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Thirty Ways to Develop your Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Image by Stefan Keller on Pixabay Lateral thinking involves looking at things in different ways from everyone else. It means coming at the situation from the side rather than head on. It comprises thinking unconventional, heretical thoughts that challenge existing norms and the status quo. Here are thirty ways to foster your lateral thinking: Embrace Curiosity: Stay curious as you go through life.

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Learn How to Come Up with Innovative Ideas with Expert Tips

IdeaScale

Success in today's dynamic and competitive business environment is significantly influenced by innovation, serving as a key driver for progress. But coming up with innovative ideas is easier said than done. So, how can you unlock your creative genius and come up with ideas that will set you apart from the competition?

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If You Want To Lead, You Need To Embrace The Basic Human Need For Status

Digital Tonto

A simple truth about status games is that we all play them, whether we are aware of it or not. It is our drive for status that helps us form and signal identity, figure out who we are in relation to others and derive a sense of meaning about our existence, whether that meaning is rooted in achievement, care for those around us or our ability to enforce our will on others.

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Addictive, exclusive, experience: Critical factors for new products or companies

Jeffrey Phillips

I had quite a day yesterday, meeting with a potential partner at Starbucks, getting my iPhone repaired at the Apple store and a number of other activities. Along the way I encountered a couple of very successful companies: Starbucks, where I met a potential partner, Apple, where I went to get some repairs done on my iPhone and Chik-Fil-A, which was down the hall from the Apple store.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Unleash Your Teams Strategic Potential: 10 Ways to Craft the Best Business Strategies

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Small Breaks During a Busy Workday

Harvard Business Review

Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout. In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day.

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I Moved My 80-Person Company to a 4-Day Workweek Even Though It's Against the Industry Norm. Here's Why We'll Never Go Back.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Dominic Tremblay and his partner Ludwig Ciupka are co-founders of TUX, a creative agency that introduced a 4-day workweek. Read more about the model's success.

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time. In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture.

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What is a product manager? | Sopheon

Sopheon

The product manager role is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The changes we’ve seen in the role over the last decade are head-spinning. And the answer to the question, “What is a product manager?” will be completely different ten years from now (thanks to AI).

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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive

Harvard Business Review

Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. In this article, the authors outline four advantages to opting for this nondisruptive route: 1) It allows you to avoid direct confrontations with established incumbents. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption. 3) It makes it easier t

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Use GenAI to Turn Insights into Investable Ideas (Part 2)

IdeaScale

This article builds on our previous write-up (Part 1) where we demonstrated how to transform your initial thinking into a compelling value proposition. We showed how you can increase your chances for approval and funding by using generative AI and CO-STAR to accomplish this critical first step in ideation and complete it almost instantaneously.

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10 CX and Customer Service Predictions for 2024 (Part 2)

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken As promised, I’m back with the second part of my top predictions and trends for 2024 in the world of customer service and customer experience (CX). You can read the first five here. So, let’s get started with No. 6. 6.

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Multitasking – NOT the Best Strategy

Focused Momentum

Multitasking is often a skill identified with a highly productive person, yet today our use of technology has pushed multitasking to ridiculous levels. As you know, it has gotten so bad that we’ve had to pass laws to do less of it, and now research indicates that rather than increasing productivity, it could be harming us. As an expert in strategy development for more than 20 years, I have had a front row seat to how this trend has impaired strategic thinking too.

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Crafting a Future-Proof Organization: The Power of Transformation Over Change

Daniel Burrus

When it comes to the concept of disruptions in this world, we tend to focus on all the new digital tools that are creating ripples in headlines. From generative AI to digital currency, these digital disruptions are definitely leaving their impact. But instead, the focus of today should be on the very concept of disruption itself, not just digital disruption.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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What French Bakeries Get Right About Strategy

Harvard Business Review

One would think that if you run a traditional consumer business that can’t compete on costs with more efficient competitors, you would want to avoid them like the plague. But a study of boulangeries in Lyon, France, found that by locating next to more efficient “modernist” rivals, “traditionalists” were able to better highlight their traditions and value and win.

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Putting People First In The Innovation Process

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Placing people at the heart of innovation ensures a more resilient, adaptive organization poised to achieve sustained success in a dynamic marketplace.

