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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Hopefully this article will serve as inspiration (and education) to others who want to publish a book. Although I addressed why this was critical, I realized I never give readers specific tools on how to do this. June 2013: I started conversations with a client who expressed interest in co-building the toolkit.

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). Often it happens, that we already feel better equipped for exploring and observing by just getting out of our usual everyday working environment. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. that we know we can improve upon.

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How to create a scalable strategy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

mjvinnovation

We have already talked about how the world has quickly changed within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation. How to become scalable. We already know how the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world economy and turned our consumption habits (locally and globally) upside down.

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Clicking Fast and Slow

Boxes and Arrows

Through social psychology and cognitive science, we now know a great deal about our own frailties in the way that we seek, use, and understand information and data. Fast and slow cognitive systems: How we think. We may incorrectly accept hypotheses on a topic, and we can be quite bad at judging probabilities.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

But critically, they also knew how to shape a vision of the future. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For example, “If only we didn’t have to spend time commuting to work.”. “ All three were world-class problem solvers. Ecosystem Scanning.

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Keep the Kitchen Cabinets from Overflowing

Boxes and Arrows

You’ve seen these long-forgotten food containers of who-knows-when science experiments pushed up against the back of the fridge. At this point, it’s an overhead project at most companies. We’ve asked these questions before in part 2, Planning a Taxonomy Project. Who is using it? Don’t ask.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

For most people who have a middle-class background, the lifestyle of a person who cannot seem to hold down a job, maintain stable housing or provide adequately for their children seems chaotic, confusing and frustratingly self-perpetuating. It takes a special kind of person to work with people in such extreme poverty.

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