Mon.Oct 09, 2017

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3 Innovation Types: Evolution, Preventative, Creative

Innovation Excellence

We've positioned innovation incorrectly. Too often we position innovation as creating a new and valuable offering or solution, ready when customers are ready to demand new products and services. We've positioned innovation as something to do to prepare for future business, future needs and future demands. Yet, innovation does answer these issues.

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“It’s Our Job to Ask Questions”: Building a Culture of Inquiry

Innovation Architecture

After the publication of Great Question! I began running workshops around “building a culture of inquiry.” The workshops are designed to help people explore what it means to embrace a spirit of inquiry in meaningful ways within their organization and, ultimately, within themselves. Great Question! and its predecessor, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company , spoke to the power behind convening a group of people to identify and pursue the critical questions facing the group.

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Accelerating Innovation Learning Pathways

Innovation Excellence

Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out?

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Returning to a Valuable Strategic Planning Question

BrainZooming

I used to always ask the same question at the end of every job interview: Is there anything you want to talk about but didn’t based on the questions I asked that you want to talk about now? The question helped create a focused opportunity for nervous, hesitant, or distracted candidates to say whatever they wanted that they thought was important in selling themselves.

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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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Innovative Ideas for Combining Traditional and Digital Marketing

InnovationManagement

In 2010, Pepsi invested millions of dollars in the “Pepsi Refresh Project,” moving their entire marketing strategy to social media. The campaign was, of course, widely promoted via online networking channels and, in the beginning, it seemed like a huge success.

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Chris Mawuli Hlovor

Innovation 360

Based in Accra, Ghana. Background: I am an innovation management expert, in the financial sector modelling financial products/services suitable for all level income groups. I drive to organise with exceptional follow through abilities and a comprehensive grounding in strategic management to become a leader in Bank/Non-Bank financial sector as well as any organization service and product innovation.

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Coaching innovators to deal with the hot potato called ‘system’

Wazoku

In 1700, European leaders faced a famine. An over-reliance on wheat and a rejection of the potato because it was strange and unappealing was leading to famine. Frederik the Great of Prussia set out to address the nation’s distaste by passing 15 orders aimed at driving the adoption and cultivation of the potato; these orders ultimately failed. It was only when Frederik ordered his soldiers to visibly guard the local royal potato field, whilst subtly turning a blind eye to any theft, that things s

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Best Practices in Innovation Governance

Innovation Leader

Innovation Leader’s Scott Kirsner presents high-level findings from our Q2 report, joined by executives from the healthcare, insurance, and media industries.

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