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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement. Final thoughts.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Last week was. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement. Final thoughts.

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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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Continuous Improvement & Employee Empowerment at The Standard Group

Kainexus

The team at Standard Group has been using KaiNexus to spread their improvement culture since 2017, when Nick Shonsky, their Director of Continuous Improvement, learned about our software from a friend using KaiNexus at another company.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Episode 11 – Breathing Life into Organisations on Innovation Life Support

IM Insights

51:00) Innovation culture and the proposition that not everybody has to innovate. (54:30) Show Transcript Sign up for the latest on Innovation Accounting, Lean Startup, Workshops and Innovation Ecosystem Design. 46:30) On psychological safety amongst leadership. (51:00) 54:30) The problem with “2 days strategy offsides”. (55:30)

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Modern leadership styles and innovation: The boss doesn’t always know best!

Wazoku

All these things help to create a culture that people buy into and such a flat structure is fundamentally important to what we are and what we are trying to achieve. Flat structures allow for more cross-functional, collaborative approaches to working, with a project mentality underpinned by lean methodologies and an agile mindset.