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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

The team stays within its scope and parameters, to be sure, but they also engage in creative thinking about the problem they are addressing. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures. We need to normalize this challenge as one of cultural transition, and respect that it will take a while to make it work.

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Innovation Day

eZassi

April 21 The United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day on April 21 recognizes creativity and innovation’s role in human progress. The UN passed a resolution in 2017 to mark this global celebration, aiming to encourage people worldwide to use new ideas, technologies, and creative thinking to build a better future.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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How to keep our children (and adults) from losing their creativity

Idea to Value

Therefore, the older brain’s preference will always be to use safe memories instead of creative new ‘risky’ solutions. The effect of this is that throughout their development, children are taught that giving the right answer is what is important, which is in line with convergent thinking only. How can we improve our creative ability?

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

At the time, there were no widely recognized market research reports, customer insights, or technology roadmaps (except perhaps inside Apple) that projected what the world might conceivably look like in 2017. The ‘momentum of legacy’ is the collective culture, mindset and motivation of the company that drives its current behaviors.

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How the Israel Securities Authority is Engaging Employees to Boost Innovation

Qmarkets

Earlier in 2017, the ISA approached Qmarkets regarding the implementation of Qmarkets' platform in order to run an idea and innovation management program. In order to do this, there must be room for creative thinking and for innovation. "It Yael Weiss Efron is an Innovation Manager at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA).

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Innovation in Myanmar

Innovation Excellence

This is the kind of creative thinking that colleagues and customers expect to see from those of us in the innovation field. Drive on the Other Side – Think about Foundations. Michael Brian Schiffer, Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2017), p.