Mon.Feb 10, 2020

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Innovation building blocks: diverse perspectives and voices

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. These fundamentals are necessary to sustain innovation in corporations, and are most often overlooked or treated as an afterthought. Some of the building blocks I've reviewed are: - having a cultural bias for innovation - encouraging discovery and exploration - ensuring enough time, and the right kinds of time, for innovation Today I am focusing on the importance of diversity for innovation success.

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Hire The Future

Innovation Excellence

You’re about to hire someone in a key role. Your first question? Tell me about your previous experience in this field.” OK, I get it, you want experience, a veteran, someone who knows their way around the space, who’s been there, done that. Fair enough.

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A Sad Fact: Leaders Who Lie Can Still Be Trusted by Their Followers

Leapfrogging

Being truthful and being trustworthy aren’t the same, which poses a problem for both society and the practice of leadership itself. In today’s world, it’s hard to know who to listen to and what to believe. Who’s the best Presidential candidate? Is Brexit good or bad? Which college is best for my child? Usually there’s no one “right” answer. Diverse opinions exist and “alternative facts” bolster every side.

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Why Intel Sees Its Future In Heterogeneous Computing

Innovation Excellence

In 1936, Alan Turing’s published a breakthrough paper describing a universal computer which could be programmed to do any task.

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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

This exclusive webinar with William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services, will explore the foundational elements you need to start or validate your ERM program. He will also dive into topic definitions, governance structures, and framework components for success.

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Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment

Tullio Siragusa

Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment. Intention guides our actions. It is a deep strong desire that stimulates our will to pursue and focus our attention on things that are purposeful in our lives. Having clear intention harnesses various cognitive processes such as our neural networks, leading to actions and usage of all available resources to translate our wishes into reality. Intentionality is a cognitive skill that can be learned, and a must-have for leaders.

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Overcommunicate when the goalposts change

Tembosocial

Change is constant and it's hard. It can be easy to put your head down and hope no one notices in the middle of all of it. Employee Feedback Employee Experience

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Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Strategic Thinking: All the same?

Focused Momentum

Thinking is very trendy these days. There are multiple articles promoting design thinking, the value of systems thinking and the need for greater strategic thinking skills, but are these all the same thing? No, not really. Strategic Thinking

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Open Innovation Challenge Gives Student Rocketry Teams a Boost

IdeaConnection

More than 100 student teams send their rockets soaring into the skies above the desert of New Mexico

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Creativity Cards – a tool for everyone

7innovation

During brainstorming, creativity workshop or simply when thinking about further developing existing idea or trying to “pivot” there is a wall that prevents idea creators to step into the zone where further ideas occur.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

In my region of the country, the high cost of housing combined with inadequate funding for housing assistance has created a growing homeless population, with “tent cities” sprouting up in vacant lots and along bike paths.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Join DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist, for this idea-sparking session on how to multiply and diversify your revenue (and impact) with zero ad spend, how to create disruption in your industry, and how to reimagine and innovate the retail business model.

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Invisible Solutions Video Book Introduction

Stephen Shapiro

When you buy a book, you have options: print book, e-book, or audio book. But did you know that soon you will have the opportunity to buy video books? I’m working with Primeau Productions to create this new product for Invisible Solutions.

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Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment

Tullio Siragusa

Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment. Intention guides our actions. It is a deep strong desire that stimulates our will to pursue and focus our attention on things that are purposeful in our lives. Having clear intention harnesses various cognitive processes such as our neural networks, leading to actions and usage of all available resources to translate our wishes into reality. Intentionality is a cognitive skill that can be learned, and a must-have for leaders.

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Beyond the Suggestion Box

Stephen Shapiro

I was recently asked, “What’s an example of a problem/question people ask that doesn’t yield the desired results.” ” My response was the default question associated with most suggestion boxes. Here’s my full response (1 minute 46 seconds).

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

In my region of the country, the high cost of housing combined with inadequate funding for housing assistance has created a growing homeless population, with “tent cities” sprouting up in vacant lots and along bike paths. Once a person loses stable housing, they have exponentially more difficulty maintaining a job, keeping their kids in school and staying healthy. It takes a special kind of person to work with people in such extreme poverty.

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Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

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Siemens 3i - Next Generation Cost Saving and Idea Management

HYPE Innovation

Wegmann, our sincere congratulations on the "Best Idea Management 2018" prize, which was awarded to you only recently in the presence of many fellow campaigners at the conference of Zentrum Ideenmanagement (Center for Idea Management) in Fulda. Ideation & Collaboration Governance Cost Saving

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Business Model Innovation from the CES 2020

The BMI Lab Blog

The CES Las Vegas is the first global show of the year for companies thriving on the business of consumer technologies. As passionate innovators, we looked at the innovations presented at this year’s show and analyzed them from our business model innovation point of view.

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Storytelling to Communicate Data Insights

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay Companies are investing a great deal of time and money into data analysis to drive better decision making. Yet, data analysts sometimes find themselves frustrated by their inability to persuade others with regard to a particular conclusion.

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