoming an increasingly popular way for organizations to obtain data and opinions from a large pool of diverse contributors. What motivates participation in crowdsourcing may surprise you. It’s easy to assume that extrinsic motivators such as prizes, incentives, and recognition are a primary motivator. However, intrinsic motivators such as feeling part of something [.

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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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Millennials and Gen Z are talking about wellness online. We should listen.

Christensen Institute

Beyond connecting people across any distance, social media provides a platform for people to share thoughts, opinions, and commentary on a number of topics. One such topic continually gaining a lot of traction is mental health and wellness. Over the past couple of years, a number of Millennial and Gen Z employees, particularly on TikTok, began discussing how to reclaim their personal health and wellness, particularly in the face of increased stress and pressure from employer expectations.

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5 Things to Consider When Hiring Corporate Innovators

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard As businesses continue to face unprecedented change and uncertainty, innovation is no longer optional – it’s a must-have for companies looking to survive and thrive. However, finding and developing the right people to drive corporate innovation can be challenging.

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What Do Your B2B Customers Really Want?

Harvard Business Review

Research shows they prefer interactions that fuel their psychological needs — even if they require more time or cost more money.

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I Got a First Look at OpenAI's GPT-4. Here's How It's Going to Revolutionize Industries Worldwide — Even More Than ChatGPT.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

I experienced the magic of OpenAI's latest weapon in the AI arms race, GPT-4. It's going to redefine human-AI interaction and transform the way all of us work.

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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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The learning leapfrog in Liberia, Sierra Leone

Christensen Institute

In the backwaters of what many in the US consider a backwater, a quiet revolution is brewing. Eighteen years after civil war ended in Liberia, in a school located in a rural village that helps make rubber for Bridgestone, the revolution isn’t around political power or guns. It’s about using technology to personalize learning and unlock progress for children who otherwise would struggle to learn to read and do math.

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The Life of a Corporate Innovator

Innovation Excellence

As Told in Three Sonnets GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Day 1 Oh innovation, a journey just begun A bold quest filled with challenges, risks, and dreams, A path of creativity, knowledge and fun, That will bring change, growth and a brighter scene.

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How “Payment Banks” Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley Bank illustrates why payroll shouldn’t be stored in an institution vulnerable to bank runs.

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Sustainability Workshops and Programs

InnovationTraining.org

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability. We’ve helped with small groups and special conferences for hundreds of people.

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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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Solar energy adoption barriers: a vicious cycle?

Christensen Institute

A couple of months ago I wrote about some of the barriers to solar adoption in Nigeria. And as I’ve read and researched further into the topic I began to see an aggravating pattern. Perhaps a potential vicious cycle–a cause and effect relationship where two or more elements exacerbate each other and make a situation worse. When looking at barriers to solar adoption in Nigeria, that seems to be the case.

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Taking Care of Yourself is Not Impossible

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When there’s nothing left in your tank, what do you do? When it’s difficult for you to keep your head above water, what do you do? When you see people who need help, do you spend your energy to help them or do you preserve your energy for yourself?

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How Will Generative AI Disrupt Video Platforms?

Harvard Business Review

The technology will change what content is produced, how it’s produced, and who it’s shown to.

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The 10 Biggest Challenges in Innovation Management in 2023

ITONICS

We all know that innovation is the driving force for business survival and competitive advantage. As we move further into 2023, we think it’s important to recognize the most significant challenges that businesses are facing in this field. In this article, we will explore the ten biggest challenges in innovation management that executives and teams will need to address to stay competitive in the years ahead.

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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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Navigating an Energy Transition strategic pathway

Innovating4Energy

Energy Fitness Landscape primer There are so many risks in the near to mid-term to derail the Energy Transition. I feel it is really hard to stay focused and not become distracted by the anti-energy transition groups. I am a firm believer in having a navigable strategic and tactical pathway to keep you on a given track along the route you have chosen to get to a given goal.

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Charting Change Mystery Deal

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! From now until March 27, 2023 you can get up to a 45% discount on my latest best-selling book Charting Change – plus FREE shipping! OR you can also save on the eBook!

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Shifting Your Perception After Being Laid Off

Harvard Business Review

As a tech employee, Vivek Gulati has navigated multiple layoffs. Here’s what he’s learned.

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Ratio Exchange Establishes Strategic Partnership with Wazoku to Expand Sourcing Ecosystem

Wazoku

Connecting Ecosystems to Help Customers Solve Problems and Challenges Faster Virginia, February 8, 2023 - Ratio Exchange, an emerging leader in the Federal Sourcing Market, is excited to announce that we will significantly expand our sourcing ecosystem through a strategic partnership with Wazoku, the global innovation leader helping their clients in the US Government and global private sector innovate at scale.

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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.