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We Too Often Ignore The Tradeoff Between Innovation And Optimization

Digital Tonto

If you want to innovate, forget the metrics and focus on your mission Related posts: Why Best Practices Can Lead To Better Innovation. Why Every Business Should Consider Innovation Teams. What is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Top 40 Innovation Blogger of 2016, and Top 20 Innovation Blog

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Over the past couple of weeks, Nick Skillicorn, Innovationmanagement.se and innoboard.de have been analysing all of the top innovation blogs from across the internet, on their own pages (63 in total).

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Turn Your Organization into an Idea Factory: Part I

Innovation Excellence

Up to 80 percent of an organization's improvement potential could come from frontline employee ideas. However, the average employee suggestion box or idea program gets less than 10 percent adoption, has fewer than.5 ideas per employee per year and can hurt employee engagement.

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Loyalty Programs and Building Loyalty

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the biggest challenges that brands face today is to find and cultivate loyal customers. Most brands have some sort of loyalty programs to reward loyalty from their customers. Most of these loyalty programs that I am a part of, totally miss the point of loyalty itself. In general, the expectation from enterprise customers or consumers have significantly increased and they now expect brands to not just deliver great products and services but also acknowledge them as individuals and engage,

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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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Innovation Failure Lessons from Virgin, Pfizer, Rock n Roll

Innovation Excellence

I was called up by Sir Richard Branson's first hire at Virgin Atlantic and recommended to contact a company called F Up Nights. Virgin's David Tait had spoken at one of their events in NYC on Virgin's more glorious failures and he thought I may have a story to share. Failure can be a much more powerful learning tool in business than success if we are willing to learn from it.

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Non monetary incentives

Betterific

We just received a wonderful email from one of our members. She loves the Betterific community, finds tremendous value in the brainstorming and connection with other members and companies. In the spirit of Betterific, She has some innovative suggestions! And we’re implementing her ideas immediately (see below). She’s encouraging us to think through rewards beyond our current roster of incentives.

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Giving Ourselves the Best Gift Ever Possible

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently watched this video from Apostolos on the Design Collector Feed. Apart from being a visually stunning piece of work, the video also talks about a very important, if not the most important thing that each and everyone of us should never forget – to live in the moment and be fully present in the NOW. Before I go further, request you to take the 3 minutes and 47 seconds to watch and listen to the video first.

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