January, 2018

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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

I always enjoy selected parts of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and in this year’s #WEF18 agenda , it certainly had its good points. Overhaul though, I was a little disappointed, as it lacked the real leadership insights you come to expect, strong personalities did not seem to shine through this year from the speakers and panelists give.

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The Knowns and Unknowns of the Front End of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

The above quote is from the former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). Since then, people have started using quadrants of knowledge, i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown, to understand and explain the nature of risk but also of leading to an opportunity. For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be the Way It Is

Tim Kastelle

Innovation is subversive Are you happy with the way things are right now? Probably not, if you’re reading blog posts about innovation. There’s likely something bothering you. It might be something small, or large. If we’re not happy with the status quo, there’s only one thing that will change it – doing something differently.

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The Geek who Changed the World

Destination Innovation

Tim Berners Lee. Sir Tim Berners Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He created its three fundamental components: the formatting language HTML, the address system URL, and the HTTP system for linking sites. He was born in 1955 and grew up in London. As a schoolboy he was an avid trainspotter. He learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

In 2011, EY and GreenBiz Group conducted a survey of executives employed by companies generating revenue greater than $1 billion. In that report, EY shared that “76 percent of survey respondents anticipate natural resource shortages will affect their core business objectives over the next 3-5 years and that 65 percent of respondents stated their CFO has become involved in sustainability.” With interest in sustainability and CSR continuing to accelerate, many organizations are looking

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How machines learn (a great video explanation of deep learning)

Idea to Value

In today’s dose of inspiration, I wanted to give you an insight into one of the most innovative technologies of the past few years which has the potential to revolutionise entire industries: machine learning. If you want to be a startup on the cutting edge of buzzwords, you have two major avenues right now. The first is “blockchain”, which anyone who has seen the bubble of the cryptocurrency market rise can attest to ( side note: I am amazed that a cryptocurrency designed after

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Executing Collaborative Innovation - The Hamburger Style

HYPE Innovation

Often I read articles or books about top-down vs. bottom-up innovation and why one approach would be better than the other. After spending more than seven years in the collaborative innovation space, I would advise going hamburger style!

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Want to Improve Consumer Credit? Keep the Focus on FICO, Elevate Says

Tim Kastelle

EXCLUSIVE— Alternatives to the traditional FICO credit score have become a popular theme for emerging fintechs, but will it actually help consumers improve their credit? Credit solutions provider Elevate, however, will focus on improving its customer’s relationship with their FICO score in 2018 as well as on alternative methods of scoring. “Consumers are more focused […].

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Expecting or Reacting to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a bit mystified this morning, mystified by the fact that so many people I interact with are constantly talking about innovation, and how often they are surprised by it or overtaken by events. The word innovation seems to be on everyone's lips, is constantly in the news, but somehow the concepts behind these words never go beyond the surface. Why is it that smart people who are constantly speaking about innovation and hearing about innovation are so often overtaken by innovation?

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A Deeper Look at the Psychology of Innovation

IdeaScale

Anyone can think innovatively! It’s easy to assume that the great innovators of history are nothing more than geniuses who win the intellectual lottery. But really, innovation is about psychology, not IQ. In order to be more innovative, it’s a matter of how you learn, how you listen, and what you do with both. Openness. First, no innovator is an island.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 26 January 2018

Imaginatik

As we head on in to the 2 nd month of the year, this post highlights recent articles on hot topics that are shaping and changing the future not only of innovation and the tech space, but of our lives. Enjoy this next instalment! Why Digital Transformation Is Now On The CEO’s Shoulders. Go digital or go home. Digital transformation is a global phenomenon and a universal disruption, changing every industry and every sector.

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How to introduce a cost-cutting strategy in your innovation initiative: Step 1

Exago

To introduce a cost-cutting strategy in your innovation management initiative and ensure that your business remains relevant and able to maximise its potential under less favourable circumstances, five major steps should be taken. The post How to introduce a cost-cutting strategy in your innovation initiative: Step 1 appeared first on Exago.

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The 10 Most Successful Innovation Blog Posts of 2017

HYPE Innovation

After we have just jumped into 2018, full of new year resolutions and a huge agenda on challenges everyone wants to stand up to, we created an overview of our most successful blog posts of 2017, hopefully being able to support your upcoming projects with some insights and valuable advices. Best of 2017: What a year it has been! A re-designed blog, lots of new reports and whitepapers and not to forget, the blog posts - 45 new ones in total.

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Thinking about being more creative? Why don’t you ask around?

Idea to Value

Research suggests that proactive people, meaning those that take the initiative to change their job or their environment are more creative. Why is that? Because creativity is partly a social phenomenon. Interacting with diverse people, in or outside your working space may open up your mind and help you enrich your ideas. Get more feedback on what you do!

