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How Employee Engagement Builds High-Performing Teams: 5 Insights

CMOE

According to a survey by the research firm Gallup, employee engagement is at its lowest since 2015. It might be a better idea to replace unnecessary meetings with software that offers communication channels for team discussions on projects or topics. Engagement fuels motivation, passion, and creativity.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

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Creative independence to innovate together

Norbert Bol

Leavy (2015) shows that it is most important for innovation leaders to create an environment where people are willing and are able to collaborate. This makes stage setting for innovation perhaps even more important to create the right circumstances when people are working on innovation projects. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

As Mallory Dwinal wrote in 2015 when she explored the opportunity for innovating where there are teacher shortages, states could also help by allowing these experiences to move away from seat-time requirements to mastery- or competency-based learning and giving districts some resources to evaluate and select the appropriate learning models.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Solving this issue requires both encouraging creativity and broadening the scope of what an “idea” is. The response to this should be “So why did you decide to do it that way?” Yet that’s a long time ago.

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The secret to this government department’s innovation success: Small teams

Idea to Value

The federal government is the largest institution in the world, and spends $86 billion annually just on IT projects. And 94% of those projects end up over budget or behind schedule, and 40% never even finish. Editor’s note: I did the math, and $86bn is more than the 2015 GDP of 125 countries!]. How did it go?

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Why you should care about the Creativity Era

Innovation 360 Group

Being constantly exposed to how we analyze, develop and ultimately help our clients to become and stay successful in the creativity era, where innovation is at the heart, I have decided to put down and share some reflections about how our world is changing, hopefully for the better, and how you and the society can benefit from it.