Technological developments carry a number of emotional drivers and barriers that affect customer relationships and brand positioning. How can you align those developments to the ‘exponential everything’ requirements and become the next catalyst? Read more on weareinnovation.org

1. How can you
become the next
‘exponential
catalyst’?
Loop2 Round6
February 6th, 2017 - February 23rd,
2017
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2. Content
InnoTrends
By Humans, for Humans
Daily Pick
10 visual stories for your innovation toolbox
Connecting dots
Does innovation have borders?
Beautiful diversity
How do you manage your costs of uniformity?
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3. InnoTrends
Innotrends highlights innovation trends as
explained by innovation analysts covering
common expert insights.
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4. By humans, for humans
From individual stories to in depth business expertise, the many dimensions of personalities shape new
dynamics in business and customers relationships.
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The complexity of interactions might help regenerate commercial approaches, yet structural as well as
strategic choices are required to create a constructive dialogue anticipating rather than reacting to changes.
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Global innovation efforts have given birth to highly emotional and connected social platforms that provide an
open space for communities to redefine innovation, as they wish it could be. “Under what conditions could
such positioning be profitable to businesses, employees and customers?”
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5. Beyond words and ideas

6. The human solution

7. Human sense. Of course,
but which one?

8. Daily Pick
The Daily Pick highlights innovation stories that matter to you, as most shared and reached
publications on WAI social networks.
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9. 10 visual stories for you
innovation toolbox
Maps, graphs, info graphics are standard tools shared on social media. Beyond the information circulated
with such formats, they highlight the importance of visual creativity and intelligence as a skill for innovation.
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Outlining complex as well as straightforward trends and processes in a single picture, they summarize key
points to bear in mind for specific technologies and their business mechanics, such as Deep Learning or the
Internet of Everything. They do not tell everything, though (and by the way, what format does?).
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The following visuals are mainly here to inspire further creativity, diving into creation processes, and
exploring emotional intelligence as an asset for leadership.
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10. #1 Mapping innovation
#2 Developing visual intelligence
#3 Understanding Deep Learning
#4 Adapting mindsets
#5 Making sense of the Internet of Everything
#6 Inspiring open creativity
#7 Managing Pivotal and Work Habits
#8 Visualizing the creativity process
#9 Visualizing project management
#10 Developing emotional intelligence
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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
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12. Does innovation have
borders?
Despite growing evidence that cooperation across borders in defined sectors and areas would be an asset
for innovation, international relations prove unable to properly integrate diversity as a creative value.
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While questioning the social, political and economic drivers that could help assemble smart ideas from
differences and synergies, experts highlight a necessity to rethink our priorities, and among them, the
collaborative direction which should support our common sense of shared meaningfulness.
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There is no question about the digital turn our innovation developments are taking. In this highly pressured
environment, change makers would be inspired to concentrate on one key question: do we fully understand
the limits of our innovation capabilities , and if so, how can we innovate beyond those borders to make the
most of the “exponential everything” ahead of us?
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13. The issue with
diversity
Beyond the diversity issue, there are human questions
and worries we still haven’t answered, or at least not
crisply enough to reduce emotional impacts of change.
The “worries”, “fears” against “invaders” highlight a need
to better coordinate innovation from people, by people
and to people.
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More precisely, collaboratively shaping an environment
for change, anticipating worries and answering human
needs, seems to be inevitable to make sense of future
technology developments, regardless of their gigantic
market opportunity.
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What is the human opportunity we seek to achieve
through technology?
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14. Maybe it’s time
to think
By extension, it may be that pursuing meaningfulness
through teams, companies, we end-up embedding it
in our innovation processes, and perhaps, products.
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What if we all created meaningful products? What if
we took end-users’ needs at the heart of our thinking
models?
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To find out, experts highlight how startups develop
breakthrough models, whether it is an economic, a
business or a partnership model, to drive disruption
and generate systemic impact by concentrating on
end-user needs.
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15. Are you the next catalyst?
There is part of the answer experts can help with
by highlighting specific goals and sectors that
need exponential innovation, right now. They even
highlight business strategies and leadership
attitudes to inspire change makers.
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In this specific case, they seek to inspire the
exponential change maker in you. If we believe
innovation has no borders, or if we think we can
overcome these borders including through
diversity, how can we prove it works and how can
we make it happen, ‘exponential everything’ style?
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16. Beautiful diversity
Beautiful Diversity is a series of management reports issued from our global think l@b
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17. How do you manage your costs of
uniformity?

18. How to assess your costs of
uniformity
The uniformity values identified in the
analysis help understand the core behaviors
to avoid if innovation wants to include
diversity as a core value.
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Based on those human learnings and habits
that have inspired automated and
industrialized ways of working, it is possible
to anticipate the frustration and lack of
innovation that experts have already
identified in numerous disrupted sectors and
economic models.

19. Our global story
Technological developments carry a number of emotional drivers and barriers that affect customer
relationships and brand positioning. How can you align those developments to the ‘exponential everything’
requirements and become the next catalyst?
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20. Make sure you get your own copy of
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