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Reimagining the Future of International Events

Business and Tech

Face-to-face events are essential for so many organizations globally, from meeting planners organizing events, to services providers and the entire hospitality industry. Applying some of our learnings from 2020, we are experimenting with a new model in 2021.

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023.

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Here’s Your Agile Track Recap from Accelerate

Planview

The virtual event attracted almost 2,800 registrants from more than 45 countries on Sept. On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization. Becoming Agile and Beyond.

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Agility and Anticipation, a Tale of Two Business Strategies 

Daniel Burrus

In short, you use agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Put them in context with the concept of agility. Agility doesn’t allow you to innovate and jump ahead of the competition. Did Kickstarter become a dominant force in the growing crowdsourcing industry because it was agile? Was agility the driving force bhind Facebook’s dominance in social media? The reason is that agility is a form of reaction to an outside force.

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MAKING GAMIFICATION ACCESSIBLE – BRINGING NEWNESS TO CORPORATE LEARNING

ImagineNation

Propelled further by people’s increasing desire to socialise and share ideas and knowledge across the globe, learn and connect in a high-tech world, discover and play, to be met in ways that also satisfied their aspirational, motivational and recreational needs.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. They don’t know how to scaffold a learning experience.

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Reflection Workshops and Reflection Activities for Learning and Development

InnovationTraining.org

A wealth of research has shown how powerful reflection is for learning and development. In my own research on high-impact leadership development programs, we found learning happened through reflection activities. The leadership program was a life-shaping event.

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Agile Strategy – 16 Strategic Thinking Questions to Explore Disruptive Innovation

BrainZooming

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. Developing an Agile Strategy.

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A Remote Retrospective – WFH Learnings

100%Open

Learnings from 2 years of working with remote teams. Feeling grounded in myself and my work has become the trunk from which the supple and agile branches of my ever-expanding tree grow. The post A Remote Retrospective – WFH Learnings first appeared on 100%Open.

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Agile vs Waterfall: what are the differences?

mjvinnovation

Traditionally, the Waterfall model is a linear approach that has a sequence of events somewhat like this: To Gather and document requirements; To draw; Code and unit test; To Perform the system test; To Perform the user acceptance test; To Correct any problem; To Deliver the finished product. For example, business analysts can learn and document what needs to be done while developers are working on other projects. The Agile model and its peculiarities. Agile

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. Many UX professionals seem stymied by the challenge of effectively integrating UX within an Agile development framework –but there are others in our field who have encountered the same problems yet are finding effective solutions. Frequent communication outside of standard agile interactions.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing thru Uncertainty

ImagineNation

That was before we realized and accepted that adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty could be full of possibilities for reskilling, reinventing in and thriving in a world that would never be the same again. Adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty.

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Adapting, Learning and Growing through Uncertainty

ImagineNation

That was before we realized and accepted that adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty could be full of possibilities for reskilling, reinventing in and thriving in a world that would never be the same again. Adapting, learning and growing through uncertainty.

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Upcoming Event:Product Hunt Columbus – Sept 28th

Taivara

This month, we’re partnering with Cbus Product Club to deliver a new, interactive event that will bring members of CBus product club together with the Product Hunt. You will hear stories from local product creators about their Product journey, learning’s and approach towards building and shipping products. The post Upcoming Event:Product Hunt Columbus – Sept 28th appeared first on taivara.com. Product Hunt - Upcoming EventUpcoming Product Hunt Columbus.

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BEING IN CHARGE OF OUR MINDS AND ATTENTION

ImagineNation

Intentional, outcome focussed, and therefore, effective, agile, adaptive, and resilient in an uncertain world full of disruption and crises.

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Developing continuous learning

ImagineNation

Last week, I went to a fantastically informative event, hosted by the Churchill Club, Melbourne, it was about “Developing the Tech Talent of the Future”. In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning game. To also develop the skills required to surmount future challenges, so what then, is the role of continuous learning? Creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity and curiosity.

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Learning Platforms and Personal Learning Pathways

Guide 4 Innovating

My mind has been swirling around the significant changes taking place around learning. Not just in the time we have available, suggested recently as 25 minutes per week to stop and learn but in the variety of ways we can learn. I have been struck by the emphasis on personal learning and development. Our learning today is moving into two distinct parts. These are called “ macro-learning ” needs.

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DISRUPT YOURSELF, TEAM AND ORGANISATION

ImagineNation

It is also a time for harvesting new ideas from our feelings, thoughts, and learnings from this year’s conditions of extreme uncertainty and volatility. What causes disconnection and how might we manage it to be more mentally tough and emotionally agile in an extremely uncertain future?

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Learning Platforms and Personal Learning Pathways

Guide 4 Innovating

My mind has been swirling around the significant changes taking place around learning. Not just in the time we have available, suggested recently as 25 minutes per week to stop and learn but in the variety of ways we can learn. I have been struck by the emphasis on personal learning and development. Our learning today is moving into two distinct parts. These are called “ macro-learning ” needs.

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BEING COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

ImagineNation

This is because we distort and generalize our thoughts or feelings into believing that have no control over events, which is a normal and natural neurological, yet primitive, a survival mechanism that enables us to cope with the situation.

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Combining scenario management and business model thinking: Why strategic agility is the new way to define your corporate strategy

The BMI Lab Blog

This is what we call strategic agility. Observing and updating scenarios is therefore an essential component of strategic agility. Using scenarios to evaluate the robustness of business models helps to actively design the future instead of reacting once events occur.

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DEVELOPING 21ST-CENTURY SUPERPOWERS FOR LEADERS AND TEAMS

ImagineNation

Making the key “ leadership challenge of our times ” as one which cultivates transformative eco-system-led learning and change, nurturing connections, exploration, discovery, creativity, collaboration, experimentation, and innovation at all levels of the system.

