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How to Sell Innovative Ideas (When Everyone’s Terrified to Take Risks)

Strategic Account Management Association

By Brian Doyle, President, Holden Advisors Business decisions are usually made by decision makers at two ends of a spectrum. At one end are the innovators, who want to try new things and aren’t afraid of failing. At the other end are those who fear making a bad decision and getting called out for it.

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KPI Management: Open Innovation KPIs

Flevy

Open Innovation Programs represent a paradigm shift in how organizations approach innovation, moving beyond the confines of internal R&D to leverage the collective creativity and expertise of external partners.

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KPI Management: Innovation Pipeline Strength KPIs

Flevy

Innovation Pipeline Strength is a critical metric for organizations aiming to maintain a highly competitive level of innovation. It reflects an organization’s ability to manage, prioritize, and convert ideas into viable products or services, ensuring a consistent flow of innovation.

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Decision Making in the Era of Growing Constraints (Part 1)

Planview

Other decisions are made at the individual level on prioritization and focus on a given day. Companies that transform the quality and speed of their decisions consistently outperform their competitors. So how can you make smarter decisions faster? A two-way door is a decision that is easily reversible.

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

The future of the supply chain industry will take the emotion out of decision-making by leveraging innovative technology to transform raw data into actionable intelligence.

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Digital Transformations Are Crucial to Optimizing Innovation Value

Planview

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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3 Approaches to Global Innovation

Flevy

The current ever-changing and increasingly connected world demands taking an amplified approach to Innovation and Innovation Management. The conventional method of innovating locally and distributing the product or service globally is now being questioned more and more. infusing a Global Innovation Culture.