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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. This is a fruitful way to identify innovation opportunities customers can’t clearly articulate. Involve Customer-Facing Employees.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand. But how do you hire for creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, and create the right culture to support and develop it? This makes the other parts of innovation process inefficient.