We are proud to announce our eighth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our eighteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-seventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-fifth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our seventeenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 35th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our eighteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-seventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-fifth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our seventeenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Issuu. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Innovation Excellence is proud to announce the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2014, some of the most popular and prolific innovation writers on the Internet.
We are proud to announce our eleventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-eighth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our thirteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our nineteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce a downloadable PDF version of our popular list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010. Is your favorite innovation author or blogger on the list? If not, please encourage them to join the Innovation Excellence community and then 'Add Content' from the site's main menu.
Curious who our audience and editors collaborated to pick as the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012? Check out our list to see if your favorite made the cut.
We are proud to announce our twenty-fourth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is a downloadable PDF of our popular list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011. Did your favorite make the list? If not, please encourage them to join the Innovation Excellence community and then 'Add Content' from our site's main menu.
We are proud to announce our 31st Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our sixteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 37th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 34th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Issuu. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-third Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
Innovation Excellence is proud to announce the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2014, some of the most popular and prolific innovation writers on the Internet.
We are proud to announce our eleventh Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-second Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-eighth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our thirteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our nineteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce a downloadable PDF version of our popular list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010. Is your favorite innovation author or blogger on the list? If not, please encourage them to join the Innovation Excellence community and then 'Add Content' from the site's main menu.
Curious who our audience and editors collaborated to pick as the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012? Check out our list to see if your favorite made the cut.
We are proud to announce our twenty-fourth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Here is a downloadable PDF of our popular list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011. Did your favorite make the list? If not, please encourage them to join the Innovation Excellence community and then 'Add Content' from our site's main menu.
We are proud to announce our 31st Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our sixteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twenty-first Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fourteenth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our fifth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 37th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our 34th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
Discusses how to build innovation into business processes after the first 'big idea.' Intended originally for pharmaceutical and life sciences but applicable to other sectors.
Designed to help nonprofit and foundation leaders design bold new strategies. Based on 12 thought-inspiring questions to get to a Simple Unifying Idea.
Urgent problems, rational solutions and passionate patient advocates are necessary but not sufficient to create change in health care organisations.
Lois Kelly and Carmen Medina of Rebels at Work will look at common mistakes in developing and introducing new ideas and discuss important and often overlooked organizational, interpersonal and personal self-awareness practices needed to navigate the journey from ‘I see a problem and have an idea’ to the idea being adopted.
This guide was prepared for the September 2015 Dpharm Conference in Boston as a catalyst for discussion around disruptive innovation in drug development.
The ideas transfer well to any industry and we invite you to use it next time you are needing fresh thinking.
Discover 12 reasons why your culture is preventing you from being the organisation you want to be, awareness is the first step on the journey to redemption.
In this workshop we will explore the meaning of “Professional Learning Communities”, analyse a number of models and consider the value of planning and launching a PLC in the context of the ICPNA school environment. We will define PLCs and why they are considered to be important, basing some of these concepts on recent theories of connectivism and trust. Leadership will be seen as a shared experience in a change-ready school. The skills for motivating and inspiring a whole school culture through reference to Maslow and McGregor will be examined while the concept of both Heads and Teachers as learners in their own right will be stressed. Finally, strategies for launching a PLC in school will be discussed.
INFLUENCE: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out LeadershipDan Beverly
Great leadership is nowhere better marked than by the ability to improve another person's thinking. In this series, get the brain-based approach to 3 key leadership traits, starting here with: INFLUENCE.
Hurricane change 3 methods for preparing for disruptive change in businessMatthew Hawkins
Business transformation can be disruptively beautiful. It usually leaves a path of destruction on it's way to creating a better organization. The challenge is that it inflicts significant change on people. Are there ways to better prepare for it? Yes. We'll examine 3 things you can do to prepare for disruptive change in your business.
ImagineNation LAST Generating Creative Conversations Presentation Janet Sernack
A creative conversation transfers ideas from one mind to another, it also allows you to reveal and remove all obstacles in the way of making creative ideas and inventions happen. It even allows you to see opportunities, realise possibilities and easily solves real-life, personal and business problems.
It’s not that we’ve forgotten how to hold genuine conversations. The problem is much deeper. We’ve stopped learning how to hold a genuine conversation.
The good news is we can all learn it. All this ability demands is the ability to be observant, having a core skill-set and following the four key steps in the generative discovery cycle.
Persuasion architectures: Nudging People to do the Right ThingUser Vision
Review of some of the most popular commercial and public sector persuasion methodologies. Plus some reasons why they may not work and some criticisms, and a comparison of how supermarkets persuade us, offline.
This is a presentation given to the WVU General Surgery Department on innovation, inventing, and entrepreneurship. My takes on the ideal bioentrepreneur and the basic steps to getting started.
Left to their own devices, our brains are often drawn to decision-making shortcuts, such as turning to the loudest or tallest person in the room. Over time, letting false expertise run the show can have negative side effects, including unintended biases. Here's how to fix that.
How Performance Recognition Impacts Innovation and Employee EngagementInnovation Excellence
What is a big company without a solid set of employees? How would Google, Microsoft, or Amazon function if they were run by one man behind a computer? The answer might be, they would function quite well for awhile—after all, that is how most of the biggest companies are started. But what about once they pick up?
Edible Packaging, Heads-Up Movement and Haptic Technology—just a few items from JWT's annual list of 100 Things to Watch for the year ahead.
It’s a wide-ranging compilation that reflects developments surfacing across sectors including technology, television, food and spirits, retail, health care and the arts. The list also includes new types of goods or businesses, new behaviors and ideas with the potential to ladder up to bigger trends.
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We are proud to announce our 36th Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,500+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our thirtieth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
We are proud to announce our twentieth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
This presentation explores the new ways we are working and the implications for business and for workers. Each theme has 4 trends and each trend is supported by 4 examples, supporting statistics and implications defined by PSFK Labs team.
