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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

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The need for a socially appropriate goals and actions of a corporation has given rise to corporate social innovation where companies form partnerships with NGOs. And what was once a coexisting relationship is slowly morphing into a cooperative and collaborative partnership, what Prahalad like to call the “co-creation” model.

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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Redefining Conflict Resolution: The Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

It prioritizes empathy, collaboration, and iterative testing to reach innovative solutions. By emphasizing collaboration, Design Thinking fosters a holistic view of conflicts, ensuring a more comprehensive resolution. The ‘Project Fusion’ at TechCorp led to a harmonious collaboration, which was only improved upon with feedback.

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Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations

Tullio Siragusa

To bring innovations to products and services, Design Thinking encourages the process of questioning, assuming, the collaboration of employees, brainstorming, building prototypes, testing the newly created ideas, and getting continuous feedback. In addition, they ensure that the project is moving forward by having status updates.

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The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era

Tullio Siragusa

Set up internal incubators for passion projects. The cross-functional collaboration and austerity mindset rekindles agility. Foster a culture of trust and horizontal collaboration. Set Up Small Innovation Labs Research shows that innovation tends to peak when teams have 5–10 members.

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Intrapreneurs

eZassi

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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How to Be a Valuable Team Player During Times of Change: Strategies for Success

Tullio Siragusa

Whether it’s a new project, a shift in leadership, or an overhaul of processes, change can be both exciting and challenging. It also means being flexible and willing to adjust your approach as needed to meet the changing needs of the team or project. Communicate Effectively Communication is key during times of change.

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