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4 Strategies For Winning Over Innovation Naysayers

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FOUR QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN FACED WITH THOSE PUTTING A DRAG ON INNOVATION. Have you ever come across someone who exhibits “wet blanket” behavior? We recognize it when we experience it. Simple words extinguish ideas, zap energy, and gobble up enthusiasm: We don’t have time to innovate. We’re not set up for innovation. Innovation isn’t rewarded.

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Year of the Goat: The perfect time to get creative by slowing down

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It's the year of the Goat in Chinese Culture. And this means it's good news for anyone trying to be creative Gong Xi Fa Cai! It's Chinese New Year, and this year is the year of the goat (or sheep, depending on who you're talking to). Having grown up in Singapore, I appreciate the cultural […]. Originally published at Year of the Goat: The perfect time to get creative by slowing down.

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Why the Book "No More Business As Usual" Matters

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

The last decade has witnessed revolutionary changes to business across the globe. Today’s business leaders have to wrestle with diverse, intricate and multifaceted challenges: globalization, technological advances, digitization, climate change, organizational sustainability, a global credit crunch—the list is endlessly growing. There are substantial and vast changes yet to come that.

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Inside the Creation of D&B’s Cloud Innovation Center

Innovation Leader

An acquisition in 2014 gave Dun & Bradstreet a 49-person, cloud-focused software development team in Vancouver. Here's how that group has evolved.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging Newsletter – February 2015

Leapfrogging

How To Think About Turning Your Products Into Services. Eking out profits from products alone isn’t what it used to be. Thanks to the Internet and global distribution, consumers have access to lots of choices. That’s good for them but not so good for the folks selling those goods. Some companies know that products only get you so far, that services are the future-in fact, services already account for 75% of the global economy.

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Disruption

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The Global Innovation Imperative

100%Open

Excessive consumption, information overload, unsustainable growth, and spiralling inequality are complex global challenges that require unprecedented levels of coordination and cooperation. We urgently need to move beyond traditional approaches to innovation that are grounded in traditional “mechanistic” thinking, and constrained by national or organisational boundaries.

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4 Strategies For Winning Over Innovation Naysayers

Leapfrogging

FOUR QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN FACED WITH THOSE PUTTING A DRAG ON INNOVATION. Have you ever come across someone who exhibits “wet blanket” behavior? We recognize it when we experience it. Simple words extinguish ideas, zap energy, and gobble up enthusiasm: We don’t have time to innovate. We’re not set up for innovation. Innovation isn’t rewarded.

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