July, 2023

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things.

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Building an Effective Innovation Team: Key Roles and Responsibilities

HYPE Innovation

At HYPE Innovation , our consultancy team devotes their time to working with clients, sharing best practices, and helping to implement effective and sustainable strategies for innovation management programs. Our involvement includes training, conducting innovation program “health checks,” and developing innovation communities. Above all, we tailor our approach to each organization we work with.

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The Building Blocks of the Innovation Ecosystem Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

There needs to be a fundamental shift in how we manage innovation, which needs the power of ecosystem thinking and design. Not only in thinking and design but in how we structure its architecture, one based on platforms, open apps, and a marketplace where like-minded people and organizations go and participate in building new impactful innovation solutions together.

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Why Hierarchies Can Outperform Networks (And Vice Versa)

Digital Tonto

The problem isn’t how we dismantle hierarchies, but how we connect them. For decades we’ve been hearing that we need to eliminate bureaucracy and break down silos. Yet there is little evidence of any success. In fact, when management guru Gary Hamel, who has been leading the call to “bust bureaucracy,” surveyed readers at Harvard Business Review he found that levels of organization had increased, not decreased.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Innovation: Shaping the Future and Leaving a Lasting Impact

IdeaScale

Innovation, the driving force behind progress, has the power to transform our world and propel humanity toward endless possibilities. As individuals, we hold within us the incredible potential to become innovators, using our ideas to shape the future and make a lasting impact. Join us on this inspiring journey filled with inspiration, challenges, and unwavering [.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. Companies such as AT&T’s Bell Labs (leading to the transistor and the laser), 3M allowing people to have 15% of their time to work on projects of personal interest (leading to Post-It notes ) and Google.

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Three-Stage Innovation Maturity Model for Adaptive Innovators

HYPE Innovation

Innovation has become a much more strategic activity in modern enterprises, and its importance has grown significantly given its ever-increasing role in transforming the way companies work and expanding their opportunities in different markets.

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Five reasons why few companies are data driven

Jeffrey Phillips

For years now, we've heard of the importance of becoming a "data driven" organization. Being data-driven, we are told, means making decisions not based on gut instinct or what managers believe is true, but based on evidence, on hard data. This, it would seem, should be simple. After all, businesses have had robust IT systems and teams for years. The advent of ERP in the 1990s and beyond created sweeping systems that automated many sectors of the business.

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Customer Complaint Videos can Trigger Ideas

Destination Innovation

BUPA is a leading international provider of private healthcare and insurance. It is headquartered in the UK and has 82000 staff serving some 38 million customers. After customer interactions such as enquiries, procedures or complaints the company asks for feedback and tracks NPS, Net Promoter Score. Customers who give a low NPS are contacted and asked to give further details by audio or video.

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How Innovation in Education is Shaping the Future of Learning: From AI to Virtual Reality

IdeaScale

Innovation in education has always been a cornerstone of human development. However, as the world changes, so too must education adapt to keep up with the times. Fortunately, innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are rapidly transforming the landscape of education. In this article, we will explore how these innovative [.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. Storymapping emerges as an invaluable pre-investment tool, enabling smarter decision-making, more accurate resource allocation, and enhanced scope control. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.

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Naïve realism: Why you think other people’s views are wrong

Idea to Value

Can you know the truth? What if someone else’s truth is different from yours? Who is right or wrong? It might seem like a simple question, but humans are inherently bad at putting themselves in the perspective of other people. One of the cognitive biases which drives this is something called naïve realism. According to research, naïve realism shows that people believe that they see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with them must be uninformed, irrational, or bi

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower Innovation

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. What does the business do? How does it meet customers’ needs? And most importantly, how does it make money? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects?

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Ideas Can Only Be Validated Forward, Never Backward

Digital Tonto

Traditionally, strategy has been seen as a game of chess. Wise leaders survey the board of play, plan their moves carefully and execute flawlessly. That’s always been a fantasy, but it was close enough to reality to be helpful. Organizations could build up sustainable competitive advantage by painstakingly building up bargaining power within the value chain.

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Sneaky innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'd like to write today about what I call sneaky innovation. I define sneaky innovation as the innovation work that is often started and completed in disparate locations in the business, is not strategic and is often completed without a lot of fanfare. Sneaky innovation is about doing small but impactful innovation, without asking for permission or waiting to see who will approve.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Choosing the Best Innovation Management Software: A Buyer’s Guide

HYPE Innovation

Choosing the Best Innovation Management Software: Tips and Best Practices for Buyers in our Guide.

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IdeaScale Whiteboard: The New Era of Visual Collaboration

IdeaScale

In this post, we're excited to reveal our latest addition to our innovation management portfolio— the all-new IdeaScale Whiteboard, what you can do with it, and our vision for the product. In remote-first, globally distributed workplaces, getting everyone on the same page can be super challenging. Without face-to-face interactions, we lack the necessary [.

