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4 Reasons Why People Resist Change

Digital Tonto

Probably the greatest misconception about change is that it fails because people don’t understand it. The truth is that change usually fails because it is actively sabotaged. The status quo has. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Pruning of neurons: how forgetting keeps your brain efficient

Idea to Value

Humans are a forgetful species. While we have an amazing ability to remember complex information and patterns, our brains can be given so much information that if we remembered everything, it would be a jumbled mess and impossible to remember any specific fact. Imagine that remembering something is like finding a pair of socks to wear. For most of us, that should be easy enough as we have a few pairs to choose from, already paired together in the drawer.

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5 Ways to Encourage Employee Engagement

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson How do we become disengaged? What triggers disengagement in employees? When employees are engaged they embody the vision, values, and purpose of the company.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

innovation disillusionment or just boring? You get this increasing sense that the ‘fizz’ has gone out of the innovation bubbly, we are seemingly in a trough of innovation disillusionment. The innovation party presently feels a little flat. When we turn up at those creative innovative parties today the numerous delicious canapés to choose from are turning up at the edges as we are becoming disillusioned, just being fed on a present unexciting incremental innovation diet, lacking any real substanc

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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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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

Highlights Companies as diverse as Xerox, National Geographic, and Circuit City failed to innovate, and suffered painful costs as a result. While a company can survive failing to innovate, it can cost the firm billions and damage its long-term outlook, trapping it in legacy markets or costing it vital personnel that move onto more creative [.].

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Turner Oak: The tree that was nearly killed, only to come back stronger

Idea to Value

In London’s Royal Botanical Kew Gardens, there is a tree which has inspired the world. It is an ancient, huge oak tree. Planted in 1798 and standing more than 16 meters tall, it has long been one of the most important and well known trees in the gardens. Called “Turner’s oak” after its species name, and native to Spain, the tree has been growing for hundreds of years.

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Tackling Societal Challenges through innovation ecosystem application

Paul Hobcraft

Tackling Societal Challenges with Ecosystem collaborations. Perhaps why innovation feels somewhat flat (well for me) is our organizations and societies are utterly failing to allow us all to step up in innovation to tackle those huge societal issues; those massive, growing problems that are swirling all around us. We need to shake out of our lethargy and really begin to attempt to solve the real issues of our time.

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Five Creative Ways to Use Customer and Employee Suggestion Boxes

IdeaScale

Highlights Customer and employee suggestion boxes can be incorporated into any innovation campaign Modern boxes should be digital, privacy-friendly, easy to use, and designed to collect useful data. The suggestion box is a classic tool for collecting feedback, yet you can get more from it than you realize. Here are five ways to update how [.].

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The value of Questioning

Idea to Value

Sometimes, before you start generating ideas, it makes sense to slow down and ask some more questions. It is normal to want to solve problems, and come up with solutions and ideas from the beginning. But how do we know that we are solving the right problem? Or that the problem we have identified is the root issue at all, or just a symptom of something else that needs to be fixed.

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More isn’t always better: What the trucking problem and poverty have in common

Christensen Institute

Supply chains have been hit hard since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. It was largely believed to be fueled by the trucking industry’s inability to keep drivers on the road as the pandemic impacted its workforce. Trucking companies had to increase wages, which ultimately lured drivers back. However this has not resolved the problem. Today, supply chains are facing another problem: the shortage of trucks.

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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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Project Resource Management: The Key to Delivering Successful Innovation Ideas

Sopheon

An innovative idea may never become a great new product if decision-makers aren’t working with accurate data to manage resources effectively. The post Project Resource Management: The Key to Delivering Successful Innovation Ideas appeared first on Sopheon.

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Sagicor Podcast: Using Data to Improve Efficiency and User Experience in the Financial Sector

IdeaScale

Sagicor is a full-service financial institution offering a wide range of products and services—everything from life and health insurances, to annuities, pensions, real estate, banking, and investment needs. The financial sector is constantly being shaped by technology and consumer trends. In 2021, Sagicor hosted its inaugural Data Innovation Challenge using the IdeaScale platform.

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Podcast S7E160: Eric Barker – Plays well with others

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast , we speak with bestselling author Eric Barker. Eric runs one of the most popular newsletters on the web to use science and psychology to improve your life, and I have been a fan for years. We speak about his new book Plays well with others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong , and the scientific insights we can all use to have stronger and healthier relationships.

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Three women’s health topics we should talk about

Christensen Institute

April 24th-30th was National Infertility Awareness Week in the United States. But for an issue affecting 12% to 20% of couples, it should get more than one week of attention. In light of its impact, I’m highlighting three women’s health issues around infertility and why so many still do not receive treatment. The first issue is the cost and inaccessibility of infertility treatments.

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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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Do You Need PPM or Continuous Improvement Software?

Kainexus

There are several technology solutions designed to help companies accelerate improvement initiatives and support business process improvement disciplines such as Lean and Six Sigma. So it isn't surprising that software buyers can become confused or overwhelmed by all the choices. When it comes to project portfolio management (PPM) and continuous improvement software, we find that buyers are often unsure about whether - and how - they differ.

