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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Empowering Retail Associates to Enhance the Customer Experience

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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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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Remove Boredom and Frustration from Your Customer Journey

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize efficiency over the customer experience.

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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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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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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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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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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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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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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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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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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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Unlocking the Secret to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and a Whole Lot of Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Successful product management is more than building a product: you’re also building a team. Working with cross-functional teams can appear chaotic, especially if your goals differ! It can be challenging to figure out how to communicate with team members and stakeholders. However, with some forethought and insights, you can build a successful product management team—one that collaborates to create a product that truly delights your customers.

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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 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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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is critical for industry growth in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing risk landscape. When building your ERM program foundation, you need to answer questions like: Do we have robust board and management support? Do we understand and articulate our bank’s risk appetite and how that impacts our business units? How are we measuring and rating our risk impact, likelihood, and controls to mitigate our risk?

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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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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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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. To increase your chances of success, you need to drive your team through a series of clear, actionable milestones that demonstrate you are going in the right direction.