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Combatting the Stress and Burnout Epidemic in the Workplace

Business and Tech

When I launched Thrive Global in November of 2016, the topics of stress, burnout, and employee well-being were still on the fringes of our conversations about work. Companies are aware that human qualities like focus, empathy, collaboration, and resilience are critical to being able to thrive in times of uncertainty and disruption.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. myCityInnovation initially invited the City’s 12,000 “wired” employees to share, collaborate, and test new ideas for improving City services. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness.

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The Future of Corporate-Startup Collaboration

The Inovo Group

Collaboration can no longer be viewed as an optional extra, it’s a strategic imperative. The collaboration between large corporations and startups is more important today than ever, and the trend will continue. Both types of entities are realizing the advantages that can come from collaborating with their counterpart.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% An incredible 50% of all Amer employees and 30% of factory workers have already collaborated to take the company further. What were the Innovation Challenges Facing Amer Sports?

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Winners announced for the Civic Engagement Innovation Competition

Betterific

Our “ Hacking Civic Engagement ” Challenge was a first for us in many respects. With the help of Deloitte’s Pixel division we collaborated with Topcoder. SingularityUNZ (@SingularityUNZ) August 30, 2016. ExponentialsXYZ (@ExponentialsXYZ) August 30, 2016. In 48 hours, they received 25 app designs. .

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Why We Are Entering A New Innovation Era.

Paul Hobcraft

One of the implications is this growing recognition that innovation is rarely succeeding in isolation but it is growing on a more highly dependent type of complementary innovation, a collaborative network, working around this new emerging innovation to deliver a more connected, radical experience, requiring innovation ecosystem management.

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10 Technology Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2016

Daniel Burrus

When they don’t get the answer they want in 2016, they will only pick up the phone and order an attractive software as a service (SaaS) solution that can be up and running incredibly quickly without all the hassle that historically came with large software implementations. Virtual Reality Gets Real.

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