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We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning.

Paul Hobcraft

We need to shift from scalable efficiency to scalable learning but how can we liberate creative energy, how can we achieve higher engagement? The best way is to encourage everyone to have the ongoing experience, to get really involved and caught up in projects and initiatives that have the potential for impact. Learning from failures needs to be part of this.

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Podcast S4E74: Michael Raynor – Setting the right strategy for innovation and disruption

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Michael Raynor, Managing Director for the Deloitte US Strategy group, and author of numerous groundbreaking books on innovation, including The Innovator’s Solution and the Strategy Paradox. We speak about the link between strategy and innovation, what companies get wrong about disruptive innovation and understanding where your company is in the market.

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Four Things You Never Knew About the Suggestion Box

IdeaScale

It sits in break rooms, workplaces, foyers, and just about everywhere else: A humble box with a slot, a pad of paper, and a pencil asking for suggestions. Yet despite its simplicity, the suggestion box has a surprising history. Here’s what you never knew about this little box. It Started As A Political Tool There’s an ongoing … Continued.

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Innovation is a harsh mistress

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a big fan of science fiction. There's really nothing more interesting to me than to think about how the future will unfold, and science fiction is a great way to project what may happen with society and technology in many different future settings. I guess this is also why I always advocate for trend spotting and scenario planning. If we can begin to understand how the future will unfold, then we can spot new needs and create new products before markets and consumers are even aware - skating

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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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Using Innovation to Improve Your McKinsey Organizational Health Index Score

InnovationManagement

2020 proved just how important our relationships to banks and credit unions are as they worked to rapidly respond to the changing financial needs of their customers. The post Using Innovation to Improve Your McKinsey Organizational Health Index Score appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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5 Customer or User Journey Mapping Templates from Miro

InnovationTraining.org

These templates can help you better understand the customer or user experience. One of our favorite design thinking and innovation software tools , Miro, offers templates and resources for innovators looking to better explore and understand user experience and the customer journey. Customer journey mapping is an effective way to collaborate with team members while building out a realistic representation of the different steps or stages users go through before choosing your product or service.

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3 of the Best Uses for AI in Our New Normal

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Advances in artificial intelligence continue to provide entrepreneurs with exciting ways to improve their companies.

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5 Major Future of Work Trends Post COVID-19

Acuvate

5 Major Future of Work Trends Post COVID-19 The COVID-19 disruption has completely overhauled the entire business landscape by actively driving significant workplace transformations. Who would’ve predicted that most major companies will be making the bold move towards establishing remote work as a semi-permanent reality for their entire workforce? In the last couple of months, […].

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Solve Problems in Three Steps

Idea Sandbox

I love cheat sheets… pages, charts, process flow, lists that chop complex ideas into small chunks. The following is adapted from a design process presented in the endnotes of Seth Godin’s book “ Free Prize Inside.” This works extremely well for problem-solving, product development, and strategy planning. 1. Define the Problem.

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Socially Responsible Innovation Part Three: Non-Profits

IdeaScale

Socially responsible innovation is often the mandate of a non-profit. Yet, despite this, organizing and implementing innovation, especially in partnership with governments and for-profit companies, can present unexpected needs and challenges. In the final part of our three-part series on socially responsible innovation, we explore the challenge non-profits face, and how they can best be … Continued.

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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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Tips to Follow When Re-Fitting Your Business Model to the New Normal

Entrepreneur - Innovation

"Necessity is the mother of invention." Here's how to keep growing your business despite 2020's obstacles.

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How To Design Your Organization For Transformation

Digital Tonto

In today’s highly connected marketplace, the world has become fast and hierarchies are simply too slow. That’s why the desire for change is not nearly as important as the will to prepare for. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation’s Perception Gap

Wellspring

In business culture today, there is still a broad, albeit implicit, belief that innovation is innate. Whether you’re a person or a company, you either have it or you don’t. If Steve Jobs is your CEO, high-flying innovation is inevitable. Otherwise, you’re destined for mediocrity.

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Innovation in Media – Renowned Swiss Publishing House Launches Qmarkets’ Idea Management Platform After Successful Pilot

Qmarkets

Somedia – one of the largest media companies in Switzerland – have selected Qmarkets’ idea management platform to crowdsource ideas from their employees. Starting with a pilot campaign to tackle challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has now signed up for a two-year license with over 400 users. Somedia is a diversified media company, with over 700 employees spread across several subsidiaries focusing on digital, print, TV, radio, online services, publishing solutions, an

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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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Why CEOs Need to Take an Innovation Sabbatical

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Immersing yourself in another company could spark new ideas for your own. Here's how to get started.

