Qmarkets

MAY 26, 2017

Qmarkets' Steve Reed, Senior Commercial Manager for North America, takes us on a guided tour of the Dallas Innovation ecosystem. Over the course of my life, I've lived in some very different cities. From Frankfurt in Germany, to Seattle in Washington, various locations in Northern California, and most recently of all, Dallas, Texas.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 19, 2020

Many organisations are trying to create a culture of innovation, but are not pausing to ask why? If we want to innovate well, we need the right culture – we need vision people, and in a big way. As we know, to innovate and move your organisation, your people need to move with you (if you don’t, we need to talk).

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Idea Drop

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This is often compounded by a lack of processes in place to capture ideas , a failure of trust in the calibre of ideas being produced and a general lack of prioritisation allocated to innovation. In this post we consider why listening to your workforce can provide significant value and unlock a fulfilling culture of innovation.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Of course, in the real marketplace you will have many opponents, but let’s keep this model simple before we start adding complexities. That balance is precisely what you must develop to save your organization – and it starts with a culture of innovation. When it works, it feels natural, and I can’t even imagine losing.”.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Qmarkets' Steve Reed, Senior Commercial Manager for North America, takes us on a guided tour of the Dallas Innovation ecosystem. Over the course of my life, I've lived in some very different cities. From Frankfurt in Germany, to Seattle in Washington, various locations in Northern California, and most recently of all, Dallas, Texas.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 29, 2016

You’ll see throughout this course that consulting your peers on key decisions will move you forward, reduce risk, and solidify you as a competent innovation leader. I’d advise you meet with your peers within the first week of your new appointment. Peers are that important. Peers help you pressure test your assumptions.

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Strategos

APRIL 5, 2016

And we seek to involve as many people as possible in the course of an innovation challenge, not just project team members but employees from across the organisation, whether it be involvement in insight generation sessions, ideation labs or concept elaboration and commercialisation. Participatory change process. Self-discovery.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 10, 2016

Innovation has a big problem – Far too many small ideas masquerade as big ones. As an innovation consultant, how to address the lack of genuinely big ideas, combined with the proliferation of small ones is probably the most common challenge I’m asked to help with. The first is self-awareness, and managing our own biases.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The innovation disconnect. We explored how these factors cause not only resistance to change, but also how they inhibit and prevent organizations from adapting, competing, growing and innovating through discovering, design and delivering innovative solutions that add value to the quality of People’s lives.

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Inceodia

MARCH 18, 2019

They heard that they should expect to pivot from their original solution idea over the course of the program. What if at the same time innovation teams were discovering, designing and testing ideas, your organization was building and iterating an innovation process that works for you? Ready to Inspire Your Team to Innovate?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One company found that rewarding the best ideas cost them only $14,250 over the course of a year. Meanwhile, it stands to earn an estimated $1.5 – $8 million in annual net profits from the innovations generated. However the reward amount doesn’t have to be astronomical to deliver astounding results.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

At the renowned international design consultancy IDEO, play is in fact an important part of innovation, acting as an intuitive form of learning. Fear of being punished or reprimanded for a failed experiment is the surest way to destroy an innovation culture. Creativity requires that we fight against this trajectory.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

What if you had a magic button you could press which would make all your employees super creative and innovative. Of course you would! With the growing realization of the impact that innovation is having on business success , companies are scrambling to initiate innovation inducement programs. Would you press it?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

What if you had a magic button you could press which would make all your employees super creative and innovative. Of course you would! With the growing realization of the impact that innovation is having on business success , companies are scrambling to initiate innovation inducement programs. Would you press it?

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2016

Nick is the chief editor of Idea to Value and also the CEO & Founder of Improvides Innovation Consulting. He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. So I tell companies they don’t have an innovation problem.

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Innovation in Practice

MARCH 13, 2017

For some examples, check out my other fundamentals courses on marketing, innovation, and branding. Innovators like to perform at high levels, but they have to be motivated. You, as the innovation leader, play the key role in doing that. Be sure to make it an annual, on-going activity, not just a one time event.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

At the renowned international design consultancy IDEO, play is in fact an important part of innovation, acting as an intuitive form of learning. Fear of being punished or reprimanded for a failed experiment is the surest way to destroy an innovation culture. Creativity requires that we fight against this trajectory.

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Strategos

MARCH 1, 2018

Of course, you are unlikely to engage everyone. To really understand the progress you are making towards a culture of innovation, you will need to answer these questions and many more. Periodically assessing your innovation culture makes sense and helps you to stay on track. Download a pdf version of this article.

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Idea Champions

JULY 30, 2021

If you work in an organization that wants to establish a sustainable culture of innovation -- you have two basic choices: outside/in or inside/out. You know the drill: do a little Six Sigma, cost cutting, continuous improvement, hire a few consultants to give pep talks and you're off to the races. Of course it does.

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New Markets Advisors

APRIL 20, 2018

That’s not to say that there’s no room for innovation in departments that aren’t traditionally responsible for putting out new products. Now, of course, there are other clever accounting “innovations” that we don’t want to encourage, but there are certainly opportunities for advancement.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And just recently, they wanted me to become the course director of business model innovation. So, I’ve done that course for them. So, I think that is definitely a big advantage, of course, is coming in with a book, you know, out of millions of books. But not maybe not so fun. This is this is something to censor.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you work in an organization that wants to establish a sustainable culture of innovation -- you have two basic choices: outside/in or inside/out. You know the drill: do a little Six Sigma, cost cutting, continuous improvement, hire a few consultants to give pep talks and you're off to the races. Of course it does.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, there are more effective ways to innovate, as you will see further down this list. Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. This is what I have been working for years to develop and share, and was one of the major sets of highlights in the recent Innovation and Creativity Summit.

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 19, 2018

Of course, that is not to make light of the serious conditions still facing a great number of people in every region of the Earth. It is the first step in designing a robust innovation system for matching company goals with the types of innovations you will need to achieve them, while keeping an eye on the horizon.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Michael's journey through academia and his role in teaching an MBA course offered him insights into the innovation processes of over fifty global companies. This observation underscores a critical challenge in innovation management: the need for a culture that not only accepts but champions innovation as a core value.

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