Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

There are many lingering business issues from COVID that are still with us, including how hard it is to find and keep workers, the high wages required for front-line workers, and tightening lines of credit and scarcely available business loans. What drove you to make the change to become your own boss?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When you are about to negotiate, is it better to go first, or is it better to wait for the other person to show their hand and you then are able to adjust with more information? You want to pay as little as possible (say $1000). This can cause us to make judgments that are not rational or accurate.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 23, 2023

How is it possible that managers have such a different belief about what their staff are doing, or how they should be doing it? You see, management theory is a relatively recent phenomenon. Sometimes, even review “how” the employees are doing the tasks. And that got me asking: Why?

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 292

Destination Innovation

MAY 21, 2022

You could easily see a chronology of lifespans; how long people had lived and to what extent their lives overlapped. The size of each slice shows how many deaths occurred in that month. Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804) was an English polymath, philosopher, educator and scientist who is most famous for his discovery of Oxygen.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

So, you can imagine my elation when, while looking through various platforms and networks to connect with, I came across Black Girl Gamers on Twitter. I followed them for a while, seeing how they stirred up conversations and held fast against the hordes of anime AVI racists on Twitter. Black Girl Gamers. I fell in love with the space.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Have you ever heard of a Potemkin village? Trust me, this happens a lot more frequently than you would expect in innovation teams. Sometimes, innovation teams will attempt to show fake success in order to hide their real struggles. It looked like resettlement was going very well. Potemkin Villages and fake innovation.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 24, 2021

IdeaScale: So, how did Ibbaka get started and what do you do? One is we help companies understand how they create value and who they create value for and how that value is different from the value that other organizations may be trying to create. IS: Why did you name your company Ibbaka? Ib = Heart.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

Some people still debate whether creativity is something which only certain people are born with, or whether it can be developed in everyone. Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with).

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Training Creativity Study Analysis 211

Digital Tonto

MARCH 24, 2024

In two decades researching innovation, transformation and change, one constant I have found is that you can’t control your luck. The French writer Albert Camus believed our existence was absurd. He compared the human condition to Sisyphus, the mythical Greek king condemned to roll a boulder uphill, only to see it roll back down, for eternity.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Why would you ask a question that everyone knows the answer to? The findings were highly instructive and have shaped how we examine very distant planets for signs of life. He asked, ‘Would you like to come to a party which has already taken place?’ The project is described in this article in Nature.com.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 16, 2023

So while happiness may help you generate lots of ideas, it does not seem to be as powerful when needing to spend time, effort and focus improving those ideas and turning them into a final output. Here participants were randomly sampled and asked how they were feeling and what they were doing at that moment.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2023

Have you ever wanted to buy something, but the person selling wanted more than you thought it was worth? In one of their most famous examples, people were randomly given coffee mugs, and then asked how much they would sell it for. Other people without mugs were asked how much they would pay for the same mugs.

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Examples Innovation Processes Creativity Change 211

Idea to Value

JUNE 26, 2023

Have you ever had a situation where you felt like you were not getting the credit you deserve for your contributions? Or have you ever wondered how other people seem to not understand how good an idea that you had was? What is the Egocentric Bias? And their partner thinks the same thing.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

If you are successful it should be difficult to explain what was won because the previous order seems so unbelievable. The successful path to transformation starts with culture, how people see themselves and those around them. You must first change minds before you can change actions. That doesn’t just happen.

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Culture Change Artificial Inteligence Learning 176

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So for the past two weeks I have been telling you about my big upcoming plans. And that you could get a sneak preview of what was coming up by registering here for free. Let me give you an example. Here is what the science is beginning to show us: You have true creativity. You are a true creative. BIG problems.

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Creativity Case Study Brainstorming Study 253

Business and Tech

MARCH 21, 2022

Actress and lifelong gamer Olivia Munn talks about why more women are gaming than ever before, and how the industry has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to inclusivity. How old were you when you first started gaming, and what got you into it? Did you feel like you had a community of female gamers?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Still working after being more than 40 years old That made me think about how some things are built to last, while others are built to be consumed and then thrown away. Still working after being more than 40 years old That made me think about how some things are built to last, while others are built to be consumed and then thrown away.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 2, 2023

I saw this herd this morning, and notice how close each sheep stays to each other. If there is ever any danger or predator around, being in a large group means not only can you see the danger earlier, you do not need to face it alone, making it more likely you will survive. Sheep stick together in a herd.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 31, 2022

So last week I told you that I was working on something big. And that you could get a sneak preview of what was coming up by registering here for free. I’m making good progress for the 24th of Feb reveal date, but today I wanted to take you back in time to show you where it all began. Or what makes them fail.

