Fri.Jun 01, 2018

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Ideas? Don’t give up on them

Beyond the Obvious

Once everyone is settled into the meeting, it’s time to share what you’ve discovered. I generally give a quick recap of our area of focus, not about the ideas yet. I start off by asking the participants to share their own list of the assumptions and rules that define how the industry and organization operates. […].

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Innovation in Education – Easier Said than Done

Innovation Excellence

Good educators are optimists. They walk into their classrooms every day believing that they can transform the lives of their learners. They do so by facilitating experiences that infuse learners with knowledge and skills that can also enhance society and the world. These educators recognize, as much as anyone else, that the world is changing.

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Offering You An Innovation Coaching Methodology

Guide 4 Innovating

Coaching offers real benefits. For instance, in Leadership Coaching, the results offer an ROI on the initial investment of nearly SIX times on average. Can you image this X return factor going through the roof, going way beyond the initial investment if the innovation outcomes ‘take off’ and delivers the level of growth across the organization’s business, partly gained from a greater awareness of innovation and how to apply these different levers within it’s application?

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

We've reached a couple of interesting milestones in a very short period of time, and it behooves us to pay attention to the changes in what has been an important industry - photography. For innovators, it's been easy to kick Kodak around, for having missed the transition to digital photography while owning many of the patents. However, Kodak by itself isn't the whole story in the world of photography.

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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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The missing link between Design Thinking/Lean Startup and Agile

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post The missing link between Design Thinking/Lean Startup and Agile appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Innovation Sighting: Digital License Plates Using Task Unification and Attribute Dependency

Innovation in Practice

A digital license plate that can change display and track the vehicle is currently being tested in California. 116 of these innovative tags that come with e-ink screens and a GPS tracker are part of a pilot program in the Sacramento area. As with many innovations, these high-tech tags manufactured by Reviver Auto utilize multiple innovation templates in its design.

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Open Innovation and Climate Change Behavior Solutions

IdeaConnection

Although the Early Entrant Prize is being awarded today there are still 60 days left to enter Solution Search: Climate Change Needs Behavior Change. This global open innovation contest is sponsored by several organizations including Conservation International, National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, United Nations Development Programme, and the World Wildlife Fund, and will award a prize of $25,000.

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What’s the ROI of an idea management platform? Can you put a figure on it?

Wazoku

No matter your team or department, at some point I bet you’ve been asked to provide the return-on-investment (ROI) of a project, tool or process. Calculating ROI is a way to show that the money or time invested is worth the value of the return. It’s especially useful when seeking buy-in for a new tool or process and to measure its potential impact. Taking this back to idea management, Do you know the business value of implemented ideas?

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How a New Lab at Mass General Hospital is Spurring Innovation

Innovation Leader

Julia Jackson, the Managing Director of Mass General's Healthcare Transformation Lab, explains the three pillars of what the lab works on.

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Exago named one of the 10 Most Creative Gamification Solution Providers of 2018

Exago

Exago is proud to be distinguished as one of “The 10 Most Creative Gamification Solution Providers 2018” by Insights Success. The magazine highlights how the Exago gamified innovation platform solves business challenges by creating a collaborative and innovative culture, while rewarding and recognising participants. The post Exago named one of the 10 Most Creative Gamification Solution Providers of 2018 appeared first on Exago.

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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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CEO Power: How Does It Affect Performance When an Industry Experiences a Downturn?

Michael Roberto

Vishal K. Gupta and his colleagues have published a new paper titled, " When Crisis Knocks, Call a Powerful CEO (or Not)." One of the co-authors, Vikram Nanda, explains the core research question examined in their study: "When you have concentrated power in the hands of the CEO or a small group of decision-makers, does that lead to better decision-making or worse?