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Ten Reasons to Hire an Innovation Keynote Speaker

Braden Kelley

Innovation Keynote Speakers are often misunderstood, maligned, and underutilized. We have all been to many conferences, and heard many good (and bad) keynote and session speakers with a variety of styles (all of which are perfectly acceptable), including: 1.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

With so many innovation leaders from some of the largest companies in the world in attendance, there was no shortage of opportunities to learn. Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. For innovation leaders, this means it’s now more important than ever to be able to measure the impact of an implemented idea and the overall success of your innovation program.

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

Planview

Last year, over 140 leaders from globally recognized companies like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder and more gathered at our Boston Summit to share new ideas, challenges, and findings resulting from their own innovation programs. This year’s keynote speaker, Jeremy Johnson, comes to us from one of the world’s most notorious innovation hubs: New York City. Wendy Mayer, VP of Innovation at Pfizer, Inc.

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Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit Speaking Topics

eZassi

Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit Speaking Topics. The Innovation and Growth Leadership Summit is a spectrum of new technologies and processes. Food Innovation: Recipes for Change. 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.

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Why diversity is important to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

We've just finished the 11th Annual Innovate Carolina conference, and since this is the year of COVID we held a virtual conference rather than our traditional in person event. Rarely does any innovation team take a truly holistic view toward solving a problem.

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Innovation Management: 3 Tips for Igniting Valuable Ideas

Planview

What does innovation management mean to you? Does it mean gathering ideas or does it mean building a culture of engagement? You need ideas to be innovative, but you need an innovation culture to continually source the most valuable ideas. The concept of “building an innovation culture” is a topic that’s come up in a variety of conversations with Planview Spigit clients over the last few months. But we are innovative—right? Innovation

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

This year is full of potential for innovative growth in your organization. Ezassi is your partner in measurable and achievable business goals with the help of our innovation software and services. We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. 12 Resolutions to Ignite a Culture of Innovation. Assess the Innovation Pipeline.

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What’s on the Minds of Innovation Executives?

Planview

There was no shortage of practical sessions at Spigit’s Ignite 2018 conference. One session in particular that gave a unique perspective into the minds of executives was the executive panel moderated by Innovation Leader’s Kelsey Alpaio. Chris Morris, Chief Innovation Officer, Herbalife. The key to addressing cultural barriers to innovation. Ultimately, getting buy-in from your executive team upfront will help your innovation program thrive in the long-term.

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Ezassi Appoints Denise Fletcher as New Chief Innovation Officer

eZassi

New Chief Innovation Officer Signals Bright Future for Ezassi. Ezassi, a leader in open innovation and idea management software, is excited to announce that Denise Fletcher will be joining the company in the newly created role of Chief Innovation Officer. Denise brings to this role an impressive record for driving innovation and acting as a company visionary for major brands over the past eight years.

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Spigit Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Planview

Every year at Spigit’s annual conference , Ignite, we recognize clients in our innovation community whose programs have achieved remarkable feats. This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement. New Program of the Year. Best Employee Engagement. The award for Best Employee Engagement went to Pfizer! New Program of the Year. The 2018 New Program of the Year is Campbell Soup Company!

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Spigit Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Planview

Every year at Spigit’s annual conference , Ignite, we recognize clients in our innovation community whose programs have achieved remarkable feats. This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement. New Program of the Year. Best Employee Engagement. The award for Best Employee Engagement went to Pfizer! New Program of the Year. The 2018 New Program of the Year is Campbell Soup Company!

