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Reimagining the Future of International Events

Business and Tech

Face-to-face events are essential for so many organizations globally, from meeting planners organizing events, to services providers and the entire hospitality industry. Applying some of our learnings from 2020, we are experimenting with a new model in 2021.

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

If you have an event and are planning to book an inspirational speaker , ensure that the topic highlights how creativity can be enhanced, at any age. Instead, the best way to set success criteria is to agree on how progress will be validated and measured over the span of the project.

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Handling Total Uncertainty: Lessons Learned from Leading Moon Shot Projects

Innovation 360 Group

2020 Events Client Event Event WebinarsSeptember 15, 2020.

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Vitamins Don't Have a Triggering Event

Leanstack

How I learned to stop procrastinating and start realizing that now is the best time to launch or pivot a new product offering or startup – yes, despite the pandemic. There isn’t a clear triggering event for either. Every product switch requires a triggering event.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

projects moving. ciencies Learning about the. right behavior, activities, and projects. ectiveness of innovation A Framework for Measuring Innovation Learning Zone D EG RE E. to learning Innovation is happening Innovation is having the. The event had an online.

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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? Learning from failures needs to be part of this. They are consciously advancing learning.

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14 Event Marketing Strategy Questions You NEED to Ask Early

BrainZooming

I mentioned in an earlier article how the Gas Can event on June 24, 2016 was “half empty” at best. After the event, I posted on Facebook about how difficult it is, once you’ve produced events, to sit in the audience and not re-produce an event with major production problems. Instead, how about a list of 14 event marketing strategy questions you can use the next time you or your organization plan an event?

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Learning Experience Design (Top Questions and Answers about LXD)

InnovationTraining.org

These are some of the top questions people have about learning experience design (LXD). Read on for the answer summaries for each frequent asked question about designing learning experiences. What is learning experience design and why is it important?

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How to Run a Virtual Design Thinking Project with Remote Teams

InnovationTraining.org

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. Staying on track: Throughout a design thinking project, teams need to repeatedly shift gears from diverging to converging, and apply different tools and mindsets at each stage of the process.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Experiential Learning Accelerates Innovation. New Study: Drawing is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn. I read with interest an article stating that drawing accelerates learning. Using experiential learning tools like drawing isn’t really new in innovation process. Sunni Brown , Dave Gray , Dan Roam, and yours truly all use experiential learning tools in innovation projects. They don’t know how to scaffold a learning experience.

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Project Management – 8 Chracteristics of a DRI

BrainZooming

What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? The acronym represents someone we’re always looking for in project management to make sure we will make progress. Amanda Sibley recommends making sure you have at least one DRI for each significant activity in lead generation projects (which was the topic of her presentation at the Social Media Strategies Summit). Project Management and 8 Characteristics of a DRI.

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7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from Our Escape Room Fail

BrainZooming

7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from an Escape Room Fail. Our fail suggested seven solid project management skills we neglected to use. If you’re visiting an escape room or are suddenly hit with a new, time-constrained challenge, here are the project management skills you shouldn’t forget! We didn’t select a project leader. Without a designed project leader , the person that just found a clue or more boldly advanced an idea assumed leadership.

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Upcoming Event:Product Hunt Columbus – Sept 28th

Taivara

This month, we’re partnering with Cbus Product Club to deliver a new, interactive event that will bring members of CBus product club together with the Product Hunt. You will hear stories from local product creators about their Product journey, learning’s and approach towards building and shipping products. The post Upcoming Event:Product Hunt Columbus – Sept 28th appeared first on taivara.com. Product Hunt - Upcoming EventUpcoming Product Hunt Columbus.

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LP webinar: How To Successfully Work With Transformation Projects

Innovation 360 Group

And yet, research shows that up to 70% of transformation projects fail to produce desired results–a huge miss. Eastern time for an exclusive online event. You’ll gain valuable insights on how to successfully design, sell, and deliver transformation projects as a licensed practitioner. What kinds of transformation projects are most relevant to businesses now. Ways to identify hurdles to the transformation project. Events

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

From the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally.

