Task Unification Technique

Task Unification applies the operation type of ‘internal’ task into the original object to launch a new product.

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Liberating Structures Training and Templates

Liberating Structures offers an innovative approach to meetings that involves a larger number of people to boost inclusion, participation, clarity, and purpose. This blog post shares a few templates to get started with Liberating Structures.

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Unanticipated and Undesirable Consequences of Innovation

Innovation brings both positive and negative consequences, but the negative consequences are often overlooked. This article explores the concepts behind unanticipated and undesirable consequences of innovation and provides suggestions on how to limit them.

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Divide and Conquer – How to Use the Division Technique

Creativity is a skill that can be learned using structured processes such as the division technique. This involves dividing a problem into smaller components and rearranging them to discover new solutions.

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Drift Happens: Strategic Drift and What to Do About It

Strategic drift is an unintentional deviation from the agreed-upon direction, which can lead to missed opportunities and falling behind competitors. To prevent it, organizations need to continuously communicate a shared strategic vision, empower localized decision making, and promote alignment through OKRs and work visualization.

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Knowledge Taxonomies That Every Executive Needs To Consider

Executives should consider individual and collective knowledge and create a trustful atmosphere for open exchange of ideas to enhance their company's commercial knowledge.

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Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve at the Austin Heart Walk

Planview participated in the American Heart Association's Austin Heart Walk to raise awareness and support for the prevention, detection, research, and medical care for heart disease.

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What is the FORTH Method?

Gijs van Wulfen's Forth Innovation Methodology takes ideas through a structured innovation journey to create successful business concepts.

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Why Open Organisations will Win

The world of business is changing, and openness is becoming a critical capability. 100%Open's Give|Get philosophy and Open Organisation Test are helping organisations become more open.

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Winning on Shark Tank: Nine Strategies for Selling Your Bright Ideas - Innovationedge

Learn the essential skills needed to sell your ideas to gain support and bring them to the market in this article.

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Your Business Relationship With the Veteran Community

Entrepreneurs can contribute to the veteran community by offering employment and support. Recognition and employment are key ways to create inclusiveness for veterans.

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Making the Most of Your Resources With Task Unification

Theater director John Doyle found an innovative way to produce crowd-pleasing musicals on a tiny budget that earned him a Tony award.

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The LAB: Innovating Your Wallet Using S.I.T. (December 2009)

Discover six innovative wallets designed by graduate students at the University of Cincinnati using the S.I.T. method, including a financial wallet, armor wallet, trendsetter wallet, shopper's paradise wallet, globetrotter wallet, and fitness wallet.

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Business Strategy - How to Handle Confidential Information

Handling confidential information is a relevant issue for any senior executives. Here are suggestions on how to handle confidential information for your business strategy.

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Overton Window: How extreme ideas become mainstream

The Overton Window explains how extreme ideas become mainstream by describing a range of what society will accept, from policy to radical and unthinkable ideas.

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Innovation Perspectives - Predicting Innovations

Future products will be more mobile, adaptive, simple, specific, and ideal. The S.I.T. method is a great tool in creating these innovative products.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and CAPTCHA

Captcha, the system that protects websites from computer-generated spam, is also being used to digitize books. Professor Luis von Ahn invented the system and now uses it to scan and digitize printed words while proving users are not machines.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and Drug Dispensing Contact Lenses

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a new contact lens that may help glaucoma patients.

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Five Tactics to Prioritize What’s Important

Five Tactics to Prioritize What’s Important

Effective prioritization involves eliminating interruptions, taking time to review, being willing to revise, not letting deadlines rule, and building a better system.

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How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members - 8 Fatal Blows

How Creative Thinking Gets Killed by Team Members - 8 Fatal Blows

Eight behaviors can kill creative thinking in a group setting. These include negativity, assumption-based thinking, talking excessively, rejecting others' ideas, and more.

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Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a LowCarbon Future

Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a LowCarbon Future

At a time when climatechange deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers?

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Trend Analysis Template

Trend Analysis Template

Evaluate different trends and their potential market impact by using the trend profile as a structure for your data.

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