We are proud to announce our twelfth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
Memorandum Of Association Constitution of Company.pptseri bangash
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A Memorandum of Association (MOA) is a legal document that outlines the fundamental principles and objectives upon which a company operates. It serves as the company's charter or constitution and defines the scope of its activities. Here's a detailed note on the MOA:
Contents of Memorandum of Association:
Name Clause: This clause states the name of the company, which should end with words like "Limited" or "Ltd." for a public limited company and "Private Limited" or "Pvt. Ltd." for a private limited company.
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Registered Office Clause: It specifies the location where the company's registered office is situated. This office is where all official communications and notices are sent.
Objective Clause: This clause delineates the main objectives for which the company is formed. It's important to define these objectives clearly, as the company cannot undertake activities beyond those mentioned in this clause.
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Liability Clause: It outlines the extent of liability of the company's members. In the case of companies limited by shares, the liability of members is limited to the amount unpaid on their shares. For companies limited by guarantee, members' liability is limited to the amount they undertake to contribute if the company is wound up.
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Capital Clause: This clause specifies the authorized capital of the company, i.e., the maximum amount of share capital the company is authorized to issue. It also mentions the division of this capital into shares and their respective nominal value.
Association Clause: It simply states that the subscribers wish to form a company and agree to become members of it, in accordance with the terms of the MOA.
Importance of Memorandum of Association:
Legal Requirement: The MOA is a legal requirement for the formation of a company. It must be filed with the Registrar of Companies during the incorporation process.
Constitutional Document: It serves as the company's constitutional document, defining its scope, powers, and limitations.
Protection of Members: It protects the interests of the company's members by clearly defining the objectives and limiting their liability.
External Communication: It provides clarity to external parties, such as investors, creditors, and regulatory authorities, regarding the company's objectives and powers.
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Binding Authority: The company and its members are bound by the provisions of the MOA. Any action taken beyond its scope may be considered ultra vires (beyond the powers) of the company and therefore void.
Amendment of MOA:
While the MOA lays down the company's fundamental principles, it is not entirely immutable. It can be amended, but only under specific circumstances and in compliance with legal procedures. Amendments typically require shareholder
Falcon stands out as a top-tier P2P Invoice Discounting platform in India, bridging esteemed blue-chip companies and eager investors. Our goal is to transform the investment landscape in India by establishing a comprehensive destination for borrowers and investors with diverse profiles and needs, all while minimizing risk. What sets Falcon apart is the elimination of intermediaries such as commercial banks and depository institutions, allowing investors to enjoy higher yields.
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Looking for professional printing services in Jaipur? Navpack n Print offers high-quality and affordable stationery printing for all your business needs. Stand out with custom stationery designs and fast turnaround times. Contact us today for a quote!
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As an Army veteran dedicated to lifelong learning, I bring a disciplined, strategic mindset to my pursuits. I am constantly expanding my knowledge to innovate and lead effectively. My journey is driven by a commitment to excellence, and to make a meaningful impact in the world.
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𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐬 (𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬) is a professional event agency that includes experts in the event-organizing market in Vietnam, Korea, and ASEAN countries. We provide unlimited types of events from Music concerts, Fan meetings, and Culture festivals to Corporate events, Internal company events, Golf tournaments, MICE events, and Exhibitions.
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➢FreenBecky 1st Fan Meeting in Vietnam
➢CHILDREN ART EXHIBITION 2024: BEYOND BARRIERS
➢ WOW K-Music Festival 2023
➢ Winner [CROSS] Tour in HCM
➢ Super Show 9 in HCM with Super Junior
➢ HCMC - Gyeongsangbuk-do Culture and Tourism Festival
➢ Korean Vietnam Partnership - Fair with LG
➢ Korean President visits Samsung Electronics R&D Center
➢ Vietnam Food Expo with Lotte Wellfood
"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬."
RMD24 | Retail media: hoe zet je dit in als je geen AH of Unilever bent? Heid...BBPMedia1
Grote partijen zijn al een tijdje onderweg met retail media. Ondertussen worden in dit domein ook de kansen zichtbaar voor andere spelers in de markt. Maar met die kansen ontstaan ook vragen: Zelf retail media worden of erop adverteren? In welke fase van de funnel past het en hoe integreer je het in een mediaplan? Wat is nu precies het verschil met marketplaces en Programmatic ads? In dit half uur beslechten we de dilemma's en krijg je antwoorden op wanneer het voor jou tijd is om de volgende stap te zetten.
As a business owner in Delaware, staying on top of your tax obligations is paramount, especially with the annual deadline for Delaware Franchise Tax looming on March 1. One such obligation is the annual Delaware Franchise Tax, which serves as a crucial requirement for maintaining your company’s legal standing within the state. While the prospect of handling tax matters may seem daunting, rest assured that the process can be straightforward with the right guidance. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of filing your Delaware Franchise Tax and provide insights to help you navigate the process effectively.
What is the TDS Return Filing Due Date for FY 2024-25.pdfseoforlegalpillers
It is crucial for the taxpayers to understand about the TDS Return Filing Due Date, so that they can fulfill your TDS obligations efficiently. Taxpayers can avoid penalties by sticking to the deadlines and by accurate filing of TDS. Timely filing of TDS will make sure about the availability of tax credits. You can also seek the professional guidance of experts like Legal Pillers for timely filing of the TDS Return.
Remote sensing and monitoring are changing the mining industry for the better. These are providing innovative solutions to long-standing challenges. Those related to exploration, extraction, and overall environmental management by mining technology companies Odisha. These technologies make use of satellite imaging, aerial photography and sensors to collect data that might be inaccessible or from hazardous locations. With the use of this technology, mining operations are becoming increasingly efficient. Let us gain more insight into the key aspects associated with remote sensing and monitoring when it comes to mining.
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey throu...dylandmeas
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey through Full Sail University. Below, you’ll find a collection of my work showcasing my skills and expertise in digital marketing, event planning, and media production.
Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
This 60-minute webinar, sponsored by Adobe, was delivered for the Training Mag Network. It explored the five elements of SPARK: Storytelling, Purpose, Action, Relationships, and Kudos. Knowing how to tell a well-structured story is key to building long-term memory. Stating a clear purpose that doesn't take away from the discovery learning process is critical. Ensuring that people move from theory to practical application is imperative. Creating strong social learning is the key to commitment and engagement. Validating and affirming participants' comments is the way to create a positive learning environment.
3.0 Project 2_ Developing My Brand Identity Kit.pptxtanyjahb
A personal brand exploration presentation summarizes an individual's unique qualities and goals, covering strengths, values, passions, and target audience. It helps individuals understand what makes them stand out, their desired image, and how they aim to achieve it.
RMD24 | Debunking the non-endemic revenue myth Marvin Vacquier Droop | First ...BBPMedia1
Marvin neemt je in deze presentatie mee in de voordelen van non-endemic advertising op retail media netwerken. Hij brengt ook de uitdagingen in beeld die de markt op dit moment heeft op het gebied van retail media voor niet-leveranciers.
Retail media wordt gezien als het nieuwe advertising-medium en ook mediabureaus richten massaal retail media-afdelingen op. Merken die niet in de betreffende winkel liggen staan ook nog niet in de rij om op de retail media netwerken te adverteren. Marvin belicht de uitdagingen die er zijn om echt aansluiting te vinden op die markt van non-endemic advertising.
Cracking the Workplace Discipline Code Main.pptxWorkforce Group
Cultivating and maintaining discipline within teams is a critical differentiator for successful organisations.
Forward-thinking leaders and business managers understand the impact that discipline has on organisational success. A disciplined workforce operates with clarity, focus, and a shared understanding of expectations, ultimately driving better results, optimising productivity, and facilitating seamless collaboration.
Although discipline is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it can help create a work environment that encourages personal growth and accountability rather than solely relying on punitive measures.
In this deck, you will learn the significance of workplace discipline for organisational success. You’ll also learn
• Four (4) workplace discipline methods you should consider
• The best and most practical approach to implementing workplace discipline.
• Three (3) key tips to maintain a disciplined workplace.
2. Issue 8 – November 23, 2012
1. Future Federal Government ………………………….…..……....………….. David Paschane
2. 7 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain and Be More Innovative ………..…….…. Steve Shapiro
3. Will Your Strategy Kill Your Company? …………………..……..…..……… Rowan Gibson
4. Asking the Right (innovation) Questions .........................…..………..…. Michel van Hove
5. Hostess’ Twinkie Defense is a Failure .……………………...………..……… Adam Hartung
6. USAA – a study in pervasive innovation ………………….………………. Bryan Mahoney
7. The Best Innovation Strategy is Searching for Needs …..……...........…. Gijs van Wulfen
8. What Innovators Can Learn From Gatorade …………….…..………...…….. Scott Anthony
9. Actually, People Love Change ………………………………………….…….….. Tim Kastelle
10. Collaborative Innovation Replaces Brainstorming ……………..… Juergen H Staeudtner
Your hosts, Braden Kelley, Julie Anixter and Rowan Gibson, are innovation writers, speakers and
strategic advisors to many of the world’s leading companies.
“Our mission is to help you achieve innovation excellence inside your own organization by making
innovation resources, answers, and best practices accessible for the greater good.”
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3. Future Federal Government
Posted on November 18, 2012 by David Paschane
I guarantee that the U.S. Federal Government will be different in the future. Besides the fight for ideological direction and political power, there
are six trends that will change this landscape. They are systemic challenges that at 8,000 Federal Executives will respond to in the near future–
and their response will change the Government.
1. Budget Reduction. Regardless of the policies or methods employed to downsize the budget, all programs are on notice to reduce spending.
Budgets will be smaller, and offices will have to perform their mission at the levels expected of them by their stakeholders. Leaders will have to
be prudent about how they use contractors, consultants, equipment, and training.
2. Performance Accountability. Since the passing of the Government Performance and Reporting Act of 1993, agencies have sought
streamlined ways to plan, organize, execute, and report performance within and across programs. Now, with the 2010 Modernization Act to
GPRA, 152 changes are in the pipeline and it will affect the information tied to performance analysis and public awareness.
3. Workforce Development. A third of the Federal workforce is eligible to retire. Talent, information, and know-how can walk out the door, and
the existing workforce is in desperate need of a reemergence of performance leadership, where every individual is aware and motivated to
enhance the organizations’ performance–not more bureaucracy by the numbers.
4. Cost Controls. The many costs of doing business are not visible, and yet the total cost of running government offices is driving up the total
operational expenses. Offices need routine ways of examining the policies and behaviors that affect costs in energy, property, transportation,
and outsourcing–as the budgets shrink, the pressure to account for every penny rises.
4. 5. Mobile Productivity. Telework is encouraged in the laws and agency policies, and many government functions require mobility; however,
nobody knows how to keep productivity in workers who are out of sight. The pressure is on to find technological means of increasing
productivity, regardless of where the worker is located, including means of concentration, engagement, computing convenience, and rapid
communications.
6. Localized Innovation. The Federal government is a very large enterprise, with desperate expertise; and yet, we have few means of
normalizing conditions for innovation. The entire workforce is held back by the difficulties of sharing insights, testing enhancements, and
learning from each other and how we redesign our work structures. A discipline for innovation is necessary–very necessary.
The future of the Federal Government is in the hands of a few leaders. As they respond to these systemic challenges, we will see the trajectory
of the bureaucracy–will it become a heavy or light structure–a growth or stagnation of performance capability?
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5. 7 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain And Be More Innovative
Posted on November 17, 2012 by Stephen Shapiro
You are alive today. You were alive yesterday. You were alive the day before that.
This is good news from a survival perspective. Unfortunately it is bad news from an
innovation perspective.
Your brain is wired to keep you alive.
