Fri.Mar 24, 2017

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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation

Strategos

Innovation that challenges well established industry business models promises opportunity for some and instills fear in others. We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. But of course, we wouldn’t want it to be the scenario for our company.

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Helpful tips on running your next innovation project from Idea Hunt

Svava

Innovation Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum Helpful tips on running your next innovation project from Idea Hunt Like many corporate initiatives, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, on it’s own. The very nature of an innovation project compels it to be something that will move a large corporation forward, or in a new direction. Innovation […].

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Building a Culture that Thrives on Innovation Agility

Innovation Excellence

We are living in an age of disruption, where changes are accelerating making innovation a strategic and systemic necessity and competitive lever to ensure your organization's survival and sustainability. Living now in what Daniel Pink describes as “The Conceptual Age” our attention needs to be on both enhancing creativity, agility and in developing customer empathy.

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Food for Thought: Success and Lasagna

Innovation Architecture

The recipe for success and the recipe for lasagna enjoy many similarities. First, let us compare the drive to succeed with the desire to make lasagna. We start by observing that nobody makes lasagna for one. No, lasagna is made for others to enjoy: beloved family, close friends, or acquaintances on the path to joining one of the first two groups. Success, if it is to be meaningful, comes, too, from a need to making something of value for someone else: providing, for example, a good or a service

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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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The Future of Insurance: 15 predictions for 2017

Innovation Excellence

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Matthew Griffin’s upcoming paper The Future of Insurance 2020 & Beyond. It is clear from the developments and progress made in 2016 though that the industry’s appetite, pace, and propensity for change, albeit partially fuelled by an increasingly competitive and dynamic marketplace, is accelerating.

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Solving Litter Problems with Open Innovation and the Crowd

IdeaConnection

Litter is a massive problem that negatively affects health and safety, wildlife and the environment. In an effort to inspire new cleanup solutions, a free open innovation app call Litterati is encouraging the global community to identify, map and collect the world’s garbage. Smartphone users download the app , take photos of the litter they see in their daily lives, identify the type of litter with a keyword and then throw the trash away.

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Getting Buy-In, ‘No Time Syndrome,’ and Premature Scaling

Innovation Leader

Executives from Humana, GE, Intuit discuss why do employees and executives in large organizations resist participating in innovation efforts, and how to solve the problem.

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Helpful tips on running your next innovation project from Idea Hunt

Svava

Innovation Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum.

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Storytelling is a Powerful Way to Transmit Tacit Knowledge

Idea Champions

My book on storytelling. MitchDitkoff.

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Helpful tips on running your next innovation project from Idea Hunt

Svava

Innovation Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum.

Project 40
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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.