The Importance of Downtime on Health and Productivity. The evidence that emptying your mind is a vital part of being creative and successful is proliferating. However, many people do not take advantage of their paid vacation time, even if they have access to a week or several weeks off. Most people cancel or postpone vacation time due to actual or perceived job obligations. MORE
Leapfrogging
JUNE 21, 2021
How does your team allocate time to driving innovation within your business? . The 70-20-10 Rule is a strategy for determining how to allocate time and resources in order to make a successful innovation. Generally, the rule helps organizational stakeholders determine if they should make high risk/high reward innovations or improve upon existing products or services. . .
Idea to Value
JUNE 21, 2021
People often think that science and creativity are not related. In fact, over the past few decades , a huge amount of research has begun showing us exactly what causes our creativity, what reduces it, and even what enhances it. In this article, I want to highlight some of my favourite examples of scientific research which can help you enhance your creativity.
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Leapfrogging
JUNE 21, 2021
Creating a solid business case is integral to the success of any new opportunity. The right business case can mean the difference between funding your idea and floundering to make it a reality. Many people fail to gain support for their ideas because they fail to create a compelling business case. . . For over 25 years, I’ve worked with innovation teams within big companies to help them craft business cases for their ideas, and with founders to gain funding for their startups.
Jeffrey Phillips
JUNE 21, 2021
I am a huge fan of trend spotting and scenario planning. Most companies simply do not understand the insight and the power that developing and interpreting trends and scenarios can provide. Instead of being caught off-guard or surprised by emerging markets or emerging segments or new technologies, wouldn't it be much better to be aware of, or even prepared for, what is going to happen?
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Leapfrogging
JUNE 21, 2021
Concept screening is one of the best ways to quickly filter through information and ideas to pick the best one for a particular situation . . Concept Screening is a process that an organization can use to narrow down the number of ideas that are generated as options for new products or services – or just about anything else. In order to ensure that the strongest ideas are selected for further development, they need to be screened against certain criteria.
Tullio Siragusa
JUNE 21, 2021
The Importance of Downtime on Health and Productivity. The evidence that emptying your mind is a vital part of being creative and successful is proliferating. However, many people do not take advantage of their paid vacation time, even if they have access to a week or several weeks off. Most people cancel or postpone vacation time due to actual or perceived job obligations.
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CMOE
JUNE 21, 2021
Supervising can be extremely rewarding but also challenging—there are varying personalities, communication styles, skill sets, and roadblocks to manage, all while trying to maintain high-quality output. The good news is, there are development opportunities for supervisors that can help you succeed in your role. With the right tools and resources by your side, you will feel more confident in driving your team forward.
Leapfrogging
JUNE 21, 2021
Brainstorming is an art and science. Here’s how to help your virtual team generate and prioritize the best ideas. Over the past 25 years, I have run hundreds of brainstorming workshops for high-performing teams. My sessions are often part of larger strategy and innovation initiatives. But all sessions are focused on the same thing: generate, prioritize, and develop great ideas to create a big impact.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 21, 2021
Meet the company fighting food related allergies to help millions live without fear.
Cascade Strategy
JUNE 21, 2021
If you hang around the business world for a while, you’re bound to hear a lot of different platitudes about branding. Every company is trying to create a unique brand for themselves that stands for who they are and what they do. The idea is that this brand lives in the heads of their customers and prompts different buying decisions that might not have been made if consumers were simply comparing price, features, or other traditional criteria.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 21, 2021
Three key design practices for embracing person-centricity and creating the conditions for continuous innovation.
Idea Champions
JUNE 21, 2021
Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, innovation-leaning clients to upgrade the impact of their (on-site) brainstorming sessions -- just in time, as some of our clients, post-pandemic, begin gathering together, in the flesh, again. Oh boy! We call it Conducting Genius -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients become masterful brainstorm facilitators.
InnovationTraining.org
JUNE 21, 2021
Add this digital whiteboard tool to your innovation toolkit! Next up in our list of digital collaboration tools and resources is Lucidspark, another digital whiteboard option for design thinking and innovation focused teams. In this blog, we’ll share some features and resources to help you determine whether this tool is the right option for your organization.
The Human Factor
JUNE 21, 2021
The modern world is a digital one. The times of analog life and business are long gone and if you’re not recognized and found “online”, it is as if you don’t exist. It is a harsh truth and many business owners are well familiar with this. It’s been decades now that business websites exist and the battle over the uniqueness and standing out among the others seems never ending.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Carla Johnson
JUNE 21, 2021
June 22, 2021 What do Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and John Oliver have to do with a global pandemic? Everything, it turns out. In March 2020, people worldwide left the office for the day. Some are trickling back in the doors now. Others are waiting to see what local circumstances allow. In the midst of all of this was the. Read More. The post Joseph Jaffe: Endurance, Hope & Optimism appeared first on Carla Johnson.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
Four strategies to find your voice.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
Better advice starts with a better understanding.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
“It’s not personal” usually means it is.
Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón
Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
A conversation with author Roxane Gay about work and mental health. Plus, Bob Pozen discusses productivity and mental health.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
Four concrete actions leaders can take.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2021
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