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Were we all upside down in 2022?

Paul Hobcraft

What an utterly strange year, 2022 has been. To build more on collaboration, seek greater coordination, understand where speed and scale work, and finally build the reflexes & strength for releasing new creative energy. The post Were we all upside down in 2022?

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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

IdeaScale

What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2022? These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Remote and hybrid work are becoming the new norms.

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What Is Idea Management?

InnovationManagement

This practice is better known as idea management, and in this article we will define and discuss idea management in full. The post What Is Idea Management?

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Society 2045’s Radically Collaborative Organizations

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Radically Collaborative Organizations. If we are individuals who crave and thrive in collaborative environments, we will want to influence more collaboration. Ultimately, we want to be part of radically collaborative organizations.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

In this webinar, Felix Watson and Terrell Cobb will teach you three principles that will help you gain alignment between both Designers and PMs.

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The need for Transformational Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Championing transformational innovation needs a compelling story or narrative to be built, told and retold so that over a given time, you convince and persuade management and your organization to see the value, the time and commitment and potential to moving towards this different value proposition.

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Society 2045’s Atmosphere of Collaborative Co-creation

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Atmosphere of Collaborative Co-creation. To experience better relationships, it is crucial to create an atmosphere where collaboration and co-creation are possible. Integrated cultures bring about more collaboration and innovation.”.

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How can we Combat the Peter Principle?

Destination Innovation

’ Furthermore they found that ‘workers who never collaborate with others—the so-called lone wolves—fare particularly poorly when they are promoted into managerial roles. But it leads to weaker managers. Management benson li peter principle shiu top performer weaker manager

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

It is common to hear Start-ups talk about the desire to keep hierarchies “flat” This means they do not want multiple layers of management, bureaucracy and red tape getting in the way of people actually doing their most innovative work.

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Stop Expecting People To Act Rationally! Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

They need to collaborate effectively in teams and take pride in the impact their efforts produce. Related posts: 5 Things I Learned From Managing People. All Posts ManagementIn an earlier age, organizations were far more hierarchical. Power rested at the top.

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How the right innovation management solution can increase company collaboration

Sopheon

Cross-functional collaboration doesn’t just happen. It requires repeatable processes and the right innovation management solutions. The post How the right innovation management solution can increase company collaboration appeared first on Sopheon.

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Here’s How You Build Transformative Teams

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Collaboration Leadership TeamworkThe truth is that there is no effective answer for the question, “how do we find innovative people?” Talent isn’t something you hire or win in a war, it’s something you empower. It depends less on. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Managing Knowledge Spaghetti

Innovation Excellence

How collaboration platforms can help turbocharge your innovation efforts GUEST POST from John Bessant Say the word ‘innovation’ and many people quickly conjure in their mind the wonderful ‘lightbulb moment’.

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How to Improve Return on Investment With a New Project Management Approach

InnovationManagement

The post How to Improve Return on Investment With a New Project Management Approach appeared first on InnovationManagement. Collaborative Innovation Idea Management Life Cycle Processes Uncategorized cost savings efficiency project management ROI scope creep

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Cultivate Innovation by Managing with Empathy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Managing with empathy is a leader’s superpower. Empathy opens the door to increased innovation, collaboration, and engagement.

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The linkages of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

I outlined in a post in May 2022, “ linking sense of innovating purpose “, my ten points of linkage need, and I want to build on this further here in some explanations for each of the linkages. The linkages of innovation purpose.

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The fear of business contagion requires different innovation response

Paul Hobcraft

The more complex the business, in its hierarchy, making decisions, and managing its local and global network will lead to a different set of operational disruptions. Business contagion requires different innovative responses.

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What impact does a Hybrid working model have on performance?

Idea to Value

And Elon Musk sent an email to all Tesla employees on 31 May 2022 sent by Musk to Tesla employees, saying: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean minimum) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla.

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Managing Cross-Cultural Remote Teams

Innovation Excellence

Closing the Virtual and Cultural Gap GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Learning to connect a culturally diverse virtual workforce is an essential part of managing cross cultural remote teams.

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Why Your Values Determine Your Ability To Compete

Digital Tonto

Perhaps most importantly, values will determine an enterprise’s relationships with other stakeholders, how it collaborates and what it can achieve. All Posts ManagementThe truth is that values are essential to how an enterprise honors its mission.

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How to Effectively Manage Remotely

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Consider five best practices for managing remotely. With the right management practices and tools, remote management … Continue reading → collaboration Leadership hybrid work remote work

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Carbon Neutral Since 2020: Celebrating Earth Day and Our Commitment to Sustainability

IdeaScale

In 2020, IdeaScale became the first carbon-neutral innovation management solution by reducing our carbon footprint and giving back to the community at large. IdeaScale is more than software. We believe innovation means working together to create positive change in the world.

