Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 22, 2020

A firm’s ordinary capabilities are the ones that enable us to perform efficiently and effectively, those essential routines and practices that often require having a high level of technical need supporting these activities. In contrast, dynamic capabilities are those higher-level competencies that determine a firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure both the resources and skills to possibly shape, they have the power to transform, and then be deployed to meet rapidly changing business

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Digitization is a game-changer across all industries, affecting companies large and small. Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 22, 2020

I'm writing a series of posts about what I consider to be the fundamental building blocks of innovation. The building blocks I'm writing about are core to doing innovation well over a period of time. The first building block I wrote about was creating a bias for innovation in your culture. The second was on gaining the context for innovation - identifying an emerging opportunity or a problem.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

What separates the great innovators from the industry laggards? What empowers long-standing hierarchical organizations like LEGO to make big, creative bets that pay off (like the LEGO Movie) while other once-great brands like Tower Records, Pan Am, or Pets.com have all gone away? The post Innovation Differentiators: Information and Implementation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2020

Real change requires more than just doing something new. It also involves stopping what doesn’t work and continuing what’s already working well. When I work with leaders and organizations looking to create change and innovate, I always tell them the same thing: strategy is as much about what you don’t do, as it is about what you decide to do.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 22, 2020

Wazoku, a leading idea management platform, announced its Winter 2019 product release with features designed to equip organisations with better visibility into the value of their ideas and their innovation pipeline. “Managing truly effective and impactful innovation can be like directing a complex orchestra with many moving parts. You need to get the right people involved, through the right ways, and make sure they stay engaged throughout the process,” said Rosemarie Diegnan, CS&PO, Co-Found

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 22, 2020

Contributed post –. If you’re running a business in 2020 then having a website is essential. Not all websites are created equal, and ensuring yours is designed in a way that works in harmony with your business is crucial. Being aware of design fundamentals when you set out on the journey of creating your new site will allow you to avoid the pitfalls of poor website design.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

If so, you are invited to register for my storytelling workshop, sponsored by the Institute for Management Studies, in your fair city, on June 10th. Click here for the particulars. My bio. Storytelling at Work.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 22, 2020

In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e. clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the impact of their brainstorming sessions. We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients continue upgrading the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions.

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