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Webinar: How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis

IdeaScale

It teamed up with a major consulting firm to design a social innovation challenge. The finalists pitched judges in a Designathon presented online, and the result was three exciting solutions. They tapped their volunteers to come up with solutions to these invisible problems.

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

For an academic or science-based organization innovation is primarily research and development and has a very broad scope – from generating new insights with no possible present use, to inventing new things for a market that is likely to exist in the future, to improving things we already have for markets we have defined today.

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Social Innovation: Innovation for the Good of Us All

Bill Fischer

So says28-year-old Cloudera founder, early Facebook veteranand one of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs" in 2010, Jeff Hammerbacher, in a refreshing insight about the present state of innovation. In fact,if we're honest [.].

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Defrosting the Workplace: Why Warm Leadership Is the Future of Organizational Growth

Tullio Siragusa

Leadership today demands emotional fluency and the humility to own mistakes and stay present. Building trust means depositing marbles in the jar every daysmall acts of care, integrity, and follow-through. And just as trust can be built, it can be easily lost. The next generation demands it.

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The Creative Renaissance: Redefining Work in the Age of AI

Tullio Siragusa

Sum also highlighted the importance of understanding history and context, helping leaders connect the past to the present and make informed, compassionate decisions. They live and lead with empathy as a way of life, not just as a buzzword. Challenge: What does empathy look like in action for your team?

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How Traditional Ad and PR Agencies Can Compete with Tech Companies in the Digital Era

Tullio Siragusa

Data-Driven Marketing The increasing availability of data and the need for more targeted and personalized marketing strategies presents an opportunity for both traditional and self-service tech companies to offer data-driven marketing solutions.

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Moving innovation even more in 2016

Paul Hobcraft

The power of social innovation and linking your product to societal needs Scaling becomes important to expand this out. We need to “reconnect to dominant economic activities of the larger society”, add a ‘higher’ purpose into our innovation activity. Innovation design needs both. •