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What Is Corporate Social Innovation? Understanding the New Driver of Change

IdeaScale

The need for a socially appropriate goals and actions of a corporation has given rise to corporate social innovation where companies form partnerships with NGOs. What Is Social Innovation? Merely doing something that is deemed to be good is not social innovation. How to Drive Social Innovation?

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Maximizing Venture-Backed Company Success: The Importance of VC Investment in Operating Partners

Tullio Siragusa

Additionally, fractional CxOs are often more flexible in terms of their availability and can be brought on for specific projects or initiatives as needed, giving portfolio companies the ability to scale their executive team as their business grows. This could include areas such as sales and marketing, product development, or human resources.

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The Case for BOD Oversight Focused on Leadership: Good Leadership is Good Business

Tullio Siragusa

Oddly enough, there exists a long-standing bias that sees emotional intelligence and the ability to treat people well as a “weakness” rather than a strength in leadership. Another study by Gallup showed that highly engaged teams result in 21% greater profitability than those teams that are not engaged.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012. This lack of trust leads to poor collaboration, hampers problem-solving, and ultimately affects the overall success of the company. Result: This empathetic redesign led to increased market share and strong customer loyalty.

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Recession Proof Your Business the Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

People need these essential services and products during the good and bad times as well. Design Thinking as a philosophy encourages experimentation before launching products in the market that ensures creating value for people. All these step-by-step processes after idea generation eliminate bad design.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Innovation Software

PlanBox Innovation

Whether it’s Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint, to name a few, we all use one tool or another to communicate with team members. But as good as these tools are for conversations, follow-ups, and meetings, they nonetheless lack the capacity to bring ideas to market through collaborative concept development.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.