Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The post Sustainable Practices Start From the Ground Up appeared first on Business and Tech. The benefits from these practices go beyond the orchard to neighbors and surrounding communities.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But how can you start your innovation journey and ensure success? Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition, creating new value, and solving the world’s biggest challenges. In this blog post, I will share with you five strategies that can help you unleash your creative potential and achieve your innovation goals.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

As some of you are aware, I am reaching the final chapter of what has been both a fulfilling and a challenging, thirty-five-year career as a serial global start-up entrepreneur. They investigated two main research questions about start-up entrepreneurship: Which personality features characterise founders?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” The Problem Whether a new product initiative, cost management program, performance improvement project, or other plans, if your team does not start with a visceral vision of target customer and business impacts, they will wander toward blurry targets and produce equally [.]

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Digital Tonto

JULY 10, 2022

We want to launch an initiative, start a business, hit the streets, get stuff done. When we’re passionate about something, we want to take action. Yet our bias for action can be a trap that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 4, 2023

The simple truth is that change rarely, if ever, starts at the top because it is people with power that create the status quo. The post Why Change Does NOT Have To Start At The Top first appeared on Digital Tonto. They are attached to what they’ve built and take pride in their accomplishments, just like the rest of us.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 25, 2023

Empathy is a good place to start. The best place to start is by building empathy for your most ardent adversaries, not to give in to them, but to help you identify shared values. The post Change Starts With Empathy (Even For Your Enemies). If you expect to bring change about, you need to attract, rather than overpower.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Companies are struggling with where to start with generative AI. The authors’ case studies, based on their growing global community of over 3,000 GenAI practitioners, point to a new category of work, more precise and actionable than “knowledge work.”

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 19, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski What do we do next? I don’t know What has been done before? What does it do now? What does it want to do next? If it does that, who cares? Why should we do it? I don’t know. Will it increase the top line? If not, do something else. […]

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Idea to Value

APRIL 26, 2021

In this podcast, I read the entire Journal article of his 1950s speech, titled “ Creativity “, so you can see where it all got started. So if you want to be taken back in time to where it all started, get a nice warm cup of tea, put on your headphones, and watch the video of me reading it ( above ), or listen to the podcast here.

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Destination Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So maybe corporations should copy some of the ideas and methods used by tiny start-ups. So the basic philosophy of the start-up entrepreneur is risk mitigation. The first idea is simply a starting hypothesis which will be tested to destruction. Don’t start with the idea; start with the problem which the idea solves.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2023

Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann and entrepreneur Lindsey Hyde discuss what led to the failure of Hyde’s pet care start-up, Baroo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2024

Many employers try to prevent workers from leaving, but that’s neither practical nor possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2023

That is, you must start with the end in mind, envisioning what you want to accomplish during this era of your leadership and what needs to happen before for can take the next step. To successfully step into a new role and set yourself up for long-term success, you must balance “now-forward” planning with “future-back” visioning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With a new year approaching, maybe finding a new job is on your list of resolutions. Being clear on what you want and aligning your resume and network to your career goals now will help you move your job search along more quickly in the new year.

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ImagineNation

JULY 3, 2023

This rollercoaster journey includes ten years as one of many adventurous, brave, global women start-up entrepreneurs. What is the impact of gender stereotypes on women start-up entrepreneurs? Stereotypes start early, shape women’s journeys to entrepreneurship, and can have a lasting impact on aspirations, confidence, and behaviour.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 26, 2023

It’s been an awesome roller-coaster ride, which includes ten years as one of many adventurous, brave, global women start-up entrepreneurs. GUEST POST from Janet Sernack It’s been thirty-five years since I exited my life as a top retail corporate executive, and become a serial female entrepreneur.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Learn how towns, cities, and counties can use online and mobile channels to start a dialog for improving communities. The post Start the New Year with This Must-See Webinar appeared first on IdeaScale. The digital world is always changing, providing greater means to share ideas. Why Should Governments Communicate with Citizens?

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Exago

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Recently launched in English and Spanish, the Exago Start innovation software is now available in Portuguese as well. Adjusting configurations for the best results, the all-new edition helps you kick-start your corporate innovation programme easily, empowering your teams to innovate. The post Finalmente!

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Planview

JANUARY 11, 2024

It all starts with a mindset shift. It all starts with how the PMO thinks. Elevate your Project Management Office (PMO) to become one of the most effective strategic partners in your organization. You have big plans for the new year. But how do you turn those plans into business outcomes while navigating the unexpected?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 2, 2018

More and more people are starting up their own small businesses in the hope that they can grow their company and make a comfortable living. Many people feel compelled to ensure that their product is completely foolproof and complete before they start pushing ahead. Startups are all the rage these days. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Inspiring Next

MARCH 21, 2021

There has been a lot of hype about Start with the Why on social media, after the Ted Talk by Simon Sinek, and his book in 2009. I strongly feel that innovators and trendsetters start with a ‘Why Not’ in… Read More » Why Not Start with a Why Not? The post Why Not Start with a Why Not?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A fire, once started and with the right fuel, can burn well and hot for hours, and in some cases if not carefully tended can become dangerous. Fuel A good fire starts with small twigs and moves on to consume larger branches and logs. It's a good place to tell ghost stories or have a sing along. But I digress.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you’re considering making your customers’ experience more connected with an omnichannel strategy , accepting different types of payments is a good place to start. Here’s how to get started with each method. The post Omnichannel is the Future of Payments — Here’s How to Get Started appeared first on Business and Tech.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

APRIL 3, 2024

Now that he runs a venture fund himself, Spencer Rascoff is sitting on the other side of the table, and he sees what founders get wrong when pitching investors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2024

A conversation with expert mediator William Ury on overcoming your biggest obstacle.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

What is the one thing that you wish you had known when starting your own career? . You don’t realize when you’re starting your own business how much people management and leadership is so important, but it’s crucial for business. But that’s not always the case. I wish I knew how hard it was going to be.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

So we thought we’d take a moment this week to celebrate four innovations that started as employee ideas. We started out with an example from an IdeaScale community. Now it’s time to hear from you: what ideas started out from a random employee suggestion and delivered real value? The Home Depot Bucket Mister.

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Inspiring Next

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Most of them frequently walk past… Read More » EZ Innovation 2 – Start with The Purpose. The post EZ Innovation 2 – Start with The Purpose appeared first on. Unfortunately, the purpose now gets buried under some ‘mission statement’ that very few employees understand.

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Phil McKinney

JANUARY 3, 2022

Innovation starts by spending time to understand the problem before solving the problem. Why do innovators focus time and energy on developing solutions before they've identified the problem? What Are Problems? The dictionary defines the word problem as a state of discord or disharmony involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.

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