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Leveraging The Power Of Story

Digital Tonto

Stories have the power to unite us because their themes are universal. We can all relate to a hero, identify with their struggle and then revel in their triumph or, as is sometimes the case, learn a. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)

Daniel Burrus

Corporations that create in this world facilitate so many integral pieces to contemporary life by way of manufacturing. Manufacturing is quite literally a backbone to so many other industries, generating components for medical devices, automobiles, electronics, and machinery that keeps everything progressing forward. All of these components frequently need to be replaced, or more often upgraded thanks to new innovations that create new capabilities and in turn create new needs.

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Grit: perseverance and passion for long-term goals

Idea to Value

When you are trying something new, you are likely to fail on your way. Repeatedly. In fact, one thing which separates highly productive creative people from others is just how willing they are to push through the hard times and keep going. It requires perseverance. And one of the best ways to explain what it takes to show perseverance is through a mindset known as Grit.

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Carbon Neutral Since 2020: Celebrating Earth Day and Our Commitment to Sustainability

IdeaScale

IdeaScale is more than software. We believe innovation means working together to create positive change in the world. And while our tech does this, we also put these values into practice in how we conduct business. In 2020, IdeaScale became the first carbon-neutral innovation management solution by reducing our carbon footprint and giving back to [.].

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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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Transforming What? Delivering Future Impact

Paul Hobcraft

Delivering Future Impact on Performance. As demand is more volatile today what becomes more important is the work to be done , not the work done. Surprisingly Adam Smith identified this important difference back in 1776. This can be explained as the work done is the accumulated knowledge, which has built up and been embodied in the firm’s results with the innovations achieved in the past and is seen as the tangible capital.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

Every year since 1993, on March 22 the United Nations has observed World Water Day. The day “celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people currently living without access to safe water.”. This year was no different. Stakeholders wrote articles, held events, and gave speeches about the importance of water and its lack of access for many in our world.

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Vancouver Coastal Health Case Study: Generating Ideas to Create Sustainability in Healthcare

IdeaScale

Creating a sustainable workplace has become a pressing concern for private and public entities alike. Reducing waste and carbon emissions demands new approaches, ideas, and strategies to develop momentum around sustainability, and a custom sustainability plan to fit each organization’s needs. Many workplaces have turned to idea sharing initiatives and brainstorming to craft business-specific approaches [.].

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Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Social Innovation. Social innovation is a means to develop and implement innovative and effective solutions to solve environmental or social issues. . It is a new perspective that provides systematic and practical solutions that can be applied to ongoing social issues. The needs of society are given priority in order to improve things like infrastructures, housing, and healthcare.

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How to Improve Return on Investment With a New Project Management Approach

InnovationManagement

Too often, leaders label projects as successes or failures based on budget and schedule expectations. Although time and cost are critical factors, they ignore whether the project delivered the expected benefits. The post How to Improve Return on Investment With a New Project Management Approach appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Podcast S7E158: Ayse Birsel – Design the life you love

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with award winning designer Ayse Birsel. Ayse has been voted one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, is a bestselling author, and has won international awards for designing everything from furniture to cars to toilet seats to vegetable peelers. Without knowing it, you are likely to have used something she has designed in your own life.

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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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Dispelling 3 common misconceptions to spur school progress

Christensen Institute

School leaders need accurate notions of how the world works if they want their school improvement efforts to succeed. Yet, many bold and promising ideas to transform schools falter when leaders rely on conventional wisdom about how to make these initiatives flourish. A few years ago, my colleagues and I released a research paper that unveiled common misconceptions about change management in schools.

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Believing Our Own Lies

Michael Michalko

Leon Festinger was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which suggests that when people are persuaded to say things and to behave in ways that are inconsistent with their beliefs, an uncomfortable psychological tension is aroused. This tension will lead people to change their beliefs to fit their actual behavior, rather than the other way around, as originally thought.

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‘Get in the Grove’ Campaign for IUP Takes Silver in National Education Advertising Awards

Brunner

As a public university with stellar academics, big-time research, and a warm, welcoming culture, Indiana University of Pennsylvania needed unique ways to help future students learn what the school has to offer. The IUP team wanted to reach target audiences in a way that wouldn’t look or feel like any other college’s recruitment campaigns. Brunner, as IUP’s marketing partner, got to work.

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Product Portfolio Optimization to Enable Growth at Speed

Sopheon

Portfolio optimization must reflect internal & market changes quickly. Learn how to position your company to leverage your data and uncover new opportunities. The post Product Portfolio Optimization to Enable Growth at Speed appeared first on Sopheon.

