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6 Innovation Exercises to Try With Your Team

InnovationManagement

Creative thinking and innovation don’t come naturally to everyone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good at them. Sometimes, teams need practice and routine to improve their creativity skills. This article will highlight some popular innovation exercises you can conduct with your team to get your creative juices flowing. These will be a combination of workplace exercises and ice-breakers.

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Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage

Digital Tonto

When we feel passionately about change, we want to take action. We want to take to the streets, argue against injustice. We want to make decisions, launch a business, get things done. Activity gives. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Find a New Way to Show the Facts

Destination Innovation

Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804) was an English polymath, philosopher, educator and scientist who is most famous for his discovery of Oxygen. In 1765 he published a “Chart of Biography” to accompany a series of history lectures. It showed the lives of famous people as lines on a chart. He said it would allow students to “trace out distinctly the dependence of events to distribute them into such periods and divisions as shall lay the whole claim of past transactions in a just and orderly mann

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Podcast S7E162: Angus Fletcher – Improving creativity through narrative and movement

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with Prof Angus Fletcher from Ohio State University. He describes himself as a “Story Scientist, and his team have been doing some interesting research into new ways of improving creativity and problem solving through narrative and storytelling. We speak about the unique link between motor neurons and creativity, how to use movement to spark creativity , and how artificial intelligence may never be truly creative.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a blue pill or a red pill. Take one, and you remain as you are. Take the other, and the scales fall from your eyes. Those of us who watched the movie or have seen it on ubiquitous reruns, know what happens next. As an innovator, it would be awesome to pop into a completely different meta-world to understand the hidden workings of the metaverse I just left.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

The Pathway Curve Methodology. The approach we take to embedding innovation in all its forms is a unique one that we call the Pathway Curve Methodology. Innovation needs to be worked at, to grow into a deeper understanding, over time. It needs to be understood in all its different forms and often many can become confused and disappointed by their initiatives by not taking a more measured approach to them.

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Artists create art

Idea to Value

So you want to be an artist. Why? It might seem like a simple question, yet can uncover a surprising truth if you dig deep enough. Because for many people, actually creating art is not as important as being seen as being an artist. In many art schools, the idea of being an artist is just as important as making art – Creativity Researcher Prof Keith Sawyer.

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Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking. Modern customer success efforts rely on providing unique and positive experiences to customers. As a result, businesses are getting competitive at an ever-increasing rate, trying to offer real value to customers to convince them to stay and plant seeds to come back in the future when they leave. . Because customers have a sea of choices in the market, convincing them to stay requires well thought out strategies to keep winning their hearts.

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WE DO NOT SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE

Michael Michalko

It might be hard to believe, but the two tables have the exact same dimensions! Measure both table surfaces with a ruler and prove it to yourself. Why, then, does the table on the left look elongated, while the table on the right appears to have a wider width? The illusion of two tables was first discovered by Roger Shepard at Stanford University. It comes down to how we perceive the scene.

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Building Support for Radical Innovation

Sopheon

Best practices for winning executive support and sources of funding for innovation projects. The post Building Support for Radical Innovation appeared first on Sopheon.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

Idea to Value

Are some people born creative? Or to say it another way, are some people born not creative? I hear this myth all the time. That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things.

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What Makes Digital Health Clinical Trials Different?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. For digital health entrepreneurs, unless your intended use puts you in the FDA category of a medical device, you don’t need to show that your product is safe and effective, let alone cost-effective.

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Why ‘offline’ digital learning is critical to impact children worldwide

Christensen Institute

As thousands of educators, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered at the recent ASU+GSV Summit, a growing number recognized both the need and opportunity for educational innovation in developing countries, particularly for the over 250 million children who lack access to schools. But many of the solutions proffered still focus on internet-based solutions.

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Five Digital Innovations To Help Elevate Your Retail In-Store and Online Experiences

Daniel Burrus

Consumer behavior has been dramatically altered since the global pandemic of 2020 first started, and we are not going back! Because we are armed with greater comfort in using digital tools to shop and buy, physical stores need to embrace a digital-first strategy to elevate their in-store retail experiences. What people want and need changes almost daily, and companies are always introducing new, innovative solutions to the average person’s everyday problems, but more importantly, are trying to s

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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Why is Lean Important? 6 Ways Lean Leads to Success

Kainexus

In every industry, continuous improvements in efficiency, production, and innovation pave the path to profitability. In the modern competitive business landscape, leaders must look for an edge in every element of their business, be it through higher quality products, lower costs, or shorter supply chain lead times. Lean management is a business model that can help organizations achieve these goals and more.

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The Need for a Dignity Economy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every era has its own ideology that creates assumptions and drives actions. At the turn of the century, titans like J.P. Morgan believed that monopolized industries provided stability against the disruptive influence of competition.

