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Best Among What I Read Today – The Innovation Edition, Jan 5th 2017

Rmukesh Gupta

Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea. In this blog post, Roger Martin shares how the concepts of design thinking can be used not just to create new products or services but can be used for a much more important activity – to build commitments to the ideas that the design thinking team is working on.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Gijs van Wulfen, Keynote Speaker, FORTH Innovation Institute

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance Gijs van Wulfen, Keynote Speaker, Innovation Institute Focus Areas : Innovation, Design Thinking, Creativity. His book, ‘The Innovation Maze’ , was crowned recently as Management Book of the Year 2017 in The Netherlands. I travel around the whole world for my keynotes on Design Thinking and Innovation.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.

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Guresh Ahuja

Innovation 360 Group

My experience spans as a client-side program manager delivering capital infrastructure (EPCM), design management, business transformation, strategic procurement, construction management and IT system projects for health, sustainable utilities, smart cities, and NSW government. Project, Program and procurement management.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. Instead, organizations need to look for quick wins in their first projects. Just tossing money at it. Innovation needs structure.

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Top Style & Personality Assessments to Understand Your Employees

InnovationTraining.org

According to a 2017 workplace survey, 67% of HR professionals are using personality tests and pre-employment testing to better understand potential hires. Knowing how suited any given employee is for those four traits can help management place them in suitable roles during innovation projects and teamwork assignments. Implementer.

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5 Innovation Trends of 2018 that will Disrupt the Corporate Landscape in 2019

Qmarkets

Back in 2017, the PWC Global Fintech report found that 88% of legacy banking organizations feared that the emergence of new financial technology companies would lead to a significant loss in revenue in areas such personal loans, money transfers and payments. Often times, this data can be gained through crowdsourcing projects.

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