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How to Increase Employee Engagement and Productivity at Your Business

Qmarkets

It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees. Highly engaged employees, on the other hand, are invested in their work. Are Engaged Employees More Productive?

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How to Increase Employee Engagement and Productivity at Your Business

Qmarkets

It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees. Highly engaged employees, on the other hand, are invested in their work. Are Engaged Employees More Productive?

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How To Increase Employee Engagement and Productivity at Your Business

Qmarkets

It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees. Highly engaged employees, on the other hand, are invested in their work. Are Engaged Employees More Productive?

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Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement

Qmarkets

While usually this is said in reference to people, we at Qmarkets know it’s also very true for web products and applications – especially when you are aiming to maximize engagement and usage.

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Enhancing Your Homepage to Boost Ideation Engagement

Qmarkets

While this is usually said in reference to people, we at Qmarkets know it’s also very true for web products and applications – especially when you are aiming to maximize engagement and usage.

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Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures

Tullio Siragusa

Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures. People who find their work meaningful are happy, better engaged, and able to deliver exceptional results for the business.”. Belonging is the crucial piece of the puzzle to building highly engaged cultures, leading to better collaboration and problem-solving.”. It starts with referring to people as assets, resources, human capital, and even employees?—?as

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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

Alignment of an organizations strategy and innovation approach is essential and this needs to flow and connect from the top, but I have often felt there has not been a suitable engagement platform to gather around and work through to build a robust, well-connected innovation capability.

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Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead

Paul Hobcraft

KPMG offered their thoughts on space, diversity and interactions KPMG is investing significantly in engaging, multisensory physical spaces— called Ignition Centers—that offer bespoke in-person interactions that are strategic and purposeful.

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Getting back to the Future about Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

We have actively collaborated and designed tools and frameworks over the years that we believe had some of our insights “baked” into them to offer valuable reference points to help us all work through connecting innovation in hopefully better ways.

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Mapping Out Your Innovating Way Forward

Paul Hobcraft

Second, there is the need to build reference points for future innovation activities , so duplication and learning can be built into understanding. This provides identification and reference. Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com. Mapping any innovation journey can be complicated.

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East meets West in understanding Innovation Cultural Orientation

Paul Hobcraft

Often we do not stop and think of the real differences culturally in how we want to0 engage and build relationships between the East and the West. East and West- the different meeting points in understanding.

Meeting 297
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Establishing an innovative business platform adoption approach

Paul Hobcraft

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. Each of these needs a definitive engagement process by the business platform provider.

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Engaging Freelancers To Benefit from the Gig Economy

Rmukesh Gupta

They also are choosing very carefully which businesses they want to engage with. Is it based on ratings and references? How do we validate these references and ratings? #3) Productive Engagement: Once the freelancers are on-board, we need to think of ways to help them be extremely productive and engaged with their work. It is very likely that they will also be engaged in providing services to other businesses as well.

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

It moves from many “strands” of systems into one of building on one “single point of reference” that ecosystems achieve by being built and designed for a more cohesive set of innovation activities.

Design 191
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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

So let me get back to what this post is about, providing critical reference points on technologies we need to improve and innovate. Let me briefly reference different sections of the IEA website.

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The Simple Approach to Employee Engagement

The Human Factor

Creating an engaged workforce where employees bring all their skill, talent, passion and energy to work every day isn’t rocket science. Which leads to the question, if employee engagement is so simple, why do so many companies struggle to get it? Employee engagement works like a light switch. My goal was to point out in a humorous way some of the things leaders and managers do and don’t do that turn the lights out on making employees feel wanted, appreciated and engaged.

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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

” A groundbreaking report, “ Net-Zero by 2050: a roadmap for the global energy system “(referred to as NZE here) by the Internation Energy Agency (IEA), has been emphasising that this decade is pivotal to reaching net-zero by mid-century.

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Linking sense of innovating purpose

Paul Hobcraft

So here are my points of focus with a number of reference links that I have selected and written upon in the past. Dip in, take a look, and go further by viewing the key reference tabs provided on the right-hand side. Linking innovation needs constant evolving and recognizing.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

Then the whole 4th Industrial Revolution shifting the industry from islands of expertise into networks of collaborations was my next point of focus, connecting industrial IoT by offering a reference and engagement platform. The Gordian Knot We Are All Facing.

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Confronting Your Darwin Effect through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I am happy to discuss this and how this can be applied to your organization and what it means in engagement and commitments. there are plenty of reference points to trigger your thinking. Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation. It is so hard to let go!

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Innovation: the accelerator for the changes in our energy transitions

Paul Hobcraft

I have been building out my innovating4energy.com insights and offerings as a source of reference and opinion. No energy transition will be achieved without invention and innovation, yet we are currently failing badly to fund research, development and deployment.

Change 138
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Human-centred innovation in a digital world.

Paul Hobcraft

Reference Links. Siemens is paying for my engagement, not for promotional purpose. Today we are facing many current disruptions where we need to react fast and intelligently. There are many situations we are facing that are a race against time.

