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Capgemini Report on Innovation Centers: Top 5 Takeaways

Planview

Innovation has never been as misunderstood, challenging, expensive, or transformative as it is today. trillion spent globally on R&D in 2014 alone, it’s perhaps the most crucial initiative people can invest in. Here are our top 5 takeaways on innovation centers from a recent report released by Capgemini.

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Crowdsourcing at Work: Open Innovation with Unilever’s Foundry IDEAS™

Planview

Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years. Unilever Foundry is becoming a proven model for generating innovation and harnessing people’s ideas,” says Karen Hamilton, Unilever’s VP of Sustainable Business.

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Conversation skills book review 3: Conversational intelligence – How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith E Glaser (2014)

Red Star Kim

magazine identified Conversational Intelligence as one of our top five business trends in 2016 and Microsoft has said that it is spawning new innovations and influencing their product development for the next decade. First, it looks at the way leaders communicate with their people and help shape organizational culture.

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Increasing net retention requires an innovative approach to CX

Zendesk

Since launching with Zendesk in 2014 , Slack has understood the value of meeting customers where they are, and the company built its CX with scale in mind. “I Turning customers into loyalists requires a more innovative approach to customer relationship management. Slack was able to achieve unicorn status using this philosophy.

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What Do the IDC Predictions Mean for the B2B CMO?

SBI Growth

Innovative CMO and CIO pairs will throw out the rule book when it comes to IT''s support of Marketing. By the end of 2014, 60% of CMOs will have formal recruiting process for people with data skills. This is why #7 suggests that by the end of 2014, 60% of CMOs will have a formal recruiting process for people with data skills.

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12 Female Entrepreneurs You Need to Follow

Hubspot Sales

Though the "Girlboss" era is now behind us , female entrepreneurs blazed trails long before the term became mainstream in 2014. No matter your gender identity or line of work, everyone can find inspiration from female entrepreneurs who are driving innovation and creating necessary change in their industries. Image Source. Image Source.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown Author and book overview of The Strategy Book Author Max McKeown, with both an MBA and PhD from Warwick Business School, is a strategy and innovation coach for leading companies. Unusually, he has accolades for both customer service and human resources. A strategist cannot get lost in the detail”.