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Why we should expect more disruptive innovations

Jeffrey Phillips

I've used the example of Tower Records before - a behemoth astride the recording industry - brought low very quickly by a sudden shift in music distribution. The shift from physical media to digital media, and the shift from albums to songs as the distribution format made Tower suddenly obsolete. Similarly, Blockbuster experienced almost the exact same disruption.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 4: Idea Implementation

IdeaScale

How to bring ideas to life? After collecting, refining and reviewing ideas, now comes the big moment; you’re ready to start implementing those ideas. This is the fun part, for most of us, where all the work pays off, and you finally see where your idea is heading and how it might change your business. But even at this late stage, there’s still a lot of room for innovation and experimentation, and you need to leave room for creativity as ideas become reality.

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The 70-20-10 Rule

Digital Tonto

Innovation isn't just about coming up with new ideas, but also managing resources wisely Related posts: The 30 Years Rule – Innovation Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think. How to Manage. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to map costs for your innovation path to growth

Exago

In our economic environment, connecting innovation and strategic cost-cutting becomes relevant for all companies, both incumbent and challengers. The post How to map costs for your innovation path to growth appeared first on Exago.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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4 Essential Tips for Better Innovation Performance

HYPE Innovation

Right before January 1st, I felt an (in)explicable urge to “rant” about New Year’s resolutions on LinkedIn. And I had my reasons: websites were, as they usually are, racing to publish/ showcase stock advice, standard methods/tools and other types of “one-size-fits-all” solutions for all conceivable innovation management problems.

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The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads)

BrainZooming

The post The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The FREE, Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library Has Arrived! New for 2018, the Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library of FREE Downloads ! I’ve been blogging since 2014, and I’ve always tried to create free and useful resources for educators.

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Why you should work with an innovation consultant

Jeffrey Phillips

OK, here comes the pitch. I'm an innovation consultant. I've been working in the innovation space for over 12 years. I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. Of course if you happen to select this particular consultant you'll be exceptionally successful, but there are some other perfectly acceptable consultants out there.

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Overall Innovation Program Health

IdeaScale

IdeaScale’s new reporting dashboard has been adopted by numerous organizations so far, but we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the reasons customers have started making decisions with the new reporting dashboard. The short answer? The IdeaScale reporting dashboard offers you a snapshot of your overall innovation program health so that you can make choices on where your innovation program needs to be improved.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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This Startup Is Using Pollution to Help Build a Clean Energy Future

Digital Tonto

It could shift the economics of energy toward renewables Related posts: Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important Technology In The World Right Now. Inside The Race To Build A Battery That Can. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why leaders with a clear vision connect innovation and strategic cost-cutting

Exago

A successful cost-cutting strategy is connected to an organisation’s capacity to evolve, to innovate, and to do it as whole. Companies can, in fact, keep innovating in ways that do not require high investments in new products’ research and development, and which can save substantial amounts of time and money. The post Why leaders with a clear vision connect innovation and strategic cost-cutting appeared first on Exago.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. To celebrate we've pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017 from our archive of nearly 7,000 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors. Click the link if you missed.

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4-Step Formula for Idea Magnets and Teams to Encourage Each Other

BrainZooming

At the church we attend on Sundays, they recite the rosary beginning thirty minutes before each mass. For the 7 a.m. Mass, there are few people present for the start, especially when there is snow on the ground. Cyndi and I arrived yesterday as the snow was flying and rosary was just starting. We took our typical place near where the individual leading the rosary sits.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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What is process innovation and why it can transform your business

hackerearth

Continuous innovation is critical to achieving and maintaining a steady competitive advantage. It empowers leaders to implement change and make the best of the opportunities to transform their business. There are three types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, and business model innovation.A process innovation is crucial for product innovation, and it facilitates business model innovation, especially with the changes that rapid digitization is bringing with it.

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The Real Story Behind an Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation is more than just one person’s idea. Whenever you read about innovation, you’re sure to hear about how Steve Jobs changed everything with the iPhone. It is, to many, a perfect moment, a recent point in time where a company came along and changed everything out of the blue. Yet the iPhone is actually the result of years of work, a slow process that took two decades and dozens of products.

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We Need To Invite More Disruption and Messiness Into Our Lives — Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

The corporate tendency towards tidiness can actually hurt productivity Related posts: The Physics Of Disruption. Good Disruption / Bad Disruption. Is Disruption Dead? The New Rules Of Disruption. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Can Open Innovation Complement Agile?

Innocentive

Agile has taken over and transformed the software industry — you would be hard pressed in 2017 to find development teams who have not implemented at least some of the concepts. Agile principles have even been successfully adopted outside the development world; Agile methods help National Public Radio put together new programming, Saab to produce new fighter planes. even corporate behemoth General Electric has gotten on board.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.