Wed.Feb 05, 2020

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Why Agility Cannot Stand Alone

Daniel Burrus

When the competition launches a new product, how you react says a lot about you as a professional and your company as an organization. But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass.

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What Is an Innovation Manager – And How Do You Become a Great One?

Viima

In the last few months, I’ve had a few readers ask me how they could become an innovation manager, as well as how they could succeed in that role.

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Improve Product Innovation with Internal and External Feedback

IdeaScale

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. Trying to develop a new product without input from your customers is akin to shooting arrows in the dark. You may hit your target, but then again, you may miss it by a mile. Customer input provides you with insight into customer pain points, behaviors, and desires.

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Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business Webinar

Strategyzer Innovation

We had the pleasure of having Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, join Strategyzer co-founder Alex Osterwalder on our StratChat webinar series to discuss his most recent work - Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond The Hype and Getting Down To Business.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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.

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Love-mark No More. Friend-mark vs. Mom-mark. Brand loyalty re-imagined.

Innovation Excellence

Here is two takes on loyalty, by Chris Fesen and Frank Pagano, in an age when it’s harder and harder to lock fans into a Brand forever. What strategies should Brands of the future adopt to boost frequency? The idea of periodical bursts of product launches and large advertising campaigns, paired with promotions and rewards.

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Proud Delivery Partners of Global Innovation Policy Accelerator (GIPA) Programme

100%Open

The Global Innovation Policy Accelerator is a collaborative development programme for innovation policy leaders and managers, lead by Nesta. Governments around the world are seeking more effective approaches to fostering innovation. Ensuring innovation policymakers have the right skills, insights, tools, evidence and networks to help design, implement, evaluate and improve innovation policies is essential if these policies are to have the desired impacts on economic growth and social challenges.

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New Decade, New What?

100%Open

The trouble with predicting innovation is that the changes that people tend to foresee take a long time to materialise if they ever do. Think hoverboards, personal air transport, AI taking over the world, self-cleaning clothes, good-tasting rehydrated food, control of the weather. All of which have been almost constantly predicted for decades. The things that actually do happen tend to creep up on us in a banal way.

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7 Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Hiring the wrong candidate can be costly. To help you recruit the best talent out there, here are a few common mistakes during the recruitment process that you should try to avoid. Rushing the entire process. Hiring the first candidate that applies just because you’re in urgent need of new staff is not the way to go. Taking the time to be thorough can increase your chances of hiring the best possible recruit.

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Important: Adjustment of Prices on 7 February 2020

ITONICS

We will be adjusting the prices for our Cloud offering on 7 February 2020. The up-to-date prices will be available on our pricing page at [link]. Note that we will reset your trial period when adjusting the prices, giving you the full 30-day free trial. The post Important: Adjustment of Prices on 7 February 2020 appeared first on.

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How Can You Improve Your Delivery Process?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. In the click to buy field, customers are sick of delivery processes that don’t match the rest of their smooth experience with your brand. When it’s becoming so easy to buy, it’s only understandable that buyers want to experience the joy of ownership as rapidly, easily, and friction-free as possible. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a click to own button.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Entrepreneurs and Salespeople: Are You Overestimating How Much Others Value Your Product?

Michael Roberto

Created on [link] Minah Jung, Alice Moon, and Leif Nelson have published a new paper titled, " Overestimating the valuations and preferences of others, " in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. The scholars examine how individuals evaluate the preferences of others. Specifically, they find that people tend to systematically overestimate how much others will value something.

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Innovation Brokerage Report: Enabling collaborations through emerging digital tech

100%Open

This report examines how ‘digital innovation brokerage’ aims to connect ideas, people, organisations, and communities through digital technologies. We collaborated with Nesta and Science Practice and these were some of our findings. So here goes! Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person or organisation. More often, it is the result of collaboration and the exchange of ideas.

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