Fwd: This week in IM: Ideation Techniques & Successful Leadership

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From: InnovationManagement.se <mail@innovationmanagement.se>
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Subject: This week in IM: Ideation Techniques & Successful Leadership
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Featured Company Get bigger ideas through strategic focus and meaningful connections Drowning in incremental innovations? Watch how a combination of our best practices and superior software capabilities can help you leverage the collective intelligence of your team and your available insights sources to generate bigger and better ideas. Watch how it works Taking a Close Look at Success by Kate Tojeiro of X Fusion December 10, 2012 In the following article article Kate Tojeiro, founder of progressive leadership consultancy, X-Fusion, takes a fresh look at two very different types of leaders, those driven by inspiration and those by aspiration.  Read more Case: Open Innovation in the Biorefinery Industry December 7, 2012 Last year I came in contact with the co-founder and advisor of the Biorrefiniria Brasil open innovation community, José Augusto T. R. Tomé. He started an interesting venture within the chemical sector, a venture focused on biorefinery. Read further to learn more about his vibrant innovation community and open innovation in general. Read more The 7 All-time Greatest Ideation Techniques December 10, 2012 Which brainstorming techniques should you use to attack your next innovation challenge? Here are the "super seven" that innovation consultant Bryan Mattimore says have the advantages of being easy to learn, flexible to adapt to different types of creative challenges and are diverse enough to deliver different types of ideas. Read more Making Your Idea Matter December 9, 2012 For many innovative people, the problem is not coming up with enough ideas, but getting attention for those ideas we decide to implement. To solve this problem, we need to invest more time developing persuasive stories that make an emotional connection with the people we\'re trying to influence. That\'s the message of Bernadette Jiwa\'s terrific book Make Your Idea Matter: Stand Out With a Better Story. Read more New Resource for SMEs: Introducing the IMP³rove Academy Column December 6, 2012 On behalf of the Team at InnovationManagement.se, it gives us great pleasure to announce the collaboration with the IMP³rove – European Innovation Management Academy in creating the IMP³rove Academy Column.  Read more Sven Schade, Policy Officer at European Commission in Dialogue with InnovationManagement.se December 6, 2012 In connection with the new collaboration with IMP³rove – Academy, InnovationManagement.se sat down with Sven Schade, Policy Officer at European Commission, to explore how small and medium-sized entities can benefit from having increased access to innovation management tools and learning. Read more Is Cash becoming Obsolete? December 5, 2012 Finding ways to make it easier and more convenient to spend money is the aim of many innovations in the area of electronic payments. A number of innovative electronic payment alternatives are all vying to become the new standard in electronic payments and displace the long time standard, the card with a magnetic strip. Any of these new technologies could make the need to carry cash obsolete. Read more Featured Company Don't wait for your next great idea. Get inspired at Wharton Executive Education. Innovation Tournaments, a dynamic new program offered by Wharton Executive Education, will teach you how to manage the process of innovation within your organization. Join other executives March 18 – 20, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA to get tools you can use to uncover new opportunities for strategic growth for your company or organization. Learn More Are You Innovating Too Quickly? HBR Blog Network | November 14, 2012 Corporate CEOs are often chastised by the business press for moving too fast or too slow to make fundamental changes. But Michael Schrage suggests that focusing on that metric is a fool's game. Much more reliable is the metric of how fast your customers and clients are willing to change. Their inertia matters more than your momentum. Read more Someone Copied Your Product. What Next? Inc.com | September 20, 2012 A company is using your trademark without authorization. Someone copied one of your products. As a human being, your first response is to get furious. As an entrepreneur, your inclination is to seek justice. As a business owner, your course of action is to contact a lawyer. Taking legal action, however, requires great caution. Read more The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking 99U.com | December 1, 2012 One of the secrets to Amazon's stunning success is planning on a longer time horizon than most of its competitors. The company that started out as a few guys in a garage has now revolutionized the way we buy everything from books to toys to clothes. Amazon is now one of the 100-largest companies in America, thanks to bold long term plays like the Amazon Kindle. Read more Putting Visual Thinking to Work Michael Babwahsingh Blog | October 16, 2012 Much like other crossover sensations from the creative world such as design thinking and information design, the visual thinking phenomenon has sustained interest for some time now. But behind its glowing promise, a challenge persists for many in the business world: How can you harness the power of visual thinking to achieve real results? Read more Featured Company IESE's Program for Leadership Development (PLD) Ready to challenge yourself and inspire others? Fast track your career through IESE's PLD. Gain solid business skills and a decision-making framework, while maximizing your leadership capabilities. Tailor the program to your needs by choosing a Short Focused Program (Barcelona or New York) or the new Fast Forward Program (Barcelona). Learn more World Innovation Convention Nov 28-30, 2012 Cannes 15% Paneuropean Intellectual Property Summit: Patents Dec 6-7, 2012 Brussels 20% Paneuropean Intellectual Property Summit: Trademarks Dec 10-11, 2012 Alicante 20% Product Innovation 2013 Feb 19-20, 2013 Berlin 500 EUR How to Implement an Innovation Management System (IMS) using the Balanced Scorecard Framework? Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2013 Lisbon 10%   Read newsletter in a browser | Forward to a friend | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Update your preferences Web: www.innovationmanagement.se Twitter: IM_Innovation Facebook: Facebook.com/InnovationManagement Comments? IMweekly@innovationmanagement.se InnovationManagement.se Box 168, 22100 Lund Sweden Copyright © 2012 Global Innovation Network

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