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Thirty Ways to Develop your Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Image by Stefan Keller on Pixabay Lateral thinking involves looking at things in different ways from everyone else. It means coming at the situation from the side rather than head on. It comprises thinking unconventional, heretical thoughts that challenge existing norms and the status quo. Here are thirty ways to foster your lateral thinking: Embrace Curiosity: Stay curious as you go through life.

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Learn How to Come Up with Innovative Ideas with Expert Tips

IdeaScale

Success in today's dynamic and competitive business environment is significantly influenced by innovation, serving as a key driver for progress. But coming up with innovative ideas is easier said than done. So, how can you unlock your creative genius and come up with ideas that will set you apart from the competition?

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If You Want To Lead, You Need To Embrace The Basic Human Need For Status

Digital Tonto

A simple truth about status games is that we all play them, whether we are aware of it or not. It is our drive for status that helps us form and signal identity, figure out who we are in relation to others and derive a sense of meaning about our existence, whether that meaning is rooted in achievement, care for those around us or our ability to enforce our will on others.

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The Top 10 Irish Innovators Who Shaped the World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia Ireland, a land of rolling green hills, ancient castles, and lyrical poetry, has also been home to some of the world’s most brilliant minds. From groundbreaking inventions to revolutionary discoveries, Irish innovators have left an indelible mark on history.

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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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How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork

Harvard Business Review

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees. In her new book, Never Not Working, Malissa Clark offers a three-step process for organizations to reverse this unhealthy relationship: 1) Assess your company’s baseline level of overwork and its origins; 2) Plan for incremental change by targeting places where change will be most effective soonest; and 3) Execute a trial experiment, learn, and iterate.

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Unlocking Success: The Key Questions You NEED to Ask About Your Stakeholders

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We now live in a world where we are going through a change of one kind or another. Even when we are not leading a change initiative, we are, at all times collaborating with others, who are not part of our team, people who have a different goal than our own, people whose contribution might be critical for our success. In such scenarios, one of the skills that becomes critical for our success is our ability to align and influence the various stakeholders that we work with.

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Agile Innovation Management (Part Two)

Innovation Excellence

Agility is an enabler for innovation. The pace of innovation, while not easy to achieve, has become the ultimate competitive advantage as we all need to adapt quickly to evolving environments, the digital age and increasing pressing needs.

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Is Your AI-First Strategy Causing More Problems Than It’s Solving?

Harvard Business Review

The problem with an AI-first strategy lies not within the “AI” but with the notion that it should come “first” aspect. An AI-first approach can be myopic, potentially leading us to overlook the true purpose of technology: to serve and enhance human endeavors. Instead, the author recommends following 3Ps during an AI transformation: problem-centric, people-first, and principle-driven.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: New approaches to solving women’s issues

Christensen Institute

In celebration of Women’s History Month, a very esteemed colleague of mine recently asked our team at the Institute if the theories we apply to issues in health care, education, and global prosperity could also be used to tackle some of the struggles women face every day, such as the gender pay gap or even more broadly, women’s rights. My first reaction was: absolutely.

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Barcelona: Exclusive Innovation Meetup 1 Copy

Qmarkets

Join us in Barcelona on March 14 as we host an exclusive meetup event hosted by Qmarkets director of innovation solutions Emma Sendra. The session will be a unique opportunity to meet, network, and exchange ideas among esteemed peers in the field of innovation. You'll enjoy a lunch provided by Qmarkets while engaging with other innovation leaders, drawing inspiration from their initiatives, and sharing best practices about everything related to innovation management.

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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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Ways to Create Something Truly Original

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell I study innovators for a living. Every year, I interview dozens of men and women who’ve achieved remarkable things. For my own part, I publish about a hundred articles a year and my second book, Cascades, has sold well since coming out five years ago.

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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The results are always disappointing: a lot of creative ideas, but a failure to deliver meaningful growth. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. To succeed, corporate innovation needs to be bounded by a clear set of strategic priorities that matter to the business.

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Leadership Beyond Position and Title

Phil McKinney

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, once said: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." This statement is a powerful call to action that should resonate with everyone who hears it. It urges us to step out from the shadows of passivity and indifference and assume the mantle of leadership, regardless of our position or status in society.

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She Never Wanted to Start a Business, But Chronic Insomnia Was Motivation — Here's How She Achieved $20 Million in Sales and 8 Hours of Sleep a Night

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Dr. Kathrin Hamm, founder and CEO of sleep-wellness company Bearaby, wanted to find a solution for her sleeplessness — and the products on the market weren't cutting it.

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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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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | After the Covid-19 pandemic, many corporate innovation units felt a sense of relief. Companies were optimistic, innovation budgets grew, and there was an increased appetite for out-of-the-box innovation. However, the business environment for corporate innovators has since shifted, and they are now being asked to do more with less. This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approa

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The Importance of Innovation at the Front End of the Energy Transition.

Innovating4Energy

The importance of innovation at the front end of the Energy Transition For me, the front end of the Energy Transition is vital. What I mean by the front end is that link where innovation, ingenuity and creativity get created. Today, this must be done through more outstanding collaborations, especially recognizing the value and benefits of ecosystem thinking and design.

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The Essentials: Setting and Maintaining Boundaries

Harvard Business Review

Expect people to test them.

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IBS 2024: Latest Home Buyer Trends Can Help Shape Marketing for Brands

Brunner

Would you be surprised to know today’s home buyers prefer exterior walls made of concrete or steel over traditional wood framing? Or that laundry rooms and home offices are now among the top features that influence a home buyer to pick home A over home B? Those findings and much more are packed into the 2024 “What Home Buyers Really Want” report , an essential source of customer insights for building supplies brands.

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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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Leveraging Venture Building for Long-Term Returns

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Corporates often grapple with the "Innovator's Dilemma," where the gravitational pull of the core business's existing processes, incentive structures, and risk models stifles the pursuit of groundbreaking innovation. The dilemma is further exacerbated by corporate governance systems designed for operational excellence rather than innovation.

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