Sun.Oct 22, 2017

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Message to the Board – We Need to Talk about Innovation

Destination Innovation

Innovation should be a regular topic item on the agenda of company board meetings. If you have not had a fundamental conversation about innovation with your key corporate stakeholders and senior executives then these are some of the questions and topics to discuss at the first such meeting. What is the vision for our organization? Where are we headed?

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Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.

Paul Hobcraft

We all spend our Sundays in different ways. Some spend it recovering from the Saturday night, other spend large chunks of the day traveling to meet up with friends or family. Others go off to the gym, jog, take a run or simply enjoy a day of pursuing something differently from the working week. We do different things. Mine is usually a mix of exploring and researching around innovation in the morning, a couple of hours at the gym, a walk to finish off and then a mixture of enjoying a nice home-c

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Nick Skillicorn and Idea to Value: now coming to you from Australia

Idea to Value

Hi everyone, This week’s update is going to be a bit more personal. The reason why I haven’t been able to release as many articles in the last few weeks is quite simple. Over the past month, I have moved to Sydney, Australia with my lovely girlfriend. I have taken a job with Deloitte’s Strategy Consulting division, who brought me on to help take their client-facing innovation propositions to the next level.

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The Platform Fallacy

Digital Tonto

Despite all the excitement about platforms, businesses still need to create, deliver and capture value Related posts: Today, Every Business Must Transform Itself Into A Platform. Is Your Platform. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Strategy versus Execution – a Meaningless Distinction

Innovation Excellence

Over at HBR blogs, there is a wonderful debate on the subject of strategy between Roger Martin, who authored the post Stop Distinguishing Between Strategy and Execution, and Don Sull, an MIT scholar who believes there’s a meaningful distinction between strategy and execution. Normally, I don’t bother looking at comments to blogs because in today’s.

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What Job-Hunting Teaches Us about the Value of Innovation

InnovationManagement

Anyone who has ever been on the hunt for a new corporate job knows that it can be one of the most difficult and frustrating processes in the world. The Internet has given us the tools to apply for thousands of different jobs every day, but it has also presented its own problems: application systems with no easy answers, automation, and stiff competition make the ease of online applications less attractive.

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Top 10 Innovation Software Features

eZassi

Simply striving for innovation isn’t quite enough. Choosing an innovation software or platform and seem to make things a bit more complicated while getting started. What should you look for in features? What’s important and what isn’t? All questions that we can easily assist you in answering and help you move forward quicker with your innovation strategy.