January, 2022

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Plan the Unplanned. Ways to be Spontaneous at Work.

Destination Innovation

We are told that we should plan our lives, make to-do lists, work diligently, organize our schedules and arrange things in sound and sensible ways. But is it better to sometimes do the opposite and just be spontaneous? Researchers Tonietto and Malkoc at Ohio University in 2016 carried out 13 studies of leisure activities and found that scheduling an activity (vs. experiencing it impromptu) makes it feel less free-flowing and more work-like.

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The History of the Whiteboard and Ideation

IdeaScale

Nobody living today will remember a time where there wasn’t a blackboard or a whiteboard at the front of the classroom. In the last two centuries, these tools have been central to the classroom and the innovation process, but there was once a time before they existed. . In this article, we will explore the long history of the whiteboard, demonstrate how it’s evolved in the last decade, and highlight why it’s so important for ideation.

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Do you need to be intelligent in order to be creative? The threshold theory

Idea to Value

What is the link between intelligence and creativity? And can you be creative without being intelligent, or do you need a minimum level of intelligence to achieve great creative feats? This has been a question posed since creativity research began seriously in the 1950s. And it has a long, controversial history. Throughout history, many people who were regarded as highly creative, the people who made a mark on their fields, especially the scientific disciplines, were also highly intelligent.

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Building the use of the innovation work mat as a compelling business case

Paul Hobcraft

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective. In this video conversation of around 13 minutes , we explore why the leadership of organizations needs to get deeply involved in the innovation activity.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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How The “Uber Economy” Is Killing Innovation, Prosperity And Entrepreneurship

Digital Tonto

The truth is that we have a major problem and, while Uber didn’t cause it, the company is emblematic of it. Put simply, a market economy runs on innovation. It is only through consistent and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Practical Innovation throughout the business

Jeffrey Phillips

One of the big challenges to innovation is that many people think of it as a big program, like implementing the quality programs of the 1980s, or rethinking everything, like the re-engineering programs and right sizing programs of a more recent vintage. Thus, innovation is often "too big" and too disruptive, because it is seen as a platform change, or is defined too narrowly to create real results.

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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work. The Challenge.

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Teachers don’t realise they don’t like creative students

Idea to Value

Every school will tell its students and teachers that they aim to promote creativity in their classrooms. What their teachers might however not be aware of is that, in practice, they don’t actually want their students to be creative. Might it be possible that even though teachers think that they are encouraging their students to be creative, that their actions and behaviour actually discourage creativity in their classrooms?

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Society 2045’s Teamwork Based Innovative Work Culture

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Teamwork Based Innovative Work Culture. Today, many organizations have an individualistic approach to their culture and concentrate primarily on revenues and profits. This tends to impact the way employees think about their participation at work as well. . An organization focused purely on revenues and profits, will illicit employees who focus on their compensation as a similar yardstick for measuring success. .

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Why Purpose Matters

Digital Tonto

If you believe in a rational universe, a business is little more than a set of transactions. The nature of the firm, in this view, is simply to minimize transaction costs and skilled managers should. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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What leaders get wrong about innovation

Strategyzer Innovation

Most people overestimate the value of ideas. They think they just need to come up with a good business idea to be successful. The reality is ideas are free. They're everywhere.

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Designing experiments to alleviate behavioral biases in innovation

Board of Innovation

Experimentation is a key component of any innovation validation track, regardless of industry, goal, and even budgets. The goal of experimentation is to validate or (in)validate assumptions that we have about the task at hand - be it a new concept, a consumer segment, or a business model. Innovation validation helps lower the risk of our innovation processes, and allows for informed decision making as we move forward.

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U.S. Army Announces New Digital Transformation Strategy

IdeaScale

Overview : The United States Army has announced a digital transformation and government innovation strategy that will modernize and interconnect the Army by updating and securing infrastructure, reforming necessary assets so they can better work with the new approach, and develop a workforce knowledgeable and effective in deploying these tools in partnership with civilian resources.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Society 2045’s Wealth Creation

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Wealth Creation. Today we are living in a world with a major wealth gap among people. What if we collectively worked towards eliminating and reducing the wealth gap? Financially secure people can do a lot to enable this and contribute to humankind’s needs. A well-organized initiative in this respect can make a big difference. We can try our best to reach out and make the world a better place for all, by helping everyone achieve wealth.

