Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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How Remote Working Jumped the Queue in the Future of Work

InnovationManagement

The COVID-19 situation isn’t just affecting the way businesses work, it’s shaping discussions about how they will in future, too. Recent global events have affected businesses in unimaginable ways, testing them in a manner not seen in several generations. However, present circumstances have also fast-forwarded several conversations surrounding the future of work.

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Ex-DreamWorks Animation CTO: How the C-Suite Can Foster Innovation

Innovation Leader

”In my experience, the most powerful motivator to encourage innovation was peer recognition,” says Ed Leonard, Co-Founder of Bred Ventures and former CTO at DreamWorks Animation.

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How to Identify Synergies between Corporates, Startups and Spin-offs

Collectivecamp

It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to either redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation

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Leadership During Times of Uncertainty

Kainexus

The coronavirus pandemic that is currently gripping the globe is unlike any other crisis that we have seen. It will directly impact the lives of those who are exposed and their families. It will indirectly change the lives of everyone else as events are canceled, schools and businesses close, and everyone is responsible for social distancing. Although it won't be very easy amid concerns for the wellbeing of yourself and your loved ones, how you handle this situation is of profound significance t

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Hacking a Corporate Culture to Support Innovation

Collectivecamp

In my most recent podcast interview with Steve Blank, credited with developing the customer development methodology which birthed the lean startup, we touched on the topic of how the corporate culture inhibits innovation.

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#1,628 – Bill Gates to the Rescue

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Since retiring in 2006 Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into techno-philanthropic endeavors through the Gates Foundation in bids to eradicate polio and malaria among other global health initiatives. A very impressive second act for someone who already made a major impact on the world when he founded Microsoft. The Netflix documentary Inside Bill’s Brain further highlighted Gates’ accomplishments shining a light on the fact that he is also pursuing revolutionary clean energ

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#1,629 – Oura Ring

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

By now most people are pretty familiar with wearable devices, at least the more popular ones like smartwatches and fitness trackers. But there are plenty of other kinds of wearable devices that have never caught on. Devices that track our sleep patterns or hydration levels for instance. Or devices embedded into smart clothing. There are plenty of reasons why wearables haven’t fully been accepted by society yet.

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KPIs and Employee Incentives to Encourage Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Managers are incentivised to deliver on an existing, repeatable business model, not to help discover new ones. So how do we incentivise them to innovate without sacrificing the core business model which is, after all, where we make money today?

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What is Conceptboard?

InnovationTraining.org

This visual collaboration workspace is being used for innovation and design thinking workshops and projects. As a continuation of our initiative to highlight some of the top online collaboration tools and resources for innovation and top design thinking software tools , this post will focus on another software tool designed for collaboration: Conceptboard.

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Why Big Companies Choose Not To Innovate

Collectivecamp

More and more companies that were once small and built their reputation on disruptive innovations, are now big, and have other priorities.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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Bring your culture and remote workforce into a single conversation

Tembosocial

Storytelling has a crucial role to play is this new moment of work from anywhere in connecting people to the mission and vision of the organization, but also to each other.

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Forget ROI - Innovation Requires a Different Set of Metrics

Collectivecamp

Large organisations apply the same metrics and evaluation criteria on potentially disruptive, risky, ‘out of the box’ innovation as they do for incremental improvements and business as usual investment decisions. Clearly this makes no sense.

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Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline

Tullio Siragusa

Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline. Self-discipline and happiness seem to be two contradicting concepts, and using them in the same sentence is unacceptable. Self-discipline brings to mind the idea of “work and effort”, while happiness is usually associated with “pleasure” and the absence work. For most, self-discipline can never be the source of what makes them happy because the relationship with what it means to be happy is misplaced. .

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How to Sell your Idea to Management

Collectivecamp

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Importance and Ease of Inclusivity

The Human Factor

source. Much has been made of creating an inclusive working environment, and as a business owner, leader, or manager, the onus is on you to make that possible. However, if you’ve never faced such a task before, it might feel a little overwhelming. You may not know where to begin or how to focus on the right aspects. The good news is that inclusivity is as easy to create as it is vital to have.

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Get Out Of The Building for Corporate Innovation Efforts

Collectivecamp

Large corporations can have what seems to startup founders to be vast amounts of resources - more than they know what to do with (this can often be the case where companies elect to pay out huge dividends instead of investing in R&D). So why don’t large companies with millions and sometimes billions of dollars in capital reserves come out with the next big thing, the next UBER or the next Xero?

