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Winning in the Metaverse: 5 Lessons Learned from Gaming
As more brands venture into the metaverse, they can learn a lot from the ever-evolving gaming industry. Here are five lessons to consider as you develop your strategy.
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Transforming the Great Resignation into the Great Innovation
Here’s how Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport created an e-learning course to promote the idea that everyone can — and should — participate in the innovation process.
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2022: A Year for Positive Transformation and Impact
“As we look to bounce back from the tragedy and challenges of the past two-plus years,” writes Wazoku CEO Simon Hill, “the tools of innovation will be critical, and those who get it right will emerge stronger, more agile, and future fit.” More of Hill’s perspective inside…
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Don’t Brainstorm — Ideate
It’s hard to overstate this simple fact: the beginning of an innovation process is where the opportunity lives or dies. If you don’t set the stage for innovation with the proper context, you won’t achieve the kind of outcomes that can transform your business. Ray Tilkens Given ...
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Make the Right Bets on Emerging Technologies
The term “unprecedented disruption” has been so overused it has almost lost its meaning. However, as the pandemic continues to turn business models on their heads, it is increasingly clear that the future of business is being rewritten before our eyes. This piece offers five tips for making the right bets on emerging technologies — today — to ensure that digital disruption is deliberate and strategic.
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How Great Design Will Inspire the Next Generation of Ingenious Solutions
Ingenious design is found everywhere in today’s competitive business landscape. John Edson and Brett Lovelady of PA Consulting discuss how to bake design into company culture, and the lessons designers can learn from top brands, such as Apple.
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Why Startup-Corporate Partnerships Matter Now
Startup-corporate partnerships play an increasingly important role in the corporate innovation journey and startup evolution. Catarina Madeira and Irina Sigalovsky of MIT provide an overview of Innovation Leader’s latest research report.
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Three Experts on Redefining the Role of Design in Your Organization
Three experts from PA Consulting share advice and best practices on reinvigorating a company’s approach to design.
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The American Jobs Plan Innovation Managers Needed
A look at the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan, from Roy Levy of Spyre Group. One challenge Levy highlights: the capacity of local governments and large businesses to work with, and source from, fast-paced startups and small businesses.
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The Innovation Equation: Balancing Inside-Out and Outside-In
Finding the sweet spot between inside-out and outside-in activity should reflect the current and future business outlook for your sector, how much disruption your corporate culture will embrace, and whether there are enough folks in your organization with an entrepreneurial mindset to make the pursuit of innovation a reality.
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Democratizing Data: How Organizations Can Eliminate Silos
From sales and supply chains to finance and tax, even the best-managed organizations have scrambled to become more agile and collaborative. Despite some temporary fixes, it’s clear that taking decisive action in a constantly changing environment is hindered by data that remains heavily siloed by function and department.
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Do the Hard Work to Make Innovation Easier
More than ever, companies must have a robust innovation capability to develop solutions that meet changing customer and market demands…
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How To Monetize Your Digital Bank
How can banks shape digital banking business models to be attractive to customers and profitable in the long term? Deloitte embarked on a mission to answer this question with a new study.
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911, What Are Your Innovation Emergency OKRs?
Corporate life expectancy is at an all-time low — down 300 percent since the 1980s. But why is it that an organization’s survival has become such a critical challenge?
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The Blind Men & The Elephant: An Open Innovation Blueprint
Businesses no longer have the same amount of knowledge about a situation, nor can they accurately predict its outcomes. This trend is paving the way for an entirely new generation of open innovators.
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To Drive Innovation Success, You Need These Safety Belts
Kevin Bolen, Global Head of Market Intelligence at KPMG LLP, offers three guiding principles for managing periods of disruption and uncertainty.
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How Would You Reimagine School?
In two months, education underwent a shift faster than it had in 200 years. How might we adapt to remote learning, while also using this moment to reimagine education?
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Digitizing Innovation: A Call to Action
Digitizing the management of startup ecosystems is no more daunting than managing complex processes in sales, marketing, or supply chain automation. Get best practices…
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How Can You Foster Purpose-Driven Innovation?
Every innovator is motivated by the desire to create positive impact in the world. But the positive effects often have unintended consequences.
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What Should You Look For in an Innovation Leader?
The best innovators recognize that discipline is not innate. We have identified five key areas leaders should focus on in order to build a strong innovation discipline.