Your brain makes the assumption that because you were alive yesterday, what
you did previously is safe. Therefore repeating the past is good for survival. As a
result, doing things differently, even if it seems like an improvement, is risky.
Perpetuating past behaviors, from the brain’s reptilian perspective, is the safest
way.
This is why innovation is difficult for most individuals and organizations.
Innovation is about change. It is about doing something different than you did previously. It is about trying something that you have not done
before, and therefore may feel is a danger to your survival.
How does the brain’s survival instinct prevent innovation–and what can you do about it?
Here are seven ways to outsmart your brain:
Challenge No. 1: The brain wants pains solved first. The brain is wired to minimize loss. We want to keep what we already have. Equally, we
are not interested in something new, until we address our pains. The brain seeks preservation over pleasure.
Solution: Recognize that people want their pains solved more than anything else. Be the aspirin. Innovation is not just about creating
something new and different. It should solve a problem that people have. Infomercials are especially effective at demonstrating this.
Challenge No. 2: Expertise is the enemy of innovation. We build neural pathways to known solutions. What we know best (or in some cases
have heard most recently) becomes our default answer. Unfortunately, once we find an answer to a problem, we stop looking for other possible
solutions. As a result, the tried and true wins out and we get more of the same.
Solution: Keep looking. Although this sounds simple, don’t stop with the obvious answers. Keep pushing until you are out of ideas and then still
push forward. Ask “who else has solved a problem like this?” A whitening toothpaste was developed by studying how laundry detergent whitens
clothes. A medical device manufacturer learned how angioplasty balloons expand and contract by studying car airbag deployment.
6. Challenge No. 3: The brain wants solutions, not problems. In the world of business, we hear the expression, “Don’t bring me problems, bring
me solutions.” From a survival perspective this makes sense. When faced with the possibility of being eaten by a lion, we don’t want to study
our navel. Action is critical. However, in the world of innovation, the “problem” is actually more important.
Solution: Ask better questions. Einstein reputedly said, “If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and
one minute finding solutions.” Instead of asking for broad ideas such as how to increase revenues, first identify the specific growth
opportunities, untapped markets, emerging trends and current roadblocks. Then find solutions to those more focused challenges.
Challenge No. 4: The brain craves commonality. Contrary to conventional wisdom, opposites do not attract. It is safer to be in a tribe of people
who think the same way. Things get done quickly. It feels effortless. But the downside is that it thwarts innovation.
Solution: Work with people who are not like you. Find people with different backgrounds, personality styles, and interests. Appreciate their
contribution to you and your professional efforts. For example, I am someone who is disorganized and despises plans or planning. As a result,
the first person I bring on to my team is a detail-oriented project manager who can make sure ensure that I get everything done.
Challenge No. 5: The brain sees what it believes. The brain uses a pattern matching
technique called “confirmation bias.” In a nutshell, it rejects anything that is inconsistent with
your belief structure. This is why two people can listen to the same political candidate and
hear completely different things. From an innovation perspective, this may have us get
attached to certain ideas, despite evidence proving that they are probably duds.
Solution: Avoid getting wed to your ideas by getting someone to play devil’s advocate. Any
time you think to yourself, “Wow, this is a great idea,” get someone to poke holes in your logic.
Don’t go to the same people for input. Seek out people who you suspect would reject the idea.
Learn from them. Refine your solution based on numerous perspectives, not just your own
biases.
Challenge No. 6: Your brain only sees a fraction of reality. What you focus on expands, to the exclusion of everything else. The brain’s
reticular activating system is designed to filter out 99.99 percent of the stimuli out there. This prevents the brain from being overwhelmed by
information. Unfortunately, as a result, you miss out on opportunities because you cannot even see they are there. When you are a technology
expert, the solution to every problem involves software/hardware. Opportunities are limited to your frame of reference.
Solution: Sometimes you need to purposefully retrain the brain. Attend conferences unrelated to your work. Read magazines from different
industries. This is why I don’t read books on innovation, but instead read about neuroscience, psychology, and sports performance. This helps
me see more of the world and find opportunities in places I wouldn’t have thought to look.
7. Challenge No. 7: The brain thinks too much: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is the judgmental part of the brain. It is analytical and
calculating. This is great for decision-making that requires logic. But it can kill innovation. When athletes choke, they are over thinking and
constrict the neural pathways that allow access to their deeper capabilities.
Solution: Quiet that part of the brain through meditation, yoga, showering or any other relaxing activity. This allows you to gain access to the
creative parts of your brain. Aristotle found his greatest breakthroughs while napping. One company found that they could speed up the
development of new product ideas through meditation first thing in the morning.
The brain is incredibly powerful. And it does its job exceptionally well: perpetuate the species. It does this by ensuring the survival of the
individual and the gene pool. Although this is of course valuable, it does limit our ability to try new things. Perpetuating the past is the surest
way to survive. But for organizations, doing what you did in the past is the fastest path to extinction. By knowing how your brain is wired, you
can choose to both survive and thrive.
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8. Will Your Strategy Kill Your Company?
Posted on November 17, 2012 by Rowan Gibson
Many companies once believed – and some of them evidently still do – that
business models were essentially immortal. The prevailing attitude was that
while product portfolios might need to be refreshed every now and again,
successful strategies would remain successful for the rest of time. Shell would
suck oil out of the ground, General Motors would make cars, Xerox would make
copiers, and that’s the way it would always be.
In a world where nothing much changed – or where things changed very slowly –
the assumption was that a company could pretty much do the same thing
forever. Innovation therefore became a calm, unhurried exercise in developing
“new and improved” versions of existing products, funding ongoing technical research and filing industry patents. How many firms thought there
was ever going to be a need to innovate more deeply and more strategically – at the level of the business model itself? Or to fundamentally
rethink and re-earn their company’s right to exist on a year by year basis?
