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An Introvert’s Guide: 23 Ideas to Meet New People at a Conference

BrainZooming

A friend is heading to a business conference by herself today. I told her she needs to make herself socialize and meet new people at the conference, suggesting she find a friendly face that also doesn’t know anyone and become buddies. I suggested additional ideas, then realized: I was writing a blog post on how I, as an introvert, force myself to meet new people at conferences and business events. 23 Ideas to Meet New People at a Conference.

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Imaginatik and the Oil and Gas Technology Centre to Co-Present During Poster Session at the World Open Innovation Conference

Imaginatik

Imaginatik will be attending the 5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) in San Francisco, CA on December 13th and 14th. When we learned of the topic, we felt compelled to submit our collaborative effort with OGTC. Our paper focuses on engaging new collaborators in new ways to drive sustainable outcomes. They put together a “Call for Ideas” program to power the project pipeline, open up cross-industry collaboration, and provide entrepreneurial catalysts.

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Rethinking Meetings and Conference: Don’t Automate, Innovate

Stephen Shapiro

So now is the time to rethink the way we collaborate. Although this article focuses on conferences and conventions, the concepts can be adapted and applied to any kind of meeting. The conference industry is based around events. Find ways to engage people.

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Successful Ways to Meet New People – Confessions of a Conference Newbie

BrainZooming

Here is Emma Alvarez Gibson’s report from a conference she recently attended. With a lot of suggestions and a little bit of arm-twisting, Emma implemented the ideas captured in our Introvert’s Guide: 23 Ideas to Meet New People at a Conference. She’s being very kind to share how she fared implementing the ideas to meet new people even though she was going solo at the conference! Find out the conference hashtag(s) ahead of time, and begin monitoring them.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

nding new and better ways to serve customers well, which can confer a. Better employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration spawn better ideas. Select the right outcomes and incentives to keep employees engaged to improve the. A low engagement rate could.

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Customer Experience Strategy – Invite Employees to Collaborate

BrainZooming

I’m in West Palm Beach, FL today speaking at the Connections 2017 conference sponsored by SMC3. The topic is about engaging your internal brand team and delivering on a great customer experience strategy. The opportunity in broad collaboration among your audiences. Having come from the transportation industry, and seeing so many people I knew and faces I recognized at the January 2017 SMC3 conference, I can’t wait to share these ideas with them.

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Join Us for The Marketing Conference Next Week!

BrainZooming

You’re invited to join us at the Social Media Strategies Summit and The Marketing Conference, taking place concurrently at The Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel in San Francisco, September 27-29. Registrants for either conference can move back and forth between the two, targeting the workshops and presentations that will be most valuable to their business success. Did I mention there’s a special conference discount registration for Brainzooming readers?

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What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

InnovationManagement

After a decade working in innovation, I think many of us are sick and tired of seeing a funnel on another slide at an innovation conference. Lots of ideas at the top, just a few implemented ideas at the bottom… we get the idea. The post What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

It’s about leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaboration, and strategic foresight processes. Instead of hierarchy and control, the focus of management must be on collaboration and enabling what is new.

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

So the most voted topic of our latest ‘Spark Creativity’ session was on: How to engage C-level managers to collaborate better and break the silos to create a more engaging workplace for employees? leadership-development collaboration people-management co-création leadership

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Engaging C-level managers in co-creation from silo-thinking to group dynamics

Be-novative

So the most voted topic of our latest ‘Spark Creativity’ session was on: How to engage C-level managers to collaborate better and break the silos to create a more engaging workplace for employees? leadership-development collaboration people-management co-création leadership

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The immediate shift in work and social norms needs innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Can you imagine what this means in holding conference room meetings, those informal meetings around the “water cooler” or preparing your snack in the one kitchen space when you are required to have six feet or nearly two meters between you and the other person?

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with. Communication is key for consistent engagement. A common theme throughout the conference was around the importance of executive sponsorship. But when it comes to sustaining engagement in an ideation program, extrinsic rewards alone aren’t as effective as intrinsic.

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Collaborating on Zoom Guide: Remotely Facilitate a Virtual Meeting or Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Video conferencing software can help you lead engaging activities to collaborate virtually in real-time. Zoom is one of the most popular software from our research on top digital collaborative remote work tools. Lead Innovative Meetings and Workshops with Zoom.

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Ignite 2018: Registration for the Premier Conference for Innovation Leaders is Open

Planview

We’re thrilled to share that Ignite 2018, Spigit’s annual conference for the brightest minds in innovation, will be returning to the historic Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco on May 1st and 2nd – register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing. Then Ignite is the conference for you! Ignite isn’t just a conference, it’s an experience that will leave you wanting more. Ignite is unlike any other conference that’s focused on innovation.

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Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

I’ll be presenting a Brainzooming workshop on internal branding strategy at the Brand Strategy Conference in New York, April 6-8. The workshop, while drawing on material from my Fortune 500 work, springs from multiple conversations at the 2015 Brand Strategy Conference. 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. With that change in perspective, you introduce possibilities for engaging employee in shaping branding strategy.

