Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

OK. You're busy. I get it. Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. You know it. I know it. And 99% of the people you work with know it -- a longstanding phenomenon that spawns nothing but frustration, wheel spinning, and resignation.

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Collective Campus

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When it comes to corporate innovation, it’s easy to focus on metrics such as ideas captured by an idea challenge, the number of prototypes developed or experiments run. But with most corporate innovation initiatives quickly degenerating into theatre, failure rates are running high (eg. 80-90% of innovation labs fail). Such failures ultimately lead to senior stakeholders withdrawing their support while intrapreneurs become increasingly dissatisfied and leave the organisation to seek out greener,

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2017

I attended a fabulous organizational culture conference recently in Melbourne that took the audience right back to culture, climate and engagement measurement basics. It was powerful to see how the links and connections between Organizational Culture Audits & Diagnostics, Climate and Engagement Surveys were expertly made.

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Idea Drop

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It is clear that we are getting better at talking about innovation but conversation isn’t enough. Actionable insight and implementation incentives are necessary to fuel the innovation fire. “In 2015, only 28 per cent of in-house legal clients surveyed for the Best Legal Adviser Report said innovation in their law firms was important whereas in 2016 this rose hugely to 62 per cent.

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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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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Innovators and product managers need to think more strategically to expand their success – to become product masters. This is what executive teams want from their product managers, and this interview with my guest is a great case study for thinking strategically and reshaping an entire organization. What if you could create a new product.

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Innovation Leader

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With seven global labs, Thomson Reuters knows the ins and outs of starting an innovation initiative. Mona Vernon, Chief Technology Officer of the company, discusses best practices.

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Wellspring

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With so many opportunities for R&D and patenting, how do research teams and IP managers determine viable opportunities? Through the use of patent landscaping, teams can focus their R&D efforts and identify industry trends that can help steer their internal efforts.

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Wazoku

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Wazoku CEO, Simon Hill, was proud to be a part of this year’s INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum in Madrid. INSEAD, one of the world’s leading and largest business schools, offers participants a global educational experience. As INSEAD’s Entrepreneur in Residence, Simon is a proud ambassador of INSEAD’s work, mission and values. The Madrid event offered insights about building businesses and networking with other alumni entrepreneurs to learn from one another’s expeiene across borders.

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Being the first to come up with a good idea does not always make the path to success easy. In fact, often, it's quite the opposite. For example, the idea of micro-learning may be all the rage these days, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, the company that created the first micro learning programs, AthenaOnline , was kicked out quite a few offices for even proposing the idea.

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Innovation in Practice

OCTOBER 5, 2017

By: Tom Ewing, Senior Director, System1 Group. “First I look at the purse” sang Motown’s The Countours. Kelley Styring, principal of InsightFarm, would sympathise. In 2006, then again in 2016, she asked hundreds of women to empty out their purses in the name of science. Her project, “an archaeology of the American handbag”, explores the meaning both personal and practical of purses – and, er, ‘murses’, since men are carrying them too: one of the big shifts between waves of the study.

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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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Stephen Shapiro

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Thanks Steve! Great presentation with illuminating examples. I loved the exercise (Bach in a red hammock) and as usual your presentation was thought provoking.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Anticipatory organizations are always looking forward. With the skills to identify Hard Trends, and the many opportunities they represent, they’re often able to achieve extraordinary levels of success. The biggest problem that keeps organizations from being anticipatory is complacency. Complacency can pose all sorts of significant problems. But, as with other issues that the future can hold, there are strategies to anticipate the challenges of complacency and address them as proactively and effe

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Stephen Shapiro

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Thanks Jeff! Bach and Hammock. Very cool and very unusual answers.

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