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Optimism Bias

Idea to Value

Just how likely are you to succeed? And how unlikely is it that something bad happens to you, just because it happened to someone else? Surprisingly, most people appear to think that in the future, it is more likely that good things will happen to them, and less likely that bad things would happen to them. This is a cognitive bias known as the optimism bias.

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From CxO to Individual Contributor: A Journey Back to Passion

Tullio Siragusa

From CxO to Individual Contributor: A Journey Back to Passion In a world dominated by the pursuit of titles, power, and prestige, it’s a rare and commendable decision to step down from a senior executive role to a lesser position. The pursuit of personal fulfillment and passion often takes a backseat to the societal pressure to ascend the corporate ladder.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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There Are Few Things As Dangerous As A Big Idea Misunderstood

Digital Tonto

Big ideas are powerful because they encapsulate an essential truth. When Fukuyama wrote about “the end of history,” it really did mark a turning point in human affairs, just as Marshall McLuhan’s concept of a “global village” identified a shift in communications, Kuhn’s model of a paradigm shift helped us understand how scientific breakthroughs occur and Christensen’s ideas about disruptive innovation alerted us to dangers and opportunities we weren’t aware of.

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How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader Without Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

Servant leadership was a crucial stepping-stone to a more humane world of work, but “noble-purpose leadership” is better suited for today’s chaotic environment.

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Qmarkets and OmniStrada Partner to Empower Asian Businesses with Continuous Improvement Culture & Capabilities

Qmarkets

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with OmniStrada , a digital consultancy based in Singapore advising businesses across Asia on areas including digital transformation, omnichannel, and more. Together, we will help businesses across Asia implement continuous improvement processes and nurture an innovation culture to drive efficiencies, build resilience and unlock growth potential.

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What is a Workflow? Definition, Components, and Advantages

IdeaScale

A workflow is the systematic organization of resources to build processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. Essentially, It is a sequence of operations conducted by a person, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflows take place across every industry. They are the building blocks of every [.

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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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Pygmalion effect: The self-fulfilling prophecy

Idea to Value

The expectations we put on people can have a direct impact on their performance. Often, and authority figure placing higher expectations on someone, like a teacher having high expectations for a student, or a manager having high expectations for an employee, can result in both the authority figure and the person in question changing their behaviour, perception of challenge and ultimately the success of their efforts.

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OUTSIDE-IN [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

The challenge in their case, was turning around a business that was declining and was at risk of being delisted in the near future. The heart of the issue lay with the base value proposition being offered by the category, in which our client was a generic undifferentiated player. Having identified this, we were able to explore where to start looking for some Outside-in inspiration.

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Why Business Leaders Need To Learn About Social And Political Movements

Digital Tonto

The most important challenge leaders face is to navigate change. We can optimize operations, streamline our organizations and motivate our people, but eventually our square-peg business will meet its round-hole world and we will need to adapt, build new skills and shift our strategies. Unfortunately, the overwhelming evidence suggests that we will fail.

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To Help Your Team Grow, Give Them Space to Struggle

Harvard Business Review

When you see an employee struggling with a task you could do easily, it’s only natural to want to step in and help. But from the other side, this can feel more like micromanagement than support. And when leaders over-function by keeping too much work for themselves, they allow those around them to under-function. We all know how important it is to delegate — both to help employees grow and to create a more collaborative, empowered, productive team.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product. It’s our way of intentionally managing through uncertainty — since, as Claude Shannon said, “the only resolution to uncertainty is information.

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A standard play from the ed reform playbook could stunt the potential of a burgeoning field

Christensen Institute

Key points: The metrics used to gauge the quality of conventional schooling can hinder the growth and innovation of microschools, learning centers, and homeschool co-ops. To foster new models of schooling, philanthropists, researchers, and policymakers must resist the impulse to impose conventional metrics and instead develop new quality measures that align with the unique aims of these programs.

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What is a Business Model Canvas? Definition and Application

IdeaScale

Using a Business Model Canvas has become one of the premium alternatives to dragging one out on paper. These boards make creating and interpreting business plans or go-to-market strategies a collaborative endeavor and something anyone can create. This article will define what a business model canvas is and discuss its various advantages, how to use [.

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It takes 23 minutes to regain focus after a distraction: Task Switching

Idea to Value

Do you ever get to the end of a working day only to become frustrated that you were unable to complete any of your work? Chances are, you may have become distracted or interrupted at some point. Either from a colleague stopping or sending you a quick message … … or hearing someone talk about some interesting gossip in the background … … quickly opening a web browser to check the news or surf the web … … checking emails and chats … … or even just wo

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The Marketing Impact of Content Strategy: A Data-Driven Roadmap to Engage Your Audiences

Brunner

In today’s digital landscape, content is the lifeblood of any successful online presence. But simply churning out random blog articles or social media posts without a clear direction in mind can lead to chaos, wasted time, and lackluster results. This is where content strategy comes into play. Instead of guessing what topics to cover and formats to use, you can develop a well-researched content strategy framework, grounded in data, to determine the right channels, the right formats, and th

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.