Tue.Aug 30, 2022

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The surprising link between curiosity and Dopamine

Idea to Value

For years, I have been wondering about how curiosity evolved. It may be a silly question. After all, curiosity brings all sorts of benefits, especially when it comes to making us more creative. But if you look back millions and billions of years to when the first life was evolving, there was real danger to being curious. If you were an animal and you had everything you needed in your immediate surroundings (food, shelter and ability to reproduce), then why would you risk moving away from this sa

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6 Ways to Leverage Virtual Tools to Create an Innovation Culture

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change […].

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What Business Leaders Should Know Now About the Metaverse

Harvard Business Review

A conversation about developing strategies around the future of the digital world.

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How successful PMOs deliver value and avoid the hot seat

Cascade Strategy

Within the leadership community, caution signs are everywhere, and there is a strong sense of redirection due to current and future macroeconomic trends. In this economy, every penny counts. And it’s starting to show.

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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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Don’t Let Anchoring Bias Weigh Down Your Judgment

Harvard Business Review

Too often, we overvalue available — but ultimately irrelevant — information.

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16 Startups Selected For Abu Dhabi-Based Incubator Hub71's Second Cohort Of 2022

Entrepreneur - Innovation

This group of 16 pre-seed, seed, and Series-A startups has already raised over US$67 million, collectively.

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The Value of Storytelling in Innovation

Carla Johnson

August 30, 2022 An idea needs six components to stick in people’s minds. Chip and Dan Heath’s research, published in their 2007 book Made to Stick, found that an idea has to be: Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional A Story Any leader worth their salt knows that ideas need to be simple, credible, and create an emotional reaction. But why. Read More.

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Keep Your Employees From Defecting - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KPMG

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from KPMG.

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10 Most Popular Tech Scouting Questions Answered

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Our natural tendency is to get distracted by the next shiny object. Yesterday it was blockchain, today it’s the metaverse, and tomorrow it will be some other ‘verse’. But how do large companies really track, identify, and launch initiatives that create value from these emerging technologies? More often than not, the hype-to-reality cycle takes years if not a decade to see through. .

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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Both a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Linus Pauling believed, “The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas… get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process

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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.