IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Product design teams can often feel they lack the most important voice in the process: The consumer. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way. From toy companies to coffee to hotels, here are brands that leveraged crowdsourcing to encourage innovation.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Regardless of your affinity towards philosophy or science, it is safe to say that without deliberate practice, no one achieves growth. The post How To Truly Devote Yourself To A Growth Mindset appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2016

To successfully foster an innovation, you have to look through at least six different sets of eyes. First, you have to unlearn everything you know. Admit it. You are biased, pre-programmed, and your bonus is tied into business results. Apply sincere empathy with people who do not know as much as you. To enter a beginner’s.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Just like a GPS needs to know where you are in order to guide you to your destination, savvy business leaders need to know where their organization is in order to navigate its way forward. Enter Idea Champions' Current Reality Check-Up -- a highly engaging needs assessment process that provides movers and shakers with deep insight into the mindset, perspective, needs, and values of their workforce and customers.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2016

A bad economy, globalization, consumer attention deficit disorder, lack of resources, poor technology infrastructure, corporate politics, bad luck and loads of other excuses exist in companies that are not getting good innovation results. It’s just doggone hard. But what in life isn’t hard?

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If you are reading this blog, I am 95 percent certain you value the power of BIG IDEAS. I'm also certain that you've experimented with various ways of capturing your big ideas: Notebooks. Voice memos. Post-its. Napkins. Whiteboards. Mind maps. And who knows how many other techniques. If so, you are likely to be intrigued by Chuck Frey's newly published guide about how to set up EVERNOTE as a way support a complete, end-to-end creative process.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 15, 2016

1. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker. 2. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw 3."Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats. 4. "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus. 5.

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