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How to Get the Most from an Innovation Conference

Conferences play an important role in professional life. Attending conferences relevant to your area of expertise can help you broaden your network, learn new things, and demonstrate innovation leadership. It can be tempting to think of a conference as a

Ways to Create a Customer Experience Strategy

Customer experience is defined as the sum of all interactions between a customer and an organization. In order for businesses to stay relevant in 2019, they must have an excellent customer experience strategy, or else they could be severely hurting

Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail. But that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. Over one-third of projects fail, either not

6 Building Blocks for Innovation Department Success

Nearly 80 percent of executives surveyed by The Boston Consulting Group’s tenth global survey on innovation considered innovation to be either the most important priority at their company or in the top three. Employees, however, can be more skeptical. They’re already

Should You Hire an Innovation Consultant?

Finding the road to innovation can be difficult because there's no one map that leads you to it. Often, companies will turn to a guide, an innovation consultant, to put them on the path to more creative, flexible thinking. What

How to Improve Your Next Brainstorming Session

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea. Especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. The main reason for this is that organizations don’t actually use any of the ideas that come out of brainstorming sessions.

What It Takes to Be an Innovative Leader

Leading any endeavor can be a challenge, and leading innovation can be an even bigger challenge. Fortunately, the values that make a good leader dovetail well with being an innovative one. A Positive Attitude Having an optimistic approach to your

How the Gig Economy Impacts Innovation

Today, more than one-third of workers in the United States are part of the gig economy, and that translates into 57 million people. For some, freelancing is a stopover between permanent jobs, but for 24 percent of workers in the U.S.,