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Responding to COVID-19 and future challenges

ImagineNation

In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness. This involves being willing to help them expose, confront, and overcome any previously unconscious biases and resistant demons.

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How is Sales Changing During COVID-19?

Innovation Leader

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many business-to-business sales organizations are left with a pipeline of prospects that do not advance to later stages of the sales process…

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How to Beat Information Overload

Collectivecamp

We’re living in a world of information overload.

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Podcast S4E76: Tamara Ghandour – unlocking your competitive advantage with innovation

Idea to Value

In today’s episode fo the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Tamara Ghandour, founder of Launch Street, author of INNOVATION IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS and developer of the IQE assessment. We speak about why some people find it so challenging to innovate, how to overcome these fears and the importance of understanding how your tribe works best together.

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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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Why Consensus Kills Innovation

Digital Tonto

Big ideas are never easy. Almost by definition, they are unlikely, fraught with risk and often counterintuitive. They need champions to inspire and empower beliefs around them. That’s why leadership. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Government Innovation Can Work

IdeaScale

Government and business have inherently different goals. Yet this doesn’t mean that business mindsets like entrepreneurship can or should be set aside. In fact, they can often be crucial, in the right context, to better government and superior service to the public, especially when developing an innovation process. Here are five aspects of entrepreneurship that … Continued.

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How Would You Reimagine School?

Innovation Leader

In two months, education underwent a shift faster than it had in 200 years. How might we adapt to remote learning, while also using this moment to reimagine education?

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Meet 12 Young Founders Who Are Disrupting the Way Business Is Done

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Their innovative ideas are changing their industries - and making serious money.

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PSA International Shares Tips on How to Create an Award-Winning Innovation Program

IdeaScale

PSA have long been leaders in innovation. From the long-ago days as a Singapore statutory board to the post-corporate multinational it is today, this organization remains relevant. Innovation is a crucial part of how products are created, and customers are served. Companies who embrace changes such as digital innovation invest more in the resources that help the … Continued.

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5 Ways To Accelerate The Pace of Change

Kainexus

McKinsey and Company , one of the country’s leading management consultancies, reports that up to 70% of systemic change programs fail to reach their business goals. Why? According to the firm, “Common pitfalls include a lack of employee engagement, inadequate management support, poor or nonexistent cross-functional collaboration, and a lack of accountability.

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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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How Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?

Innovation Leader

Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.

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How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement

Tullio Siragusa

How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement. Organizations are spending millions to setup feedback channels like email, social platforms, and follow-up programs, in order to create a better work environment. Still, the words “feedback” often make us cringe as we immediately adopt a defensive posture. Progress-driven leaders value both positive and constructive feedback, always giving priority to constructive ones.

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A Look at the 2020 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report

IdeaScale

Disruption is a necessary component of innovation. The novel coronavirus has massively disrupted all industries, resulting in brand new questions and conversations. Some innovative companies take a centralized approach to innovation, while others choose a decentralized method. Research shows 30% of companies utilize one unit to control and drive innovation, while 35% report research results are passed … Continued.

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#1,889 – FitBit Sense, Amazon Halo, and the Future of Fitness Trackers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

FitBit recently announced a new wearable capable of detecting your stress levels. Knowing how stressed you are could stress out some people even more but I think there’s value in knowing where you stand since you could stop doing whatever it was that you were doing that was stressing you out in the first place or take action such as starting breathing exercises to try to calm you down even further.

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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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Business Development Manager bei Pixofarm

whataventure

Werde Teil des Teams! Business Development Manager bei Pixofarm (m/w/d). JETZT BEWERBEN. Wo. Wien. Start. Ab sofort. Anstellung. Vollzeit bei Pixofarm. Sprachniveau. C1 Deutschniveau. Über uns. Pixofarm (www.pixofarm.com) ist eines der drei Company Building Projekte von WhatAVenture. Die App Pixofarm ermöglicht es das Fruchtwachstum von Äpfeln bzw. anderen Früchten über das Handy zu überwachen und Voraussagen über die Ernte zu treffen.

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The Hallmarks of a Successful Entrepreneur

Collectivecamp

Entrepreneurship is a rare thing. Not everyone will have the diverse combination of traits and skills that make a successful entrepreneur - one who is dedicated to their innovations, with resolute persistence and passion that sets them apart from the competition and brings their ideas to life.

