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2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report

IdeaScale

Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

Here are examples of eight successful companies which switched from one activity to another in order to meet a customer need. Tiffany was acquired by LVMH (Louis Vuitton) in 2021 for $16B. Berkshire Hathaway was originally a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 in Rhode Island.

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What Companies are Excelling at Innovation in 2021?

InnovationManagement

The post What Companies are Excelling at Innovation in 2021? The competition has three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation overall. Here’s what we can learn from this year’s winners. . appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Companies Think About Innovation Budgets in 2021

Innovation Leader

In a recent virtual gathering for members of the Innovation Leader network, executives shared their approaches to budgeting and funding in 2021.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

By driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy! In this talk, you will learn how to: Empower both yourself and your company by developing a truly customer-centric product strategy. Align your company’s strategic goals to your customers’ unmet needs.

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2021 IdeaScale Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

For 2021, IdeaScale has three new winners of the Innovation Management Awards: TriHealth for engaging nearly 80% of their workforce; Grant Thornton for pioneering work in automation; and Graybar for an exemplary innovation process. To that end, the company launched the NEXT Innovation Program, a name chosen from employee feedback.

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CEWS Extension 2021, What You Need to Know

Innovators Alliance

In this blog we share what the most recent CEWS Extension 2021 means for you and your business. The CEWS is a wage subsidy program initially offered until September 2021 (now extended till October 23rd 2021) to qualifying employers who have seen a drop in revenue due to COVID-19. It will begin from Monday, November 1, 2021.

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OKR Roundtable: A Candid Discussion about Using Objectives and Key Results to Build Stronger Company Cultures

Speaker: Vetri Vellore, Anna Talerico, and Georgia Parker

Goal setting is the car that drives a company to the destination it needs to get to, but what’s in the gas that keeps it going? How can we use an OKR framework to keep our companies growing and moving in the right direction? Most of all, why are OKRs so critical to company culture? How OKRs build a stronger company culture.

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Extending the Reach of HR: Supporting and Sourcing Remote Talent

Speaker: Karen Lim, Alliance Academy

As companies expand their talent-bases beyond borders, HR reps will bear the responsibilities that come along with it. Adapting to different cultures, distances, and legal implications whilst preserving core company values is essential. Tuesday February 23rd, 2021 at 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT

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Bridging the Online and Offline: How to Apply Product Thinking to Expanding Your eCommerce Business

Speaker: John Cutler, Product Evangelist and Coach at Amplitude

Companies have to develop new muscles, challenge their existing biases, and “learn as fast as they ship.”. October 7th, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT Even brick and mortar businesses are integrating more digital approaches to CX -- testing out loyalty programs and subscription-based models.

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Product-Led Onboarding: How to Turn New Users into Lifelong Customers

Speaker: Ramli John, Managing Director at ProductLed and Author

Just like dating, your company's growth depends on first impressions. November 17, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT. If you've been in the SaaS space for some time, you're probably all too familiar with these problems: Free accounts don’t convert to paid nearly as often as you would like.