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The art of “Back Casting” needs care

Paul Hobcraft

Backcasting is a planning method that starts with defining a desirable future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that specified future to the present. The fundamentals of the method were outlined by John B. Robinson from the University of Waterloo in 1990.

Roadmap 265
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Defining Innovation Capital

Paul Hobcraft

My reference site provides a basis for this to begin to explore and build a greater understanding of what makes up your innovation capital and its dynamic parts.

Industry 242
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Energy technology needs more rapid innovation cycles

Paul Hobcraft

Brief Description – (shortened here for ease of reference). I have been consuming the latest flagship report, released today, 10th September 2020, by the IEA called “ Energy Technology Perspectives 2020.

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A new normal is upon us, the paradigm shift that will change the World.

Paul Hobcraft

“We are entering what I refer to as a #NovelEconomy. There is a real increasing pressure to totally reinvent my business. The past business paradigm of reaching out, providing value, and making money is still there.

Change 310
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Seeing the Energy Transition in Different Horizons and Innovative Ways

Paul Hobcraft

My research ‘intensity’ (If I can call it that) had to become well structured, and I turned to some of my favorite, perhaps old fashion tools to capture my learning and give me my points of reference.

System 254
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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste. Adding Slack to this suite of integrations will ensure that more customers than ever before will be able to engage their employees without having to onboard them with a new tool.

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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste. Adding Slack to this suite of integrations will ensure that more customers than ever before will be able to engage their employees without having to onboard them with a new tool.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste. Adding Slack to this suite of integrations will ensure that more customers than ever before will be able to engage their employees without having to onboard them with a new tool.

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How to Engage the Business Units to Lead Innovation

CREATORS

One of the main challenges in leading innovation processes in a large corporation is to engage the Business Units’ leaders and the employees of the company and persuade them that although everything works great (for now), doing things differently might be the right thing to do.

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Innovation Ecosystem Understanding through an AI-driven approach

Paul Hobcraft

We look to engage in issues and challenges that give value and impact, sometimes it works, other times less so! Storyroom provides a set of unique datasets and AI to meaningfully connect concepts, ideas or thoughts, to drive awareness and engagement.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Engaging Smart Recommendations. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste. In our Fall 2019 release, we’ve introduced a powerful feature that will allow you to increase engagement across subsystems and make it even more seamless for your end users; interconnectivity. This is why engagement is such a crucial aspect of any innovation project.

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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

We live in what is commonly referred to as a digital age. Often you hear the request made: “Can you give us a best practice snapshot; we would like to get a sense of where we are”.

Learning 146
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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

Equally, if you go to my dedicated page where I keep many of my tools and methodologies for easy reference here in this posting site insights and thinking , you get a fair amount of knowledge, collections and insights pulled together on this one tag or page.

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Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Beginning to engage with my own network of innovation experts. One major reference point here is Siemens Xcelerator, which only launched on 1st July 2022. Use of my Point of Reference: www.ecosystems4innovators.com. The Innovation Ecosystem Cascading Effect.

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Evolution of Strategy: From Business Buzzword to Measure of Success

Cascade Strategy

Does it refer to corporate or business? Cascading & Engaging People With StrategyWhat is this “strategy” that we hear so often in business jargon? Marketing or product design? Does it matter? Defining the term might be simple, but “figuring it out” is not easy.

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We are falling badly behind on our invention in technology for the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

So let me get back to what this post is about, providing critical reference points on technologies we need to improve and innovate. Let me briefly reference different sections of the IEA website.

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Going beyond the known of today

Paul Hobcraft

To provide support in generating the thinking towards innovating energy solutions I have established three focused points of posting or reference sites on energy to build out my contribution towards the Energy Transition.

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Nesta’s Landscape of Innovation Approaches

Paul Hobcraft

They climb into the tools and offer some great guidance and clarity to the links they have found, as their reference and introductory information. I really think this “Landscape of Innovation Approaches” is a terrific source of reference for practitioners as well as theorists to work through. You sometimes need to kick yourself. Well in my case that seems to be increasing by the day. I have to confess I have drifted in and out of checking on Nesta , based in the UK.

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My multipliers for innovation at the Front End of Energy

Paul Hobcraft

My dedicted posting and website references, if you are interested, are shown in the about section.

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East meets West in understanding Innovation Cultural Orientation

Paul Hobcraft

Often we do not stop and think of the real differences culturally in how we want to0 engage and build relationships between the East and the West. East and West- the different meeting points in understanding.

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Innovation Capital Lies Within Organizational Learning

Paul Hobcraft

The approach to the organization and the way employees engage in innovation are grouped. The employees’ knowledge (technological and non-technological) engaged in the innovation process. Internal learning” refers to the creation of new knowledge within the enterprise, while “external learning” pertains to the integration of knowledge from outside. We need to know how to unlock the real value of innovation both personally and within the organization, we work for.

Learning 202