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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

Your team needs to know they can trust you and each other to brainstorm openly, suggest ideas, experiment, and take risks — and even fail, without consequence. “I Promote quick wins. Things like that set a path to innovation” and quick wins, Merlin says.

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CIO Brett Lansing’s five-point approach to building followership

CIO

You need to lower barriers to brainstorming and innovation,” he says. To help keep this focus, Lansing says it’s vital to celebrate small wins — progress, not perfection. “We The true power of these forums is in their ability to create momentum, Lansing says. And this is especially important for your big initiatives.

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Competitive Intelligence Spotlight #33: Marcia Altgilbers, Competitive Intelligence & Price-to-Win Director of BAE Systems

ArchIntel

Marcia Algilbers , director of Competitive Intelligence & Price-to-Win with BAE Systems , recently spoke with ArchIntel regarding the importance of ethics, how to measure success and skill within competitive intelligence teams, as well as technology that has supported data collection and analysis. . ArchIntel™ -.

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War Gaming: Stress-test your competitive options

Fuld

Our workshops bring together employees from key departments to identify potential risks, anticipate competitors’ moves, and develop winning tactics and strategies. Fuld & Company has decades of experience in designing and facilitating war gaming workshops for companies across virtually all industries.

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Can Your Marketing Team Increase Sales Productivity?

Zoominfo

Aligning sales and marketing leads to 38% higher sales win rates. Therefore, they have valuable knowledge about customers’ interests and motivations – information you can’t find anywhere else. Take a close look at the tools you use, and brainstorm ways you can use technology to help sales become more productive.

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Mapping Local Essentials: Being the Business that Grows, Sells, or Markets the Beans

Moz

For example, here’s data capturing a 50% increase in US demand for tortillas and wraps: Unfortunately, Google’s tool can’t zoom in to a local level, and you can’t query the tool, but it’s great for brainstorming business concepts based on trending queries.

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MozCon 2019: Day Two Learnings

Moz

In no particular order, today also consisted of: Areej parading 180 slides-worth of knowledge in 14 minutes — like a boss! Get people involved in the mission and brainstorming as soon as possible. Make your audience feel seen and you’ll win. This is how you win at voice search. Rip the bandaid off.