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3 Things Organizations Can Do to Create an Ethos of Transformation

Planview

There’s no question that the last few years have had a tumultuous effect on businesses worldwide. Economic stimulus efforts, a global pandemic, global tensions and geopolitical issues, societal unrest – all of those events have altered how organizations bring their products, goods, and services to market. Many companies have responded to this era of intense uncertainty with massive changes of their own, from enacting new operating models to architecting new customer experiences, and more.

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The Battle Against the Half-Life of Learning

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Leading with learning in mind is a necessary skill to consistently innovate as a team. Continually learning and revisiting skill sets is crucial to combating the half-life of learning. As leaders, it’s important to make time available to our employees to freshen up their skills and knowledge through programs and […].

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Why Consider Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment) Software?

Kainexus

Hoshin Kanri, also known as policy deployment, is the Lean management approach for aligning strategy, tactics, and improvement work organization-wide. The words Hoshin Kanri mean "management compass." When well executed, the method ensures that every employee from the front-line to top leadership understands the organization's most important objectives and works to achieve them by tackling major priorities and daily improvement projects.

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Establishing an innovative business platform adoption approach

Paul Hobcraft

The Combination Effect for Adoption in today’s world. The level of interest in business platforms in the B2B space has rapidly grown. Platforms are more viable and relevant today than ever. The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with.

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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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You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future

helloFUTURE

There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day jobs from the future which they are developing ideas for, and it is less restrictive than asking them to come up with an innovation that they can deliver today or… The post You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future appeared first on IDEATE+EXECUTE.

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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

When a transformational initiative fails, it's often said that it was because people don’t like change. That’s not really true. Everywhere I go in the world, no matter what type of group I’m speaking to, people are enthusiastic about some kind of change. It’s other people’s ideas for change that they aren’t so crazy about. Senior leaders love to tell me about their inspired visions for their enterprise, but complain that they can’t get the rank-and-file to go along.

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How to Synchronize Innovation Activities Across Your Organization

ITONICS

Reducing organizational silos is a persistent goal of many companies. The larger a company is, the more difficult it becomes to maintain transparency and align ongoing and planned innovation projects across the organization.

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Digitalizing innovation management systems empowers faster, more effective decision-making

Sopheon

Organizations must make innovation decisions quickly and accurately to remain competitive. Digitalization positions them to do just that. The post Digitalizing innovation management systems empowers faster, more effective decision-making appeared first on Sopheon.

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REST: The Art of Doing Less

Idea Champions

I know you are super busy, so I am going to keep this book review super short. Why do I know you are super busy? Because you are living in the age of information overload and, unless you are in a coma, traction, or jail, you are very likely feeling overwhelmed much of the time. Or as the White Rabbit put it, "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date.".

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Dunbar’s number

Idea to Value

How many people can you meet in your lifetime, and could you potentially keep in touch with? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? After all, there are people on Facebook with thousands of friends, or millions of instagram followers. According to research by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the number is actually likely closer to about 150 individuals. This is approximately the number of people which one individual can keep ongoing relationships with.

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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 Stay Innovative During a Recession

IdeaScale

Highlights Recession or not, the basics of innovation don’t change and should stay in place. A recession will shift your focus and needs and will change your metrics. Innovation is more important during a recession, especially in industries that are rapidly changed by it. A recession is defined as two quarters or more of negative [.].

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From 911 to 988, assessing the new United States’ hotline through the lens of Jobs theory

Christensen Institute

More than half of all people incarcerated in the United States have mental health issues, according to a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). In fact, every year 1.2 million individuals living with a mental illness are not receiving care because they are in prison. Individuals with mental health conditions need to be provided with mental health care, not unnecessary incarceration.

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Designing Your Organization for Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell The March on Washington, in which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, is one of the most iconic events in American history. So it shouldn’t be surprising that when anybody wants to drive change in the United States, they often begin with trying to […].

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To Make Better Hires, Learn What Predicts Success

Harvard Business Review

Tracking the performance of people who are already succeeding at your company will help you identify high-potential candidates.

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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 to Stay Innovative During a Recession

IdeaScale

Highlights Recession or not, the basics of innovation don’t change and should stay in place. A recession will shift your focus and needs and will change your metrics. Innovation is more important during a recession, especially in industries that are rapidly changed by it. A recession is defined as two quarters or more of negative [.].