Go back a few decades and the focus was generally on developing increasingly efficient processes for delivering more of the same. But, today,
with the sheer underlying speed of change in the external world, “more of the same” can very quickly lead to strategic obsolescence.
For some companies, it’s a technological discontinuity that causes all the trouble. This is what happened to Wang in word processing, and to
Atari, and later Sega in video games, when the next wave of technology superseded the old. The same fate befell Schwinn, the original leaders
in the U.S. bicycle market, when their business was destroyed by the disruptive advent of the mountain bike. Remember, too, that the
venerated Encyclopedia Britannica was knocked off its proud pedestal almost overnight by something as banal as Microsoft Encarta, when a
simple CD-ROM displaced a shelf-filling set of printed volumes.
“What got you where you are today is seldom what will keep you there.”
For other firms, the disruption might come from a market discontinuity.
Suddenly, they find themselves facing new and very aggressive competitors
who have a more effective business model than they do. Remember Xerox in
the early 80s, for example. The company didn’t even notice the threat from
the Japanese until its earnings dropped 50% in one year alone – 1982. Or it
could just be a sudden shift in consumer tastes. In the U.S., for example,
Krispy Kreme doughnuts were doing just fine until lowcarb diets reshaped the
food industry. That’s how quickly and mercilessly the market can change.
9. These days, strategies can have a very short shelf life. Their underpinnings are being regularly shaken and they die much more quickly than in
the past. “This company will be going strong 100 and even 500 years from now,” said C. Jay Parkinson, president of U.S. based Anaconda
Mines – just three years before Anaconda was bankrupt.
The bottom-line message here is that linear thinking is useless in a nonlinear world. The things that got your firm where it is today are seldom
going to be the things that will keep it there. The challenge, therefore, is to routinely consider the unthinkable – to regularly rethink everything
about your company and the business you are in, even when things appear to be going well.
Quite frankly, the line between success and failure has never been finer. Hence the imperative to continuously reinvent your success with
radical new product concepts, new ways of doing business, new markets, new capabilities, new customers and new sources of profit. Unless
you are taking deep, strategic innovation very seriously, your company’s days might already be numbered.
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10. Asking the Right (innovation) Questions
Posted on November 18, 2012 by Michel van Hove
Too often when innovation teams get tasked with generating ideas and develop new business
opportunities they cannot wait to start organising workshops and do market research. All this is
valuable but only in due time and after some reflection has taken place. What are we aiming for, do
we understand what the challenge really is and what insights would help us generate more and better
ideas (we believe in both quantity and quality)? These are generic questions every innovation team
should start with asking and use the answers to direct their research prior to idea generation. We call
this process framing the innovation journey and belief it is critical to a successful outcome.
Innovation consultants (us included) often tell client teams that asking “why” is possibly the most
important question to use from their innovation toolkit. In the earlier phase of the challenge the teams
are exploring, challenging and reflecting on findings before turning them into high quality insights.
But for insights to make an impact and stimulate people to generate breakthrough ideas something
more is needed than only interesting stories and nice pictures. When the innovation team discovers great insights they will immediately start to
generate fragments of ideas themselves. It cannot be helped, people simply have an innate need to create and ideas will undoubtedly emerge.
Collecting these fragments can be of great value as ideas but also to start formulating questions for the ideation exercise. These questions can
help the group explore avenues of thought without giving them the answer. It provides a general direction, topics to think about, to consider but
not to be prescriptive. The aim is for the group to explore, diverge and in that process generate as many ideas as possible. The fact that these
ideas will be grounded in great insights simply helps improve the quality as well as quantity. Innovation can be a more efficient process when
we believe that great ideas need to be backed up by great insights.
Does it apply elsewhere? Along all stages in the innovation process, whether at the front end (insights, ideas) or the back end (business
models, commercialisation) asking the right questions at the right moment is key to achieving great results. When ideas are selected and we
focus on generating options for business models three areas of questioning are critical:
1) Do they (customers) want it (our product or service),
2) Can we provide it and
3) Can we make a profit? These questions are the basis for validating our assumptions and deciding whether it makes sense to commercialise
our idea in the end.
Can anyone do this? In our experience with clients the different phases in the innovation process require different skill sets especially when we
switch from diverging (exploration, generation) to converging (selection, elaboration). But in both situations there is a common skill that is
valuable and the best way to describe it is the ability to take on the role of “investigative reporter”. When we read well researched articles we
11. are triggered to think more clearly and form our own perspectives and this is equally true for insights to be used in ideation. The ability to
question, challenge, explore and synthesise is as important in journalism as it is in innovation. Although some people are better at this than
others the basics can be learned and applied throughout the innovation process by most people.
What does it take? We advocate teams practice these skills, learn on the job and put in the hours. To start we use simple exercises such as
reading well researched articles and ask teams to identify insights in multiple categories. This skill can be used when they themselves interview
others and identify insights related to their innovation challenge.
Organising a workshop for people to come together and using trends to stimulate their thinking is easy but often leads to poor results and
incremental innovation at best. Innovation projects are meant to be exhilarating, they are after all the lifeblood for future business success but
are only taken seriously if the results are equally exciting. For that to happen asking the right questions at every stage of the innovation process
is critical.
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client relations and leading teams through innovation change programs. Since joining the firm in 2004 he has led
strategic innovation initiatives across a wide range of sectors including energy, telecommunications, consumer
electronics, and food and beverage.
12. Hostess’ Twinkie Defense Is a Failure
Posted on November 19, 2012 by Adam Hartung
Hostess Brands filed for liquidation this week. Management blamed its workforce
for the failure. That is straightforward scapegoating.
In 1978 Dan White killed San Francisco’s mayor George Moscone and city supervisor
Harvey Milk. The press labeled his defense the “Twinkie Defense” because he
claimed eating sugary junk food – like Twinkies – caused diminished capacity.
Amazingly the jury bought it, and convicted him of manslaughter instead of murder
saying he really wasn’t responsible for his own actions. An outraged city rioted.