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How Leaders can Facilitate Conflict Resolution

Tullio Siragusa

How Leaders can Facilitate Conflict Resolution. Conflict at work can either fuel or disrupt the momentum of an organization. When teams are working in a hectic and tense environment, it gives rise to disagreements and unnecessary arguments. Managing conflict can become challenging, especially for leaders who are not familiar with the intricacies of daily operations and the concerns of the team members involved.

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The surprising importance of Startup T-Shirts

IdeaSpies

Next time you walk down a busy city street, take note of how much you can tell about these strangers walking by, just from what.

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Storytelling Skills for Innovators

Innovation Leader

According to journalist and author Evan Schwartz, while an epic adventure may have many storylines, all journeys boil down to a basic structure…

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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 Remote Work Will Transform the Innovation Landscape and Establish a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Will entrepreneurs flee Silicon Valley and New York City in this new normal?

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Four insights on Achieving Resilient Growth Consistently

Rmukesh Gupta

The best selling authors of the book – Blue Ocean Strategy, recently sent an email in which they speak about the 4 pieces of advice they give to their customers on how to build resilient growth for their organisations. Here are the 4 pieces of advice. 1. Focus on building a healthy, balanced portfolio of market-competing and market-creating strategic moves.

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14 Benefits of Standard Work

Kainexus

Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, once said, “Without Standard Work there is no Kaizen.” That’s a pretty bold statement, but when you think about the continuous improvement cycle, it makes a lot of sense. How can you move from the current state to the desired state if the current state is a moving target? Standard Work , which documents the current best practice for performing a task or process, and ensures that everyone is applying it, is a prerequisite for improvement.

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These are the Finalists for Innovation Leader’s 2020 Impact Awards

Innovation Leader

Our 2020 awards will be presented online this October, as part of the year’s biggest gathering of corporate innovators, Impact 2020.

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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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Using The Both/And Principle To Increase Trust

Daniel Burrus

In a previous blog, I discussed Anticipatory Leaders using accelerated Hard Trends as we transition from a global shutdown. COVID-19 is still prevalent while people are returning to their offices or to physical businesses such as restaurants, gyms and hair salons. We are only scratching the surface of how one can utilize accelerated Hard Trends in technology to increase trust as customers return to physical locations of businesses around the world.

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Low-Touch Economy: what is it and how it can influence your business?

mjvinnovation

Not long ago, we were all removed from our social life and hurriedly migrated from offices to home offices in light of the serious global health crisis – the biggest in a century. The COVID-19 crisis is a milestone and will leave behind a legacy of economic and social changes in the personal and professional spheres. The economy will need to restructure itself, not just to return to its previous glory, but to evolve its metrics of success and get back on track with sustainable development.

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The 5 M’s of Kaizen for Managers

Kainexus

We often describe Kaizen as a way of looking at the world rather than a prescription for how to achieve positive change. Kaizen thinkers seek to make small changes to operations daily in search of higher quality, more efficiency, and less waste. But because the concept of Kaizen is so philosophical, it can be a challenge for people new to the idea to understand what it means in practical terms.

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5 Key Challenges In Returning To The Workplace

Acuvate

5 Key Challenges In Returning To The Workplace The post-COVID era is strewn with abundant challenges for organizations. As the new normal begins and leaders craft strategies to return to the workplace, they must strike a delicate balance between resuming standard practices on the one hand and embracing the realities of a transformed workplace on […].

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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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#1,866 – FastMRI

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

If you’ve ever needed to get an MRI then you know how painfully tedious they can be. Not to mention claustrophobic. But thanks to Facebook it may soon be possible to get MRI results in a fraction of the time. Engadget explains how it works: “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been providing physicians with vital insights into patients’ insides since their development in the 1970s.

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100 Reasons Why You Don't Get Your Best Ideas At Work

Idea Champions

Since 1987, I've asked 2,500 people where and when they get their best ideas. Less than 2% have said "the workplace.". Based on my 33 years of working with a ton of innovation-seeking organizations, here's my take on WHY you don't get your best ideas at work: 1. Too much to do, not enough time. 2. Too many distractions and interruptions. 3. You work in a risk averse organization. 4.

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Don’t Think Outside the Box, Find a Better Box

Stephen Shapiro

Today’s videobook installment moves us down the path of reframing problems a better way. We often hear the expression, “think outside the box.” But what if the key to better innovation and problem-solving is “finding a better box?” It’s not the expansiveness of your thinking that limits your range of solutions. You are often just looking in the wrong place!

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Participating and Hosting Effective Virtual Meetings

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: Can you hear me? You are on mute. I can’t hear you. Let me put on my headphones. Sorry, I did not understand, can you pls repeat that. Your voice is breaking off. There is a lot of echo. Can everyone go on mute please? Suddenly, these have become the most used phrase in our lives. Suddenly, we are in a place where all travel and the perks that come along with it, have vanished and we are expected to continue to be productive while working virtually.

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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