1. Defining a human
value to innovation
weareinnovation.org
Loop#2 / Round#5 - January 10th - 20th 2017

2. Content
Market roadmap
Making sense of social media through diversity
Daily Pick
11 leadership skills to innovate in 2017
Connecting dots
We can all be part of a great story
Beautiful diversity
Building innovative virtuous circles from our differences

3. Market roadmap
Market roadmaps describe key market component of specific innovation trends combining posts and tweets
shared on WAI social networks.

4. Making sense of social media through diversity
From readers to information providers, social media is interlinking global opinions and specific facts into a
complex conversation questioning users’ ability to make sense of increasing amounts of data both as
citizens and customers. The uniformity of ideas shared among closed communities require to add further
diversity in our thinking frameworks, with the potential benefit of creating human links between communities
jointly driving change. This diversity of thoughts should be combined to human values as opposed to
business and commercial objectives to build knowledge communities able to influence entire ecosystems. As
a result of this relentless search for sense, the digital disruption has direct effects on the information value
chain and related business models, further emphasizing the need for a responsible and intelligent approach
to social media

5. Diversity of thoughts to build common sense

6. Can we crowdsource the truth?

7. Disrupting the information value chain

8. Daily Pick!
The Daily Pick highlights innovation stories that matter to you, as most shared and reached publications on WAI
social networks.

9. 11 leadership skills to innovate in 2017
By nurturing their innovation culture through relevant information sources, innovation experts are in a
position to understand core roots of systemic threats as well as find inspiration from a richer variety of
individuals. As a core element of building inspiration, they focus on meaningfulness beyond happiness and
create an environment where individuals are free to express their talents. To address systemic opportunities,
experts advise to customize processes as a way to create innovation from innovation. Smarter innovation is
not just about creativity, it is also about being part of a great story.
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10. 1. Get relevant information
2. Understand essential rules of systemic threats
3. Learn from ordinary folks
4. Build super inspiration
5. Pursue meaningfulness
6. Enable freedom of speech
7. Define intelligent processes
8. Address systemic issues
9. Understand innovation for more innovation
10. Develop creativity
11. Be part of a great story

11. Connecting Dots
Connecting dots combines the 10 most read stories on weareinnovation.org over the last week into a single
analysis that highlights our readers innovation priorities.

12. We can all be part of a great story
There isn’t a day without a journalist, specialist and other expert explaining how our economies,
democracies and societies stand at a turning point in history. Innovation as defined by a variety of
professionals describes how this turn engages the crowd, from inspirational willingness to actual questions
and change. It is not about measuring and calculating results, or not solely at least. Individuals seek
to address core roots of systemic issues, and suggest tangible adaptations: developing creativity from
diversity and optimizing delivery through collaboration. Agile organizations such as startups showcase
results and models to manage disruption. Not only does their experience remind change is possible. It also
proves we can all be part of a great story.

13. Innovation as a
human adventure
From philosophy to poetry, this common
willingness for change explores numerous formats
and tones to reach its appropriate audience and
impact. Past examples enable to understand how
literary trends such as “scientific poetry” used to
pursue similar objectives, and how they managed
to increase awareness around technical topics.

14. Thinking beyond
data and statistics
Over time, analysts have repeated
the same story again and again,
ending up with similar conclusions.
There indeed are structural barriers
to change that keep inspirational
ideas at the level of conversation,
actions and plans are cruelly needed
to deliver results on a systemic level.

15. Because we are worth it

16. Beautiful
Diversity
Beautiful Diversity is a series of management reports
issued from our global think l@b. Based on thoughts and
analyses shared by innovation experts, it intends to
provide managers and professionals with actionable
tools to generate innovative products and plans based on
their personal and team diversity.

17. Building innovative virtuous circles from
our differences

18. How to build a difference virtuous circle
The objective of difference virtuous circles is to outline and monitor ideas and viewpoints as expressed by project
stakeholders, team members, customers and partners, to develop creativity based on individual and shared
purposes in development processes.

19. Our global story
As a central question to economic growth, business development and scientific breakthrough, the place of
humans and technologies inspires innovation makers. What objectives beyond business and commercial
values could we define for innovation?

20. Read more on:
weareinnovation.org
Our global innovation story, as we write it