Nobody is rioting, but management’s claim that unions caused Hostess failure is just
as outrageous.
Founded in 1930 as Interstate Bakeries Co. (IBC) the company did fine for years. But changing consumer tastes, including nutrition desires,
changed how much Wonder Bread, Twinkies, HoHos and Honey Buns people would buy — and most especially affected the price – which
was wholly unable to keep up with inflation. This trend was clear in the early 1980s, as prices were stagnant and margins kept declining due to
higher costs for grain and petroleum to fuel the country’s largest truck fleet delivering daily baked goods to grocers.
IBC kept focusing on operating improvements and better fleet optimization to control rising costs, but the company was unwilling to do anything
about the product line. To keep funding lower margins the company added debt, piling on $450M by 2004 when forced to file bankruptcy due
to its inability to pay bills. For 5 years financial engineers from consultancies and investment banks worked to find a way out of bankruptcy, and
settled on adding even MORE debt, so that – perversely – in 2009 the renamed Hostess had $670M of debt – at least 2/3 the total asset value!
Since then, still trying to sell the same products, margins continued declining. Hostess lost a combined $250M over the last 3 years.
The obvious problem is leadership kept trying to sell the same products, using roughly the same business model, long, long, long after the
products had become irrelevant. “Demand was never an issue” a company spokesman said. Yes, people bought Twinkies but NOT at a price
which would cover costs (including debt service) and return a profit.
13. In a last, desperate effort to keep the outdated model alive management decided the answer was another bankruptcy filing, and to take
draconian cuts to wages and benefits. This is tanatamount to management saying to those who sell wheat they expect to buy flour at 2/3 the
market price – or to petroleum companies they expect to buy gasoline for $2.25/gallon. Labor, like other suppliers, has a “market rate.” That
management was unable to run a company which could pay the market rate for its labor is not the fault of the union.
By constantly trying to defend and extend its old business, leadership at Hostess
killed the company. But not realizing changing trends in foods made their products
irrelevant – if not obsolete – and not changing Hostess leaders allowed margins to
disintegrate. Rather than developing new products which would be more
marketable, priced for higher margin and provide growth that covered all costs
Hostess leadership kept trying to financial engineer a solution to make their horse
and buggy competitive with automobiles.
And when they failed, management decided to scapegoat someone else. Maybe
eating too many Twinkies made them do it. It’s a Wonder the Ding Dongs running the company kept this Honey Bun alive by convincing HoHos
to loan it money! Blaming the unions is simply an inability of management to take responsibility for a complete failure to understand the
marketplace, trends and the absolute requirement for new products.
14. We see this Twinkie Defense of businesses everywhere. Sears has 23 consecutive quarters of declining same-store sales – but leadership
blames everyone but themselves for not recognizing the shifting retail market and adjusting effectively. McDonald’s returns to declining sales –
a situation they were in 9 years ago – as the long-term trend to healthier eating in more stylish locations progresses; but the blame is not on
management for missing the trend while constantly working to defend and extend the old business with actions like taking a slice of cheese off
the 99cent burger. Tribune completey misses the shift to on-line news as it tries to defend & extend its print business, but leadership, before
and afater Mr. Zell invested, refuses to say they simply missed the trend and let competitors make Tribune obsolete and unable to cover costs.
Businesses can adapt to trends. It is possible to stop the never-ending chase for lower costs and better efficiency and instead invest in new
products that meet emerging needs at higher margins. Like the famous turnarounds at IBM and Apple, it is possible for leadership to change
the company.
But for too many leadership teams, it’s a lot easier to blame it on the Twinkies. Unfortunately, when that happens everyone loses.
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15. USAA – a study in pervasive innovation
Posted on November 16, 2012 by Bryan Mahoney
In USAA’s world, innovation is conducted with one goal in mind: benefit the
customer. In this member-based insurance and banking organization, no idea is
a bad idea – there’s a structure in place that makes an innovator out of each and
every employee, and their efforts yield 95% participation.
It results in a company that looks and behaves like no other auto insurer – or
bank, or car dealer, or home insurer …
Last week, USAA flew bloggers from the financial service, military and innovation
spaces to take a peek under the hood of its innovation program. We saw the new innovations that may transform the way insurance companies
and banks do business, in the same way USAA pioneered check depositing through photos taken with a smartphone.
Here, an Open Innovation Lab provides the headquarters for engineers to try the wild ideas that may or may not get them closer to the end
game of ultimate customer service. They wheel out a workerbot – a Skype-equipped laptop on a column attached to a Roomba controlled by
the person calling in on the other end. It’s a prototype, naturally, but it’s this type of idea that is given flesh by the innovation team.
It’s this kind of thing that surprises you most in strolling the company’s innovation space. Innovation is everywhere, and ideas can spark new
insurance products or new tools to keep home inspectors safe.
USAA by the numbers
8,000
ideas last year
95%
Participation Rate
247
patents in the last year
Mick Simonelli, the Enterprise Innovation Executive Leader at USAA, says ideas are vetted with an attitude of “fail fast, fail cheaply.”
His program approaches innovation in one of three ways – an open employee engagement program, continuous (incremental) innovation, and
revolutionary, where ideas may have a higher risk of failure and not necessarily ROI-based, or even may run contrary to the business
leadership’s desires. That doesn’t stop them from pursuing the ideas, because challenging convention is the name of USAA’s innovation game.
Called ICE, Innovation Community for the Enterprise has a presence throughout USAA’s sprawling campus in San Antonio. In its customer
service center, ICE posters featured photos of employees in the department who have won innovation recent Challenges.
16. In the Innovation Lab, R&D brings those ideas to life. They demonstrated a prototype app that scans your driver’s license bar code to get your
information and begin an application for a checking account. A telescoping pole with a camera on the end allows adjustors a peek at your roof
without ever leaving the ground. And an iPad app allows members to re-create the scene of an accident using cars they animate with their own
voice-over.
