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Parkinson’s Law and the Peter Principle – are they relevant to innovation?

Idea to Value

Parkinson’s Law has often been used to victimize the civil service, but it is valid for all organizations devoid of good leadership and permeated by an unimaginative work ethic. This is why “lean” and “agile” have become buzzwords today. Innovation is anathema to rigid outfits because it involves redesigning work.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Most importantly, they will need the right cultural matrix to support agile operations and flexible work. The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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Top Takeaways from the 2019 Innovation Trends Report

InnovationTraining.org

Design Thinking Still the Most Popular Framework. Design Thinking is still the most popular innovation framework, with 46% of participants stating that they believe in and practice it within their own organization. Learn more about innovation frameworks with our post on 5 popular approaches to innovation (besides design thinking).

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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley

AI, Analytics, IoT, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Social Media, Sensors, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Voice Recognition… and the list goes on. Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges? Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? It’s daunting.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Not Design Thinking?” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes.

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What are the new marketing roles?

mjvinnovation

The companies most tuned to this movement have designed Growth Marketing strategies, which bring together a series of marketing-oriented experiments and tests aimed at exponentiality. In the Approach to Growth Marketing, professionals make decisions that are based 100% on data. Growth Marketing: not only selling, but boosting sales.

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The backdrop of digital transformation and its consequences

Paul Hobcraft

The intention of this report was to provide data for orientation for people dealing with this difficult topic, it was an attempted to extract a selection of the best emerging practices or thinking of the what, how and why digital transformation needs to be top of every business person’s mind. The challenges are massive.

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