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Change the Point of Attack – Insights from Nelson

Destination Innovation

On October 21 1805, the French and Spanish fleets, consisting of 33 ships under the command of Admiral Villeneuve, were intercepted by a British fleet of 27 vessels under Admiral Nelson, off the coast of Cadiz in Spain. What followed, the battle of Trafalgar, was to determine the balance of power on the high seas and across Europe for the next century.

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What Happens in Melbourne Doesn’t Stay in Melbourne!

IdeaScale

Your intrapreneurs are just a desk away. This February and March, the Ideascale team toured Australia, running workshops in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation, and most importantly, intrapreneurship, with a stop at the Brisbane Intrapreneur’s Summit. Based on our work there, we wanted to focus on what intrapreneurship means for organizations and how it can be encouraged from both top-down and bottom-up.

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Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership

Tullio Siragusa

Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership. Last summer I was looking to find a way to bring the freedom-centric culture of my company, Nearsoft to the public. A group of us started to put together some meetup groups with the intention to educate companies and people about the value of freedom at work. We wanted to share the impact freedom can have on the quality of life for people, as well as the health of the bottom-line.

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Fail it. Nail it. Scale it. Sale it

Innovation Excellence

Q: What are the three most common questions doctors, scientists and engineers ask about their new ideas, inventions and discoveries? A: What do I do next ? How to I find money? How do I scale my business? The answers are to 1)set up and fail at conducting the right business model and experiment to.

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Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o

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Surveys Don't Cut It. Why You Need To Talk To Your Customers

Econic

Drake Stimson couldn't believe what he was witnessing. Here he was in the house of a lady with nine cats, where the odor was so bad that he could hardly breathe, yet she was completely oblivious to the pungent combination of urine, feces, and hairballs. As told in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Stimson, a young marketing executive for Procter & Gamble was trying to find out why customers weren’t buying a new product that P&G had just released – Febreze.

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The Travel & Hospitality Industry is Being Disrupted – Again

Innovation Excellence

Airbnb disrupted hotels. Now big travel and hospitality companies are going after the next disruptive innovation themselves before getting blindsided yet again. If you’ve followed my Inc.com column, you know I work with both big companies and start-ups around the world. My research, consulting and speaking give me a glimpse into the fledgling trends and upstarts that will one day.

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Qmarkets forms Strategic Partnership with Multinational Digital Services Company

Qmarkets

RocketSource will include Qmarkets software as a recommended resource within their LevelNext MasterClass – a premium innovation and transformation workshop for forward-thinking organizations. Qmarkets will also offer customers RocketSource’s market-proven innovation methodology – which has benefited Fortune 10 to Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.

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The Major Consequences of Australia’s New Social Media Laws | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In the wake of the Christchurch shootings and the disturbing video that made the rounds on social media afterward, Australia’s Government expeditiously passed new legislation that puts the onus on tech companies to remove violent material from their platforms or face criminal charges.

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Surveys Don’t Cut It. Why You Need To Talk To Your Customers

Econic

Drake Stimson couldn’t believe what he was witnessing. Here he was in the house of a lady with nine cats, where the odor was so bad that he could hardly breathe, yet she was completely oblivious to the pungent combination of urine, feces, and hairballs. As told in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Stimson, a young marketing executive for Procter & Gamble was trying to find out why customers weren’t buying a new product that P&G had just released – Febreze.

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Bringing Star Wars to Life at Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB

Innovation Leader

What will the entertainment of the future look like? We sat down with Vicki Dobbs Beck of Lucasfilm’s Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment ILMxLAB to find out.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization

Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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How to Improve Your Manufacturing Process

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you would like to make the most out of your business, it is important that you focus on making improvements every day. The manufacturing industry is highly competitive, and every company is aiming to reduce waste and cut costs without compromising the quality. If you are ready to launch your product or create a more effective system for manufacturing, chances are that you will need to take a step back and try to improve your processes by looking at your supply chain and ma

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What Powers the Business Models of Apple, IKEA, and Uber?

Innovation Leader

In this book excerpt, Langdon Morris lays out a framework and questions that can be helpful in designing new business models or improving existing ones.

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Here’s How You Maximize Customer Engagement

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. The people who use your company and purchase your products or services are incredibly important to your business. If it weren’t for them, there’d be no way you could turn over a profit at all and you might even have to stop trading. These customers will certainly have a lot of demands of your company and, to stay in their good books, you will largely have to offer them most of the things that they demand.

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Creating a collaborative workplace culture

ImagineNation

Some CEO’S, executive teams and leaders mistakenly assume that organizational culture is simply a social phenomenon that they have no control over, and cannot impact. Yet, according to Gallup , CEO’s, executive teams and leaders are the key catalysts towards creating a collaborative workplace culture. This is because culture is more about connecting with & sharing people’s values and beliefs, understanding & hearing their thoughts, developing positive rituals and supportive and aligned c

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr