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How University Collaborations Can Drive Private Sector Innovation

Idea to Value

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. The collaborative process can also teach a seasoned team a lot about resiliency, agility, and dynamic thinking. Consider a “speed dating” exercise.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – A SWOT Analysis to Push Thinking

BrainZooming

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. In this case, the letters in the SWOT analysis name still stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Consistently moving with greater agility than competitors ?

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10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions

PlanBox Innovation

Building an innovation management system, on the other hand, helps drive the thinking for the right process to develop as well as the many other critical considerations that normally come into play, such as focusing on the right problems to solve, identifying the grand challenges the company should focus on, and building an innovation ecosystem.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

This debunks the perspective that business agility and successful transformation are limited to companies of a certain profile. I am not just referencing improvements via Agile and DevOps, although they are a piece of the puzzle. Speaking of points, let’s talk about speed of points. I saw customers experience outstanding success.

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Innovate your processes before innovating your products

Jeffrey Phillips

I described why we advocate trend spotting and scenario planning as a component of innovation, especially as the expectations of an innovation activity are more disruptive. And then I ask them to tell me their firm's average product development process timeframe. Usually, blank stares result, for good reason.

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5 Things I Wish My COO Knew (and told me!) About Our Supply Chain

MSSBTI

Operating in a Global Economy is not for the weak. But…even without any of these disruptions, the complexity of today’s supply chain is evident and challenging in every transaction from purchasing, inventory management, planning, production all the way through logistics and transportation. Organizations need to be fit.

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BEING IN CHARGE OF OUR MINDS AND ATTENTION

ImagineNation

Despite being intrinsically motivated to meet our deadlines, and being self-aware of needing to focus on completing the tasks in front of us, many of us often still struggle to disrupt and stop our thoughts from wandering randomly and haphazardly. Natural and human-made disruptions will only persist.