Innovation in Practice

JULY 23, 2018

By Nurit Shmilovitz-Vardi. We’ve all been there. Your manager assigns your next project, handing you the relevant materials along with the following demand: “This needs to be big. I want something different, something that stands out, fresh new ideas—something innovative!”. Outwardly you nod, exclaim some words of apparent enthusiasm and motivation, excited to begin this innovating.

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BrainZooming

JULY 23, 2018

Today, Monday, July 23, we’re launching the new Brainzooming book, Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders. As part of the launch activities, you’re invited to a Facebook Live presentation I’m deliver on the seven Idea Magnets creative leadership strategies during the Leadership Institute conference.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2018

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he is the chair of the General Management Program and co-chair of the executive program on Driving Digital Strategy. His research examines the impact of digital technology on consumer behavior, business, and society.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. Ideation: Anatomy of a New Product Idea. Getting New Product Ideas Flowing. If you’re truly starting from a desire to create something new, but don’t have a good idea yet, here’s how you can jump-start that process. Sources. First, don’t ignore the ideas that are already alive within your organization. That grumbling you hear in the nearby cubes isn’t always about the empty pot of coffee.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2018

“‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” John Swigert’s famous words, delivered in a voice as calm and clear as the mountain air in his native Denver, Colorado. But to the Apollo 13 mission controllers thousands of miles below in Texas, this fired the starting gun in a race against time. At 3:08 a.m. UTC on April.

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ImagineNation

JULY 23, 2018

Whether you are a company that wants to attract top talent or an individual who is trying to land your dream job, or create a new business, it’s becoming clear that the future of work is both human and technology centred and involves the development of new leadership capabilities. For humans to be effective, productive & innovative, in the Digital Age, we must have great leaders, who know that the future of work is both human and technology centred and are able to; Take a strategic, systemic

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 23, 2018

I don’t drink coffee which might explain why I often feel myself dragging throughout the day. You know that 3:30 feeling that those Five Hour Energy commercials talk about? Well, I also have an 8:15 feeling, a 10:30 feeling, and a 2 pm feeling. This is okay for a lonely office drone like me. But if I was in the Army this would obviously not be okay.

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IdeaConnection

JULY 23, 2018

Apps to detect water pollution, encourage recycling and boost agricultural output.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JULY 23, 2018

Even if you don’t believe in Climate Change you’ll love this next idea. For scientists from Harvard University have figured out a way to extract gasoline from thin air! That’s right. Soon we’ll be able to create a perpetual source of energy, by turning our waste, carbon dioxide, into the actual fuel source that we’ll be using to create even more carbon dioxide.

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Michael Roberto

JULY 23, 2018

Knowledge at Wharton features an interview this week with Professor Robert Meyer regarding his research on hurricane preparation (or lack thereof, by many citizens). Here's an excerpt: Knowledge@Wharton: How difficult is it to get people to be proactive? Meyer : It varies. We’ve done some studies as to who is prepared for storms and who isn’t. What we find is that the people who are the most at danger of not preparing are those who have been through a storm but not a very strong one.

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Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Qmarkets

JULY 23, 2018

If you’re one of the approximately 3-4 Billion people who have tuned into the world cup over the last month, chances are that work has taken a backseat to football on more than one occasion…. However, don’t start feeling guilty just yet. Beneath the excitement and panoply of the world cup lies a broad range of core mechanisms and mathematical formulae that are also highly relevant in the world of business.

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. Finding a Viable Market Opportunity. Quantifying the True Opportunity for Your Innovation. Overview. Identifying a viable market opportunity for a new product or business starts by understanding what is happening in the market. In this document, we’ll explore: Industry – is the opportunity large enough to pursue?

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Taivara

JULY 23, 2018

Taivara Blog Post by Kevin Dwinnell. The Key to Effective Value Proposition Development. Overview. Most successful products solve a pain point for the customer. The more acute the pain, the more customers will want a solution. They way you think about a problem & solution is often different from how a customer thinks of them. The goal of this document is to help you understand the pain and motivations of your customer.

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