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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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Empathic Leadership: What It Is, Why You Need It, How to Do It

CMOE

In this fast-paced business world with ever-increasing demands, it is not uncommon for leaders to become absorbed in their work and priorities to the point that they either don’t see or forget about the challenges and adversities their colleagues, team members, and customers are experiencing on a regular basis. In a McKinsey study, almost 50% of respondents rated an empathic approach to workload balancing as a top factor in how favorably they viewed their organization’s culture during the [Covid

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TURN YOUR PROBLEM UPSIDE DOWN

Michael Michalko

This is a drawing of an old lady. To see something different change your perspective by turning the picture upside down. Reversing the way you look at it changes the drawing into something different. It’s the same with ideas. Change your psychology by reversing the way you look at the problem. Early nomadic societies were all based on the principle of “getting to the water.” Only when they reversed this perspective to “how can we get the water to come to us” did civilizat

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A Day in the Life of a Solutions Consultant at Planview

Planview

Someone once wisely said: “Always look at the solution, not the problem. Learn to focus on what will give results.” – Anonymous. In life, we sometimes face obstacles. But with a creative mindset you can find a solution! Well, the same thing can be said in the business world. Luckily, when companies face challenges and look for a solution to reach business goals, there are Solutions Consultants to hold our hands throughout the journey.

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A whole-health approach to skin care: Could hormones explain your skin issues?

Christensen Institute

Skin health often reflects our internal health, and many skin issues are driven by hormonal imbalances. Yet, when individuals go to the dermatologist, few have their hormones tested. This is the result of how we train providers to treat problems through the lens of their specialty. Dermatologists don’t generally cross-specialize in endocrinology. As a result, dermatologists presented with skin issues treat the skin, not hormones.

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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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Perfecting the process of strategy development: 8 steps to success

Cascade Strategy

You might have heard that we're a little nerdy about strategy development here at Cascade. What you might not know is that our nerdiness extends to a love of the fantasy series, The Witcher (and it’s not because Henry Cavill is built like the king of the lumberjacks).

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How to Become a Better Leader by Improving Processes

Kainexus

Many books and articles about good leadership focus on interpersonal relationship skills like communication, humility, and empathy. Of course, all of these traits are important for good leadership. Still, they don't directly address the most critical responsibility of a leader, which is to create systems and infrastructure that support employee performance.

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How to Balance a Culture of Conformity with Creativity in Medicine

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Medicine, by its nature, is a culture of conformity. We are trained to do no harm, be risk averse, and conform to the standard of care. We follow “best practices” i.e.

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3 Reasons Why Web3 Needs Protocols And Not Service Providers

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Service providers defeat the purpose of Web3. Anyone should be able to access vital Web3 utilities without costly barriers to entry.

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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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How Industry Leaders Enhance Environmental Scanning With ITONICS

ITONICS

According to the 2021 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Innovation Management Techniques, AI-driven innovation holds potentially transformative means to “drive high-impact innovation at scale through the discovery of new ideas and rapid progress through the innovation pipeline.” For several organizations, scaling environmental scanning solutions that will enhance the process without losing time and quality efficiencies is still a battle.

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Patient Safety, Just Culture, and the Nursing Profession after the RaDonda Vaught Conviction [Webinar Transcript]

Kainexus

We recently had Mark Graban, Senior Advisor at KaiNexus, Dr. Greg Jacobson, CEO of KaiNexus, Kelley Reep, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Rebecca Love, Chief Clinical Officer at IntelyCare, and Brian Weirich, Chief Nursing Officer at Banner Health, join us to discuss the recent conviction of a nurse who worked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, RaDonda Vaught.

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Innovations from 161 schools to aid marginalized students

Christensen Institute

This piece is authored by Chelsea Waite, senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). Encouraging innovation in schools right now can feel sorely out of touch with educators’ current realities. As I heard a school leader say in a focus group last fall, pushing for innovation is like “trying to remodel your kitchen when your living room is on fire.”.

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How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable Consumer

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently stumbled onto a video of Adam Morgan (Co-founder of eatbigfish and the co-author of a brilliant book – A Beautiful Constraint) shares his perspectives on how we live in an age of unreasonable consumers and what do we need to think about in order to succeed in this world where we are surrounded by unreasonable consumers. You can watch the entire video here.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Build a digital transformation roadmap in 8 steps + free template

Cascade Strategy

Digital transformation roadmap overview. Global spending on digital transformation topped $1.3 trillion in the wake of the pandemic. But much of this spending will go to waste because the efforts are led by the ill-informed. Why? Because they don’t have a digital transformation roadmap.

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Action Guide: How to Improve the Quality of a Process

Kainexus

When we talk with people who are interested in implementing a program for continuous quality improvement, one of the biggest challenges they share is the feeling of being overwhelmed. There are countless books and articles about how to improve the quality of processes. You are not alone if you are unsure where to begin. While it is true that you can spend a career learning about tools and techniques for achieving perfect quality, many of those who turn to us are looking for advice on what they c

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Can learning ecosystems work for all learners? (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

Key points. Right now, learning ecosystems offer flexibility and customizability at the expense of basic functionality and reliability. Over time, learning ecosystems will need to improve on functionality and reliability in order to become attractive alternatives to schooling. When school buildings closed during the pandemic, some families turned to learning pods , microschools , and homeschooling co-ops.

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3 Questions to Ask Before We Start Any Transformation Effort

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the biggest challenge when it comes to successful transformation efforts, is the stickiness of change in behaviour expected as part of the transformation. Any intervention is considered successful only if it leads to a lasting change in behaviour. And this is where most transformation efforts fail – they do not create a lasting change in behaviour that it set out to create.

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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