Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Want a Culture of Innovation? Here’s how to create an organization focused on freethinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and sustainable value creation at all levels across all functions. Editor’s note: This article based on Kaplan’s upcoming book, The Invisible Advantage Every organization is designed to get the results it gets. Poor performance comes from a poorly.

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IdeaConnection

DECEMBER 2, 2016

IdeaConnection has a wonderful resource of highly educated, highly creative and whip smart solvers and facilitators. They create breakthrough solutions for a range of companies in different industries. While the possibility of financial reward is a motivating factor, it is not the only or indeed the main reason why many solvers sign up for challenges.

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Open Innovation Innovation Resources Culture 50

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Quality, Speed, and Cost. Pick Two. A long-standing belief across chemical and industrial product companies is that it’s not possible to rapidly produce low-cost, high-quality products. Many companies dedicate their best manufacturing equipment and people to quickly develop and launch a high-quality product, but these additional resources drive up costs unexpectedly.

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How To Industry Resources Management 62

etventure

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Once again, we look back and examine the latest exciting digitization-related news. This month provided even more clarity about the way that digital players are moving in and occupying interfaces for interacting with clients. In this vein, we will focus on the examples of German public authorities and the hotel sector. We will also address the issue of how much politics should intervene to protect business models that are being threatened by startups.

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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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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Whenever I ask my clients to tell me about the quality of their company's brainstorming sessions, they usually roll their eyes and grumble, noting several of the phenomena below. Recognize any of them in your organization? 1. Lame facilitation. 2. Wrong problem statement. 3. Unmotivated participants. 4. Hidden (or competing) agendas. 5. Insufficient diversity of participants. 6.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 2, 2016

So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. There are so many forces coming together that require this reworking. We are moving from diverging into one of converging, we are at a changeover point for innovation; let me explain each of the contributing factors but firstly, a brief overview.

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