The Drivers and Barriers of Sustainable Innovation: The World Business...
“Sustainable development is a metaphor for opportunity and progress as well as a reminder of obligations and uncertainty,” says Andrew Dearing in a recent WBCSD report on the drivers and barriers of...
View ArticleBig Data Dilemma: Marketers Don’t Quite Get It
Like any snazzy, cutting-edge tool that promises marketers better insight into the minds of their customers, Big Data has exploded onto our radar, claiming superiority because, hey, it’s hard to argue...
View ArticleInnovation Without Foundation: The 7 Deadly Sins
Having big ideas is great, but executing on them takes a little more than just the proverbial light bulb. Innovation without foundation is a little bit like riding a bike without wheels, or any number...
View ArticleUnlikely Innovation: Looking Outside Your Team for Inspiration
When companies talk about innovation, they’re really talking about taking action — turning creative solutions into tangible products and services. And while it’s usually the default move to seek out...
View ArticleWorld War “I”: Innovation, Competitive Advantage, and Killing Great Ideas
A world constantly striving to advance innovation is a world of controlled war; the fight for competitive advantage is more cutthroat than ever, with roughly one-third of business owners noting that,...
View ArticleInnovation’s Many Faces: What Innovating Means Across Business
Innovation can be defined pretty specifically if need be, and here at Mindjet, we interpret it as turning ideas into action. But that’s a blanket explanation; the nitty-gritty of innovating is...
View ArticleInnovation and Social Ideation: In Sync, Not Synonyms
For all of the many dialects of industries today, there’s at least one word that’s equally as misunderstood in theory as it is in practice. The one that sticks out for me is “ideation” — technically,...
View ArticleThe Innovation Test: Measuring the Success of Change
Business innovation is a practice in paradox. Giving innovation room to breathe is important for the expansion and flexibility of good ideas; still, measuring the success of change is critical to...
View ArticleStop Stumbling Over These 5 Common Productivity Hurdles
July is productivity month here at Mindjet HQ, so to get things moving, we’re going to dive right in to some of the more typical stuff that paves the way for procrastination and causes major output...
View ArticleProductivity, Split Attention, and How Technology Hurts Output
Productivity didn’t used to be something everyone had to fight so hard for; it was more an expectation than a charitable quality. But when highly mobile, ever-accessible technology spread over the...
View ArticleOfficeLand: Increasing Productivity Through Design
The word ‘office’ gets a bad rap. It dredges up images of dull-faced drones hunched over coffee-stained keyboards, sallow beneath too-bright fluorescent lighting. But a youth-centric shift in the...
View ArticleMindjet Productivity Series: How Your Agile Business Strategy Affects...
“These days, to say that you’re not agile is the equivalent of saying that you’re not potent.” At least that’s how Ivar Jacobson famously put it during his presentation at the Rational Software...
View Article4 Productivity Tips to Maximize Your GTD Efforts
Productivity is a sticky business. As a rule, the personal investment someone has in the quality and quantity of their output is, well, personal — tons of variables, from the role you have in an...
View ArticleFun Friday Links: Digital Ubiquity, Keeping Employees Happy, and the...
Welcome to Conspire’s Super Happy Fun Friday Link Time, a weekly collection of cool discoveries from around the Web. Most times the goal is to get you thinking differently about communication,...
View ArticleMindjet Productivity Series, Part II: Linear vs. Radial Thinking
Albert Einstein once said that if he were given just one hour to save the world, he’d spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. Most people probably...
View Article6 Alternative Productivity Tips for Business Rebels
You’ve heard it all, and probably tried it, too: the tips, tricks, approaches, and products aimed at boosting your productivity. You know that being productive means getting organized. Being prepared....
View ArticleFun Friday Links: The Profitability of Good, Operationalizing Brand...
Welcome to Conspire’s Super Happy Fun Friday Link Time, a weekly collection of cool discoveries from around the Web. Most times the goal is to get you thinking differently about communication,...
View ArticleProductivity Buzz: We’re Doing Better, Not Our Best
With breakthrough technologies galore and more suggested work practices than you could ever hope to adopt as habit, it’s not the tools we don’t have or tricks we haven’t thought of that are keeping us...
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Mindjet User Spotlight: Andreas Lercher
Name: Ing. Andreas Lercher Title: Lerchertrain® – Mag. Lercher & Partner Started using Mindjet: 2002 Social links: Website, Facebook, LinkedIn How did you hear about Mindjet? In 2002 I met...
View ArticleMindjet Productivity Series #3: Four Reasons Your Work/Life Balance Isn’t Cut...
The modern worker — myself included — takes a lot of pride in their ability to accomplish an improbable number of things per week, per day, and even per hour. And I’m not just talking about completing...
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