Fri.Feb 23, 2018

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Are you starving for powerful female leaders in your strategy planning workshop?

BrainZooming

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Chuck Dymer, who was co-facilitating the client workshop with me, remarked at the depth and importance of several of the report outs and the conversations they sparked.

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Design Thinking and the Customer-Centric Organization

Innovation Excellence

“There’s a reason millions of people try to solve crossword puzzles each day. Amid the well-ordered combat between a puzzler’s mind and the blank boxes waiting to be filled, there is satisfaction along with frustration. Puzzles can be solved; they have answers.” “But a mystery offers no such comfort. It poses a question that has.

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Creating Innovations in Education

Beyond the Obvious

My objective for the workshop was to test the Killer Questions before handing them off to the Department of Education. Remember, the focus for the attendees of the workshop was how to create innovations in education to better prepare our students for the competitive workforce. I gave them the modified set of Killer Questions I’d […].

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Here’s Why Your Innovation Strategy Will Fail

Innovation Excellence

A decade ago, Apple looked unbeatable. It’s launch of the iPhone completely revolutionized mobile phones and made good on Steve Jobs’ vision of creating a hub of devices that connected people to technology. What’s more, he did it with just a fraction of the research budget of other tech giants. Yet now Apple seems stagnant.

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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.

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How Can Your Business Manage Freelancers Better?

InnovationManagement

According to one survey, about 45 percent of all working people in America telecommute at least part-time. Most important reasons why this is so being the fact that this kind of work allows one to adjust their work hours to their day-job and in this way become a stream of side-revenue. Therefore, it is more than clear that remote workers, freelancers in particular, are becoming a significant portion of the workforce you cannot afford to neglect.

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FAQ: Your Corporate Innovation Questions, Answered

Innovation Leader

Innovation Leader regularly fields questions about corporate innovation and poses them to our community of strategy, technology, and R&D leaders. Here’s a collection of questions we’ve answered recently.

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Cross-Cultural Disaster: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in India

Michael Roberto

www.ndtv.com Business Insider reports this week on the trip that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to India. The entire trip represents a classic example of what NOT to do when traveling to a different country. Trudeau appeared unprepared to deal with some very sensitive issues and committed some political blunders. Even more astonishingly, he seemed to try far too hard to embrace the local culture, and in so doing, he looked very, very foolish.

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Birthdays, Bicycles and Brevity

100%Open

Open innovation is never easy at the best of times. Not least because it’s underpinned by three counterintuitive truths that can trip you up if you don’t keep on reminding yourself of them. These paradoxical principles are best illustrated through three examples relating to birthdays, bicycles and brevity. Birthdays. Firstly, you are more connected than you can possibly imagine.