IdeaScale

AUGUST 28, 2018

If you’re like us, you love podcasts! You look to them for information on trends, emerging technologies, psychology studies, and more. How I Built This. What It Is: Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. Favorite Episode: Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger. Why We Like It: You really get a sense of how many different ways there are for an idea to grow.

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Technical Review Case Study Innovation Study 82

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2018

Human resource departments tout diversity, because a diverse company will better represent all of its customers. But how does diversity help creativity? What are the important factors we typically forget? When we use the word “diversity” in the context of companies, we typically refer to the following definition: “the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin,color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc.” In fact, the dictionar

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Stephen Shapiro

AUGUST 28, 2018

There are two types of games. One kills creativity and the other is for kids… Business is serious. Right? But what if we could game playing to enhance our businesses? Games can be a useful tool for enhancing creativity. They make work more fun, they reduce stress, and they get people in action. However, not all games are created equal. There are adult games and kid games.

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Creativity Innovation Report Study 55

Focused Momentum

AUGUST 28, 2018

Strategy development is the most creative work leadership teams get to do together; rather it should be. All too often poorly facilitated planning efforts become chaotic or worse, boring. Strategic thinking should be the most fun a leadership team has together, but without the right guidance, it can be viewed as mundane. Learn three ways to create real enthusiasm for your next planning effort.

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Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Creativity 45

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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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 28, 2018

Here is a video where one of the best minds when it comes to running some of the most prolific marketing campaigns shares his thoughts about how he approached his work. This is a must watch video (~ 5 Mins) if you are in the field of sales or marketing or in any other profession that requires you to persuade others. .

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Innovation Leader

AUGUST 28, 2018

Former Keurig Green Mountain VP Rachael Schwartz lays out the pros and cons of several different org structures in our newest downloadable resource.

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Report Resources Innovation 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 28, 2018

Innovation Intensive . Thursday, September 13, 2018, The Keith House, Chicago. Master Innovation Trainer: Gregg Fraley. Register Now: gregg@greggfraley.com. Course Description: Innovation Intensive is a one day, deep dive, into fundamental and advanced concepts in innovation. It immerses participants in the relevant theory and systematic practices critical to organizational growth.

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 28, 2018

Kristin Wilson and Scott Rockart have published an intriguing paper titled, "Learning in Cycles." In this article, the scholars examine how firms learn and adapt over the course of business cycles. They examine a critical challenge that organizations face as they encounter cycles. Firms must learn and apply new lessons and skills at different points in a business cycle, but they must not forget old lessons and capabilities. as they may need them again in the future as the cycle changes once more

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

AUGUST 28, 2018

It’s not every day that you hear about an entire new field of science being created. Especially not one with the ability to revolutionize society by creating a whole new source of clean energy. And yet that’s exactly what is happening thanks to researchers who are trying to recreate the process of photosynthesis in a laboratory setting. As Futurism explains, “That field of science is called Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC).

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