Mon.Mar 04, 2019

article thumbnail

How Change Management Software Promotes Innovation

Kainexus

Agility is perhaps one of the most essential qualities of successful modern companies. The ability to adapt to changing marketing conditions and customer needs is crucial to survival in today’s hyper-competitive environment. Organizations that are prepared to change when necessary can capture new opportunities, eliminate threats, and delight customers. Change management software helps ensure that change does not become chaos.

article thumbnail

Avoid These Pitfalls when you Measure and Reward Innovation

Inceodia

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't apply anymore. If it ain't broke, its obsolete?. Bill Gates. Tweet. Let’s face it, companies are comfortable investing in incremental innovation – fix what is broken, adopt new technology to make their operation more efficient, train their people to increase their productivity. O utputs are the goal for innovation efforts at these businesses, not the amazing outcomes that can be achieved by truly innovative teams.

eBook 45
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business (ALL ELEMENTS)

Qmarkets

When it comes to disruption on the modern business landscape, company size is no safeguard. 88% of Fortune 500 companies in the 1955 -2017 period 1 have either gone bankrupt, merged with other firms, or dropped off the list for other reasons. What’s more, it’s estimated that digital disruption will wipe out 40% 2 of today’s Fortune 500 companies in the coming decade.

article thumbnail

What is the Cost of a Failed Change Initiative or Innovation Project?

Braden Kelley

It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t. And when you consider that companies are spending an increasing amount of their budget on technology and working to … Continue reading → Change Innovation Leadership Management change initiatives Change Planning Toolkit change tools digital transformation project failures project management risk risk management risk mitigation

Project 142
article thumbnail

ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

This exclusive webinar with William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services, will explore the foundational elements you need to start or validate your ERM program. He will also dive into topic definitions, governance structures, and framework components for success.

article thumbnail

Resist The Urge To Shortcut Stages in Design Thinking

InnovationManagement

To stay relevant in the digital era, most companies are considering design thinking, but continue to be immersed in a “Build it, and they will come” mindset. Often, due to a sense of urgency to play catch-up or disrupt the market, they skip empathy and define stages of design thinking and jump to ideation and build a prototype of the new solution. Strategies

article thumbnail

How Virtual Reality Will Drive the Future of Business

Innovation Excellence

In 1961, the first minicomputer, called the PDP-1, arrived at the MIT Electrical Engineering Department. It was a revolutionary machine but, as with all things that are truly new and different, no one really knew what to do with it. Lacking any better ideas, a few of the proto-hackers in residence decided to build a. Innovation future technology Virtual Reality

More Trending

article thumbnail

Retooling to Win in the Next Decade

Innovation Excellence

After the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos drew to a close, Martin Reeves, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Director of the BCG Henderson Institute shared his reflections of the event with the Boston Consulting Group. Whilst discussion trended down global economic growth, they also elevated risks on a number of fronts, spanning the whole. Innovation change Creativity Entrepreneurship failure innovative thinking Leadership success

Trends 73
article thumbnail

Understanding the 5Vs of Big Data

Acuvate

In order to understand at what point ‘data’ transitions into being ‘big data’, and what its key elements are, it is imperative that we study the 5 Vs associated with it: Velocity, Volume, Value, Variety, and Veracity. What is Big Data. “Big data” is a relatively modern field of data science that explores how large data sets can be broken down and analyzed in order to systematically glean insights and information from them.

article thumbnail

How we cultivate sustainability and help our customers do the same

Wazoku

At Wazoku the tools and processes we recommend to our customers when generating ideas or solving business challenges are the same we adopt internally. Balbu, is what we’ve branded our own idea management platform instance in our organisation. We use Balbu to run internal competitions, test and develop product features and improve operational and business processes to name a few.

article thumbnail

Finding and Accelerating Solutions to the U.S. Public Sector

Innocentive

By Jon A. Fredrickson, VP, Chief Innovation Officer. Seekers

article thumbnail

Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Join DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist, for this idea-sparking session on how to multiply and diversify your revenue (and impact) with zero ad spend, how to create disruption in your industry, and how to reimagine and innovate the retail business model.

article thumbnail

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. As each of us make progress in our careers and lives we learn all kinds of ways to doing things. We learn to apply best practices and processes that often serve to help us avoid risks and do things right. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things. That’s accomplished by having a practice of self-reflection and challenging the status quo on an ongoing basis.

article thumbnail

Flipping mindsets to complement humans

ImagineNation

It seems that the waves of change are not going to subside anytime soon. The possibilities and opportunities that are emerging, can only be realized with the most resourceful mindsets, behaviours and skill sets. As AI and other advanced technologies permeate the workplace, flipping mindsets, learning new behaviours and skills and shaping organizational cultures are causing us to radically rethink work in ways that maximize the value of both humans and machines.

article thumbnail

I really don?t have the energy for this.

100%Open

We all need to use less energy. Even if renewable sources are growing strongly, much of what we use as consumers still contributes to the bad things we?re re doing to our shared home, planet Earth. As a result, the government, the energy industry and plenty of others have spent the last ten years telling us to use less, giving us “smart meters” and “energy dashboards”, and generally attempting to get us to change our behaviour for good. Has it worked? Not much. I don?t

article thumbnail

Open Innovation Uncovers Innovations in Law

IdeaConnection

A browser extension to help consumers understand company service agreements and a voice command app for legal information

article thumbnail

Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

article thumbnail

Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. As we prepare our 2018 year in review of the USPTO patent and publication statistics, we see a year where patent quality and utility to the patent owner is more important than ever. This results in little movement in the overall numbers, but what we believe is likely to be an overall increase in patent quality. We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent.

Roadmap 40
article thumbnail

Open Innovation for Rapid Product Development

IdeaConnection

An innovative tool for filing cryptocurrency tax returns

article thumbnail

2018 Patent Analysis: Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. As we prepare our 2018 year in review of the USPTO patent and publication statistics, we see a year where patent quality and utility to the patent owner is more important than ever. This results in little movement in the overall numbers, but what we believe is likely to be an overall increase in patent quality. We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent.

article thumbnail

Meet the yet2 Team – Megan Waldock

Yet2

This is one in a series of blog posts where we highlight members of the global yet2 team. We recently spoke with Megan Waldock , a project leader currently in our Boston office. Megan has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Baylor University and a Masters in Sustainable Solutions from Arizona State University. She will be moving and establishing our Houston office within the next few months. . What technologies excite you right now? I’m very interested in sustainability.

article thumbnail

The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Join this exclusive webinar with Dr. Karen Hardy, where she will explore the power of storytelling in risk communication as a core component of a resilient organization's management framework!