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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

What makes successful people succeed? A number of factors they come up with if you ask them may include: Hard work. Grit and being willing to keep going through challenging times. Having the resources to develop what you are thinking of. Focusing on quality, delighting the customer, being the best. A supportive network around you. etc. But one aspect which is often forgotten is also one of the most important: luck.

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Good Management Is Not Good Strategy. Here’s What Is:

Digital Tonto

One of the most annoying things I hear from leaders is that “we had a great strategy, but just couldn’t execute it.” That’s simply not possible. If you can’t execute it, it’s not a great strategy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Biggest Barricades of Innovation and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

Highlights Institutional inertia, narrow perception of innovation or what it needs to flourish, and short-term thinking can all be barricades of innovation. Break through these barriers by uncovering the reasons behind them and offering a clear and detailed innovation strategy. An effective innovation management platform can address organizational obstacles.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

Credit Chrisnaton, Flickr. I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. Sadly, it rings true as much as it did those (many) years back. “ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao.

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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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Waiting for inspiration

Idea to Value

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”. ? Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. While in some cases the brain is still forming creative new connections in the background , the real professional creatives know that the most important thing is executing.

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Book Review: A new way to think by Roger Martin

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to read and review a number of books in the innovation and strategy space, and I find many of the books have interesting insights or promote new ideas but often aren't overly actionable. However, I've always found the insights of Roger Martin useful. His book - Opposable Mind - is a great book about capturing and merging two disparate ideas or opinions to form new viewpoints, products or services.

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Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others

Tullio Siragusa

Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others. The cornerstone to growing as a company is teamwork. Teamwork is about getting excited for our peers’ wins and helping them win. Authentic leaders primary focus is caring for others and championing their success. Employees need to feel supported instead of being tested. Support leads people to work as teams instead of trying to stand out as individual heroes.

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Copy, transform, combine

Idea to Value

When people first start developing their creative skills for the first time, they often go through a similar sequence of learning and trying new things. They take something they already know and like, such as a drawing or song produced by a famous artist, and then: Copy it, until they can reproduce or perform it to a decent standard. Transform it, to change it and put their own mark on it.

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Creative Problem Solving Process

InnovationTraining.org

Learn more about this CPS innovation methodology here. When it comes to developing innovative solutions to unique organizational challenges or your own life, using tried and true methods to brainstorm ideas and find the best possible solution can be a great way to achieve your goals. One such methodology is creative problem solving, which will be defined and explored in this latest article from Innovation Training.

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Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools

IdeaScale

Remote work is here to stay. And despite two years of practice, many companies worry about what working remotely means for creativity, innovation, and culture—so to put those fears to rest, let's look at how remote work opens the door to diverse perspectives, and gives businesses the flexibility to face larger changes. Owning Remote Work [.

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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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Telehealth’s promising foothold in mental health

Christensen Institute

Since COVID-19 caused a spike in virtual care usage, innovators have been capitalizing on its growth in popularity. Digital health ventures raised over $29 billion dollars by the end of 2021, by far their biggest year to date. . Virtual mental health services were just one area that saw a massive boom in use as a result of the pandemic, and that momentum is lasting.

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Don’t worry what other people are thinking of you

Idea to Value

They aren’t. People think that any small mistake or embarrassment is going to be noticed and judged by everyone around them. Yet in reality this is not what happens. Even if you do something embarrassing, like falling over, forgetting a word while speaking, spilling coffee on your shirt or snorting while you laugh, and you feel like everyone in the world noticed, in reality that is just you suffering from the spotlight effect.

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How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses

InnovationManagement

To run a successful business, you must be able to complete individual and shared tasks regularly and reliably. One of the most significant components to achieving this is making sure you create actionable results in your meetings, conversations, and workflow. The post How Online Whiteboards Create Actionable Results for Businesses appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools

IdeaScale

Remote work is here to stay. And despite two years of practice, many companies worry about what working remotely means for creativity, innovation, and culture—so to put those fears to rest, let's look at how remote work opens the door to diverse perspectives, and gives businesses the flexibility to face larger changes. Owning Remote Work [.].