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3 Lessons on Launching From 3 Young, Early-Stage Founders

Entrepreneur - Innovation

They know how to harness ideas - and fearlessly take action.

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#1,903 – Wakanda Theme Park

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

To honor Chadwick Boseman, Whoopi Goldberg has pitched to Disney the idea of creating a Wakanda Theme Park at one of their resorts. And I couldn’t agree more. As Indie Wire puts it: “Sections of Disneyland and Disney World are devoted to mega-franchises such as ‘Star Wars’ (Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios) and ‘Avatar’ (Pandora at Disney’s Animal Kingdom), but what if the same were true for ‘ Black Panther ‘ and the ficti

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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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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy

mjvinnovation

‘Third Place’ existed long before Starbucks. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term in his book The Great Good Place (1989). He described why community settings like cafes, bars, and beauty salons are essential for social connections, inclusion, and democracy. Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. “We want our stores to be the third place,” their new policy states.

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Take control using scenario planning – The next step

Innovation 360 Group

If you mainly work in the Northern Hemisphere (and soon in the southern), you are now likely planning to get back to business. It will not be the same, and the temporary tricks employed during. The post Take control using scenario planning – The next step appeared first on Innovation360.

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What is the Future of Theme Park Vacations?

Innovation Leader

Temperature screenings and face coverings are now part of the park experience. So what elements of the theme park vacation will remain forever changed? What will bounce back?

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#1,891 – The Polite Type

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Right now there’s a lot of hate in the world with social networks and other online platforms helping to spread that hate. Perhaps what we need then is a way to clean up our online behavior and turn cyberspace into a safe space. But how can we do that?! Stopping the spread of fake news on Facebook would be a good start. We could have AI driven algorithms that filter out abusive content or human moderators that do the same.

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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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How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in any company with Amy Radin

Rapid Innovation in digital time

The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company. Amy Radin examines thoroughly innovation through various angles, from finding, nurturing and scaling market-leading innovations.

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Play Bold: Special guest the brain of the Year Professor Leif Edvinsson

Innovation 360 Group

What can we learn from the space race between the former Soviet Union and the US.

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Data-Driven Mindset: how to implement data culture in your company?

mjvinnovation

Everything that can be shown through an image, should not be counted in words. . It is no coincidence that data visualization has gained such relevance in recent years. It’s quite common that before seeing the results of efficient decision making, it is necessary to deeply understand your business and identify which KPIs are, in fact, important enough to be displayed on dashboards.

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#1,899 – Coronavirus Cat Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Cats could soon give dogs a run for their money for the title of man’s best friend after news came out that a coronavirus vaccine used on cats could be given to humans to fight COVID-19. As Forbes puts it: “A drug used to treat coronavirus infections in cats may soon be used to treat Covid-19 in humans, after researchers showed the drug works against the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus in laboratory experiments. ‘In just two months, our results have shown that the drug is effective at in

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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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People Don’t Want Creativity

Stephen Shapiro

People don’t want creativity. They may say they do, but there is a strong anti-creativity bias in most organizations. And unfortunately this bias happens at an subconscious level. This video shares some interesting findings from a study by Cornell University (my alma mater) – and the implications. Note that the video talks about “newness.” In a previous post I shared my most recent Inc article about how there is nothing new.

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Rockwater's Participation and Bonus Program

Kainexus

Recognizing and rewarding employees on their efforts is a critical component of a continuous improvement culture. Without recognition, it’s typically challenging to drive employee engagement. Your employees need you to recognize the work and contributions they make, and as a result of recognition, they’ll continue to produce work that both you and them are proud of.

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Music Festivals Go Online

Collectivecamp

When COVID-19 turned the business world upside down back in February, I wrote an article on the new business opportunities that this would present for forward-thinking companies.

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#1,897 – Hurricane Bubble Net

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I love geoengineering schemes. After all, why should we just sit back hopelessly and watch our world fall apart when we are perfectly capable of doing something about it? Of course, these are complex weather systems we are dealing with and, yes, the possibility persists that we could make things worse despite our best intentions. But, still. If we have the technological wherewithal and scientific know-how shouldn’t we at least explore all of our options?

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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