Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 8, 2018
In Eric Ries’s bestselling book, The Startup Way, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur explains how he helped lead General Electric’s transformation from a stodgy industrial era dinosaur into a lean, entrepreneurial enterprise. Yet strangely, as Steve Blank points out in Harvard Business Review, the effort ended up with the ousting of GE’s CEO for underperformance.
The Human Factor
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Contributed post –. When you’re a small business owner, you need to always have an eye on your profit margins. Because you are small and not a huge corporation, you have to know exactly what your ingoings and outgoings are doing. You need to see that your business is growing and growing each year, otherwise what is it really doing? So with that in mind, having some strategies in place to help you to keep your costs down, increase your profits, and make your bottom line better, is what it is all
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Moves the Needle
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Co-Authored by Heather Hiscox and Amelia Klawon Get the full case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. Innovation in the social impact sector can seem intimidating and unreachable. Nonprofit organizations tackle critical and complex community challenges - lack of affordable and accessible food, shelter, health care, and safety - with too few staff and resources.
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The 97 th Floor Mastermind Series recently interviewed IdeaScale about our company , our industry, our vision for the future and more, but we thought that one of their questions about what values we look out for when building a team are worth repeating here for those of you that are looking to build a culture of innovation at your company (whether it’s start-up sized like IdeaScale or not).
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.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The Innovation Engine is a podcast series that discusses innovation through the lenses of corporate leadership, company culture, and emerging trends and technologies. The podcast features bi-weekly interviews with best-selling authors, C-Level executives, and innovation experts from around the world. It is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, and SoundCloud.
Focused Momentum
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The relationship between strategy and positioning are both the result of strategic planning in which you first set the context within which you operate, and then define the ultimate position you want to achieve within this context. A strategy is your plan for how to move from where you are today, your current positioning, and where you ultimately want to be, your ideal strategic positioning.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Innocentive
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Let’s get down to brass tacks. What is the purpose of innovation for many companies? Is it to advance technology? You could say that. Is it to create a better world? That’s definitely the purpose of many R&D projects. But why do most companies choose to innovate?
ImagineNation
OCTOBER 8, 2018
The world is now entering the third wave of digital innovation, levelling up out of the internet & connectivity era into what the World Economic Forum is calling the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Since digital innovation began back in the 80s with the first wave – the era of personal computing – Australia, & other countries too, with some pockets of success aside, have largely failed to cash in on the opportunities it has brought compared to many other countries.
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Screens are everywhere these days. The combination of desktop computers at work, TVs and iPads at home, mobile phones while we’re on the go, all serving to inundate us in a constant deluge of information. That’s one of the reasons why I like to go hiking so much. It’s one of the only true places where you can go and unplug from society. But others aren’t so lucky.
The Human Factor
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Contributed post –. If you’re looking for one of the key skills of running a company that most business owners forget all about, it has to be delegation. The ability to delegate can guarantee that you can focus on other areas of your business that simply can not be handled than anyone other than you. Ultimately, it’s about making sure that you don’t waste time on areas that someone else could take care or and even handle better because they’ll have more time.
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.
Michael Roberto
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Source: Pixabay HBS Professor Paul Gompers and his colleagues have conducted impactful research on the impact of gender diversity, or lack thereof, in the venture capital industry. Not surpisingly, they found that venture capital firms tend to have homogenous management teams. Most of the partners tend to be white men with liberal arts undergraduate degrees and MBAs.
MSSBTI
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Evolution is an often misunderstood concept. Our elementary vision of it is of fish growing legs, crawling out of the muck as alligators turning into rodents then monkeys then apes and finally something resembling people. Of course, this is not how it works. In fact, evolution is quite complex. On one hand, it requires billions of mutations spread over millions of organisms.
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