Mon.Nov 13, 2017

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Shared innovation language accelerates innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation workshop recently with a company that invited in some of its customers to talk about the future. We were interested in getting feedback from key B2B customers about the future of the industry, where things were heading and what strategies and programs my customer should begin to put in place. I was hired to lead a trend spotting and scenario planning workshop, but I had successfully convinced my client that we needed to establish a common framework and language about

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A Vital Change Management Strategy Role: Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary

BrainZooming

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? My answers to that question grew recently because of an experience with a client developing its future vision. We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. The organization’s leaders, and many of the team, have been in place for a long time, limiting the collective view of how other organization’s do things in bold, innovative, and different ways.

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We’re all designers

Dawid

There’s a perception that to be labeled a designer means a turtleneck, a Mac and hipster coffee. However that’s not true at all. We are all designers. If you have a problem, and want to get to an outcome, you have to design something. However, we don’t intentionally always apply design is the mindset. Take the process of returning a customer’s phone call.

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Startups meet mittelstand!

ITONICS

Franconia is not only famous for its culture, language, and hearty cuisine but it also stands for an aspiring and vivid marketplace in the German startup scene. Within the scope of the Startup Contest in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region , the Müller Blum Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH and the VR meine Bank eG are looking for young companies and founders that strive for changing the world through digital innovations.

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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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We’re all designers

Dawid

There’s a perception that to be labeled a designer means a turtleneck, a Mac and hipster coffee. However that’s not true at all. We are all designers. If you have a problem, and want to get to an outcome, you have to design something. However, we don’t intentionally always apply design is the mindset. Take the process of returning a customer’s phone call.

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4 Ways to Win at Open Innovation

Collectivecamp

Coined by Professor Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation is about creating inflows of knowledge from the external environment and outflows of knowledge to the ecosystem through collaboration. In this article, we compare open innovation and closed innovation, review examples of companies using this platform and analyse the advantages and disadvantages. Here are four ways that your organisation can leverage OI to boost your success rate.

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A New Facebook Group for Aspiring Innovators and Cultural Creatives

Idea Champions

After 28 years of being an "innovation provocateur" for hundreds of forward thinking organizations around the world, one thing has become very clear to me: most people with BIG IDEAS usually end up derailed somewhere along the way. Simply put, they lose steam, lose heart, and lose their way. The result? No result. This is why I have launched "Being a Creator on Planet Earth" -- a new Facebook group designed to help aspiring innovators, from every walk of life, manifest their big, bold, beautiful

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