IdeaScale

MAY 10, 2017

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research and training. They are a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of 11 agencies that comprise the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In 2016, The National Cancer Institute launched the Cancer Research Ideas crowdsourcing website to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 10, 2017

The truth is that innovation needs exploration. We cannot expect to know what we will find beforehand. The only certainty is that we learn nothing by staying put. Related posts: 4 Innovation Lessons. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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BrainZooming

MAY 10, 2017

Chatting with a mid-career professional who is at the height of job frustration, she placed a career strategy challenge on the table: “A résumé is supposed to have metrics, but I have no real metrics I can own for my contributions at my day job. “What I’m doing in my day job isn’t the kind of work I want to do in my next job – at least under the same circumstances.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 10, 2017

In 1952, Remington Rand’s UNIVAC computer debuted on CBS to forecast the 1952 election as early results came in. By 8:30, the “electronic brain” was predicting a landslide, with Eisenhower taking 438 electoral votes to Stevenson’s 93. The CBS brass scoffed at the unlikely result, but by the end of the night UNIVAC proved to.

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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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Idea Drop

MAY 10, 2017

One of the most innovative and game-changing business models of recent years, the ‘sharing economy’ has taken the world by storm. A hotly debated topic and one that has fired up many controversies; it is loved by the consumers and workers it embraces and loathed by the companies it threatens, as well as inviting numerous complications for the government bodies who attempt to regulate it.

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Social Innovation Crowdsourcing Innovation Software Review 45

InnovationManagement

MAY 10, 2017

B2B, or business to business marketing, involves selling of a company’s services or products to another company. Consumer marketing and B2B marketing are really not that different. Basically, B2B uses the same principles to market its product but the execution is a little different. B2B buyers make their purchases solely based on price and profit […].

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 10, 2017

With process improvement, the existing process is refined over time. With innovation, the work is new. You can’t improve a process that does not yet exist. Process creation, yes. Process improvement, no. Standard work, where the sequence of process steps has proven successful, is a pillar of the manufacturing mindset. In manufacturing, if you’re not following standard work, you’re not doing it right.

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Wazoku

MAY 10, 2017

London, May 10, 2017 – The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) has launched a new initiative to galvanise the population and create a more democratic debate on economics. To give people a forum in which they can express their thoughts, RSA is using an ‘ideas platform’ by Wazoku , the crowdsourcing company, which can be easily accessed online. The RSA’s Citizens’ Economic Council is a programme that aims to spark broader public discussion about the goals and priorities of economic policy and the fu

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Idea Champions

MAY 10, 2017

If you're interested in raising the bar for innovation in your organization, start listening more. Listening, quite simply, is the most powerful form of influence. Generally speaking, when we think of influencing others we are thinking about our ability to get others to think and act in ways we want them to, in ways that serve our interests and objectives.

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