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Debunking 5 Myths about Building an Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Build the best team, by ignoring these myths. Building an innovation strategy can be intimidating, and often it’s a relief to have a team together. But too often, innovation teams meet, talk, and come out with ideas, but nothing else. In part that’s because we buy into myths about teams, so here’s the fact to fight the fiction. Innovation Teams Should Be Big.

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Step 3: Invest more in a bottom-up approach for your innovation agenda

Exago

When developing your innovation agenda, bear in mind that employees deal daily with inefficiencies in your company, having often diverse and powerful ideas related to organisational processes and products. The following are real examples of this. The post Step 3: Invest more in a bottom-up approach for your innovation agenda appeared first on Exago.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. The brands want to capitalize on market growth stemming from toys tied to popular social media themes. These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks.

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How to Manage Ideas and Make Innovation Happen

Viima

One of the questions we often get asked about is how to actually “make ideas happen”. Most of the people asking this are ones we’ve just started working with, and who’ve already gathered lots of great ideas and are now finding it slightly overwhelming to think about what to do with them. However, any healthy organization will always have more ideas than they can implement, so there’s no need to worry.

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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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Are you crazy enough to think you can change the world?

Innovation Excellence

Back in 1997 some of you reading this were not even born, but Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple. It was 12 years since he had been fired from the company he had created with Steve Wozniak in 1976. At that point, one of the greatest marketing campaigns in the history of technology was.

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Who should be Part of my Innovation Community?

ITONICS

By Carolin Durst. Strategic innovation management aims at identifying opportunities and risks at an early stage in order to prepare the company for the future. Therefore, various environmental scanning activities are carried out to constantly monitor new developments in terms of competitors, start-ups, risks, trends or new technologies for instance.

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How the World of Esports is Taking Over Streaming Services

InnovationManagement

As competitive gaming raises in popularity, streaming services are being flooded by gamers. When the world's most iconic gaming tournaments go live, viewers from around the globe travel to arenas and tune into streaming services so they can watch their favorite gamers battle for eternal glory and riches.

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Innovation Metrics session at Innov8rs Madrid

Innovation 360

INNOVATION METRICS AT INNOV8RS, MADRID. Innovation Metrics by Magnus Penker. Join Magnus Penker, he will be speaking about Innovation Metrics. Innovation is notoriously difficult to measure but any activity that significantly impacts investment, staffing, resources and competitiveness needs to be measured. In this talk, Magnus Penker will share what metrics are proving useful in organizations when pure financial metrics don’t work.

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Success Theater at GE: Ambitious Targets and Hiding Bad News

Michael Roberto

Thomas Gryta, Joann Lublin, and David Benoit have written a lengthy feature article in the Wall Street Journal today about GE's struggles. The authors describe a "confidence culture" where senior executives set very ambitious targets and exuded relentless optimism about achieving those goals. Moreover, people found it difficult to push back and suggest that these objectives might not be achievable.