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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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How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Pacific Islands

IdeaSpies

Suddenly the Pacific Islands have become a hot election issue. That is because the Solomon Islands agreed to China using its own security guards to safeguard Chinese businesses and projects from attack and looting in the wake of recognising China instead of Taiwan. It raises the question; are the Pacific Islands Australia’s “backyard” (a description to which Solomon’s PM took umbrage), and if so, what could be done to keep out other powers such as China?

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What Does a Coffee Cup Tell you About Yourself ?

Michael Michalko

A motivational speaker had a table with a coffee urn and cups. Some of the cups were exquisite and expensive and others were plain. After an hour into his presentation, he announced a ten minute break and invited the participants to enjoy a cup of coffee. When the break was over and the participants were back in their seats, the speaker looked at them thoughtfully and then went over to the coffee table.

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Advancing Radical Innovation is Critical to the New Product Development Process

Sopheon

Understanding new product idea challenges early—and overcoming them—is critical to moving radical innovation forward. The post Advancing Radical Innovation is Critical to the New Product Development Process appeared first on Sopheon.

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Schools that aren’t measuring students’ relationships are leaving their economic mobility to chance

Christensen Institute

It’s become common knowledge that students who’ve returned to in-person school this year in the wake of the pandemic are not only experiencing potential setbacks in their learning progress, but also severe mental health challenges. Students most affected by these challenges continue to be those from under-resourced communities and homes across a range of needs from healthcare to basic WiFi access. .

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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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The Leader’s Guide to Making Innovation Happen

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Jesse Nieminen Many would-be innovators obsess over ideas, wait for inspiration to strike, and believe that with the right idea, success can miraculously come overnight. However, as we’ve written before, that’s just not going to happen.

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Turning Ideas into Innovations: An In-depth Guide

Viima

Every innovation starts with an idea. We all have ideas, even great ones, yet few people can bring them to life, and even fewer can turn them into innovations. The topic of how to turn ideas into innovations has sparked many conversations and filled the internet and libraries with potential solutions. However, we realized that many online articles on this topic barely scratch the surface or don’t dig deep enough to explore the ins and outs of turning ideas into innovations.

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The CEO of GoDaddy's Secret to Creating a Culture of Experimentation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

You can't just encourage people to try things nilly-willy, says Aman Bhutani. Effective experimentation requires a system.

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10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is a lot easier than most organizations imagine it to be. Innovation by definition is very different from typical business processes, and it should be in a constant state of flux. Waiting until you can get it totally right misses the point.

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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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Innovation Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Steve Blank Portions of this post previously appeared in ‘War On the Rocks’ Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams … Continue reading →

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The latest ten Governance ideas shared by IdeaSpies

IdeaSpies

Governance is very topical now in Australia with the Federal Election to be held very soon.

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Making Time to Be 'Useless' Is a Vital Part of Creating Anything Valuable

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Many of the inventions that changed our world were useless for a long time.

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How To De-Risk Innovation Investments And Prioritize Opportunities

ITONICS

If a company wants to create new products from unproven technologies, risk is unavoidable. In innovation management, you have to anticipate possible futures and emerging societal needs. To deliver on what customers will expect five years from now, you have to ideate and plan for that now.

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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

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The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Most doctors, scientists, engineers, business school grads and lawyers I’ve taught don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Water4: market-creating innovation at the heart of Sierra Leone

Christensen Institute

This is the first of a two-part blog series on Water4 and how it addresses a market need to provide clean and safe water in Sierra Leone. When I arrived in Sierra Leone in March of this year, I was struck by the vast number of people without access to electricity. I soon learned from a Sierra Leonean returning home from Canada that this was the norm.

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Using KPI’s to drive Peak Performance with Stacey Barr – The Performance Measure Specialist

Rmukesh Gupta

In this episode of Pushing Beyond the Obvious, we host Stacey Barr – The Performance Measure Specialist. Stacey is a specialist in strategic performance measurement and evidence-based leadership. She specialises in using practical performance measurement as the catalyst for creating a high-performance culture that achieves measurable success. She is also the creator of the PuMP® methodology.

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Creativity lessons

7innovation

First three Creativity workshops in Creative Incubator Enter Koprivnica was held in April & May. Sessions were called Creativity, Innovation and Innovators and Creative Cards and Innovation Plan.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?