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Innovation Day

eZassi

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. How do you recognize Innovation in your Organization? The benefits of recognizing a dedicated Innovation Day are worth considering.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

These processes can each guide us, depending upon our goals, knowledge, and values surrounding stakeholder engagement. Rather than awaiting well-developed solutions before re-engaging customers, Agile continuously consults with them and redefines direction as a result. Responding to change over following a plan.

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

Innovation Excellence

A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. In our final installment, we’ll show the importance of a positive workplace culture, and the role of engagement, support, and reliability. Increase Engagement by Making Room for Relationships.

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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.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. Another 2012 study showed that pretend play and creativity were also linked.

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The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

Rmukesh Gupta

They have announced that the colour of the year 2017 is going to be Pantone Greenery. We need to be creative about how we engage and communicate when we talk to each stake holders and speak to them in their own knowledge. So, get ready to see a lot of green all around you. The Suitcase and The Wheel: .

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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 QM: How did you engage users with your system?