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Proving the Value of Innovation: How Innovation Departments Measure Their Impact

Innov8rs

Financial metrics, such as fee income or interest income in the case of the bank she’s working for, stand as the traditional barometers for innovation's contribution to their organization's growth. To accommodate uncertainties inherent in innovation projects, it’s best to use ranges instead of fixed numbers.

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100 Ways to Be More Creative on the Job

Michael Michalko

Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Exercise during your lunch break. Immerse yourself in your most exciting project. Enroll your boss or peers in your most fascinating project. Work on hottest project every day, even if only 5 minutes. Meditate or do relaxation exercises.

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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Others, like Parker Dewey, don’t validate students’ skills or learning and instead act as a marketplace where students and employers can find one another for short, gig projects across a wide array of industries. But it can also ensure that scaling work-integrated learning doesn’t break the bank.

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Decision Making in the Era of Growing Constraints (Part 2)

Planview

Executives express to us that their organizations are exercising long-unused decision-making muscles. From a portfolio perspective, which set of projects is going to maximize the chance of achieving strategic growth targets given the development and commercial risks and rewards? Decisions are not made in a vacuum.

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Applying lessons from pandemic prepared schools

Christensen Institute

In partnership with nine organizations (including the Christensen Institute), NGLC explored this question through a project called What Made Them So Prepared? The project’s team conducted surveys and interviews of 70 participating schools and districts that seemed to have weathered the pandemic well. .

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25 Simple Ways to Free Up Your Innate Creativity

Idea Champions

Identify a project you want to be creative about: If you don't have a project that inspires you enough to apply your creativity to, your effort to become more creative will be vague, at best. What is the project you would most like to infuse with a renewed dose of creativity? Drive-in banking? What does it mean to you?

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25 Simple Ways to Free Up Your Innate Creativity

Idea Champions

Identify a project you want to be creative about: If you don't have a project that inspires you enough to apply your creativity to, your effort to become more creative will be vague, at best. What is the project you would most like to infuse with a renewed dose of creativity? Drive-in banking? What does it mean to you?