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We’re In A Trust Crisis. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

Digital Tonto

Our beliefs are far more than mere acceptance of sets of facts, but become inherently part of our identity. Wars are not fought over ideologies because people disagree about empirical evidence, but. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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TRANSFERRING IDEAS FROM ONE DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

Michael Michalko

Like a spark that jumps across a gap, an idea from one world is used to create a new idea or creative solution to a problem in another world. Bell’s engineers modeled their telephone network after the human being’s self-healing circulation system. If there is a problem with the human being’s circulatory system, the circulation will go around it.

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Everyone can work anywhere: how we do hybrid work

Board of Innovation

Board of Innovation is a collective of voices from across the globe. Through a hybrid work model, we’ve prioritized the diversity, mobility, and flexibility of our teams, allowing them to work from anywhere in the world. With more than 30 nationalities onboard, BOI’ers are ready to tackle the largest projects yet - from every corner of the world. The post Everyone can work anywhere: how we do hybrid work appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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How Consumers Are Crowdsourcing Health and Safety Matters

IdeaScale

Overview: In a world that’s heavily interconnected and collecting data constantly, consumers are using those tools to protect their health, find support for their ailments, and even discover new solutions to their medical problems. However, the data from crowdsourcing needs to be balanced against other expertise, so health professionals need to participate in these crowds and help guide them.

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Neuroplasticity, and how your brain is able to continue developing as you grow older

Idea to Value

A lot of people are scared by the information that creativity appears to decrease as we get older. This often combines with their own experience as to how much harder it appears to be to learn new things compared to when you were a child, whether it be a language, academic skills or even new physical skills. Recent research has even shown us that the adolescent brain does not finish developing until we are about 25 years old.

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Society 2045’s Sustainable Economy

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Sustainable Economy. Today, every country in the world has a dream to become the supreme world power. In the process to accomplish this, they have disturbed the ecological balance of nature. People are fighting among themselves for the safety and security of peace. We all know in history that wars never cause harmony. War always leads to massive destruction.

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2022: Surviving Change

Digital Tonto

Marshal McLuhan, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, described media as “extensions of man” and predicted that electronic media would eventually lead to a global village. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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What is the Process for an Employee Innovation Challenge?

InnovationManagement

A growing trend over the past several years has been to host internal innovation challenges. Companies do this because they find it’s an excellent way to find solutions to long-standing problems, positively create culture (particularly in a remote workplace), and also to nurture the budding intrapreneurs who want to find career growth and new opportunities.

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Design Thinking for Teachers

InnovationTraining.org

Design thinking in the classroom has exploded in the last few years! This unique creative problem-solving mindset and approach can be used to improve the educational experiences of students and teach them how to think about the world in new and different ways than they are used to. In this blog, we’ll walk you through design thinking with resources, videos, guides, and more designed specifically for teachers in the educational space.

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Case Study: Xaxis Teaches Us About Accelerating Careers and Solutions

IdeaScale

Overview: Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic media company, realized that despite the company’s global reach, it didn’t have a global innovation program. In response to this challenge, in 2017, it launched the Xcellerate program in order to drive both internal innovation and more tightly connect the company across languages and borders.

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

So last week I told you that I was working on something big. And that you could get a sneak preview of what was coming up by registering here for free. I’m making good progress for the 24th of Feb reveal date, but today I wanted to take you back in time to show you where it all began. You see, back in 2005 I started work with one of the largest management consulting firms in the world.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Insights from the 100+ business ideas we killed last year

Board of Innovation

How we got to kill 100+ business ideas last year, what we learned from it, and three tangible techniques. The post Insights from the 100+ business ideas we killed last year appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Every Changemaker Should Know These 3 Strategies (But Most Don’t)

Digital Tonto

In the final analysis, the reason that most would-be revolutionaries fail is that they assume that the righteousness of their cause will save them. It will not. Injustice, inequity and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Strategy and Innovation Management: The Innovators Dashboard

Innovators Alliance

We are thrilled to announce our new app for strategic planning and innovation management: the Innovators Dashboard, a proprietary, digital strategic planning and innovation tool developed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. This indispensable resource provides a range of tools that work for small to large companies, reflecting the scope of Innovators Alliance members.

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3 Myths about Product Management and Entrepreneurship

helloFUTURE

You may have been reading a lot about entrepreneurship and product management recently, but the media doesn’t always paint an accurate picture. This blog post debunks three of the most common entrepreneurship and product management myths. Myth One: Entrepreneurship is for those who can’t find a job or don’t want one. Myth Two: Product Management… The post 3 Myths about Product Management and Entrepreneurship appeared first on hellofuture.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib