Mon.Oct 22, 2018

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Innovation Isn’t About What You Know, But What You Don’t

Innovation Excellence

When Steve Jobs first came up with the idea for the iPod, it wasn’t actually a machine he had in mind, but “a thousand songs in my pocket.” It was, at the time, an impossible idea, because hard drives of that capacity and size just didn’t exist. In fairly short order though, the technology caught.

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How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

Paul Hobcraft

How do we find answers to knowing what measures give us for success in any digital transformation? Are today’s measures relevant to tomorrow, are they still based on our legacy system of measurement, when a business was operating in a stable, predictable environment? Today I think we certainly have a beginning point but all of us lack a clarity of the end point of where digital transformation will take us.

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Leadership Development: What Skills Should an Innovation Leader Possess?

Moves the Needle

A leader is someone who holds a high degree of influence within an organization. These individuals become leaders after proving that they can create a vision and lead a team to it’s realization. In large enterprises, this requires a strong executional mindset. Companies don’t grow to become large enterprises without systems and processes working at scale, backed by the executional prowess provided by strong leadership.

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Mobilizing People’s Creative Energy

Innovation Excellence

What if there is a way to create coherence, align people’s hearts & minds as well as build an environment that generates learning & results in organizational re-organisation & transformation? At ImagineNation™ we know that this can be done by transforming people’s cognitive dissonance into the vibrant & creative energy that makes innovation happen.

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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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#CyberAware for Small to Medium Sized Business: Cybersecurity is More Than Compliance

MSSBTI

Cyber warfare is real, is here, and America is losing. Military personnel, law enforcement, and private security use bulletproof vests to protect themselves in hostile zones. These vests minimize injury and provide a means of security and safety of life. Additionally, they use intensive training, mindfulness, and combat skills to defend successfully against an enemy.

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What Contributes to Nonprofit Innovation

InnovationManagement

In an article by the Stanford Social Innovation Review , the authors addressed a recent study from the Bridgespan Group that identified an innovation in the nonprofit sector. Although 80% of nonprofit leaders consider innovation an imperative, only 40% of those leaders consider their organization ready for innovation. SSIR went on to discuss the six characteristics that empower nonprofit innovation.

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Crafting an Effective Elevator Pitch

Rmukesh Gupta

I am sure that at some point in time, you would have had the need to come up with an elevator pitch for an idea that you wanted to share with others to either inspire them to action or elicit a commitment. There are a lot of ways one can go about designing an elevator pitch but I came across Randy Olson ‘s TEDMED speech where he shares this simple framework for crafting an elevator pitch. . “{Premise} and {premise} but {problem} therefore {Solution}” .

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Peloton, Goldman Sachs, and Designing a Digital Strategy

Innovation Leader

In a recent interview, Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta talks about going beyond the buzzword “digital transformation” to design a digital strategy that works.

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Open Innovation Tackles Agricultural Challenges

IdeaConnection

A novel concept that applies gaming technologies to spot weeds.

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How to Retire When You Run Your Own Business

The Human Factor

Image source. Contributed post –. When you are an employed individual, you simply retire when you have reached the age of which you can legally retire (this age varies depending on where you live and work, and current laws regarding retirement, as these can change as years pass by). You can hand in your notice and, generally speaking, you will have a pension scheme waiting for you.

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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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"I Don't Know All The Answers"

Michael Roberto

Source: Fortune.com The Wall Street Journal's Vanessa Fuhrmans interviewed IBM senior executive Bridget van Kralingen several months ago. Kralingen comments on the traits and habits of the most effective leaders that she studied as an industrial psychologist, and how she tries to embrace those behaviors now in her role as a senior leader at IBM. She explains: I saw it was the leaders who were the most curious, the most open to change and learning themselves who were the most successful in a very

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