The mission of the Innovation Lab is to provide all employees a way to realize their ideas. The VIP – Volunteer Innovation Program – matches
resources to individual employees to help develop their ideas, no matter where they work.
A key theme we heard over the two days was Leadership – strong investment from the top of the organization (in resources and in mission)
helps fuel USAA’s innovation effort. It is directly tied to everyone’s work – teams working on new projects are often made of different
departments or disciplines, helping eliminate or prevent silos from occurring.
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17. The Best Innovation Strategy is Searching for Needs
Posted on November 17, 2012 by Gijs van Wulfen
Booz & Company’s annual global study of R&D spending reveals that successful
innovators bring clarity to the early stage of innovation. It’s when companies generate ideas
and decide which ones to develop.
Just 43 percent of participants said they were highly effective in generating new ideas. And
only 36 percent felt the same way about converting ideas to development projects.
Altogether, only a quarter of all companies indicated they were highly effective at the
front end of innovation. Which is a shocking conclusion.
There are three fundamental innovation strategies. You can categorize companies as Need Seekers, Market Readers, or Technology Drivers.
Booz & Company describes them as follows:
1. Need Seekers, such as Apple and Procter & Gamble, make a point of engaging customers directly to generate new ideas. They develop new
products and services based on superior end-user understanding.
2. Market Readers, such as Hyundai and Caterpillar, use a variety of means to generate ideas by closely monitoring their markets, customers,
and competitors, focusing largely on creating value through incremental innovations.
3. Technology Drivers, such as Google and Bosch, depend heavily on their internal technological capabilities to develop new products and
services.
The Booz & Company’s study confirms that following a Need Seekers strategy offers the greatest potential for superior performance in the long
term. Fifty percent of respondents who defined their companies as Need Seekers said their companies were effective at both the ideation and
conversion stages of innovation compared with just 12 percent of Market Readers and 20 percent of Technology Drivers. These are the same
companies, by and large, that consistently outperform financially.
So need seeking is essential, because a good innovation is a simple solution to a relevant customer need.
But what does a need look like? I like to inspire you with 10 relevant needs and innovative new products or services solving them.
18. Need & Problem Solution
Consultant: I need new assignments. How do I expand my business network in an efficient way? LinkedIn
Music lovers: I love to listen to music (for free) but I hate to be a pirate downloading it illegally. Spotify
Consumer cleaning: I sick and tired of a bad performing vacuum cleaner Dyson cyclone vacuum cleaner
Consumer: Is this bed clean and free of bugs I can hardly see? The Bed Bug Detective
Snow boarder: I like to go down hill fast but I am afraid for nasty accidents. The Katal Landing Pad
Consumer painting: If there is one thing that really annoys me, it’s cleaning used brushers and rollers. Dulux PaintPod
Green consumer: I hate spilling water and money flushing a toilet. Brondell Perfect Flush
3rd world: due to flooding we lack clean drinking water. Filtrix Filterpen
Full time mother: Now the kids are getting bigger, I like to re-enter the workforce, but who is waiting for me Work4Women
out there?
Green consumer: I love to celebrate Christmas with a real tree, but don’t like destroying nature. Lease a living Christmas tree
As a good customer understanding is essential, how do you discover relevant unmet needs? And how do you incorporate need seeking in your
idea generation process?
A example of an innovation process incorporating the discovery of user needs is the FORTH innovation method. Step two in this structured
expedition is called ‘Observe and Learn’. It focuses on finding concrete customer needs, using ‘tools’ like personal visits, focus groups, web
searching social media and crowd sourcing techniques. You can download the innovation map of the FORTH method for free.
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19. What Innovators Can Learn From Gatorade
Posted on November 19, 2012 by Scott Anthony
Gatorade seems like a quintessentially American product. The sports drink was
developed in research labs at the University of Florida during the 1960s to
quickly rehydrate players on the school’s football team, the Gators.
But the idea for Gatorade isn’t American at all. As Vijay Govindarajan and Chris
Trimble of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business explain at the opening
of their latest book, Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win
Everywhere, the drink’s origins can be traced to Bangladesh, where for
centuries practitioners of ayurvedic medicine have used liquid concoctions of carbohydrates, sugar, and salt to quickly hydrate patients. U.S.
doctors who traveled to Bangladesh during cholera outbreaks in the early 1960s “discovered” this remedy and wrote about its efficacy. And a
doctor at the University of Florida read their report and realized that it could also work for dehydrated football players.
Gatorade is an example of reverse innovation, an increasingly necessary pattern in the corporate innovation playbook in which product ideas
start in emerging markets and flow “uphill” to more established markets. Govindarajan (who, in full disclosure, is a friend of my family as well as
an Innosight fellow) and his longtime collaborator Trimble are the leading academic experts on this pattern, having written a seminal article on
the subject for Harvard Business Review (with General Electric Company CEO Jeffrey Immelt) in 2009 before collaborating on this book.
The authors explain that the leaders of global companies typically move through five levels of thinking when considering emerging markets.
Level One leaders are in simple denial: They argue that the new market doesn’t matter. Level Two thinkers assume they can skim the cream
from the market by targeting the wealthiest customers, while they wait for it to develop and act more like their home markets. At Level Three,
companies follow a “glocalization” strategy, in which they develop local versions of global products. Reverse innovation begins to kick in at
Level Four, as companies see that the unique needs of emerging markets require them to design new products from scratch. Finally, at Level
Five, companies recognize the opportunity inherent in reversing the flow of innovation by using products developed in an emerging economy to
create organic growth in mature markets.
To help companies get to Level Five, the authors offer a “Reverse Innovation Playbook,” which describes in plain language practical concepts
such as clean-slate innovation, local growth teams, market-back approaches, visible CEO actions, and separate scorecards for reverse
innovation initiatives. Some parts of the playbook are more developed than others (for instance, the guidance on selecting members for local
growth teams is a bit thin), but practitioners will likely gobble up the discussion guides, templates, “how-to” tips, and chapter summaries that
have become familiar features of the coauthors’ books.
Govindarajan and Trimble portray reverse innovation in action in the second half of the book, which consists of chapter-length case studies
featuring companies such as Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, and General Electric. Most of these examples have not been widely documented. The
stories, for instance, of how Deere & Company developed a winning tractor in India and how Harman International Industries created a cost-
21. Actually, People Love Change
Posted on November 19, 2012 by Tim Kastelle
“People resist change.” I heard this about 10 times at a workshop recently where I
gave a keynote. After about the fifth time, it got me thinking. When I went up to give my
talk, I asked people to raise their hands in response to these questions:
Who has moved away from the town or city that you were born in? (almost
everyone) Who has moved to a different country? (about half)
Who has gotten married? (almost everyone)
Who is a parent? (more than 3/4)
Who has moved into a job that is different from the first one you took after you finished higher education? (everyone except the
handful of PhD students who have just finished their higher education).
Who didn’t raise their hand at least once? (no one)
So, why do we say that people hate change?
It turns out that people don’t hate change at all. In many cases we actively seek out change. We move to a new city or country, we get married,
we have children, we take a new job. These aren’t just changes – these are massive changes. And we often seek them out.
People don’t resist change. At least, they don’t when they expect the change to make their lives better.
The kind of change that people resist is the kind that makes them worse off. Like letting 10% of your staff go, and expecting the rest to do the
same amount of work with far fewer people and resources. That’s not good change, nor is it inspiring.
Sometimes in a crisis you do have to make that kind of change – it’s the only way for your organisation to survive.
22. But most of the time, people will embrace change – they just need to see what’s in it for them.
If you’re trying to change things, here are some tips:
Solve a real problem. If you meet a genuine need, you don’t often find resistance to change. Well, you will, from the competitors who
lose out, but that’s different. This is another kind of change that people love. When the polio vaccine was developed, people lined up
to get it – even though getting a shot is no fun at all. It solved a real need.
Turn up the purpose. Inside an organisation, change is often resisted because it is not clear how the new way of doing things will
make things better. This is especially likely to happen when the organisation does not have a shared purpose
Here is Nilofer Merchant on the importance of vision:
“I see executives regularly saying that they want to “transform the business” or “win the market”,
but they can’t point out an end destination. And when I ask, I usually get that, “just leave me alone”
look. But here’s the deal. “Transform the business” could mean just about anything, especially to the
people who weren’t in the core room where the discussion and debate happened. It leaves too much
interpretation up for grabs. It is fuzzy. And fuzzy doesn’t help. Fuzzy means no one can help you do
it fully because they need to keep checking in. Fuzzy doesn’t turn on the spark of creativity to
generate ideas on how I can help you. Fuzzy creates a dependence, rather than allowing
interdependence and action by everyone.”
Her solution? Articulate a clear vision.
Connect. You can’t meet genuine needs if you don’t understand the people that will be affected by the change. Your best strategy is
to connect with them, and build that understanding.
But if you’re finding that people are resisting the change that you’re proposing, that’s a very strong sign that you don’t understand what they
need, and you haven’t articulated a clear vision of the future.
23. I’m not trying to oversimplify this. Innovation is hard – if it weren’t, everyone would do it. Change is hard – if it weren’t everyone would adapt
easily.
Deep in their hearts, people love change. That’s why we actively seek it out when we want to make our lives better. If people are resisting your
change, you’re not meeting their needs.
You should change that – it will make your life better.
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Tim Kastelle is a Lecturer in Innovation Management in the University of Queensland Business School. He blogs about
innovation at the Innovation Leadership Network.
24. Collaborative Innovation replaces Brainstorming
Posted on November 21, 2012 by Juergen H Staeudtner
The term brainstorming was coined over 70 years ago. Its use has been
disproved for 50 years now. It is time to apply techniques which really enhance
creativity like collaborative innovation.
Alex Osborn described the technique of brainstorming at BBDO in his book
“How to Think Up”, released 1942 (the “O” stands for Osborn). However, there
had been plenty of evidence in the past 50 years proving the technique has a
negative impact. Donald Taylor, Paul Berry and Clifford Block wrote about its
benefits in 1958 and raised the following question: Does Group Participation
when using Brainstorming facilitate or inhibit Creative Thinking? Their results consolidated and published by Jochen Paulus in the
journal “Bild der Wissenschaft” are as below:
The candidates can’t do any better in groups since they hinder each other. Usually they have to wait
until anyone else has finished speaking – and this inhibits creativity.
The explanation for this characteristic is given by Wolfgang Stroebe, professor of psychology at
the University of Utrecht. (…) He attributes the inhibition to malfunctions of participants’ memory:
To get input for new ideas the brain has to reallocate information out of the long-term memory, and
it has to keep them present. Both processes suffer from waiting when the conventional
brainstorming technique is conducted.
Admittedly, it is significant important for successful ideas to draw on others’ thoughts. The internet lists new methods and tools to generate
ideas, named ideation as part of “Collaborative Innovation”
With appropriate software support provided by the worldwide leading suppliers of innovation software we can facilitate two very important
features of target-oriented creativity in companies:
25. 1. Participants are able to pass their ideas at any time – provided that they have a mobile phone. Ideas typically spring up in moments we do
ordinary activities, for instance when having a shower.
2. Moreover, participants are able to see what ideas others have. This is essential. Only a few can evolve seminal ideas out of their own mind –
ideas are based on each other.
Summarized: do not book any brainstorming workshops to create ideas unless the initiators are professionals in brainstorming. There are
enough other opportunities out there. Collaborative innovation based on innovation management software is one of them.
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Juergen H. Staeudtner is owner of Cridon, a consultancy and agency for innovation. He has held various positions in
management consulting and in line organizations since 1993. He holds a masters degree in mechanical engineering, business
administration and fine arts.
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