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

From the Be-novative Partner Hub The Be-novative Partner Ecosystem is a Hub of people and resources whose main goal is envisioning, accelerating and scaling the success rate of both organizational and product-development, creating impactful projects and meaningful solutions locally or globally.

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Design Thinking and Scrum: taking your projects to another level

mjvinnovation

The key factor to help you leverage your business may be the combination of project management methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Scrum. Below you will learn how these two approaches can complement each other, their benefits and how to properly use them in your business. In another project, this time for the Hospital sector, we were able to understand how the patient’s experience cycle worked and how new solutions can be developed. The project director.

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Design Thinking New Ways of Learning & Working

InnovationTraining.org

Since then, I’ve seen many people that I learn from about working and innovating virtually post some of their favorite tools to use. We took this on as a design thinking project and used a Miro online whiteboard. New Learning & Development. Learn a New Software.

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Future Trends 2021: People Experience and Challenge-based Learning

Be-novative

Even if this purpose is just for the project team, asking ‘why do we exist?’ LEARN BY EXPERIENCE?—?BY The future will transform the way people learn and upskill to be capable of doing more tomorrow than yesterday.

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How to Guarantee an Innovation Project Team Will Fail

Your Ideas are Terrible

Innovation leaders must learn the art of rapid decision making. If teams working on innovation projects are conscious of their speed and rewarded for their throughput, they will find their way from the good ideas to a great one. Focus on creating an environment for innovation project teams to thrive. Making quick decisions and taking action results in learning and *gasp* progress, so our large teams won’t learn anything or experience any sense of progress.

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Want Innovative Teaching? Apply Startup Principles to Reinvent Learning.

InnovationTraining.org

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. Apply Startup Principles to Reinvent Learning.

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Innovate like a professional with the Discovery Burst Event.

Mike Shipulski

The Discovery Burst Event (DBE) is the mechanism to do the work It’s a week-long event where marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and technical services perform structured interviews to get to the root of the customer’s problems AND, in a Go-To-The-Work way, walk their processes and use their eyeballs to discover solutions to problems the customer didn’t know they had.

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Corporate meets Startup: 3 reasons why you should participate in tailored Matchmaking events

etventure

Business Matchmaking events are a great platform to establish valuable connections and unique business opportunities. Such events are a powerful networking experience for various stakeholders. What is a Matchmaking event? Business Matchmaking events come in different shapes and various formats. These events have generally a clear industry focus. Want to learn more? Meet, mingle & connect!

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Another Good Year for The Good Men Project

CorporateIntel

I have just finished my third full year on the board of directors and as strategic advisor to The Good Men Project. Every day we publish no fewer than thirty new stories, and every day we learn something about ourselves and each other. If you’re not yet familiar with The Good Men Project, we are an editorial site that focuses on men’s issues in the 21st Century. Something is definitely going right at The Good Men Project.

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Case Study: Regional SME Development Project Brings Innovation Lift to Manufacturing Hub

Innovation 360 Group

They are less impacted by macro events, which can offer an advantage over regulation-bound corporations. Acknowledging the need for pursuing deeper impact over a wider area, the Growkomp Regional Development Project was designed to develop the innovation capacities of 22 manufacturing companies in the Småland regionof Sweden over a two-year period. The EU funded-development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 Innovation area in Growkomp project was very interesting.

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The One Question Innovation Culture Assessment

Gregg Fraley

If you listen, without judgment, you’ll learn. Solving an innovation culture problem isn’t easy, but your solution had better include interesting, compelling, and fun, Projects. Projects are how cultures actually change. If you want to learn more about your innovation culture, look for evidence of a culture of humor. Are You Having Fun? Innovation Should Be Fun, Joyful, and About Playing With Concepts. The One Question Innovation Culture Assessment.

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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc.

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. They spend lots of time looking at new ventures and university projects in order to report what is happening back to a parent organization or parallel organization, which is largely consumed with other issues, like keeping the main business running and satisfying their existing customers. The corporation must learn to execute in these new areas to stay successful.