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Branding Strategy – 14 Articles on Engaging an Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. Branding Strategy – Engaging an Internal Brand Team. Branding Strategy – 3 Keys to Engaging Your Internal Brand Team.

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You Don’t Have to Go to a Conference to Enjoy It

It's Saul Connected

Are you jealous of your colleagues as they jet off to attend yet another innovation conference? How do they have the time, money, or connections to always wangle their way into every cool conference? For a growing number of conferences, you can now participate without actually going. I’m not talking about passively reading a post-conference report, or perusing blog posts that summarize key points after the fact, or watching videos like a voyeur.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

Communication came up time and time again throughout the conference. This level of transparency is what keeps employees engaged and contributing on a frequent basis. It’s the people – the way they think, work, and collaborate – within this culture that enables Google to go beyond just being a search engine and tackle projects such making the Internet accessible for everyone, or building autonomous vehicles. It clearly shows leadership values employee input and collaboration.

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Everything You Need to Know About Planview Accelerate 2021

Planview

For the last 24 years Planview has hosted this conference to bring our customers together to share their stories, network with their peers, talk with Planview experts and level up their skills across all of Planview’s products. This conference is for our customers and driven by our customers.

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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

Qmarkets

Since deployment, the Bank has run ongoing idea challenges, engaging thousands of the bank's employees in online idea brainstorming to tackle a variety of the company's challenges. We needed to have the capability to present our operational and strategic challenges to our employees and allow them to submit ideas and collaborate on solutions. QM: How have you continued to engage users in your project since then?

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SNEAK PREVIEW: A Bold, New Way to Do Corporate Conferences

Idea Champions

Idea Champions is thrilled to announce it will soon be launching a bold new service to transform the way it's clients plan for, design, facilitate, and follow-up their company's conferences. We've been designing innovative conferences since 1987 (see below for testimonials). And the odds of breakthrough actually happening can be significantly increased with the right mix of intention, preparation, vision, collaboration, and the savvy facilitation of group process.

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Trends in Innovation in the Chemical Industry

Yet2

In mid-May, yet2 sponsored the NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry conference , organized by the European Networking Group. A conference highlight was a presentation by yet2 client, Janssen PMP. Geoffrey de Chabot-Tramecourt, Janssen PMP, presenting at NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry Conference. de Chabot-Tramecourt also shared how Janssen collaborated with yet2 for a focused, efficient, and comprehensive open innovation project.

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Spigit Ignite Summit 2016: Announcing Speakers from Pfizer, CH2M, Lexington Insurance

Planview

Customer engagement is changing. Shuki Einstein is the Global Director of Technology and Innovation at CH2M, helping to ignite a catalytic platform that will enable our clients to thrive through intense technological and sustainable collaboration. “I continue to be enamored with the power of technical collaboration, when skilled individuals apply themselves to a vision bigger than themselves.”

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6 Vital Enablers to Boost Post-Pandemic Inclusion & Diverse Thinking

BrainZooming

Collaboration dynamics changed dramatically in March 2020 , especially for business meetings expected to foster groups effectively innovating. Organizations moved to video calls when in-person collaboration vanished. Engagement Barriers.

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When You Want Your Next Big Conference to Be a Breakthrough

Idea Champions

The next day Rich and I talked about his desire to make sure his annual conference made a big difference in the trajectory of his organization. Long story short, Idea Champions worked with Rich and his team (staring nine months before the conference) to get all quacking ducks in (an out) of row. Below is the first wave of comments Idea Champions has received from some of the 61 conference participants. COMMENTS FROM CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS. "As

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Fix the Planet’s Results to Be Announced at SAP Next-Gen HQ in NYC

Innovation 360 Group

In mid-June, the leaders of Fix the Planet’s analysis team will present their findings jointly at a press conference in SAP Next-Gen’s new office in Manhattan. Not only is this the largest real-estate development project in the US, representing a more collaborative future, but also features the most ambitious application of Greentech construction techniques. Details are as follows: The press conference will run from 10 am to noon, Eastern Standard Time, on Wednesday, June 19, 2019.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

Whether looking to grow collaborations, acquire innovations or invest in internal R&D, there is no free lunch – pipelines must remain filled and robust to achieve long-term growth. Collaborate across disciplines and product lines while supporting change management and the human factors which ultimately increase the probability of success of the project. An Ideation and Collaboration software platform allows for efficient idea review, rating, and promotion.

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Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit Speaking Topics

eZassi

New technologies, emerging approaches for engagement, what today’s leading-edge eaters are predicting for new markets and how social media influencers, shipping bots, and new tastemakers will shape food choices and further define the future of food experience. Examples of 5-senses brand engagement from wearables, Agritech and AI, the future of health, wellness and multisensorial experiences and global case studies of disruptive innovation.

