Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. To see the interview in it’s entirety, scroll to the bottom of this post. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? In early-stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. To see the interview in it’s entirety, scroll to the bottom of this post. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? In early stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The story of innovation to reimagine baked beans at KraftHeinz resonates with innovation leaders no matter their industry. And, it has Design Thinking at the heart.

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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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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2000, I predicted that we would see innovation as a service in the near future. NASA recently invited users from freelancer.com to help them solve 22 of their most complex problems. The open invitation to join a collaborative innovation program that involves training the image recognition of the robotic astronaut by generating 3D models of objects that it would interact with on the EVA spacewalk, including , and of the International Space Station has captured everyone’s imagination.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Collaboration Exercises 40

Getspeakup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Companion slides: www.slideshare.net/GetSpeakUp/conf…iness-practices. Confronting the ugly truth of employee engagement and how to modernize your business practices. —– Get alerts when we publish new podcast episodes: Register @ blog.getspeakup.com. Create positive change at work and give everyone the power to SpeakUp, try it free: getspeakup.com.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

My former MBA student at Harvard, Charles Duhigg, has written an excellent article for the New York Times this week. The article is titled, "Google's Quest to Build the Perfect Team." Duhigg describes an initiative at Google code-named Project Aristotle. The company studied hundreds of teams to determine the attributes of the highest performing teams.

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