Tue.Mar 28, 2023

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Developing an Effective Innovation Process: Benefits, Steps & Secrets for Success 

Qmarkets

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. You need to make sure you’re leveraging the right resources and audiences as impactfully and efficiently as possible in order to move the right solutions forward. If this sounds scary, don’t worry!

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How Individuals Can Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change

Business and Tech

Lauren Singer is an environmental activist, author, investor, and influencer, whose Instagram page ( @trashisfortossers ) has about 350k followers. We asked her about the most exciting developments in sustainability, and what individuals can do to make a difference. Lauren Singer Environmental activist, author, investor, influencer — @trashisfortossers “Doing little things in our everyday lives can significantly reduce the amount of methane we’re generating.” What does sustaina

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Exploring the Different Partner Programs in a Partner Ecosystem

HYPE Innovation

As markets expand and customers’ requirements grow rapidly, businesses need to be ready to meet their clients’ changing needs. While coming up with solutions themselves is one approach, partnering with other companies in their partner ecosystem may prove more effective than developing a new offering from scratch on your own, which can be time-consuming and expensive.

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How Household Product Businesses Are Embracing Sustainability to Support Our Planet

Business and Tech

Trying to live a sustainable lifestyle? Molly R. Blessing, director of sustainability for the Household & Commercial Products Association, talks about finding the right products to clean, protect, maintain, and disinfect your home and workplace without harming the planet. What’s the role of household products in fighting climate change? A challenge as big as climate change needs collective action from all sectors, organizations, and people to tackle it.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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What working moms want, how employers can provide it, and why they should

Christensen Institute

March is Women’s History month, and as the month draws to a close, it seems appropriate to highlight a piece of our history and current reality that won’t be soon forgotten—at least not by those who lived through it. I’m talking about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on working mothers, both in the years of lockdown and in the aftermath of those events.

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What do product people do?

Sopheon

As innovation becomes a source of competitive advantage for companies, new roles and titles keep emerging. There was a time when project managers were the ninjas who got things done, on time and within budget. Next came the era of product managers who balanced customer needs with larger business objectives to create the market success of products. Now, we are entering an age where it’s not just product managers – but a larger group of product people – who are responsible for innovation and corpo

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Pulse of Innovation: Driving H2 and H3 Innovations

Wellspring

Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and by catching up with clients and colleagues.

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Humans, Not Technology, Drive Business Success

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Silicon Valley is often known as a cut-throat, technocratic place where the efficiency of algorithms often define success. Competition is ferocious and the pace of disruption and change can be dizzying. It’s not the type of environment where soft skills are valued particularly highly or even at all.

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Remove Boredom and Frustration from Your Customer Journey

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize efficiency over the customer experience.

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8 Features to Stay Updated on Trend & Tech Developments | ITONICS

ITONICS

If you're not keeping up with the latest developments, it’s likely your competitors are. Being up to date on developments helps you stay ahead of the competition and ensure that your products or services are relevant and cutting-edge.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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5 Ways to Boost Creativity on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

The way we work today often stifles creativity. But it doesn’t have to.

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Trust: Behaviors that Break or Make an Effective Leader

CMOE

One of the primary components of all effective relationships is trust. If you want to be a good leader with a strong team, nothing will get in your way more than a lack of trust between you and your employees. Perhaps you can recall or relate to the following scenario: You are assigned to a small team for a group project. While some team members are engaged and committed to success, others are clearly disinterested and shirk the work.

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How to Tell If a Potential Employer Has a Burnout Culture

Harvard Business Review

Questions to ask — and red flags to look out for — in your next interview.

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THINKING ABOUT WELL-BEING, RESILIENCE AND CREATIVITY DIFFERENTLY

ImagineNation

In our previous two blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. By reclaiming our focus, attention, intention, and awareness we develop a deeper understanding of the sources of our anxiety and distractions and how to self-manage them. Doing this effectively creates a safe space, to transform the power of our minds and hearts to connect with others, cultivate well-being, harness people’s collective genius, and

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

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How to Use OKRs and Roadmaps for Alignment and Goal Attainment

Planview

Discover how to use OKRs and roadmaps together to execute on strategy. Although these two tools can have a beautifully synergistic relationship, many organizations use them independently. Using OKRs and roadmaps together can help your enterprise unlock new levels of alignment, visibility, and success – connecting the what and why to the how and when.

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Value Stream Discovery – Part I

Moves the Needle

Value streams are all the activities an organization does to create value for customers and other stakeholders (usually within a specific product). “Lean” practitioners help you map your workflows, so you can see how to improve them while maintaining value creation. But what if the value isn’t there? Or you’re creating a new product? Or “innovating?

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Product Roadmap: A Vision for the future of Scouting

Wazoku

Innovation never stands still, and neither does our product. In these ‘Product Roadmap’ blogs, we provide updates, insights, and previews into what is coming up with the Wazoku platform. Building on the things discussed in our biannual Product Roadmap Webinars, here we go into depth about both new features and upgrades to existing capabilities.

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X’s Astro Teller on Managing Moonshot Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Astro Teller on taking big swings and accepting the mess.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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3 Ways to Find Innovative Thinkers among Analytical People

BrainZooming

Brainzooming works with many industrial companies to strengthen and expand their new product development and process innovation initiatives.

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BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Can BMW convince stakeholders that its strategy is good for the environment and the company’s financial performance?

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32 Innovation Questions to Maximize Intriguing Conversations and Ideas

BrainZooming

We experience it all the time: executives generate ideas to fill the size of the innovation questions we ask.

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Three Steps To Professionalize Innovation With ISO 56001 Certification Standard

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Most executives continue to say innovation is extremely important, but a majority of them remain dissatisfied with their innovation performance. ISO 56001, the upcoming requirements standard for innovation management, is just around the corner, and it has the potential to revolutionize how innovation has been managed for the past 20 years.

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Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o