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How to Kill Innovation Projects

Destination Innovation

Which of these is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Setting the vision, goals and metrics. Generation of great ideas. Selection of the best ideas. Starting exploration projects. Listening to customer feedback. Managing the portfolio and stage-gates. Gaining support and resources from other departments. Killing the weaker projects.

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Business Model pivots in the Low Touch Economy

Board of Innovation

Plenty of companies are now shifting their focus. It’s remarkable how many entrepreneurs are already building a new Low Touch Economy to get our society back up and running. You could cluster these changes in a couple of buckets: Incremental Shifts Companies make temporary business adjustments to fight the ongoing health crisis. E.g. Fashion, packaging […].

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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

COVID19 will change the way we behave, conduct business, and indeed how we innovate for years to come. Exactly how much change we’ll see and what those changes will actually be is still unfolding. But big life changing events inevitably reshape our long-term thinking, values and behaviors. And the social disruption caused by COVID19 has broken more habits.

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

Why has our organization been so open and quick to innovate in ways we haven’t been previously once the pandemic hit? Executives have been asking me some version of this question a lot lately because they have been surprised by the innovation pace during the pandemic. As they’ve seen their organizations focus on survival, develop systems to enable new work processes, and figure out how to function, they’ve experienced remarkably rapid, innovative ideas and implementation.

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Empowering Retail Associates to Enhance the Customer Experience

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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What is the Most Important Skill for a Leader of Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

Which of these do you think is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Setting the vision, goals and metrics Generation of great ideas Selection of the best ideas Starting exploration projects Listening to customer feedback Managing the portfolio and stage-gates Gaining support and resources from other departments Killing the weaker projects Launching new products or services Celebrating success They are all.

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Ecommerce Entrepreneurship Grows as Unemployment Rises

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The looming recession has sparked a boom in digital business.

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The Essential Skills to Teach Intrapreneurs

InnovationManagement

At JR Simplot, a new cross-functional innovation initiative recently formed looking for ideas that would help optimize company efficiency, improve training programs, and more. And when they built this team, they realized that a big part of launching an innovation initiative was education. Learn more in this podcast. The post The Essential Skills to Teach Intrapreneurs appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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It Takes The Village To Raise A Child

Innovation Excellence

By Federica D’Armento and Frank Pagano Me, Myself and I You don’t get this in job interviews anymore: how are you as a Team member? In my first interview, some twenty years ago, I spent way too much time describing the ‘me’ and the ‘we’, and how I was going to align with the team.

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Resolving Cultural Issues During Your Digital Transformation Journey

Acuvate

Resolving Cultural Issues During Your Digital Transformation Journey While people and culture have been integral to a company’s success, they also have always been the biggest barriers to digital transformation, according to Gartner’s CIO Agenda. By failing to communicate the importance of digital transformation, organizations can face resistance by employees to change.

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TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD

Innovation Excellence

TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD Amid the craziness of living in an upside-down, don’t-know-what-time-or-day-it-is pandemic world, I’m absolutely thankful for the life lessons and kernels of truth that keep splashing me in the face like ice water. (I’m not saying I always enjoy these learning moments, just that I’m grateful for them.) One of.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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How to Build Your Continuous Improvement Culture

Kainexus

Are you struggling to drive a continuous improvement culture in your organization? Do you need to revive a CI culture that has lost momentum? If you’re like so many others, it can be difficult to know which questions to ask, and where to start. Jeff Roussel, chief revenue officer of KaiNexus and a true continuous improvement leader and believer, recently joined Allison Greco, founder of Continuous Improvement International , to talk about how you can build a continuous improvement culture.

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Improving Your Small Business Productivity During Covid-19

The Human Factor

source. Regardless of what you do or what you sell, it’s currently a really difficult time for businesses. Whether your orders have increased, decreased or looking like they might stop completely, there are many changes that you’ll need to make to your business to overcome the challenges that the current pandemic has created. For most SMBs that are based in offices, this generally means transitioning everyone into their homes to work remotely, but even this can be tricky to get right if it’s som

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How to Have a Positive Mindset During Difficult Times

Tullio Siragusa

How to Have a Positive Mindset During Difficult Times. Many people recently find themselves having difficulty being motivated to keep moving forward with excitement and a positive outlook. We live in a time filled with stress and anxiety due to the uncertainty of the recent Covid-19 calamity that has besieged the entire world. These are unprecedented difficult times filled with financial struggles, health challenges, personal isolation, social disconnection, and fear.

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What is the Most Important Skill for a Leader of Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

Which of these do you think is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Setting the vision, goals and metrics Generation of great ideas Selection of the best ideas Starting exploration projects Listening to customer feedback Managing the portfolio and stage-gates Gaining support and resources from other departments Killing the weaker projects Launching new products or services Celebrating success.

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Unlocking the Secret to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and a Whole Lot of Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Successful product management is more than building a product: you’re also building a team. Working with cross-functional teams can appear chaotic, especially if your goals differ! It can be challenging to figure out how to communicate with team members and stakeholders. However, with some forethought and insights, you can build a successful product management team—one that collaborates to create a product that truly delights your customers.

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Succeed with online Brainstormings!

Svava

In this webinar, Elia Mörling, CEO of Idea Hunt, walks us through the Brainstorming Pro template and how you can use it to succeed with your next online brainstorming meeting.

