January, 2017

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Are you a Lateral Leader?

Destination Innovation

As a leader which column do you fall into? Conventional Leaders. Lateral Leaders. Lead from the front. Lead from alongside. Direct. Inspire. Use conventional methods and seek to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Develop new methods and seek to change the rules, change partners or change the approach to the problem. Think they know best (and often do).

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Innovation Roundup: The Top Innovations in 2016

IdeaScale

2016 has been a year of crazy ups and downs. We’ve lost some amazing celebrities, had one of the most unique presidential campaigns in history, and experienced incredible innovations as well. The top innovations of 2016 have not only impacted this year, but will continue to impact business and technology for years to come. By taking a look at the top innovations of 2016 in a variety of industries, you can see what others are developing and gain insight and inspiration for your innovations

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2016’s best innovation blog articles, from the top influential innovation bloggers

Idea to Value

Sometimes, it is important to take a step back from your own work, and highlight some of the best work from other people around the world. This is especially true in the field of innovation management, which are so broad that it would be impossible to highlight every diverse opinion on how to approach the subject. So here I have highlighted a small selection of what I believe are some of the best articles, videos and thought pieces on innovation from some of my colleagues from 2016 on their own

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Why Failure is an Essential Component of a Strong Innovation Strategy

HYPE Innovation

What good could possibly come out of failure? Harrison Ford was a failure as an actor for years. Twelve publishers turned down J.K. Rowling's manuscript for Harry Potter. A recording company (no doubt an ancestor of those book publishers) turned down the first Beatles album. Viagra, penicillin, pacemakers, and the smallpox vaccine were all born out of failures.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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There is a clear winner theme in ideas’ implementation

Exago

After ideation and crowd discussion, followed by improvement and approval, management and leadership embrace innovations more easily, as the higher rates of implementation show. The post There is a clear winner theme in ideas’ implementation appeared first on www.exago.com.

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2017: Collaboration Is No Longer A Choice, But An Imperative

Digital Tonto

In the new business environment that's emerging, the best way to become a dominant player is to be an indispensable partner. Related posts: The New Era Of Cognitive Collaboration. Building Creative. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

The product innovations that generate the most excitement and public interest are the disruptive innovations. They could be a new way to call a cab, drive a car with little need for gas, or a completely new way to look at medical science, technology, or entertainment. However, these innovations aren’t that common. The most successful, innovative companies strike a balance between core, adjacent, and transformational initiatives.

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10 most popular creativity and innovation articles of 2016

Idea to Value

Here you will find a list of the Top 10 most popular articles on Idea to Value published in 2016. As Editor, I’m amazingly proud of the rapid growth seen on the site in our first year. We had over 300,000 visitors, with some of our articles going viral and getting thousands of shares as well. Here are the 10 articles which you (the readers) visited the most: What is innovation?

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The 3 Types of Promoters Needed to Support Your Innovation Process

HYPE Innovation

There is a lot of talk nowadays about closing the so-called innovation “gap” or the difference between what leaders say they want in terms of a new product, service, process, or business model innovation and what their organizations actually deliver. Organizations can, and often do, fail to meet their innovation goals for a number of reasons and, depending on where you get your daily fix of leadership articles, these reasons will vary.

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Beyond Flavor of the Month: Managing Idea Challenges as a Repeatable Program

Imaginatik

An Idea Challenge is a structured process to collect new ideas from large groups of people – employees, customers, partners, or other stakeholders. Done right, they create multiple radiating benefits. The most obvious are all the new ideas that might otherwise have gone unnoticed by executives. But there are other powerful benefits, such as: increased staff buy-in for new initiatives, and higher productivity and morale of a more engaged workforce.

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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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Exago’s partner is the exclusive user of GSV acceleration methods in Brazil

Exago

Kyvo Design – Driven Innovation, an Exago consulting partner, is now the representative of Global Silicon Valley labs (GSVlabs) in Brazil. The post Exago’s partner is the exclusive user of GSV acceleration methods in Brazil appeared first on www.exago.com.

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A decade of innovation teaches us this

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been pondering for several weeks, at least since the start of the new year, the state of play of innovation in large corporations. I think I can speak with some knowledge about this, having conducted innovation activities and projects in a wide array of Fortune 500 companies, having talked and been in sales processes with far more, and having conducted innovation programs, training and presentations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Central and South America, as well as

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IdeaScale Community Archetypes

IdeaScale

Building successful communities requires understanding of the people and their needs, as well as setting up the proper technology and policies to match the characteristics of users and purpose of the community. In this blog article, it is presented the results of a research I co-authored with Dr. Marcos Báez , Dr. Carlos Rodríguez , Dr. Gregorio Convertino , and Grzegorz Kowalik and published at the 2016 Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016).

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Do you have an Innovation Mindset? Do you want one…? Are you sure?

Idea to Value

Some years ago I took on the challenge of building an innovation center and organization in China for a Fortune 500 firm. Full of excitement and passion, I started hiring some great talent and jumped headlong into the role of leader, coach, mentor and manager. Like so many other organizational leaders in China at that time, I had a very young team and we needed to skill-up.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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How does innovation management help in digital transformation?