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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

This deserves a dedicated post on what I consequently learned, not through Siemens, but in a conference that Siemens presented at, in November 2017. It is capturing and engaging but it needs a greater attention, time and value correlation. This collaborative “orchestration” will determine those that will emerge as winners within the Industrial environment as they form really unique competitive edges based on reliance, trust, and deepening partnerships.

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FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO

eZassi

This year’s FEI Europe conference in London was full of energy and ideas and I left feeling more motivated and inspired than ever to continue to find new ways to disrupt stale approaches to innovation. With that in mind, I have put together a post full of highlights and insights from the conference so that you can find your own inspiration. Collaboration and Co-creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation. These are just some of the highlights from the conference!

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FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO

eZassi

This year’s FEI Europe conference in London was full of energy and ideas and I left feeling more motivated and inspired than ever to continue to find new ways to disrupt stale approaches to innovation. With that in mind, I have put together a post full of highlights and insights from the conference so that you can find your own inspiration. Collaboration and Co-creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation. Conference Innovation Open Innovation Technology

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

Since then, it’s become a staple as we launch any significant client strategy planning engagement. That’s why we’re facilitating a thirty-minute online collaboration with her executive team this week before all the changes become part of, “We’ve always done things like that.”.

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81 Social Media Content Marketing Ideas – FREE eBook

BrainZooming

Additionally, I’ll also be presenting a workshop at the GSMI-sponsored Branding Conference, also during October in Chicago. As part of the relationship with these GSMI conferences, we’ll be co-releasing several new Brainzooming eBooks on brand strategy and social media content marketing. The new eBook features a checklist of 81 Engaging Social Content Ideas to Boost Your Brand. I’m excited to be speaking again this year at several Social Media Strategies Summit events.

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The 8 great talks from 8 years of Union

100%Open

Date: Sept 2014 – Theme: Currency of Collaboration – Host: National Theatre. Long time Union member and partner, Abba told a fantastic and engaging story of how online/chatbot mortgage broker Habito used machines and humans in harmony to make a new pioneering TV ad. The Union Network is almost 8 years old. Over that time, we’ve hosted over 30 events, 250+ amazing speakers, and attracted over 3000+ attendees.

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Use the Rapid Prototyping Tool to Develop Ideas More Quickly and Efficiently

Leapfrogging

The conference room was abuzz with energy, teams of individuals were crowded around 6 circular tables, all of them were rapidly filling out post-it notes and sketching ideas on pieces of white paper.

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Wanted/Needed: UX Design for Collaboration 2.0

Boxes and Arrows

No current software supports the full process of collaboration. There is plenty of hype about “Collaboration 2.0” Take, for instance, the Enterprise Collaboration Panel at last year’s Office 2.0 Conference. What’s missing from the discussion is any formulation of what the process of collaboration entails; there’s no model from which collaborative applications could arise. People must do something to collaborate.

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How To Build a Scouting Team Within Your Organization

eZassi

Once the solution has been verified you can consider engaging in potential partnerships. The biggest challenge in this arena is filtering out the noise and categorizing the data discovery however technology scouting tools will allow a researcher to filter as granular as grants, patents, publications/scientific journals, trademarks, news, web monitoring and conferences. Collaboration Software Tool to Manage, Sustain, Engage Analyze.

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7 Organizational Harmony Principles from Dayton Moore

BrainZooming

I had the opportunity to see Dayton Moore, General Manager of the Kansas City Royals , discuss his perspective on organizational harmony as he opened the Jump Start 2017 conference in Atlanta. SMC 3 sponsors the annual conference. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success. Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Communication Implementation Performance Strategic Thinking Tools leader

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Sustainability Workshops and Programs

InnovationTraining.org

We’ve helped with small groups and special conferences for hundreds of people. We will also conduct an icebreaker activity to get everyone comfortable and engaged.

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10 Popular Innovation Exercises to Try

InnovationTraining.org

The process includes hands-on collaboration in the form of prototyping and testing. Customer journey mapping Customer journey maps visually showcase the customer’s experience: from initial contact with your service/product throughout their engagement and relationship.

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Why Today Is a Great Day to Be Out of the Corporate World

BrainZooming

Several months later, the deal seemed in question, but we got an opportunity to do a 30-minute phone conference with the company president to address his questions. It’s because I can’t fathom trying to assign credit for this deal if it unfolded in a Fortune 500 company: The relationship started multiple years ago through a speaking engagement. Blogging Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Innovation Performance Social media innovation strategy

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Finally a framework to manage holistically Industrial Revolution 4.0

Paul Hobcraft

This is requiring total company engagement as you transform your present physical world into a highly connected digital world, totally dependent on technology. The main effects of this IR4 are the shifts in customer expectations, on product enhancements, on collaborative innovation, and in different organizational forms. The smart part is how the Singapore EDB has drawn in and collaborated with McKinsey & Co, SAP, Siemens, and TüB SüD.