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Tapping Into Your Employees' Creativity in a Time of Need

Michael Roberto

Bryant University just released this short article that I've written, titled "Tapping Into Your Employees' Creativity in a Time of Need." During this tumultuous time, organizations face a variety of perplexing problems and challenges. Some of these issues may seem intractable to the senior management teams at many firms. Executives will need to think creatively to develop solutions that meet the pressing needs of their customers and other constituents.

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The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

Collectivecamp

In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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If Geeks are the New Cool, Will We Lose Less of Them?

Collectivecamp

Like me, his parents had migrated to Australia in the 70s from the then socialist Yugoslavia, in search of a better life. As such, his parents had instilled beliefs around the value of education and hard work in young Tommy.

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5 Reasons Corporates Find It Challenging To Innovate

Collectivecamp

Leaders are realising the importance of culture in enabling innovation but at the same time innovation blockers are still prevalent within organisations. Here are five key factors blocking corporates from innovating.

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5 Innovation Metrics You Need to Know

Collectivecamp

When it comes to early stage innovation, we can’t rely on metrics such as ROI or NPV to determine success, particularly given that such metrics favour short term returns whereas disruptive innovation can take years to deliver the kind of returns that large companies are seeking.

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Why Traditional Metrics like NPV, IRR and RONA Kill Innovation (+ Metrics To Focus On Instead)

Collectivecamp

“That which can be measured can be managed.” As such, 20th Century management science gave us a number of metrics to monitor the performance of a business venture, including return on investment (ROI), net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR).

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory on psychological health is now almost 70 years purpose rather than just profit, in stark contrast to prior generations, a testament to having already met their other needs.

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3 Tools to Foster Employee Driven Innovation

Collectivecamp

One of the biggest mistakes is for companies to believe enterprise innovation is a top-down phenomenon, where managers (or a small team) come up with solutions, and push changes down the organisation. While managers have a significant role in innovation and change within an organisation, employees should be the primary drivers of change.

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Corporate Spin-Off War Stories

Collectivecamp

When it comes to corporate innovation, organisations can embark upon a number of different programs, based on their objectives, their current capacities and whether they want to innovate internally, externally or take a hybrid approach. Organisation are spinning off companies for a number of reasons. Find some high profile examples inside.

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3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers

Collectivecamp

The highest quality solutions come from valuable insights into human behaviour. However, learning to recognise those insights is harder than you think. Here are three techniques, that when applied correctly, can uncover customer insights that you would never have thought existed.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

Marc Andreessen famously said “Software is eating the world” and he was right! With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Unfortunately, little has changed in the world of product management education, training, or preparation to meet today’s high demand.

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How To Run An Effective Idea Submission Program

Collectivecamp

Leaders of large companies are coming under more intense scrutiny and pressure to drive innovation within their organizations, in order to avoid being disrupted by smaller, more nimble competitors. This article covers the how to create a idea submission form & template and facilitate idea submission contests.

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How to Innovate in a Regulated Industry (Pt. 1)

Collectivecamp

Regulation is often used as a scapegoat for a company’s decision not to truly embrace an innovation agenda and the practices that support it. But how does one experiment when a corporate watchdog is breathing down your neck and watching your every move?

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How Bluedot Cut Costs and Moved Faster After Undergoing Agile Training

Collectivecamp

Collective Campus walked the team through an intensive 2-day SCRUM bootcamp in which they learned agile principles in addition to techniques related to as Scrum practices, requirements, project initiation, estimation and prioritisation, sprint planning, executing sprints, re-planning, closing a scrum sprint and closing a project.

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10 Habits that Kill Innovation

Collectivecamp

Many organisations stifle the very innovation that they seek through ingrained habits that block creativity and risk-taking. Here are 10 habits that choke disruption and kill innovation.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline

Tullio Siragusa

Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline. Self-discipline and happiness seem to be two contradicting concepts, and using them in the same sentence is unacceptable. Self-discipline brings to mind the idea of “work and effort”, while happiness is usually associated with “pleasure” and the absence work. For most, self-discipline can never be the source of what makes them happy because the relationship with what it means to be happy is misplaced. .