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Innovation Ecosystems: The future of Open Innovation

Idea to Value

This is the practice of innovating and co-creation in collaboration with people outside of your company. Collaborating with a startup on a specific new challenge. Or they might collaborate with one of their direct partners.

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Acuvate’s 2022 Year In Review Bidding farewell to one of Acuvate’s best years yet

Acuvate

And our most significant achievements in 2022 have been aligned with this goal. Solving complex global issues in 2022 The last few years at Acuvate have been about building a solution-led mindset, building platforms and solutions with AI, data, IoT and other cutting-edge technologies.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

This might require typical accounting, management and sales processes to track and predict performance, and often comes from experience and time. These two responsibilities therefore require not just different skill sets, but also different mindsets and even different management methods.

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Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools

IdeaScale

Remote work challenged unquestioned assumptions and deep beliefs about productivity and collaboration. In-person interaction is seen as key to innovation, but the physical spaces employees collaborate in may be holding them back. Remote work is here to stay.

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How Innovation Can Aid a Weakened, Post-Pandemic Economy

IdeaScale

Using an idea management platform can help you learn from your team and different departments, and usher ideas through development and implementation. Pair these items with ways for the team to collaborate on ideas and approaches. Highlights.

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Todd Henry: Developing a Daily Creative practice – Idea to Value Podcast S7E163

Idea to Value

your ambitions, collaborations, work leadership, whatever you have to do every day. We often talk about, think about discuss, collaborate on the work itself. In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative.

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How Better Access to Data is Improving Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Governments collect and manage enormous amounts of data. Cross-Department Collaboration. Government-Public Collaboration. Highlights. Government innovation is being increasingly centered around data access, such as big and open linked data (BOLD).

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Webinar: Transform Your Strategic Objectives Into Successful Projects with Collaborative Work Management at Scale

One2Team

Register for our free webinar about collaborative work management : Learn how to align your local teams around a global transformation project with the One2Team Work Management SaaS platform. News & Team Project Management collaboration transformation webinar

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

What is the main challenge HR professionals and managers are facing today when it comes to overseeing a hybrid workforce? By leading with prevention, stress and anxiety can be managed earlier in the health journey before evolving into acute illness.

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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

One interesting fact is that newly promoted managers book 29% more meetings than more experienced managers. As a new manager, you may feel that it’s important for your team to be aware of one another’s work in order to reach your goals as a group.

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Qmarkets and RevelX Launch Partnership to Offer Combined Innovation Management Software & Consultancy Services

Qmarkets

Together they combine over 200 years of experience in consulting and management. This partnership will offer access to Qmarkets’ leading innovation management software ecosystem to RevelX’s global customer base, to provide them with best-in-class tools to reach their innovation goals.

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

To achieve this evolution and allow innovation to thrive and work, organizations need to become better equipped in supporting knowledge, data, insights and people in their data handling, management, analysis sharing and processing. We are seeking collaboration and co-creation.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

So for International Women’s Day 2022 (March 8th), I decided it was time to include more female voices in the debate, and update the original article. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50.

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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation “fights” to attract resources, gain management attention or understand its difficulties in the time it takes, its potential risks and its need for a more ambitious and bold commitment of support. Often innovation activity frustrates senior management.

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Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

we have to build scalable learning and different skills dealing in partnerships and collaborations and 3, work out how to fuse and share new value creation. Business Ecosystems are emerging within the B2B environment but are struggling to gain this different sharing, collaborating traction.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

Several researchers have even found evidence from a number of fields (including science and movie, music and book industries) that there is a real element of randomness in the the relationship between timing, collaboration and what becomes a hit. What makes successful people succeed?

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3 Steps to a Truly Terrific Innovation Team

Innovation Excellence

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Delivering Rapid Innovation and Efficient Collaboration with Xtrac

Planview

That kind of work environment requires a collaborative and easy-to-use project management and execution platform, but that’s unfortunately not what Xtrac worked with. Even remotely, Planview AdaptiveWork enables them to collaborate and move projects forward no matter where they are.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

It allows multiple people in remote locations to virtually interact in a way which mimics what they would experience if they were collaborating in the same operating room. They managed to sign up Diane von Fürstenberg as their first designer partner and the idea proved a success.

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Five Lessons In Creating Greater Team Alignment and Collaboration

CMOE

Every leadership team has its own unique issues and challenges that need to be managed in order to achieve extraordinary results and become a truly high-performance team. Collaboration

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How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

InnovationManagement

Collaborative Innovation Idea Management Strategies Collaboration data integration digital permanence Ideation online whiteboards project management project planning task management whiteboard

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