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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

This means that even though an innovative idea is presented to us, we might not fully appreciate its value or understand how it can benefit our organization. How To Avoid Being Surprised By Your Innovation Blind Spot First and foremost, avoid cognitive biases by opening up your mind to new ideas and concepts.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. These leaders were shown to adopt innovative technologies sooner and to reinvest more frequently as they redirect their IT budgets to innovation.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

My turning point came in 2007, when I collapsed from exhaustion and broke my cheekbone. You can see that in the way that performance reviews have evolved to regular feedback; how people think about career development and compensation; and the way companies need to invest in onboarding, development, and culture.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

The Inuit taught Amundsen how to make shelters, how to improve their mobility across the ice, and how to clothe themselves for maximum warmth and safety in cold temperatures. To learn how to use IdeaScale’s solutions for innovation, schedule now ! Conversely, a lack of diversity can lead to outright disaster.

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How to Take Meaning from a Black Swan Event

The Inovo Group

Normally, Inovo’s subscribers turn to us to understand strategic innovation – how to create growth and manage uncertainty. Today, there is a surfeit of uncertainty – but it centers on how to provide for the welfare of employees, their families, and other at-risk people in our communities. The Black Swan (2007).

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

Read on to discover how you can transform a recession into a rejuvenation. job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). How to design a winning business model. Harvard Business Review.