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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

Harvard Business Review says some common ways of measuring innovation — outside of revenue production — include counting the number of ideas that were put forth and projects in the works and determining the scope of progress on these projects as well as their impact on the bottom line. A Legacy of Innovation.

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How to quickly align your management team around objectives for innovation

Strategos

Despite this awareness, 56% of globally surveyed companies identify the alignment of innovation targets as a significant issue ( PwC , 2017). There might be a universally accepted strategy but a no alignment about how we should achieve those targets as one company. How did you hear about us? Your name *.

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

Idea to Value

Another study by Kyung Hee Kim (2017) showed that since the 1990s, when additional “exam result focussed teaching” became the standard in the USA, creativity scores of the whole population has continued to fall each decade. And by gaining new knowledge, it gives your brain more seeds from which new random combinations of pathways can form.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. No process in place for funding new projects.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Unrealistic expectations of first projects. What makes this even more dangerous is that the further away the first projects are from the core business, the more likely they are to fail. No process in place for funding new projects.

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Get Clear on Winning for 2017

The Human Factor

Which means it’s time once again to climb up on my soapbox and talk about how to get clear on winning this year. How did 2016 go for you? And what’s it worth to you to try something new to win in 2017? On the other hand, if you consider 2016 a “win”, are you positioned and ready to win even bigger in 2017?

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