Fri.Aug 10, 2018

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How You Ask for Innovation Matters

Gregg Fraley

Six Considerations for Inclusive Innovation. The Wall Street Journal published an article this week, Why Innovation is a Team Sport. . It reveals a broad based study on innovation done by the research firm Great Place to Work. You can download the entire white paper at Great Places website. Nicely done survey GP2W! Essentially, the survey says that companies that are more broad-based and inclusive in innovation have better growth prospects.

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Every Business Must Prepare For An AI-Driven World. Here’s How:

Innovation Excellence

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the first computer-aided design (CAD) software packages began to appear. Initially, they were mostly used for high-end engineering tasks, but as they got cheaper and simpler to use, they became a basic tool to automate the work of engineers and architects. According to a certain logic, with so.

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19 Options to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy

BrainZooming

A client raised a question about what more it can do to quicken its pace of innovation ? As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. and lots of articles, too! Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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The History Of The Killer Questions

Beyond the Obvious

I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas […].

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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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InnoCentive Helps Innovate New Treatments for ALS

Innocentive

InnoCentive recently partnered with the ALS Association and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”) to create and release a premium challenge aimed at helping find treatments for people with neurodegenerative diseases like Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). InnoCentive has previously awarded Solvers over $1M for solutions in the field of ALS research.

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University Crowdsourcing Zero Carbon Goal

IdeaConnection

The University of London has set itself a monumental challenge – to reach zero carbon emissions by the year 2036. To help it achieve this goal it is going to crowdsource a new zero-emissions program, covering its operations and built environment. Since 2010, carbon emissions at the university have been reduced by 47% and 100% of its energy needs come from renewables.

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How the Aerospace Firm Embraer is Pursuing Disruptive Innovation

Innovation Leader

David Rottblatt of EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation team at Embraer, explains how the team is set up and some initial projects, including a collaboration with Uber.

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#1,352 – Pioneer

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A new venture capital fund, known as the Pioneer Fund, aims to give funding and opportunity to aspiring entrepreneurs who may be going overlooked in today’s society. Women, minorities, and people from low-income families could stand to benefit the most from this initiative. Pioneer plans on doing so by creating a search engine for people. Sort of.