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Effective Non-Contact Innovation

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Since 2011 we have hosted a grand total of 36 Union events, but Summer Union 2020 was the first of its kind as it was entirely virtual from farm to fork – from our first brainstorm to the execution of the event itself. The Union of summer 2020 was definitely a prototype, but it was a self-aware one.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, says “We want employees to be able to work where they feel most creative and productive” (Kelly, 2020). Or, we may have small groups or teams write down workplace obstacles or concerns on paper, and have teams swap papers and brainstorm solutions. Management Study Guide. Kahneman, D. Linehan, M. Sidekicker.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

The idea was conceived by Eric Ries and brought to life in his book The Lean Startup back in 2011. This involves brainstorming and prioritizing business model assumptions, creating a hypothesis, defining a key metric and running a specific experiment to validate or invalidate the hypothesis.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

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The disruption rebels even meet in Spain for a week-long team building exercise and brainstorming, concluding it with a 24-hour hackathon of designers, programmers, business managers, Lego geniuses, and more. Then 3DS was released in 2011. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach.

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Innovation in the Era of COVID-19

Innovation Excellence

Like the majority of the world’s population in April 2020, I find myself unable to implement my preferred method of innovation discovery. Italy is one of the worst-hit countries in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this impacted me directly as I had planned in May 2020 to begin a trip to the Southern Balkans via Rome.