Divergent Thinking

Divergent thinking is the process of generating creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner.

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Growth Opportunities

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Innovation Adoption Model

Innovation Adoption Model

A framework that helps to explain how and why individuals or organizations adopt innovations.

Innovation Training

Innovation Training: Programs that enhance skills for creating and implementing new, value-driven ideas within an organization.

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Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Crossing the Chasm of Complexity

Innovation is a U-shaped process that can be challenging in the middle. To get through, you need to rely on instinct, momentum, courage, faith, determination, and compassion.

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Customer Service Lessons from Innovative Brands

Customer Service Lessons from Innovative Brands

Predictive analytics can help businesses understand their customers' needs before they even express them.

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Difference of convergent and divergent thinking in ideation

Difference of convergent and divergent thinking in ideation

Convergent and divergent thinking are two concepts applied in ideation and problem-solving. This article explains their differences, examples of how they are used, and how to integrate them for generating ideas.

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Disruptive Innovation Methodology: K³.P.I.

Disruptive Innovation Methodology: K³.P.I.

This article discusses a unified model for disruptive innovation, K³.P.I., and the knowledge space, path dependency, and knowledge fusion that contribute to it.

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Failing to Innovate While Surrounded by Ideas

Failing to Innovate While Surrounded by Ideas

We are surrounded by thousands of ideas, yet our economy and growth seem stagnant. Innovation is the key to breaking this cycle and creating solutions to various challenges.

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Forget Best Practice, It's All About Next Practice

Forget Best Practice, It's All About Next Practice

Best practices are highly individual and cannot be simply copied by others. Instead, we should shift to next practices that cater to digital transformation.

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Grow your business through Automated machine learning

Grow your business through Automated machine learning

AutoML is an innovation that makes data science easier and more efficient. It automates the process of data preparation, feature engineering, hyperparameter optimization, and model selection, resulting in valuable insights and accurate models.

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How do the diversity of your workforce and its inclusion affect your innovative process?

How do the diversity of your workforce and its inclusion affect your innovative process?

Diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace has a direct impact on financial outperformance, innovation potential, and creating a more desirable workplace that attracts appropriate people.

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How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

Improving breakthrough innovation success rate requires focus, challenging assumptions, harnessing mavericks, and looking at the never-evers.

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How Innovation Equals Diversity: the Science and Promise of an Inclusive Workplace

How Innovation Equals Diversity: the Science and Promise of an Inclusive Workplace

Diversity is not just a buzzword in business, it is the key to achieving true innovation. Evidence shows that diverse perspectives lead to creative problem solving and increased profits.

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Innovation Activity: balance is poised for change

Innovation Activity: balance is poised for change

Emerging digital technologies are changing the way we approach innovation. They offer a way to manage the tension between rational and random thinking, which is necessary for innovation success.

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Is Your Social Media Intern Ready for Corporate Tweeting - 7 Questions to Find Out

Is Your Social Media Intern Ready for Corporate Tweeting - 7 Questions to Find Out

When considering who should handle corporate social media accounts, it is important to look beyond age and assess emotional intelligence and brand advocacy skills. The Brainzooming Group recommends an "Is Your Corporate Tweeter Ready?" test to evaluate potential candidates.

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Learn to Gain a New Perspective

Learn to Gain a New Perspective

Zooming in and out of your perspective in marketing can help you gain new insights and create a successful marketing campaign.

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Little Innovations Matter

Little Innovations Matter

Is it better to have a lot of small innovations or one big innovation? This article explores the benefits of both, with a focus on the value of small innovations for small businesses.

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Prepare to Set Sail in the Choppy Waters of Digital Transformation

Prepare to Set Sail in the Choppy Waters of Digital Transformation

Organizations must adjust their mindset and broaden their toolset to navigate digital transformation and disruption. Work and resource management can offer greater agility and alignment, but organizations must embrace new ways of managing and executing work.

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Reigniting Innovation and Creativity

Reigniting Innovation and Creativity

With technological advancements, people are not producing more content in terms of art, music or writing, so the author examines the reasons why.

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SEO and Keyword Research Tool Use - 3 Blog Traffic Growth Ideas

SEO and Keyword Research Tool Use - 3 Blog Traffic Growth Ideas

Learn how to increase your blog traffic with these three ideas: learning about SEO, tracking audience keywords, and using keyword research tools.

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The transforming tide in digital for innovation.

The transforming tide in digital for innovation.

To stay competitive in the digital age, organizations need to transform themselves completely. Capgemini Consulting argues that being absolutely clear on the transformation, having a well-thought-through roadmap towards the transformation and its drivers, will achieve this.

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Uncovering digital transformation strategy: Made easy

Creating a digital transformation strategy can be complex but is necessary for success. This article provides a step-by-step guide for creating a strategy that aligns with business goals and ensures progress.

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What is exponential growth in technology?

Exponential growth can lead to rapid improvement of technology. However, predicting which innovations will grow at an exponential rate can be problematic.

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What the World Needs Now - Strategic Thinking from TEDxKC, Part I

What the World Needs Now - Strategic Thinking from TEDxKC, Part I

TEDxKC presented global strategies on innovation and personal success, emphasizing the importance of strategic thinking, diverse perspectives, and rapid trial and improvement.

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Whitespace vs. Rightspace: How Quest-led Innovation Finds Right Space for Breakthrough Innovation

Whitespace vs. Rightspace: How Quest-led Innovation Finds Right Space for Breakthrough Innovation

Innovation often takes advantage of whitespace outside a company's core business. Companies that define themselves by their core mission or Quest tend to innovate in a more dramatic and iconic way by focusing on whitespace differently.

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Why Context Matters in Successful Innovation

Innovation can be simplified into three deliverables - problem definition, ideas, and solutions - with context and content development between them playing a key role in driving innovation value.

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Why incremental innovation is so easy; disruptive is so difficult

Disruptive innovation is rare among established industry players because they are comfortable with current practices. Incremental innovation is easier and fits within existing frameworks. Companies seeking disruption should consider creating new businesses.

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Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

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Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

The fullest account yet of the rise of one of the most profitable, most powerful, and oddest businesses the world has ever seen.

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The Innovator’s DNA

The Innovator’s DNA

Master the five skills of disruptive innovators and move progressively from idea to impact by looking at the best innovators.

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The Startup Way

The Startup Way

Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds

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Empathy Map Template - What are your customers' needs?

Empathy Map Template - What are your customers' needs?

Do you know what your customer wants? Use the customer empathy map to get a deep understanding of your users and capture what drives them emotionally and cognitively.

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