HYPE Innovation

The power of digital disruption is so immense that it now sits on the top priority list for almost every executive. Whether the threat comes from new digital natives entering the market, traditional competitors upping their digital quotient, or other markets using a digital channel to launch a competitive offering. On the flip side, as GE is demonstrating , the opportunity for growth is equally immense.

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Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – (Finally) Giving Corporate Innovators Their Due

Imaginatik

Next week, Imaginatik and the Center for Innovation Collaboration Leadership at Suffolk University will jointly launch the Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – the inaugural year of what we expect will become an annual awards program! This effort has been a long time in coming. Over the years, our two institutions regularly come across brilliant innovators, doing brilliant work.

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Six common mistakes and one advice for innovation challenges

Exago

Operational efficiency is clearly ahead in idea implementation, while sales and marketing, sustainability and better customer experience count for more than half of all the ideas implemented. By dissecting the innovation challenges that performed the worst – and excluding extrinsic. Read More. The post Six common mistakes and one advice for innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.

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The future innovation core lies at the edge.

Paul Hobcraft

Boundaries seem to be continually pushed in business, nothing seemingly stands still, yet many things stay caught up in not being changed. Something has to change, we need to jettison old ways. In with the new in 2017, out with the old. I continue to read and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation.

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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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Are Basic Startup Principles the Key to Enterprise Innovation?

IdeaScale

Build a startup inside a bigger organization for the best innovation strategy! It’s an axiom of business that the bigger you are, the slower you move. In innovation strategy, that can make the difference between being first to market with a game-changer and trailing behind smaller, nimbler companies. But you can give your business the flexibility of a startup, if you know the startup principles to apply in your company.

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Podcast #004 – Fostering a culture of innovation in your organisation

Idea to Value

In today’s episdoe, we talk about the last of the 3 Dimensions of Innovation: Organisational Support. What does it really take for innovation to flourish at an organisation? Find out by clicking the play button to listen to the episode above. The capabilities to support a culture of innovation we discuss are: Vision & Strategy. Ten Types of Innovation.

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The CDO Imperative: Understanding your Ecosystem

HYPE Innovation

The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is not only leading the convergence of operational and information technology, but also driving its transformational impact across the wider ecosystem. In this first post we look at some of those patterns we’re seeing and we explore exactly how they’re already delivering real financial value.

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Signal versus Noise

Jeffrey Phillips

The post today frames a classic issue in communications: how to improve a signal and hopefully eliminate or at least mitigate noise. The noisier the communication is, the more difficult it is for the sender and the receiver to communicate. Thus, we try to eliminate noise from the communication, so only the signal is received. That sounds easy, but it is actually difficult, because there are no pure communication media.

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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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The Future Of Encryption

Digital Tonto

The new era of quantum encryption is coming sooner than you think. If you want to protect your business, the time to start is now. Related posts: Can Encryption Keep Our Information Safe? The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Strategic Planning Tools – 600 Powerful Strategic Thinking Questions eBook

BrainZooming

One of the most popular Brainzooming blog posts the past few years is rich in strategic thinking tools. It features more than 200 strategic thinking questions we’ve gathered, envisioned, and created going back to The Brainzooming Group origins as a corporate strategic planning department. The Brainzooming Group has created and published many more questions since then as part of our portfolio of strategic planning tools.

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Best Practice: Conduct crowd engagement and outreach with an eye toward diversity

IdeaScale

Research shows that diversity increases the intelligence of the crowd. If you want to geek out on the theory and mathematics, here is a great 10 minute video by Professor Scott Page at the University of Michigan, describing the Diversity Prediction Theorem, which describes precisely (in mathematical terms) how diversity increases the accuracy of a crowd when making predictions or estimates. .

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Podcast #003 – The Capabilities of Innovative Teams Teams

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we talk about the various capabilities which companies need in order to be successful at innovation. Listen to the episode by using the play button above. The capabilities we highlight in more detail include: Innovation Methodology. Focus on Problem and Solution. Experimentation & Prototyping.

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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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How to Get Started Innovating on Customer Experience

HYPE Innovation

In recent years, customer experience has emerged as a major differentiator for large companies. In a McKinsey survey of senior executives, 90 percent of respondents confirmed that customer experience is one of the CEO’s top three priorities. So how to start working and innovating on customer experience? There are so many articles, methods, strategies etc. that it can become a confusing and complex task for you as an innovation manager or customer experience manager to even get started.

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50 Quotes to Spark a Culture of Innovation in 2017

Innovation Excellence

An inspiring quote is a great tool for changing a mindset. I made a personal collection of 50 outstanding quotes on change and innovation. Use them to inspire others to start a culture of change, to think different and to prioritize change and innovation at the start of 2017. 1. Nothing is stronger than habit.

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Over The Next 5 Years, IBM Sees Atoms Fusing With Bits To Create New Insights

Digital Tonto

IBM Research sees a new era emerging in which software and instrumentation will combine to give us unprecedented insights into the physical world Related posts: How to Create Insights. Why Atoms Are. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Life Lessons – 30 Things My Dad Taught Me

BrainZooming

Following up yesterday’s update about my dad’s unexpected death (and don’t worry not EVERY post hereafter will be about my father), I wanted to share this list of thirty things #MyDadTaughtMe. The list originated on Twitter in 2011 in response to a hashtag floating around at the time. You will find business wisdom, life lessons, and spaß from Bernie Brown on this list.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.