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The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. The Nielsen Breakthrough Innovation Project has examined over 20,000 new product launches over the past four years.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often. Top managers thus made middle managers afraid of disappointing them—by intimating that they were not ambitious enough to meet top managers’ stretched goals.

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Employee Spotlight: D’Metrius Agurs

Brunner

Meet D’Metrius Agurs! Q: Any fun “projects” happening at home? . A: Meeting “Tommy” from Power Rangers. A: I flew to LA and back in 24 hours for the Game Awards in 2015. Q: What were some of your high school hobbies? . I began writing a graphic novel while the big “Q” was happening.

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Practice Your Way to Winning in 2015

The Human Factor

For example: Conducting disorganized meetings where people arrive late, unprepared, and not focused on what’s really important. To improve your chances of winning in 2015, practice the following winning habits. Run effective meetings. The post Practice Your Way to Winning in 2015 appeared first on More Than A Minute.

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Employee Spotlight: D’Metrius Agurs

Brunner

Meet D’Metrius Agurs! Q: Any fun “projects” happening at home? . A: Meeting “Tommy” from Power Rangers. A: I flew to LA and back in 24 hours for the Game Awards in 2015. Q: What were some of your high school hobbies? . I began writing a graphic novel while the big “Q” was happening.

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Celebrating Achievements: A Recap of Customers Honored at Planview Accelerate 2023

Planview

Endress + Hauser Sebastian Büchle, Expert Project & Portfolio Management Endress+Hauser is a global leader in industrial measurement instrumentation, services, and solutions for industrial process engineering. Now it has become a connected platform within Endress+Hauser for effective project portfolio management.

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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. For example, if you’re an organization that works best with formal committees, establishing one and ensuring it meets regularly and communicates with employees regularly will be your best approach. Yet that’s a long time ago.