A cost-cutting initiative within your innovation agenda needs to be run as a strategic initiative with the same board sponsorship, direction and accountability as any other critical initiative. It is important to ensure central governance, senior management agreement and employees’ engagement.
Six best innovation practices to engage Millennials and Gen Zers
All businesses are created first by ideas. Then, once you are in business, you need new thinking for design, engineering, radical improvement, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, problem-solving, customer retention, etc. Often the difference between success or failure in business is a simple idea.
How innovation can help you conquer the new generations
A Gallup report shows that US companies lose $350 billion in revenue every year due to employees’ disengagement. In fact, 70 per cent of your employees are probably disengaged. Yet full participation is an emotional commitment that cannot be forced. With the Millennials and Generation Z joining the workplace, the challenge rises: no longer can we believe that it is enough for a company to provide the work, and that an employee’s motivation will come naturally.
Exago featured in Gartner’s “Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools 2017”
For the third consecutive year, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company references Exago as one of the software providers with traction and visibility in the idea management industry.
Strategic cost-cutting is not dead, and we are here to prove it
Leaders with a clear vision tend to use cost-cutting and improvement to align costs with business strategy. Take these five steps to make it work.
Putting the Daily Innovation Model together
We’ve seen how you can locate your position in the Daily Innovation Model, built to help companies see innovation as a daily function of their job. When we place the continua on two axes – incremental to radical and process to product
Is gamification the way forward?
Exago’s team participated in Gamify 2017, an event gathering specialists to discuss the latest practices and the power and value of gamification for people, brands and organisations.
Brazilian Kyvo and the Korea Innovation Center bring startup communities together
Kyvo, an Exago’s consulting partner, has joined forces with the Korea Innovation Center (KIC) to select Brazilian entrepreneurs for the K-Startup Grand Challenge, South Korea’s most relevant startup acceleration programme.
Getting started with the Daily Innovation Model
I’ve introduced my Daily Innovation Model, built to help companies see innovation as a daily function of their job. To start using it, you should first understand where you are exactly.
“Innovation is not for us”, they say
If I had a dollar for every time that someone said that to me, I wouldn’t need to work another day in my life. As someone who is trying to get corporations in Pakistan to understand the value of innovation, this declaration is extremely frustrating.