IdeaScale

JANUARY 2, 2019

Companies come to IdeaScale for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce. Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and act on great ideas when they arrive, as well.

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Exago

JANUARY 2, 2019

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together our clients' pieces of wisdom to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 5. The post Lesson 5 from true innovation managers: promoting the initiative is essential appeared first on Exago.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JANUARY 2, 2019

There is less framework when it’s time to move your start-up to a scale-up in the corporate environment. Why not designing a canvas for scale-up, borrowing the familiar business model canvas structure?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the doomsday hype about AI, but the truth is that it may well be the doomsday antidote. AI has been getting a lot of attention lately. Much of it is fueled by the visibility it has received from a large number of well-respected people who have been warning.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Innovation Leader

JANUARY 2, 2019

Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, Steve Blank shares how companies can set up a system that fosters innovation and effectively creates change.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2019

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most.

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Peer Insight

JANUARY 2, 2019

Corporate Innovation Groups (CIGs) are often on “offense” when it comes to new product development and technological innovation, particularly when it comes to engaging the market and mitigating market-facing risks. But CIGs also need to start being more offensive in the way they tackle internal risk, so they don’t get stuck playing a purely defensive game down the road.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 2, 2019

A sustainable focus for 2019. The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an action taken by the United Nations and the world to address global challenges related to poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice. The 17 SDGs are all interconnected, and, as a global initiative, it’s up to local businesses to drive change.

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InnovationLabs

JANUARY 2, 2019

Have you overheard any conversations like this lately, or been in any yourself? “What’s a blockchain?” “Well, it’s like a database, but it’s decentralized. And it kinda relates to this Bitcoin thing, sorta. And a lot of companies have raised money with something called an ICO, which is like an IPO, only different because it’s […].

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

JANUARY 2, 2019

My whole life I’ve struggled to swallow pills causing me to suffer in pain and endure longer bouts of illness than I otherwise wouldn’t have needed to. However, we may soon have a pill that I’d be lining up to take as it soon may be possible to treat medical issues with specially designed DNA based pills that are programmed to respond to the needs of our specific cells.

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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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The Human Factor

JANUARY 2, 2019

image source. Contributed post –. In the current day and age, businesses have a whole host of options available when it comes to communicating, including video calls, phone calls, instant messaging applications, email, and much more. Using these platforms wisely is key to communicating effectively and ensuring that both quality and productivity are at all-time highs.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 2, 2019

"Every battle is won or lost before it is fought." - Sun Tzu. What challenge or opportunity is coming up for you that will require a higher level of preparation than you usually make? What extra effort are you willing to make in order to prepare? What might prevent you from making the kind of effort you know you need to make? How can you create the support you need to ensure that your preparation efforts succeed?

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 2, 2019

As we begin January, many of us are thinking about goals that we would like to achieve in the coming year. Check out this terrific Fast Company podcast with best-selling author Charles Duhigg in which he talks about creating lasting habits. He's the author of a great book titled, "The Power of Habit" - published seven years ago.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 2, 2019

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery If you want to encourage creativity, exploration, and learning on your team, you should think carefully about how to introduce and provide novel experiences. Scientists Nico Bunzeck and Emrah Düzel have shown that the brain responds to novel stimuli in a manner that increases exploration and learning. As a leader, you can provide new stimulating experiences for your employees through travel, reading, training, or a challenging new assignment.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 2, 2019

For those readers who are interested, I've launched a new Facebook Professional Page. I hope you will check it out. You also can follow me on Twitter if you wish.

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