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. They spend lots of time looking at new ventures and university projects in order to report what is happening back to a parent organization or parallel organization, which is largely consumed with other issues, like keeping the main business running and satisfying their existing customers. The corporation must learn to execute in these new areas to stay successful.

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How to Engage People with Ideation and Challenge-based Learning

Be-novative

Learning and sharing knowledge in the Be-novative Partner Ecosystem After the high energy and high attendance kick-off of the Be-novative Partner Hub on the 24th November 2020, we have gathered again online on the 10th of December for our second session.

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How to Engage People with Ideation and Challenge-based Learning

Be-novative

Learning and sharing knowledge in the Be-novative Partner Ecosystem After the high energy and high attendance kick-off of the Be-novative Partner Hub on the 24th November 2020, we have gathered again online on the 10th of December for our second session.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

Taking a page from Scenario Planning and almost exclusively focusing on the “emblematic events”1 paths, it is a lightweight, yet structured, way for innovation and R&D teams to channel their imagination to productive ends. When presented with a clue or insight, it is common to immediately formulate ideas about which innovation projects to launch. [This blog post was reproduced from an original paper on Future Building.

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Learn in small batches, rinse and repeat.

Mike Shipulski

Sometimes there’s a tendency to spend months to define the market, the detailed specification and the project timeline and release the package as a tidal wave that floods the organization with new work. Instead, start with a high-level description of the market, a rough specification and the major project milestones, all of which will morph, grow and inform each other as the team learns. Refine and revise based on the learning, and rinse and repeat, as needed.

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How to Get Buy-in for Your Innovation Project

Planview

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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Why Don't We Reflect & Learn?

Michael Roberto

Most leaders acknowledge the value of learning from past experience. Some organizaitons have established highly regarded best practices for deriving lessons learned from past projects. Army pioneered the After-Action Review process, and it has documented the substantial benefits derived from the systematic use of this lessons learned methodology. What seems to be preventing these powerful learning experiences from occurring in organizations?

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6 Business Future-Proofing Lessons We Have Learned The Hard Way

The Human Factor

There are definitely lessons to be learned in this area, and here are the most prevalent ones that will help your business to absorb something like this in the future. We have all learned that some jobs and roles can be done at home. pixabay.

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How Corporations Can Manage New Ventures and University Projects as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development

Corporate Innovation

In this manner, companies are now more symbiotic with new ventures and university research projects than ever before. They spend lots of time looking at new ventures and university projects in order to report what is happening back to a parent organization or parallel organization, which is largely consumed with other issues, like keeping the main business running and satisfying their existing customers. The corporation must learn to execute in these new areas to stay successful.

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How to Get Buy-in for Your Innovation Project

Planview

Getting (and retaining ) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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On-Demand Webinar: The Intersection of Sustainability & Open Innovation

Yet2

After the live event, one attendee, Arlene Cotie, sustainable AG – innovations lead at Bayer told us, “This webinar provided useful learning as to how other companies are thinking about sustainability without having to invest a week at a conference.”.

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Skills Kids Should Learn Today to Become More Successful Adults

The Human Factor

Most of us have to engage in lifelong learning to make the most out of the opportunities that surround us. Project management skills come with practice. Schools should give them small projects, such as setting up a charity event, organizing a raffle, or doing a presentation about the school. If kids were taught how to present their ideas and organize projects, they would find it much easier to transfer from education to the world of business.

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Chatbots in Government: Streamlining Communication and Processes

Acuvate

Onboarding : Chatbots can assist new employees with onboarding, helping them navigate paperwork and learn about company policies. Informing the public about upcoming events, such as town hall meetings or community outreach initiatives.

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Innovation 101

Gregg Fraley

You’ll learn the most essential things to get a continuous innovation program going, while navigating a road full of potholes. The ticket price for the online event is $100. Kick Start Ideas That Lead to Growth.

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Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation

Gregg Fraley

We were at a social event. I replied “you need to be thinking about project cycles and measures.” I added my punchline, “because if you’re not doing projects you’re not doing innovation.” After a bit of gab about projects, Design Thinking, and other industry buzzwords, I promised to get back to him with a more thoughtful answer — and then I changed the topic! My “projects” reply is a cocktail party answer.