IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Product design teams can often feel they lack the most important voice in the process: The consumer. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way. From toy companies to coffee to hotels, here are brands that leveraged crowdsourcing to encourage innovation.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Regardless of your affinity towards philosophy or science, it is safe to say that without deliberate practice, no one achieves growth. The post How To Truly Devote Yourself To A Growth Mindset appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2016

To successfully foster an innovation, you have to look through at least six different sets of eyes. First, you have to unlearn everything you know. Admit it. You are biased, pre-programmed, and your bonus is tied into business results. Apply sincere empathy with people who do not know as much as you. To enter a beginner’s.

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The Inovo Group

DECEMBER 15, 2016

A privately-held, 75-year old business that owns more than 80% market share in their segment of food processing equipment was facing a bleak future. Their industry was being automated, their patents were expiring and their products were becoming commoditized with little opportunity for performance differentiation. The head of the business recognized the need for something transformational.

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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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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2016

A bad economy, globalization, consumer attention deficit disorder, lack of resources, poor technology infrastructure, corporate politics, bad luck and loads of other excuses exist in companies that are not getting good innovation results. It’s just doggone hard. But what in life isn’t hard?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

1. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker. 2. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw 3."Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats. 4. "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus. 5.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If you are reading this blog, I am 95 percent certain you value the power of BIG IDEAS. I'm also certain that you've experimented with various ways of capturing your big ideas: Notebooks. Voice memos. Post-its. Napkins. Whiteboards. Mind maps. And who knows how many other techniques. If so, you are likely to be intrigued by Chuck Frey's newly published guide about how to set up EVERNOTE as a way support a complete, end-to-end creative process.

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