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Specific skills and toolkits are needed for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

Paul Hobcraft

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. For me, cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution.

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Approaching Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point. Defining roles and responsibilities : The next stage is to define the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the collaboration.

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Understanding cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

To get to a good understanding of cross-sector innovation ecosystems collaborations, you need to take a very considered holistic view of what is needed in any collaboration, let alone cutting across sectors to generate a successful outcome. My second post identified specific skills and toolkits to be considered.

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Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?

Harvard Business Review

Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. The authors explored how collaboration technology bloat impacts employees and tried to help people take control over their work.

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Three Keys to Accelerating Innovation through Connecting and Collaborating Outside your Organization

Speaker: Gordon Vala-Webb, Author, Speaker and Consultant, Building Smarter Organizations

From his upcoming book, Building Smarter Organizations, Gordon will do a deep dive into why connecting and collaborating with those outside your organization will accelerate innovation - and the three keys to success: open mindset, fast-flow communications, and accelerated decision-making.

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Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

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Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. Within the series of four posts, I have been emphasising that cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution, the necessary parts need connecting.

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6 Keys to Making Collaborative Innovation Successful

Speaker: Soren Kaplan, Founder of InnovationPoint

In this recorded session, Dr. Soren Kaplan draws from his recently released book, "The Invisible Advantage," to provide actionable insights into how any organization can create a culture of innovation, an environment that promotes free thinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and sustainable value creation at all levels and across all functions.

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How to Empower Your Users So You Can Create a Great Product

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman, Author and Consultant, for her session that will discuss why instead of designing for the users, product people and their teams should collaborate with empowered users to create a great product together. In this webinar you will learn: The problems with deciding for the users or other interested people.

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Driving Collaboration to Sustainable Innovation

Speaker: Wayne Kurtzman, Research Director, Social and Collaboration, IDC

"Collaboration is not just technical. Join Wayne as he reveals key insights from his recent research on the importance of collaboration, and discover how you can drive sustainable results through teamwork within your organization. He also leads IDC's Social, Communities and Collaboration practice.

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Building A Collaborative Innovation Playbook

Speaker: Greg Satell, Innovation Advisor, Speaker and Author

How to focus collaborative innovation efforts so they drive benefit and success. In this session, you will learn: The 6 steps you can use to build an innovation playbook that works for your organization. Where and how to seek out innovation opportunities inside and outside the organization. May 4, 2017, 11 AM PDT, 2 PM EDT, 7 PM GMT

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Embrace automation, collaborate with new technology, and watch how you thrive! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users.

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The 3 Principles that Lead to Better Collaboration Between Design and Product Management Teams

Speaker: Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Google, and Terrell Cobb, Designer at Microsoft

As more product teams adopt agile working styles, poor collaboration between Design and Product Management can harm a team’s ability to create consumer and business value. In this webinar they will teach you: 3 principles that allow Design and Product Management to work together more effectively.

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2022 Guide to Corporate Meetings in the Metaverse

So how do you bring spontaneous communication and collaboration to your meetings? Digital fatigue? No sense of purpose or belonging? Meetings using limited technology often fall short for teams working remotely. Check out this guide to meeting in the Metaverse.

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The Rapid Innovation Sprint as an Accelerator for Your Big Idea

The techniques of RISE help to uncover game-changing opportunities with structure, collaboration, and commitment. Rapid Innovation Sprints (RISE) help companies incubate greenfield digital product ideas that have the potential to radically transform their business. Bring your next amazing idea to life!