Mon.Aug 28, 2017

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Is Your Team Proficient in the 3 Cs of Innovation?

InnovationManagement

When leaders foster a culture of innovation, they enable their teams to be creative, flexible problem-solvers who thrive in the face of change. But what is a culture of innovation? And how does a leader begin to foster one? Building a culture of innovation originates with embracing The 3 Cs: critical thinking, curiosity, and customer-centric design.

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4 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

BrainZooming

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? In an a mid-August 2017 article in The Wall Street Journal , Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, Inc., discusses the future of electric cars and why the charging station model will break from the gas station model.

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Reflections on life in the sharing economy | Episode 5

Innovation Excellence

The Sharing Economy is expanding its reach beyond local communities. Is it a sustainable movement? Embracing the full potential of this new economy requires people to get out of auto-pilot and be more aware of their options and actions.

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How I Won a Contract from AT&T By Teaching One Man to Juggle

Idea Champions

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a good story is worth a million. Here's a five-minute story about how the company I co-founded, Idea Champions , won a large contract from AT&T by teaching the Director of Training and Development how to juggle in five minutes. Read the full story in this book. A priest, a penguin, and a newspaper reporter walk into a bar.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Exploring frameworks and methods you need as an Innovator

Innovation Excellence

Over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know, or at least have an opinion upon. I encourage you to explore these as all have innovating connecting value to bring into your own thinking and referencing of innovation capability building.

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Several ways to share your XMind mind map with others

xMind

File sharing always play a vital part in both work and personal life. You may need to share your 2017 business plan with your boss; you may want to share your travel plan with your family; or you may just want to share knowledge with your friends on Facebook or Twitter. With XMind, the sharing process is greatly simplified, thus communication becomes simple and easy.