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Why Materials Science is the Most Important Technology of This Decade

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Think of just about any major challenge we will face over the next decade and materials are at the center of it. To build a new clean energy future, we need more efficient solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. Manufacturers need new materials to create more advanced products.

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Atlanta Lunch & Learn

Qmarkets

Join us in Atlanta for an intimate and exclusive morning session with a handful of fellow innovation professionals. Hosted by our very own innovation expert Steve Reed and Founder and CEO of Arable Ventures Lisha Davis, this will be a forum to share and receive best practices with your peers over lunch and discover how dedicated innovation management software can help you deliver ongoing ROI for your organization.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: New approaches to solving women’s issues

Christensen Institute

In celebration of Women’s History Month, a very esteemed colleague of mine recently asked our team at the Institute if the theories we apply to issues in health care, education, and global prosperity could also be used to tackle some of the struggles women face every day, such as the gender pay gap or even more broadly, women’s rights. My first reaction was: absolutely.

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A New Way to Compensate Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Although the business environment is completely different than it was 20 years ago, the way most companies structure sales quotas and compensation has not evolved to keep up. To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly. They should then identify what is actually driving growth.

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Leadership Beyond Position and Title

Phil McKinney

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, once said: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." This statement is a powerful call to action that should resonate with everyone who hears it. It urges us to step out from the shadows of passivity and indifference and assume the mantle of leadership, regardless of our position or status in society.

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The Remarkable Power of Negative Feedback

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer The most effective innovators—entrepreneurs, scientists, new product developers, and advocates of social change—are adept at seeking feedback. But not just any feedback. They look for a particular type of feedback that may surprise you. They actively seek negative feedback, feedback that tells them when they’re wrong.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Barcelona: Exclusive Innovation Meetup 1 Copy

Qmarkets

Join us in Barcelona on March 14 as we host an exclusive meetup event hosted by Qmarkets director of innovation solutions Emma Sendra. The session will be a unique opportunity to meet, network, and exchange ideas among esteemed peers in the field of innovation. You'll enjoy a lunch provided by Qmarkets while engaging with other innovation leaders, drawing inspiration from their initiatives, and sharing best practices about everything related to innovation management.

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She Never Wanted to Start a Business, But Chronic Insomnia Was Motivation — Here's How She Achieved $20 Million in Sales and 8 Hours of Sleep a Night

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Dr. Kathrin Hamm, founder and CEO of sleep-wellness company Bearaby, wanted to find a solution for her sleeplessness — and the products on the market weren't cutting it.

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How Organizations Can Encourage Productive Allyship

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated. Organizations can help by educating potential allies on how their efforts are received and by creating a culture where open communication and support are encouraged.

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | After the Covid-19 pandemic, many corporate innovation units felt a sense of relief. Companies were optimistic, innovation budgets grew, and there was an increased appetite for out-of-the-box innovation. However, the business environment for corporate innovators has since shifted, and they are now being asked to do more with less. This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approa

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Top 10 Irish Innovators Who Shaped the World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia Ireland, a land of rolling green hills, ancient castles, and lyrical poetry, has also been home to some of the world’s most brilliant minds. From groundbreaking inventions to revolutionary discoveries, Irish innovators have left an indelible mark on history.

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The Importance of Innovation at the Front End of the Energy Transition.

Innovating4Energy

The importance of innovation at the front end of the Energy Transition For me, the front end of the Energy Transition is vital. What I mean by the front end is that link where innovation, ingenuity and creativity get created. Today, this must be done through more outstanding collaborations, especially recognizing the value and benefits of ecosystem thinking and design.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

With a rapidly evolving digital landscape that continues to introduce waves of uncertainty, companies and organizations alike struggle for clarity and cognizance in organizational delivery for customer value. It’s no surprise the abundance of moving parts contributes to an ever-ambiguous world for software delivery. With a multitude of products and services that companies serve to customers, the recognition of Value Stream Management (VSM) in modern software delivery has never been stronger.

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It’s Time to Reconceptualize What “Imposter Syndrome” Means for People of Color

Harvard Business Review

The recent pushback against the imposter phenomenon in the media has largely focused on how and why it’s inappropriate for people of color. In this article, the author argues that, while there is merit to these arguments, getting rid of the idea entirely for Black students and workers is a disservice. Instead, he recommends reconceptualizing the term to include new research on how imposterism affects people of color, and urges organizations to better understand how racism, bias, and imposter fee

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib