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Edwards Deming once famously stated: A bad system will beat a good person every time. What was Deming trying to convey with this quote? It wasn’t an attempt to get people to give up trying because failure was certain. It was an attempt to get people to understand the importance of the system and. MORE
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The race for productivity is on. And to take productivity to the next level, set limits. To reduce the time wasted by email, limit the number of emails a person can send to ten emails per day. Also, eliminate the cc function. If you send a single email to ten people, you’re done for the day. MORE
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Destination Innovation
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Innovation should be a regular topic item on the agenda of company board meetings. If you have not had a fundamental conversation about innovation with your key corporate stakeholders and senior executives then these are some of the questions and topics to discuss at the first such meeting.
Digital Tonto
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Despite all the excitement about platforms, businesses still need to create, deliver and capture value Related posts: Today, Every Business Must Transform Itself Into A Platform. Is Your Platform. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
IdeaScale
OCTOBER 19, 2017
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Information Playground
OCTOBER 17, 2017
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Speaker: Gordon Vala-Webb, Author, Speaker and Consultant, Building Smarter Organizations
From his upcoming book, Building Smarter Organizations, Gordon will do a deep dive into connecting and collaborating with those outside your organization to accelerate innovation. Gordon will provide practical strategies to connecting and working with the "nearside" of suppliers, partners and alumni in order to accelerate innovation.
Wazoku
OCTOBER 16, 2017
A blog based on the ‘School of innovation’ webinar co-hosted by ideasUK and Wazoku. When leadership says ‘Go, innovate!’ everyone panics thinking ‘Where do I even start?’.
Idea Champions
OCTOBER 16, 2017
If you are working with a team of any kind and are hoping for more innovation, know this: it's a function of "intrinsic motivation", not pep talks, carrots, sticks, or "new initiatives."
Digital Tonto
OCTOBER 18, 2017
You have to be able to look beyond your current business and explore new horizons Related posts: Great Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare. How Great Media Companies Fail on the Internet. What. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. All Posts Management Technology Innovation Strategy
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Achieving innovation fitness is a journey- to get there we often have to manage the switchbacks as we build our capabilities and capacities to innovate. Feature Of The Week Innovation Leadership People & Skills Strategy
Speaker: Greg Satell, Innovation Advisor, Speaker and Author
From his newly released book, Greg Satell has researched how people and organizations successfully innovate. We are excited to have Greg join us for a session that will draw upon these insights and provide a playbook for how to define the right innovation strategies for your organization to overcome the specific challenges that your organization faces and dramatically improve your innovation effectiveness.
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Transformation is very hard at the best of times for all of us to undertake. Digital transformation forces us to work with mostly emerging, constantly evolving technologies, and then apply these in an integrated way into an existing business.
Michael Roberto
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Fast Company's Stephanie Vozza writes this week about the need for accurate self-assessment. She argues that being blind about our weaknesses can derail our careers. She cites a new book by Kellogg School of Management Professor Carter Cast.
Mike Shipulski
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The race for productivity is on. And to take productivity to the next level, set limits. To reduce the time wasted by email, limit the number of emails a person can send to ten emails per day. Also, eliminate the cc function. If you send a single email to ten people, you’re done for the day.
Mills-Scofield
OCTOBER 16, 2017
40 Women over 40 ~ 2017. Wow - just wow! Check out this amazing group of women doing amazing things! I'm honored, proud and very humbled to be part of this powerful group of 40 Women over 40 , organized for the 5th year in a row by Christina Vuleta and Whitney Johnson.
Speaker: Jeffrey Phillips, Senior Consultant, OVO Innovation
This action-packed session examined the critical questions you should ask as you establish an open innovation framework: which technologies or ideas? Which partners and how many? Which methods? By taking a strategic approach to open innovation, you’ll find the right ideas or partners more effectively, and you’ll accelerate new products to market more quickly. This was a great session you don’t want to miss.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Ten years ago, social media was in its infancy. Nobody even heard of mobile marketing, content marketing or big data. The iPhone hadn’t even been launched yet. If you took a reasonably competent marketer from 2007 and transported her to today, much of what she knew about her job would be irrelevant.
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Taking an innovation, product or other service global has many advantages, but also throws up many challenges. Overcome the challenges and what you are likely to see is a more robust and profitable concern - but get it wrong and you are likely to incur some losses and potentially damage your business. Strategies
Norbert Bol
OCTOBER 21, 2017
This week is the start of the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, where 2500 designers present their ideas, experiments and solutions. The theme of the event is “Stretch”, to encourage both designers and the public to get involved with each other and to break out of their comfort zone. Everybody has different comfort zones depending on the subject and circumstances. As human beings we have created all sorts of artificial mental boundaries within which we maintain a sense of security.
