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How to Refresh Your Innovation Strategy in 2018

IdeaScale

Every lightbulb needs changing. Refreshing your innovation strategy is likely on your to-do list for 2018. But you may also be stuck on how to get started. Maybe you’re happy with your strategy, or just not sure how to improve. Try these tactics for a more innovative year. Look At 2017. How was your 2017, innovation-wise? Honest self-assessment is always important in any industry and any endeavor, but particularly so with innovation.

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Why Today Is a Great Day to Be Out of the Corporate World

BrainZooming

People still ask if I miss working for a Fortune 500 company. I tell them the only times I do are on the 15th and 31st of the month. That line always gets a laugh. When you are in an entrepreneurial venture , the paydays aren’t on a predictable schedule. Yet, since The Brainzooming Group works with many major corporations, it’s not like I don’t retain a sense of the upsides and challenges of working in the corporate world.

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The Future of Open Innovation | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

There is a cultural shift in which innovation is no longer a linear process but part of an interconnected ecosystem where people, organizations, and sectors can foster inspiration, idea-generation, co-creation, and validation of ongoing iterations.

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5 Ways to Create a Culture That Embraces and Adapts to Change

InnovationManagement

As part of today’s changing technological landscape, it is vital to create a workplace culture that adapts to those changes. Doing so starts with having a comfortable workplace culture to begin with. Making your employees feel at ease in their current working conditions is the basis of creating a workplace that can adapt to changes.

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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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What’s your problem?

Mike Shipulski

If you don’t have a problem, you’ve got a big problem. It’s important to know where a problem happens, but also when it happens. Solutions are 90% defining and the other half is solving. To solve a problem, you’ve got to understand things as they are. Before you start solving a new problem, solve the one you have now. It’s good to solve your problems, but it’s better to solve you customers’ problems.

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Learning to Fail Fast through Play, Playfulness and Improvisation

Innovation Excellence

This is the third blog in our series of 3 blogs, on cultivating a fail fast culture. In last month’s blog, Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture – as a manifestation of learning & exploration we explored what it means to take a reflective stance, to use the experience of failure to support ourselves and others.

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What You Must Consider to Remain Relevant

Innovation Excellence

For some time now I have believed 70% of my knowledge is obsolete. People look at me strangely when I say this. How can all those years of experience be wasted?

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The Constancy of Change and the Path to Continuous Value Creation

Innovation 360 Group

Overly simplified models of the world lead inevitably to inadequate conclusions and unprofitable pursuits. That’s why so many businesses recently have succumbed to disruptive outsiders. They weren’t building enough interdependencies and complexities into their market projections. Cisco’s former CEO is widely quoted as forecasting that around 40 percent of the companies operating today will no longer exist within 10 years.

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FEI Boston Speakers Lineup Boston, MA 2018

eZassi

Announcing The 2018 FEI Boston Speakers Lineup. Today we are excited to announce the 2018 FEI Boston Speakers Conference Lineup. The conference date is April 23 – 26, 2018 and will be held in Boston, MA. The FEI Boston speakers lineup includes: Magnus Lindkvist , Trendspotting Futurologist and Author When The Future Begins. Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotting futurologist and author who weaves together important current trends to forecast what life, society and business might look like in

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KJ Randhawa

Innovation 360 Group

Based in Sydney, Australia. Background. KJ Randhawa is an innovation professional with +20 years hands on expertise in new product development from concept to commercialisation. His insights in the FMCG sector are gained from his experience working with PepsiCo, McDonalds and Diageo in Australia and India. His diverse cultural experience in highly developed and emerging markets provide tremendous understanding of challenges faced by organisations in the ever evolving world.

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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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The Hair On Fire Use Case

Digital Tonto

You never start where you will end up and it’s a mistake to try. So if you have a truly revolutionary idea, it's best to build for the few and not the many. Related posts: The Case Against Radical. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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