Wed.Nov 07, 2018

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Why The Biggest Breakthroughs Often Come From The Quiet Geniuses

Digital Tonto

When it comes to innovation, generosity is often a competitive advantage Related posts: A Look Inside Four Decades Of Breakthroughs At IBM Research. These Are The Biggest Innovation Challenges We. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Insights from the Founder of Sony

Destination Innovation

Akio Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1921. His father owned a business brewing sake. It had been in the family for 14 generations and it was expected that Akio, the oldest son, would step into the business but the boy was more interested in electronics than in brewing. Morita studied Physics at Osaka Imperial University and served as a naval lieutenant during World War II.

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Breaking the patterns for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

As far as one-hit wonders go, there are few bands that I listened to more than a band called the Godfathers back in the 80s and early 90s. They had a song that was meant to encapsulate our lived experience. The title? Birth, school, work, death. This is the pattern that we all live. More importantly, each of us has a fairly regular pattern for our work lives: get up, go to work, go to meetings, work on some deliverables, drive home, eat dinner.

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What Makes a Great Idea!?

IdeaScale

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and asked a number of thought-provoking questions about innovation: what sorts of companies struggle with innovation , why is it hard to get an innovation program started, and more. But one of the questions that I found most interesting is trying to describe “what makes a great idea?

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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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Paving the Way for Innovation Strategy

Innovation Excellence

The digital landscape is rapidly changing, and technology is advancing in ways that were unfathomable even just a few years ago. As a business, you can no longer rest on legacy mindsets and antiquated processes, despite how much success they’ve driven in the past. Every industry is susceptible to digital Darwinism, where businesses struggle to.

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How To Innovate Within a Successful Company

Mike Shipulski

If you’re trying to innovate within a successful company, I have one word for you: Don’t. You can’t compete with the successful business teams that pay the bills because paying the bills is too important. No one in their right mind should get in the way of paying them. And if you do put yourself in the way of the freight train that pays the bills you’ll get run over.

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Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?

Daniel Burrus

Despite the apparent trade-off between privacy and efficiency, authorities across the globe are intent on becoming known for achieving smart city status and for the right reasons. Politicians are seeing the real benefits and cost savings that smart city initiatives can provide, and as citizens we need to get used to the idea of our towns collecting and making use of more and more data to reshape the world around us for the greater good.

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A Simple Way to Spark Creativity, Big Ideas, Insights, and AHAS!

Idea Champions

Given the fact that the human attention span (8 seconds) is now one second less than that of a goldfish (9 seconds), what better time is there to introduce you to our Free the Genie cards -- a creative thinking catalyst you can use faster than it took you to read this fabulous paragraph. Works for individuals, groups, teams, and absolutely anyone looking to stir the creative soup.

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Digital Brainstorming Workshops

Svava

Give your brainstorming a powerful boost.