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Sagicor Podcast: Using Data to Improve Efficiency and User Experience in the Financial Sector

IdeaScale

Sagicor is a full-service financial institution offering a wide range of products and services—everything from life and health insurances, to annuities, pensions, real estate, banking, and investment needs. The financial sector is constantly being shaped by technology and consumer trends, and in 2021, Sagicor hosted its inaugural Data Innovation Challenge using the IdeaScale platform.

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Innovation is About Conversations Not Knowledge

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell One of the most often repeated stories about innovation is that of Alexander Fleming who, returning from his summer holiday in 1928, found that his bacterial cultures were contaminated by a strange mold.

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Being Anticipatory Ensures your Place in a Digital World

Daniel Burrus

Technology and the disruptions it causes are a Hard Trend future certainty , in that it will continue to upend industry after industry without prejudice. There are a number of fears surrounding displacement by technology by both business leaders and employees in an array of industries, but the common thread ties tightly to automation software and hardware.

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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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Lean Management System: Principles and Software Tools

Kainexus

Organizations have adopted the Lean methodology worldwide to improve work processes, reduce waste, and achieve overall performance optimization. The approach grew out of the Toyota production system, which helped Japan capture the automotive market following World War II. Although there are other popular business management approaches, Lean succeeds because it focuses on improving business processes daily and delivering the end product to customers with the most possible value.

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If People Would Behave Decently, The World Would Be Decent!

Phil McKinney

Charles Dickens is quoted as saying: “If men would behave decently, the world would be decent.” This is so true! If we want to see a change in the world, it starts with each one of us behaving decently. When we are kind, compassionate, and respectful to others, we set the tone for how we […].

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Keeping Pace with the Latest Trends in Social Media and Online Video

Innovation Excellence

The ways we communicate continue to evolve. Keeping pace with the latest trends in social media and online video, while preventing your product or service from getting lost in the digital clutter, is a daunting task.

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Unintended Consequences

Rmukesh Gupta

When we are leading a team in an environment that is complex and full of uncertainty, it is important to understand that every decision we make will always have unintended and unpredictable consequences. As leaders, we need to not only expect that but go looking for it to ensure that the unintended consequence is not something that can have a significant negative impact on what we set out to achieve.

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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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The Current Horizon Planning Model is Broken

Moves the Needle

“What distinguishes the corporations that carry on growing is their ability to create [new] businesses. They can innovate in their core businesses and build new ones at the same time.” ( Alchemy of Growth , 1999). What stands out to me is the phrase “innovate in their core,” as this is exactly the opposite of the bimodal, dual operating, ambidextrous organization mythology of innovation.

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Creative Problem Solving Templates

InnovationTraining.org

These Miro and MURAL digital templates can be used in team sessions for problem identification and creative problem solving. Creative problem solving is a foundation of many of the innovation and design thinking processes. From identifying the problem, to studying it, and then brainstorming how to solve it, there are many factors at play that can be improved through the use of a digital whiteboard tool like Miro.

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Innovating Through Adversity and Constraints

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack It’s been almost two and a half years since most of us shifted to working virtually and remotely, which, in turn, seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits.

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The Top 5 Teamwork Skills Required to Succeed at Work

CMOE

Once you become a part of the corporate world, you will be required to work with teams, and the importance of teamwork is paramount. Working in teams is an integral part of how various tasks are performed, especially now. At present, most teams are diverse, many are dispersed, and all have become far more dynamic than they were before. Hence, you must have certain skills to carry out your work in a collaborative way.

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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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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO BASICS

ImagineNation

I was first introduced to the principle of “Personal Responsibility” when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series. At that time, in the late 1980s, the concept simply involved taking personal responsibility for the role you enact in challenging situations and when solving problems.

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Getting to “good enough”—the uphill battle for learning ecosystems (Part 3)

Christensen Institute

Key Points. Early learning ecosystems are only viable for families that have the time and means to coordinate multiple logistics on their own. For learning ecosystems to become viable mainstream alternatives to schooling, they’ll need to improve the interfaces they use to coordinate childcare, transportation, meal services, how they measure learning, and other basic functions of schools.

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The new Platform Navigator: How to Design and Implement Platform Business Models

The BMI Lab Blog

What do eight out of ten of the most valuable companies worldwide have in common? They are built upon a platform business model. Platform companies have been able to outperform traditional businesses by establishing themselves as digital intermediaries and facilitating transactions between stakeholders. Because traditional business models with a linear value chain are difficult to transform into platform business models, established companies are affected by this shift.

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Episode 090: College Graduates! Get a Head Start With These 5 Creativity Tips

Innovation in Practice

It’s graduation season! College seniors are getting ready to walk that stage, receive their diplomas, and enter the workforce. As a new graduate, working on your creative ability is important. Being an asset to your company by generating creative ideas will make you stand out and leave a great impression on your new employer. In every challenge you encounter in adult life, being able to think about and attack those situations creatively puts you a step ahead of everyone else.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your