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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

IdeaSpies

Create Safe Spaces In 2012, Google embarked on an enormous research project. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick. Interestingly, highly innovative teams can be safe for some ideas, but not for others. The same effect has been found elsewhere.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. We created the following minimum completion criteria for my past team at DIRECTV Latin America. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. There was a growing denial set in by all that steady reassuring news.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

For many, “future” is in fact a continuation of the immediate past and projections of near-term forces and trends that are easy to see and understand. Would it have a new product development or innovation process? This present-forward approach relies on projections from the immediate past and present state.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

BrainZooming

Vickie Howell is a broadcast personality, producer, author, designer, and instructor in the DIY world. With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. I was watching this all develop over the course of about eight years.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Neck et al.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? Airbnb and Ryanair originally designed a service with only B2C customers in mind. What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? Can you design services where no humans are involved? What if no staff was required?