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It Takes The Village To Raise A Child

Innovation Excellence

By Federica D’Armento and Frank Pagano. Me, Myself and I. You don’t get this in job interviews anymore: how are you as a Team member? In my first interview, some twenty years ago, I spent way too much time describing the ‘me’ and the ‘we’, and how I was going to align with the team. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory. Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader.

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How to Develop a Strategic Mind?

Ankush Chopra

Starting April 20, 2020, we are giving free access to our online strategy and business programs to all for the duration of this lockdown. Upon returning home from Europe in Mid March after conducting my executive MBA program, I got busy adapting to the unprecedented situation we have all been facing. I am sure you were in the same boat. I got back to the US just before the travel ban to the EU nations started.

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TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD

Innovation Excellence

TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD. Amid the craziness of living in an upside-down, don’t-know-what-time-or-day-it-is pandemic world, I’m absolutely thankful for the life lessons and kernels of truth that keep splashing me in the face like ice water. (I’m not saying I always enjoy these learning moments, just that I’m grateful for them.). One of the biggest cups of frigid liquid that has grabbed my attention most recently is that we can no longer escape or ignore global connectedness.

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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

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

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is critical for industry growth in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing risk landscape. When building your ERM program foundation, you need to answer questions like: Do we have robust board and management support? Do we understand and articulate our bank’s risk appetite and how that impacts our business units? How are we measuring and rating our risk impact, likelihood, and controls to mitigate our risk?

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Using Anticipatory Innovation to Navigate Uncertainty

mjvinnovation

Recently, COVID-19 has left the world, as well as the business world, on red alert. The outbreak has rapidly spread across the planet and is dramatically affecting the global scenario. Stockmarkets from Hong Kong to Paris to New York have been reporting concerning lows. The tourism sector is seeing one of its worst periods in years and businesses are drastically searching to find solutions or ways to keep their operations running.

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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

COVID19 will change the way we behave, conduct business, and indeed how we innovate for years to come. Exactly how much change we’ll see and what those changes will actually be is still unfolding. But big life changing events inevitably reshape our long-term thinking, values and behaviors. And the social disruption caused by COVID19 has broken more habits and established behaviors than any global event since WWII, opening the door to unprecedented change.

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The Value of Self-Submitted Stories

Tembosocial

Self-promotion can be virtuous when in self-isolation. Traditionally, employee recognition is shared by one person about another - or about a group of people.

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How to Have a Positive Mindset During Difficult Times

Tullio Siragusa

How to Have a Positive Mindset During Difficult Times. Many people recently find themselves having difficulty being motivated to keep moving forward with excitement and a positive outlook. We live in a time filled with stress and anxiety due to the uncertainty of the recent Covid-19 calamity that has besieged the entire world. These are unprecedented difficult times filled with financial struggles, health challenges, personal isolation, social disconnection, and fear.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. To increase your chances of success, you need to drive your team through a series of clear, actionable milestones that demonstrate you are going in the right direction.

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#1,631 – ATMOBLUE

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s a strange new world we live in. Fearing for one’s own personal safety (as well as the safety of others) it has now become normal to wear a mask in public with some states even requiring them. Ironically, masks are even now required TO ENTER A BANK!!! Personally, I still find it very strange to have to wear a mask in public and have been reluctant to do so.

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Do You Want To Make A Point Or Do You Want To Make A Difference?

Innovation Excellence

I recently took part in an online open forum for thought leaders. While we were discussing a wide range of topics, including the economic and social impact of previous crises, somebody came out and said, “You know, when this is all over we’re probably going to have another #Occupy movement.”. It was an apt observation. #Occupy, after all, was a reaction to the Great Recession and it’s reasonable to expect that once we get the Coronavirus under control many will demand serious changes to be made.

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It Takes a Village: 2020 Atlanta ADDYs

Brunner

An integrated campaign with undercover beavers. Community-building collateral to support firefighters. This is the work we recently celebrated with our clients YellaWood® Pressure Treated Pine and Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation , bringing home 21 awards from the 2020 Atlanta ADDYs. We were thrilled to be recognized, along with our client partners, with nine gold, seven silver and five bronze for work across digital and out-of-home initiatives, from 3D billboards to CGI woodland creatures to

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#1,632 – Doctor Dogs

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Dogs were already man’s best friend and if you were lucky enough to own one before COVID-19 hit then you’re likely reaping the rewards of all this increased stay-at-home bonding time that you now find yourself with. But soon it may turn out that dogs can do even more than just entertain us during a quarantine. They may even be able to help stop COVID-19 from spreading in the first place!

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The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Communication is a core component of a resilient organization's risk management framework. However, risk communication involves more than just reporting information and populating dashboards, and we may be limiting our skillset. Storytelling is the ability to express ideas and convey messages to others, including stakeholders. When done effectively, it can help interpret complex risk environments for leaders and inform their decision-making.

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What Should Seniors Expect From The Stimulus Package?

The Human Factor

source. The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused unprecedented hardship for almost every section of society, from small businesses closing, to the retail industry laying off most of its staff in one stroke. So the announcement of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) was eagerly anticipated by many – a one-off stimulus check sent to American citizens, to stave off the worst-case scenario.

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