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Pepperdine University’s Shawn Herrera

Planview

With Spigit’s Ignite conference right around the corner, we had a chance to catch up with Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Shawn Herrera. Herrera is Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Director of Corporate Partnerships and is also an Adjunct Professor teaching sought after courses on leadership and innovation. He’s also one of the many phenomenal speakers at Ignite who will be sharing their experience running an innovation program.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Patricia Forts

Planview

We’re fortunate to have Patricia Forts, Deputy Chief of Innovation and Strategy at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, speaking at Spigit’s Ignite conference in May who knows firsthand what established companies need to do to not only weather the storm but thrive. As you’ll see in the below conversation with Forts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is one organization that’s taking a proactive approach to innovation. You mentioned the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Center for Innovation.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Nasdaq’s Rebecca Cameron

Planview

Since its early days, Nasdaq has been on the bleeding edge of innovation. At this year’s Spigit Ignite conference, attendees will have an opportunity to hear from Nasdaq’s Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Rebecca Cameron. With Ignite being weeks away, we caught up with Rebecca to learn a little bit more about her talk at the conference. Spigit: What are some lessons you’ve learned while leading Nasdaq’s innovation program?

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Where Are You on an Innovation Scale?

CREATORS

In this article, we share Creators’ experiences and market observations to give you a brief overview of a typical corporate innovation journey. In today’s constantly evolving markets, the need for innovation is as important as ever. Every company wants and needs to be innovative?—?“able?—?over Innovation does not have to be big or “disruptive”?—?most Innovation does not need to involve technology, but it mostly does. internal innovation activities (e.g.

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Wisdom From Above The Clouds

Legacy Innovation Group

New Ways of Engaging Stakeholders. Businesses cannot afford to just keep adding to the "noise" with yet another motivational speech, yet another business presentation, yet another board meeting, yet another how-to book, or yet another best-practices conference. The answer to that lies in developing – and executing – a well-informed multi-tier (Horizon 1, 2, & 3) Innovation Strategy. Wisdom From Above The Clouds. Jan 17, 2019 | Anthony Mills.

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Insights from Innovation Roundtable Summit 2019

ITONICS

Innovation Roundtable Summit (IRS) wrapped a week ago, and wow – it was our best ever. More than 700 innovation executives and leaders across industries from 250 companies and research institutions, such as Cisco, Spotify, Airbus, P&G, Siemens, IKEA, Ericsson, Shell, UC Berkeley, London Business School , came together to network and exchange insights. Innovative approaches were discussed to turn data into actual business value. Build Your Innovation Ecosystem.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Herbalife CIO Chris Morris

Planview

Recently, we had an opportunity to catch up with Chris Morris, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Herbalife, who will be sharing his insights at Spigit’s Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd. With Ignite just months away, we wanted to get Morris’ views on the latest innovation trends that are on his radar, what he has learned from spearheading Herbalife’s innovation program, and get a sneak peek at what attendees can expect from his session at the conference.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Southern Company’s Julie Pigott

Planview

To dig deeper into the how, we’re excited to have Julie Pigott, Southern Company’s Director Innovation Support, join us at Spigit’s upcoming Ignite conference to talk about the company’s approach to innovation and how they’ve leveraged ideation over the past four years. We recently caught up with Julie to hear more about Southern Company’s – as well as her own – innovation journey. Spigit: In terms of promoting a culture of innovation, how are you doing that?

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Campbell Soup Company’s Jeff George

Planview

We had the opportunity to chat with Jeff George, VP, Americas R&D at Campbell Soup Company, who leads the company’s innovation program. George, who will be speaking at Spigit’s upcoming Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd in San Francisco, and his team have been doing a stellar job of turning their culture into one that makes the practice of innovation part of every employee’s daily activities. We were in the process of planning our program launch.

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How to enable inclusive innovation

hackerearth

The innovation system would meet the needs of every person. Inadequacy or inaccessibility should not constrain people’s innovative ability. What is inclusive innovation? Foster and Heeks (2015) define it this way: “ Inclusive innovation is the means by which new goods and services are developed for and by marginal groups (the poor, women, the disabled, ethnic minorities, etc).” Here, the excluded groups are both producers and customers of innovations.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civic Innovation YYC. National Cancer Institute—Best Innovation.