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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging Newsletter – February 2015

Leapfrogging

How To Think About Turning Your Products Into Services. Social Innovation Summit 2015 – June 11-12, Washington, DC. Eking out profits from products alone isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to the Internet and global distribution, consumers have access to lots of choices. Must-Go Events & Conferences.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Challenges in “Buy-In”.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits. With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Now is the time to impact 2015. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Innovation: How to Recruit and Retain Top Millennial Talent

Idea to Value

However, the Pew Research Center specifically delineates Millennials as people ages 18-34 in 2015. [2] million) have surpassed the Baby Boomers (people ages 51-69 in 2015, who now number at 74.9 2] After tabulating the recently released U.S. million) as this country’s largest living generation. [3]. 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4]

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

At the same time, governments were trying to learn how to wage a “cold” war, a fight more about diplomacy and ideology than physical combat. In December 2015, SpaceX landed its first reusable first stage of an orbital rocket. In March 2017, SpaceX successfully “recycled” its first rocket.