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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. This is a post about the sources of my knowledge that feeds my innovation passion. Let me start.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Of course, not all friction is bad. For the unindoctrinated, “lean” is the term coined in a 1988 MIT Sloan Management Review article by John Krafcik, who recently retired as CEO of Google’s Waymo division.

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Top RPA Use Cases In Different Industries

Acuvate

Over the course of the last few years, we have witnessed that companies that integrate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into their back-end operations manage to improve their business metrics exponentially. UOB has also entrusted RPA with repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as reviewing credit card applications. Journal entries.

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Coronavirus: could this global crisis be the end of the office as we know it?

mjvinnovation

Situations ranging from lockdowns , to panic buying , to massive flight cancellations are happening at an alarming rate due to the prospect of a pandemic. For the same reason, large events are being cancelled all over the world and companies are actively encouraging remote work and limiting -even banning- travel.

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How to Run a Virtual Design Thinking Project with Remote Teams

InnovationTraining.org

With tight budgets and an environmental need to cut down on air travel, many organizations are looking for ways to enable teams to tackle strategic challenges through design thinking remotely. Once teams have left the physical workshop space, it’s easy for other priorities and distractions to take the project off course. Be visual!

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Five Steps for Creating Customer Journey Maps You Can Actually Use

New Markets Advisors

Much of the literature on journey mapping comes out of the software UX design space. When attempting to fix the pain points of software users, it’s often sufficient to understand each user’s journey in isolation. Things such as cleanup, disposal of byproducts, reviewing the experience, and purchasing add-ons could all come into play.

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Start-to-Finish Guide to Planning Virtual Team Retreats

CMOE

There are a variety of reasons why teams are holding virtual team retreats on a more regular basis, including: The team is unable to meet because of travel restrictions. Have team members test their connections and software well in advance of the retreat. The team is made up of talented remote members who are geographically dispersed.