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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley

Gregg Fraley is a highly experienced facilitator who’s been learning, developing, and inventing group facilitation tools for many years. He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats. Free Weekly Webinar of Facilitation Tools with Gregg Fraley.

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Complacency Stunts Innovation

Daniel Burrus

For instance, employees who have only a few years before retirement may have found success by doing what they’ve always done, so why take the time to learn new things? Agility Without Anticipation.

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RECONNECT AND RESET – IN A CHAOTIC WORLD

ImagineNation

We shared how emotionally overwhelmed we felt, despite having decades of knowledge, experience, and key skills in being able to confidently deliver learning programs and coaching sessions, about doing live gigs again! What can I/we learn from this situation?

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Catalysing change through innovation teams

ImagineNation

Innovation teams transform creative discoveries and ideas into new platforms and business models in timely, agile, and disciplined ways that bring significant value to the market and organisation. Designing and delivering the most appropriate change and learning interventions.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

Future Building, by contrast, takes an agile and pragmatic approach. Taking a page from Scenario Planning and almost exclusively focusing on the “emblematic events”1 paths, it is a lightweight, yet structured, way for innovation and R&D teams to channel their imagination to productive ends. [This blog post was reproduced from an original paper on Future Building. Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ].

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic.

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DANCING ON THE EDGE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

ImagineNation

Developing innovation agility, being adaptative, and cultivating mental toughness, emotional agility, to build resilience and trust in times of extreme uncertainty. to find out how we can partner with you to learn, adapt, and grow your business in the digital age.

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley

Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges, which make for rich debrief discussions, learning, and integration into real world team habits. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Momentum. …Accelerating Teams Through Assessment and Training. It’s a sad fact of organizational life that only a small percentage of teams achieve high function.

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Post-Pandemic Planning Requires Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

Will machine learning make our entire operation irrelevant? They were agile and reactionary, resting on their laurels and taking refuge in the antiquated phrase “we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”. Agility Alone Is a Risky Bet.

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5 Things We’re Looking Forward to at Open Nation 2018, Berkeley

IdeaScale

We’ve talked about 2018’s innovation learning priorities already and how they will inform the agenda at this year’s Open Nation 2018, Berkeley, but I would love to reiterate that I think those themes of engagement, implementation, and innovation ROI are some of the most interesting and complex problems to solve in the innovation space so the content should be stellar. IdeaScale cloudflare event fictiv kluwer open nation women

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Building our understanding of the factory of the future

Paul Hobcraft

Last week, Siemens had a really valuable virtual event called their “ Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog “ Those that missed it you can watch previous sessions on-demand at any time via “Recordings”. An event showcasing critical aspects of the factory of the future.

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Adapting in Uncertainty: Best Practices for Effective Product Portfolio Management

Planview

Watch the entire on-demand webinar with Forrester today to learn more about product portfolio management and see real-world examples of how Planview has helped organizations adopt a similar framework to discover more business success.

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RIDING THE WAVE OF DISRUPTIVE CHANGE

ImagineNation

Being born and raised in Sydney, Australia, family trips to Bondi Beach, to enjoy the delights of the dazzling sea and blazing sunshine, was a regular, and happy weekend event.

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BEING PLAYFUL AND EXPERIMENTAL TO CREATE AND INNOVATE

ImagineNation

It was the dawn of an explosive era where fashion really mattered and wonderful events became really fantastic happenings featuring a lot of playful and experimental theatrical performances and fabulous guest stars on the catwalk. Learning from reflecting on experience.

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Building Differentiating Capabilities for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Often this does not work on a repetitive basis as the variables that make up innovation can be different for each innovation event or activity but we can learn under a growing ‘range of’ differentiating capabilities. We spend far too much time copying others and not deliberately setting about building our own ‘distinct’ capabilities and capacities to innovate, building the necessary building blocks through our own learning experiences.

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Work Less, Get More Done

The Human Factor

One of the great ironies of our times is that the more we learn about the importance of uninterrupted focus in human performance, the more distractions and interruptions we face on a daily basis. But we can certainly learn from those who did, and apply their techniques in ways that support winning. The secret to restorative rest is making a regular activity rather than a once-in-a-while event. Take up painting or learn to play a musical instrument.

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Design Thinking and Scrum: taking your projects to another level

mjvinnovation

Below you will learn how these two approaches can complement each other, their benefits and how to properly use them in your business. Combining two methodologies that are so effective on their own may be the best way to manage agile projects while focusing on user needs. Scrum is an agile framework that can be used to manage everything from complex projects to small events. Agile Design Thinking

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Is Your Strategic Plate Too Full?

The Human Factor

Strategy used to be a once-a-year event. Then they put the strategy on the shelf and left it there until next year’s annual strategy event. Both parts are critical – and both can be learned. agility implementation Innovation Strategic Agility/Planning strategic plan strategies Your Brain. Green Pause-Think-Focus Science of Thinking strategic strategic agility The Human Factor Using Your Brain to WinWhat is strategy?

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Is innovation really important to you?

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations need to pick up the pace, learn to accept a greater risk, experimentation and rapid adjustment on the new knowledge flowing in to build the final outcome to the needs of the market /customer. Sudden evolving markets make everything needing to be ‘super’ responsive by existing players, to the sudden realization they have missed opportunities, Many existing organizations cannot cope and alter with this demand for agility, flexibility, and responsiveness.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

As a “landscape-scale” event, the coronavirus has created great uncertainty, elevated stress and anxiety, and prompted tunnel vision, in which people focus only on the present rather than toward the future.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

We were at a social event. Is a failure truly viewed as a learning experience or as a career killer? There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. Tell me what I should be thinking about.” The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere.