Mon.Aug 29, 2016

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Innovation: management versus enablement

Jeffrey Phillips

I love innovation. I love all facets of it: the discovery of new needs, the creativity to discover new solutions, the realization of those new ideas as new products and services. What concerns me sometimes is the way in which we attempt to implement innovation, because we are likely to constraint it at just the time we need the most innovation. You'll see a lot of talk about "innovation management".

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Innovation Leaders Need Peers

Innovation in Practice

There’s an old saying in business. Don’t make enemies of your peers. If you do, you won’t need any more enemies. They’ll be able to do you in.just fine. So what’s my point? Your peers are an essential resource and support network. By peers, I mean those at the same level in other departments: finance, sales, human resources, marketing, R&D, and operations.

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Innovation Lessons from the Six Rules of Urban Planning

Innovation Excellence

Anyone who has enjoyed a long walk through the pleasant streets of Greenwich Village in New York may have Jane Jacobs to thank. Among the most brilliant thinkers in the area of city planning and architecture, Jacobs in 1961 wrote the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jacobs wrote that the Modernist.

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Enterprise and Corporate Performance Management (EPM/CPM) – Making It Work

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Many organizations are far from where they want and need to be with improving performance, and they apply intuition, rather than fact-based data, when making decisions. Enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) is now viewed as the seamless integration of managerial methods such as strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (with key performance.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, 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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The Global Innovation Index

Innovation 360

The Global Innovation Index gathers data from companies and their clients to measure how innovative countries are all over the world. This provides an overview of the business environment and could help predict how global economies will evolve over the upcoming decades. For 2016, the Global Innovation Index found that Switzerland and Sweden are the first and second most innovative countries on the planet, respectively.

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PBTO38: Office Humour and lessons in Management with Sarah Cooper

Rmukesh Gupta

Whom are we hosting in this episode: In this episode, we host Sarah Cooper, host of The Cooper Review. Why are we hosting her. The Cooper Review is the satirical blog of Sarah Cooper. It features weekly original articles, videos and cartoons on corporate humor, news, and other stuff. She describes herself as demotivational speaker and the Chief Evangelist of Evangelism.

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Business Will Always be Business.

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I Am Not a Handyman

Idea Champions

Are you a man -- or know a man who is, shall we say, "handyman challenged"? If so, then this newly published Huffington Post article of mine, is for you. Three minutes worth of comic relief. If you like it, please LIKE it and forward the link to your friends. Let's go viral! 90 other HuffPost articles of mine. My day job.

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New Business Collaboration Opportunities through Meeting Online Friends IRL

BrainZooming

While traveling recently, I met with two online friends I’d never spoken with before. We’d chatted, messaged, and emailed, but had never spoken in person. All I can say is I highly recommend turning online friends into IRL ones whenever possible. A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. In Dallas, I met and spent two days with Mess Wright.

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Interview with Phillip Barlag, Author of The Leadership Genius of Julius Caesar

Michael Roberto

1. Why did you choose to write this book ? Early in the book, I discuss a story where Caesar was able to stop a mutiny of his army - which occurred while he was away from camp - by returning, standing before them, and uttering one single word. When I first heard this story, I was enthralled. How could any leader have so much gravitas, that they could bend the will of an organization in open and violent revolt with just one word?

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Running "Sprints" Effectively

Michael Roberto

Rachel Emma Silverman wrote a short piece for the Wall Street Journal last week about the use of "sprints" to solve tough problems at companies such as Alphabet. A sprint is a focused group problem-solving process that unfolds in just five days. She features Jake Knapp of Alphabet in her column. Knapp has co-authored a book titled "Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days.

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