Mon.Nov 22, 2021

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The Best Creative Thinking Tool You Probably Haven’t Tried

Phil McKinney

I'm sure you've met a humorless person before. They're those people that take everything far too seriously and never find humor in life or other people. If you want to be creative, then it's important to learn how to laugh at yourself and not take things so seriously all the time! But if you meet […].

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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? It’s no wonder that many experienced innovation workers struggle to find an effective way to prioritize features.

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Society 2045’s Collaborative Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Collaborative Thinking. We are in a world where social ethics are in a dangerous state, and the earth’s resource pool is getting emptied. Can we save our future? This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society works. Society 2045 is a community of people from around the world seeking to co-discover a vision for the year 2045.

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

What if you pilot test your innovations? Most stories follow one fixed pathway or Canon and the author rarely give you a glimpse into how things could have turned out differently. But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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To Change the World You Must First Learn Something About It

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Anybody who has waited for a traffic light to change, in the middle of the night at an empty intersection, knows the urge to rebel. There is always a tension between order and freedom.

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Rule Breaking Series #3: Pilot Test Your Innovations

Flying Fish Lab

What if you pilot test your innovations? Most stories follow one fixed pathway or Canon and the author rarely give you a glimpse into how things could have turned out differently. But that’s not the path the innovation process should take. It makes sense to pilot test your innovations before making that final commitment or laying down that final chapter.

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The Responsibilities of a Leader

Rmukesh Gupta

Observe: As leaders it is our responsibility to observe what is happening inside the organisation, within his team, with the people who we are leading. It is our responsibility to observe what is happening at the periphery of our organisation, with our customers (internal or external). And to observe what is happening within the industry that we operate in and at the intersections of the different industries that we might be participating in.

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The Power Of Purpose-Driven Innovation In A Pandemic

ITONICS

Caroline Snyman, Group Innovation Lead at one of South Africa’s leading alcoholic beverage manufacturers, talks in our Innovation Rockstars Podcast about the power of purpose-driven innovation and the smart move they made to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hoshin Kanri Method Explained

Cascade Strategy

The hoshin kanri is a method of planning a company-wide strategy that is easily distributed. It connects the long-term vision of top leadership with the projects implemented on the front line.

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the future of work: organizing around ideas instead of location

helloFUTURE

One of the most interesting innovations to come out of the coronavirus crisis (and it seems that nothing ever changes unless there is a crisis) is that the myth of location has been dispelled – we no longer need to gather in the same physical space in order to do much work. Sure, there is… The post the future of work: organizing around ideas instead of location appeared first on hellofuture.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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OKRs: Great on paper, but do they scale?

Cascade Strategy

John Doerr, who introduced Google to OKRs, once said: “OKRs have such enormous potential because they are so adaptable. There is no dogma, no one right way to use them; it’s up to you to find your points of emphasis and make the tool your own.”.

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Miro Smart Meetings: A New Tool for Innovation Teams

InnovationTraining.org

Meet the latest tools from popular innovation planning and whiteboarding tool Miro. Miro is one of the best whiteboard and virtual collaboration tools out there – just look at our blog to see some of the awesome templates they offer that we’ve talked about in the past! And it appears the tool is about to get even better: Miro recently launched beta access for Smart Meetings.

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Episode 068: Imagine the Game of Football Gets Creative

Innovation in Practice

If you live in the United States, you know that it is football season here. Regardless of whether you’re into pro football, college football, or none of the above, you are more than likely aware that football season is going on and you are probably influenced by it in some way. Today, I want to get into some of the innovation aspects of football. I’m asking and answering the following: what’s happening in the world of sports (and football, in particular) in regards to creativity?