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Idea to Value

JULY 20, 2021

If you ask a number of startups what they are hoping to achieve, undoubtedly you will encounter one that is going to “Disrupt” their industry. However, disruption is not a strategy you can plan for yourself. Disruption is what Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and the iPhone did to their industries. Disruption is cool.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 31, 2022

I want to tell you a story about the most clear example of failure I know of. So why am I telling you this story? If someone does not like your idea , does that mean that you can never have another idea in the future? And when you reach one of those hurdles, it does not mean you have failed. Of course not.

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Idea to Value

MAY 9, 2022

A number of factors they come up with if you ask them may include: Hard work. Having the resources to develop what you are thinking of. A supportive network around you. In many cases, one factor which determines which opportunities will present themselves to you is out of your control.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

How much of your innovation budget and innovation efforts should focus on improving your existing business, and how much should seek to explore and transform your business for the future? This is one of the fundamental strategic questions which every business leader needs to consider. The 70-20-10 ratio was always an average though.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2022

Do you know what is happening in your business? Where the products they sell are manufactured, or where the services you offer are carried out. Where the products they sell are manufactured, or where the services you offer are carried out. This way, you and your team may identify innovative ways to improve these operations.

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LEAN Management Learning Innovation 321

Idea to Value

MARCH 15, 2022

The bias made waves when the research was first published in 2011 , showing how people would place a higher valuation on things they produced. There is a tendency for people to love their own ideas. Not necessarily because the ideas themselves are better than others, but instead because of the work which people put into developing them.

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Examples Creativity Project Innovation 264

Idea to Value

JULY 7, 2021

I just had a wonderful experience which reminded me that in order to add value to your customers, you don’t always need to find new things to add and new features for everything. That means that this family had set themselves a maximum limit as to how much this business could possibly earn per day. And the food was amazing!

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Strategy Strategy Management Innovation 280

Idea to Value

AUGUST 20, 2021

When you think of a brand, what do you think of? In many cases, the first images which popped into your head are probably of the most popular brand logos you know. Apple, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Amazon, TikTok, Starbucks. And many “creative agencies” have made huge amounts of money producing logos for companies.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

We talked to her about what interested her about the world of non-profits, and how she navigated philanthropy and business during the COVID-19 pandemic. What got you interested in starting a non-profit? At the start of COVID, a group of us felt very helpless and wanted to give back but weren’t sure how. What is WonderKey?

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Digital Tonto

JANUARY 29, 2023

After that, it’s just a matter of how much time—and how big the bubble gets—before everything bursts. In the 1920s the Teapot Dome scandal rocked Washington. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, was found to have corruptly leased Navy petroleum reserves to private companies. The Financial Crisis led to Dodd-Frank.

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Disruption Industry Technology Learning 208

Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How is it possible that an idea you thought was perfect has failed to convince the people you want to buy it? Hold your breath, the water is about to get cold: Your customer does not care what you think of your own idea. However, your customers will only believe the value they themselves perceive in what you show them.

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Creativity Learning Innovation 281

Idea to Value

MARCH 23, 2022

You have a product. And you are trying to convince customers that they should trust you and buy your product. But do you actually know what it is like using the product you are trying to sell? And this empathy can give you insights on how they can be improved. Whether the quality is good.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

How does our innovation team compare to innovation teams at other companies? To help meet these challenges, this report provides you with a meaningful understanding of some of the critical topics related to innovation: Budget and Resources, Collaboration and Spaces, Focus and Activities, and Challenges and Enablers.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 9, 2023

How often are you blamed for things which are not your fault? Or get credit for the good things which only happened thanks to you? While in some cases people may really get negative feedback which was completely not their fault, often there is more nuance involved, where the person may not accept their responsibility.

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