Braden Kelley

MAY 9, 2017

Every two years Suntop Media ranks the top 50 management thought leaders and bestows the Thinkers50 Global Ranking of Management Thinkers. The ranking relies on nominations and voting from the community, meaning that the public decides who is selected.

Management 131

Management Change Leadership Innovation 131

BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them.

Collaboration 77

Collaboration Meeting Strategic Thinking Creative Thinking 77

Be-novative

MAY 9, 2017

Determining if creative thinking is playing a prominent role in your organization is a key step to take, because today’s digital world requires we innovate with the trends, not behind it.

Tips 72

Tips Creative Thinking Trends Innovation 72

Planview

MAY 9, 2017

Your organization embraces a culture of quality. You seek continuous improvement. At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. The possibilities of seeing the whole. The rationale of starting with the customer and working your way back into the organization from there to create the value stream. The energy that comes from getting everyone on the same page in terms of the problem to be solved: the waste to be removed.

LEAN 49

LEAN Exercises Groups Culture 49

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

Data

Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Different Isn’t That Difficult; It Requires … Doing Things Differently. Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” “Mediocre results, we just can’t seem to get to anything really different.” “Lackluster.

Brainstorming 48

Brainstorming Innovation Programs Ideation Idea Generation 48

Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2017

It is well known that our physical attitude can affect our mental attitude. If our posture is more positive then our thinking is more positive. Researchers Slepian and Ambady report an experiment in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. They had some subjects move their arms in big fluid movements and other subjects moved their arms.

Creativity 42

Creativity Report Brainstorming Ideation 42

Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2017

The stark truth of platforms and ecosystems for B2B companies is that there will never be one dominant platform that everyone accepts and leverages. In fact there will almost always be several segmented platforms in any company or industry. This means there is real value in being a platform bridge or connector.

Industry 40

Industry Company Disruption Innovation 40

Innovation Leader

MAY 9, 2017

Here's a report you can adapt, developed by a former Transamerica innovation exec. It provides feedback to stakeholders, ensuring that you maintain their support.

Report 40

Report Innovation 40

Taivara

MAY 9, 2017

Smart City Columbus. Helping Columbus become a Smart City. Helping Columbus bec[link] a Smart City. We had a blast this past weekend. A few members from the Taivara team spent Friday evening through Sunday night at the Smart City Hackathon. The event launched the kickoff of the Smart City Sandbox , a public database of over 50 Columbus-based datasets aimed at giving local developers information to build innovative technology.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Groups Data Technology 28

IdeaScale

MAY 9, 2017

How will Trump affect innovation? How will the presidency of Donald Trump impact innovation? It’s a tough question to consider. While he’s met with tech industry heads and even invited several, like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick of Uber, to a working group about the economy, “predictable” isn’t something one can anticipate from Trump.

Innovation 190

Innovation Software Policies Industry 190

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

Data

IdeaScale

MAY 9, 2017

How will Trump affect innovation? How will the presidency of Donald Trump impact innovation? It’s a tough question to consider. While he’s met with tech industry heads and even invited several, like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick of Uber, to a working group about the economy, “predictable” isn’t something one can anticipate from Trump.

Innovation 100

Innovation Software Policies Industry 100