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Why better data on students’ networks can start the school year off right

Christensen Institute

Back to school means back to building relationships. Across high school campuses this fall, the first weeks of class will be marked by new rosters, ice breakers, hopes and dreams conferences, and the like as teachers set out to get to know their students and to help students get to know one another. But before schools set to work on building new relationships, they should also pay attention to the relationships their students do and don’t already have.

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How to Create an Amazing Customer Experience on a Budget

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken With the current recession, employment issues and supply chain problems, companies and brands are struggling to provide the same experience they have in the past. Regardless of the cause, companies don’t have the budgets they once had to devote to CX. First and foremost, if you have to cut your […].

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Feeling Demotivated? Consider How Your Job Helps Others.

Harvard Business Review

Whether it’s clients, colleagues, or family, your work likely makes more of an impact than you realize.

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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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Gain Better User Adoption the Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

Gain Better User Adoption the Design Thinking Way. People tend to resist change when change means altering or replacing existing norms of doing things. A new system might fail when users do not accept it even though the system might be effective. Adoption, or lack thereof dictates just how effective a new way of doing things is or isn’t. At the same time, an inefficient system might create value among users if users decide to adopt it.

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How to Conquer Sustainability in the Supply Chain

ITONICS

T o tackle disruptions caused, for instance, by the energy crisis, the pandemic, or geo-political tensions, sustainable supply chains are vital. In addition, consumers' changing awareness and expectations for sustainability in supply chains pose challenges for the logistics industry. Dr. Kerstin Höfle from Körber Supply Chain was a guest in our podcast and gave first-hand industry insights into the most pressing challenges and emerging opportunities in logistics.

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Why Amazon Wants to Sell You Robots

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken It was recently announced that Amazon.com would be acquiring iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner. There are still some “hoops” to jump through, such as shareholder and regulatory approval, but the deal looks promising. So, why does Amazon want to get into the vacuum cleaner business? It doesn’t! […].

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Management Lessons from the Sinking of the SS El Faro

Harvard Business Review

What can we learn about how leaders and their teams communicate under pressure from the sinking of a container ship?

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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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IMBA Innovation Management Basic Accreditation™ – Online. Stockholm, February 27 to 1 March

Innovation 360 Group

Intro to Innovation Management methodology. The post IMBA Innovation Management Basic Accreditation™ – Online. Stockholm, February 27 to 1 March appeared first on Innovation360.

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The difficulties of adoption for the business platform

Ecosystems4Innovating

The adoption process. I want to relate adoption back to business platforms and anchor it in the process. Today business platform adoption is a struggle. It needs a clear revisiting of the theory of diffusion and adoption to extract the relevant points of necessary practice. What is vitally needed is the recognition that deciding on adopting a business platform approach has five stages or decision points to go through.

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Reset and Reconnect in a Chaotic World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Meeting face to face, for a lovely lunch recently, with a coaching colleague, we were both shocked to discover how stressed and anxious we were feeling about being asked to deliver live workshops and face-to-face coaching to clients once again. We shared how emotionally, mentally, and physically overwhelmed we felt, […].

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Rekindling a Sense of Community at Work

Harvard Business Review

A recent survey found that employees’ sense of community declined 37% during the pandemic. Here’s how to rebuild it.

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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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Episode 10 – Retrospective

IM Insights

About the Episode. Elijah Eilert is talking to Oliver Durrer. Oliver is sharing insights from his accomplished career in corporate innovation. He is also helping Elijah do a Retro on the podcast for this 10th episode: What went well? What didn’t go well? What to do next? This episode is a bit different from others as it focuses less on specific lessons for innovation teams and leaders and more on personal experiences. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change

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Building out the new Energy Ecosystem

Innovating4Energy

Building out the new Energy Ecosystem. I firmly believe the Energy System needs a very systematic and consistent evaluation as we undertake the changes from a fossil-reliant ecosystem into a clean, renewable one, with the overriding obligation to address climate change. As you consider a change of this magnitude, you recognize how complicated this becomes, and the deeper your thinking becomes, hence why I like thinking through this with the use of mind maps.

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Process Keepers Hold the Keys to Change

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you want to improve the work, ask the people who do the work. They know the tools and templates. They know the ins and outs of the process. They know when and how to circumvent the process. And they know what will break if you try to change the […].

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Craft a Measurable Company Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Step one: Make sure your purpose statement includes key stakeholders. Step two: Make sure your KPIs align.

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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