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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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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? New Releases in 2021. Here are the some of the new releases about innovation and innovative approaches in 2021: 1. Check out our list of design thinking books to read.

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Customers Demand Contactless Payment Options — Here’s How to Make It Happen

Business and Tech

Adding contactless technology is an investment for retailers, but it is a necessary cost of doing business in 2021. The post Customers Demand Contactless Payment Options — Here’s How to Make It Happen appeared first on Business and Tech. Secure and convenient transactions.

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How To Write A Strategic Plan (Updated 2021)

Cascade Strategy

Here at Cascade we often get asked, How do I Write a Strategic Plan? Writing a strategic plan can be a daunting process, even for seasoned strategy professionals. After surviving the chaos that was 2020, businesses and organizations of all sizes understand the importance of having a well devised strategic plan now so more than ever.

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How to Empower Your Users So You Can Create a Great Product

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

How to decide what problems the organization wants to solve for which users. How to empower your team and customers to create a shared certainty about how the team will solve the problem with your users. How to empower your team and customers to create a shared certainty about how the team will solve the problem with your users.

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5 Key Trends from Deloitte’s 2021 Global Human Capital Trends Report

InnovationTraining.org

Deloitte’s latest 2021 Global Human Capital Trends Report makes the compelling argument that organizations need to shift from a “survive” mindset to a “thrive” mindset. This trend is continuing forward, with the focus being on how to design well-being into work itself. The Survive vs Thrive Mindset.

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Podcast S6E144: Rosemary Rein – Innovation Secrets from Silicon Valley

Idea to Value

00:08:00 – Trends in retail for 2021 and 2022. 00:11:00 – The trends in hybrid work and how to improve teams’ ability to work across borders. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:30 – The challenges of promoting learning at large non-profits and corporations.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Joe Perez will go over the five "Stages of the Spectrum" in action while discovering the difference between impact and influence, and how that difference plays into making data actionable. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Identify and recognize the five stages of the visualization spectrum.

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A Masterclass in How to Navigate the Messy Connection Between Work and Value in Your Team

Speaker: Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org

How to measure value inside and outside the team. May 27, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT In this webinar you will learn: Why value is important and what happens when you are missing it. What teams and leaders can do to better orient towards value. This is a session you have to watch!

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

Speaker: Ramli John, Managing Director at ProductLed and Author

November 17, 2021 at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm EDT, 7:00 pm GMT. In this interactive, fun presentation and Q&A, Ramli John, author of bestselling book Product-Led Onboarding, will share a simple but powerful framework to get more users to experience a product’s "Eureka!" moment and turn them into lifelong customers.

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Post-Pandemic eCommerce Growth: Leverage Product Data, Market Research & Shopping Trends

Speaker: Phil Irvine, VP & Director of Audience Intelligence

To accomplish this, organizations have traditionally leaned into historical customer and product data to predict how to engage with their current and future customers in a personalized manner. Thoughts around how to leverage persona development to put in practice new marketing experiences to drive more growth.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how we can educate and equip our QA/QC process to forge champions of customer experience. Sign up now and learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have. Restructure how feature requests are communicated. Revitalize QA as champions.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Join Robin Zaragoza, product coach at The Product Refinery, as she shares tips on how to create a powerful value proposition that keeps your customer at the heart of your product development process. How to create an effective value proposition. How to use it as a cross-functional alignment tool.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

How to define a clear benchmark for what a strong continuous discovery team does. June 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST. In this webinar, you will learn: Why shifting to a continuous mindset is so critical to a product's long-term success. This is an exclusive session with Teresa you won't want to miss!

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User-Centered Development: The Importance of User Empathy to Build the Right Thing

Speaker: Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva

Join Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva, as he shares tips on how to build user empathy into everything you build. In his talk, Jesse will explain: How to make sure you and your team know and truly understand your users. March 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm GMT