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Building and refining the interfaces in learning ecosystems (Part 4)

Christensen Institute

Key Points. For learning ecosystems to become viable alternatives to schooling for more families, they need “orchestrator” organizations to knit together learning experiences from diverse providers. Organizations such as VLACS, My Tech High, and Compass offer early examples of how orchestrators might work. The pandemic sparked unprecedented interest in new models of learner-centered education, such as learning pods and microschools.

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The Climate Crisis: What You Really Need to Know

Faisal Hoque

Climate change threatened to cut the global economy by $23 trillion.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Product management goes beyond product development; it involves nurturing a cohesive team. Collaborating with cross-functional teams can be overwhelming, particularly when objectives diverge. Establishing effective communication channels with team members and stakeholders can be a daunting task. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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Of Clouds and Clocks

Rmukesh Gupta

Sir. Karl Popper, in one of his lectures, elaborates about the presence of two types of systems – the clocks and the clouds. Clocks: At one end of the spectrum are Clocks. Clocks are those systems that can be taken apart to understand how they function and assembled back together and when done right, will continue to function the way they were designed.

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Creating Innovation with Hardcore Soft Skills

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Yadira Caro on the Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast. In the episode I define what innovation really is, how people, process and technology come together to create innovation and where people go wrong.

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Open Innovation: Strategies and Best Practice to Manage Partnerships

ITONICS

Traditionally, organizations have kept their idea generation within the company, but with the ever-changing landscape of technology and globalization, open innovation has become essential for companies that want to stay ahead of the curve. Bosch, for example, has recognized this need and established a best practice to foster centralized partnership management.

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CPG Industry Innovation

eZassi

The CPG Industry aims to continuously reinvent itself as the online shopper experience and the in-person retail customer both demand personalized, convenient, in stock, economical, and exciting products. CPG embraces constant change and ceaseless innovation to keep up with consumer demands while building brands customers rely on in their daily lives.

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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is critical for industry growth in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing risk landscape. When building your ERM program foundation, you need to answer questions like: Do we have robust board and management support? Do we understand and articulate our bank’s risk appetite and how that impacts our business units? How are we measuring and rating our risk impact, likelihood, and controls to mitigate our risk?

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How IoT Opens Up Opportunities for Limitless Growth in Manufacturing

Acuvate

IoT is changing the world as we know it. Industries are adopting this state-of-the-art technology to understand and make use of the available data sets. Retail, logistics, hospitality, you name it, everyone is vying to provide the best customer experience, become more productive and efficient and stay ahead of the competition. The manufacturing sector is no exception.

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Taking Personal Responsibility – Back to Leadership Basics

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I was first introduced to the principle of Taking 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 … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Evidence Based Storytelling in Innovation

IM Insights

About the Episode. Elijah Eilert is talking to Tendayi Viki about the power and pitfalls of storytelling in the context of innovation management. . A well told story has the power to move us, we are biologically programmed to buy into storytelling. The problem is that often in an innovation context a well told story bypasses logic and reason, selling a tall story devoid of facts.

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3 Common Team Challenges in the Workplace [& Solutions]

CMOE

There’s the saying, “Teamwork makes the dream work.” But what happens when challenges arise? How can you continue to make that “dream work”? Since collaboration can make up nearly 80 percent of a person’s role in an organization, it’s crucial to focus both on team interaction and the possible conflicts that can occur. The key is to anticipate potential sources of conflict in a team setting and address those challenges in a way that stimulates productivity, innovation, and improves morale.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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First Principles Problem Solving

InnovationTraining.org

Find training resources related to this problem solving technique. Popularized by the likes of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, the First Principles way of thinking was first developed and utilized by the philosopher Aristotle. This way of thinking can be used for understanding complicated problems and developing innovative solutions to challenges in organizations and in life.

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Surfacing Your Hidden Assumptions

Innovation Excellence

Successful strategy and innovation are about how fast you can become aware of your assumptions.

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Changing customer needs call for new business models in urban mobility

The BMI Lab Blog

Why is there a need for innovation in urban mobility? Urban Mobility is an industry with a long history, but it is also one of the most dynamic industries in recent years. Many new businesses have emerged, some with rather innovative business concepts and others without. The market is changing and has to evolve since the bulk of mobility occurs in cities and most towns are growing in population, which necessitates mobility, particularly flexible mobility.

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Water4’s NUMA–An innovative system that increases access to safe water where it is needed most.

Christensen Institute

This is the second of a two-part blog series on Water4 and how it addresses a market need to provide clean and safe water in Sierra Leone. In the first blog , I explained that Water4’s business model is a market-creating innovation (MCI) because it transforms a complicated and expensive product (safe water) into a simple and affordable product, thereby making it accessible to a whole new segment of people. .

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

The past three years have forever changed the retail landscape. Companies of all sizes were forced to welcome change with open arms and surrender to total flexibility in order to be agile in the ever-evolving economic environment. In 2023, we are navigating inflation and its impact on consumer spending, various lasting side effects from the pandemic, and a looming recession in the back half of the year.