Michael Roberto
OCTOBER 18, 2017
When organizations fall behind the competition, we often hear people describe how the enterprise had become increasingly insular in recent years. Managers focused on enhancing operational efficiency, and they fixated on internal processes and procedures. As a result, they did not recognize key trends and changes in the marketplace. They did not spend enough time learning about new types of competitors. How can we become better at scanning our external environment?
Speaker: Soren Kaplan, Founder of InnovationPoint
We are excited to launch the Collaborative Innovation Webinar Series with Dr. Soren Kaplan. His just released book, "The Invisible Advantage," provides actionable insights into how any organization can create a culture of innovation, an environment that promotes freethinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and sustainable value creation at all levels and across all functions. By registering for the webinar, you will get a free excerpt from his book.
Collective Campus
OCTOBER 19, 2017
“Innovation” is no longer a buzzword but a critical success factor for organisations seeking to survive and thrive into the future. Corporate innovation in particular has started to enter the everyday lexicon of boardrooms and the emergence of innovation managers and departments is increasingly common
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Edwards Deming once famously stated: A bad system will beat a good person every time. What was Deming trying to convey with this quote? It wasn’t an attempt to get people to give up trying because failure was certain. It was an attempt to get people to understand the importance of the system and.
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Quantum computers will allow artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to become far more advanced. Many researchers are working on the advancement of quantum computers, and it won't be long before their use becomes widespread. Trend Alert AI artificial intelligence machine learning quantum computing
Wazoku
OCTOBER 17, 2017
What would you do if you suddenly found out that you will live 30 years longer? Would you get excited and start planning activities or would you feel disheartened because of all the issues that age and elderly life are associated with?
Speaker: Paul Sloane, Director, Destination Innovation
Paul Sloane is a well-known author and speaker on open innovation. In this session, Paul takes us through examples of successful open innovation programs to explore the breadth of what open innovation can be for organizations and the value it can bring. This was a great session you don’t want to miss.
Daniel Burrus
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Anyone who has heard me speak or worked with me in a consulting capacity knows how much I talk about the transformational impact of technology and how it’s advancing at an exponentially faster rate than ever before. That’s certainly true.
Hype
OCTOBER 17, 2017
N ext time you switch on your TV or computer display spare a thought for the company who probably produced the liquid crystal display. With over 60% of the global market the German company Merck is probably not one which would instantly come to mind. But they dominate this and a wide spread of other activity in the chemical and pharmaceutical world.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 19, 2017
Achieving this fitness accelerates your opportunities into final tangible outcomes. The more ‘rugged’ the landscape, the tougher the innovation challenge, can also determines the greater fitness for the rate of innovation needed. Innovation
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Everyone has the opportunity to create their reality and future. In this talk, Judith Okonkwo emphatically states that ‘the only limitation to content in virtual reality (VR) is the imagination of the creator.'. Videos education hackathon nigeria virtual reality
Speaker: Paul Campbell, VP of Innovation, Schneider Electric
We are excited to have Paul Campbell, an expert in corporate entrepreneurship, covering some of the strategies and tactics he has repeatedly used to transform corporate innovation programs. In this session, Paul shares his experience innovating in new and adjacent markets through a deft deployment of open innovation, business accelerators, venturing, M&A, R&D, business development and strategy team leadership.
Idea to Value
OCTOBER 22, 2017
Hi everyone, This week’s update is going to be a bit more personal. The reason why I haven’t been able to release as many articles in the last few weeks is quite simple. Over the past month, I have moved to Sydney, Australia with my lovely girlfriend.
Board of Innovation
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Let me start by introducing myself: I’m Anneleen, Design Thinking Lead at Board of Innovation. Throughout my professional career, I have repeatedly been asked: Isn’t Design Thinking just common sense? What is it that makes Design Thinking so different from other innovation approaches? I recently had the privilege to support NGO’s in setting up a social enterprise. Together with. Read More. The post Forget “yes but”, use “yes and” instead.
IdeaScale
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Many companies today are experiencing an accelerated pace of change. As the world around us changes, how do successful companies drive change internally? After all, most of your workforce was probably hired for their functional skills, such as sales, accounting or production.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 18, 2017
I’ve taken up a new habit of asking successful people I know: What is your career strategy? I ask it casually, and in person, because I want to see their body language and get a sense of just how front-of-mind their answer might be. My discovery: when it comes to careers, most folks don’t have.
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