Wed.Nov 03, 2021

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Urgent vs Important: The Eisenhower Matrix

Idea to Value

With today’s always-on workforce, we get tasks thrown at us constantly. And now that people can access work emails and instant messages on their Smartphones, lines can get blurred as to when these tasks are expected to be received, and completed. Especially if we want to portray ourselves as hard workers and build a reputation for getting work done quickly.

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How Good Feature Request Management Contributes to Innovation

IdeaScale

source: pexels.com. Deciding on novel product features is often a daunting task. Seasoned innovation managers know that one of the best strategies is looking to feature requests obtained from customers for direction. Customers know best what improvements they would benefit from the most. Whenever you’re dealing with an influx of product feature ideas, requests, or similar data, you’re going to need ways to manage them.

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True Disruption Often Leads to Invention, but So Does Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

Picture this: You start a small business by making a change to a preexisting product that completely reinvents that product. Some minor disruptions get in your way, so you and your team make some adjustments to your product. While doing so, you start to consider other problems that may disrupt the newest iteration of this product you’re working on, and when it’s ready, start advertising to the local population your business is founded in.

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What Companies are Excelling at Innovation in 2021?

InnovationManagement

Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to honor the work of organizations who are accessing the voice of the crowd and the power of digital innovation programs to generate extraordinary results. The competition has three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation overall. Here’s what we can learn from this year’s winners. .

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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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COVID-19 Presents an Opportunity to Create an Innovation Culture

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Pete Foley I left P&G about eight years ago, and one of my last jobs involved working on innovation culture.

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Leveraging the golden decade to increase physical activity

IdeaSpies

Brisbane was excitedly announced as the winning bid by the International Olympic Committee in July this year to host the Olympic a (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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As a Leader, What are your Non Negotiables?

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently read a post by Dr. Jenny Brockis about the non-negotiables. You can read her post here. While she talks about the non-negotiables as an individual and what we can do to honor them on an ongoing basis, I would like to talk about non-negotiables in a slightly different context – as leaders. Who we are as a leader is defined as much by what we do as it is by what we don’t do.

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Brainstorming vs. Braincalming

Idea Champions

If you work in a big organization, small business, freelance, or eat cheese, there's a good chance you've participated in at least a few brainstorming sessions in your life. You've noodled, conjured, envisioned, ideated, piggybacked, and endured overly enthusiastic facilitators doing their facilitator thing. You may have even gotten some results. Hallelujah!

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Len Herstein on Staying Vigilant in Business

Carla Johnson

November 3rd, 2021 There’s a lot of struggles that come with climbing to the top of a mountain. And once you get there, the view is fantastic. Aaahhhh… you’ve arrived! But now what? How do you stop the harsh winds from knocking you backward, causing a massive snowball effect that forces you back to where you started? That’s easy: Vigilance with.