March, 2015

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Double Down, Explode, Bridge and Breakout: The innovation options

Jeffrey Phillips

For quite a while now, the words and phrases we use when we talk about innovation have bothered me. To some extent that's because the language is too inexact, and in other cases the words have been appropriated or misused. In many companies any new product is labeled "innovation", regardless if it is actually innovative or not. Further, innovation is a word that encompasses so many activities and purposes that it becomes almost meaningless.

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Soren Kaplan’s – March 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

It’s true! Drawing aliens may be the secret to creativity and innovation. University researchers, Galinsky and Maddux, discovered that people who have lived abroad have the most successful negotiations – reaching deals where shared interests were included in the solutions.This is an interesting finding in itself, but their incredible research didn’t stop there.

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Mystical guidelines for creating great user experiences

Boxes and Arrows

'The Jewish Torah teaches that the Creator created our world through ten utterances–for example, “let there be light.” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators.

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Are You An Analog or Digital Leader?

Bill Fischer

By Abhijit Bhaduri and Bill Fischer Changing mindsets begins with you! The only mind you can be sure of changing is your own, and the only way that you can demonstrate this mindset change is through your behaviors. If you aspire for your organization to be faster, more innovative, less afraid [.

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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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Why Ford is Growing its Silicon Valley Research Center

Innovation Leader

Ford exec Jim Buczkowski discusses the strategy behind the expansion of the company’s Research & Innovation Center in Palo Alto, and shares several projects they’re working on.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a culture that fears failure. A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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Praying for the Engagement of Disengaged Millennial Talent!

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

I know that many of my Christian friends and clients have spent time with their heads bowed praying for good people. Rarely are those prayers answered in the way they want. We’ve all seen the reports, and in all likelihood experienced it in our own businesses: disengagement is at an all time high. But I wonder if you’ve actually taken the time to look at what that really means to y.

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If You Can't Deal with Conflict, Can You Lead?

Mills-Scofield

'Dan Rockwell , also known as Leadershipfreak , writes a daily blog that is simply astounding with wisdom and insight - you must sign up ! With his permission, I''m reposting a rather critical one that all leaders must read and address. When we don''t deal with conflict, we inflict great damage on our organization. Here''s how to address it. Thank you Dan, for letting me repost!

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Are You An Analog or Digital Leader?

Bill Fischer

By Abhijit Bhaduri and Bill Fischer Changing mindsets begins with you! The only mind you can be sure of changing is your own, and the only way that you can demonstrate this mindset change is through your behaviors. If you aspire for your organization to be faster, more innovative, less afraid [.

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Pay to be deceived?

Innovation 360 Group

On weekdays we stick to digital editions of the morning papers but come weekends we splurge in paper, subscribing to the two largest newspapers in Sweden. Every now and then we try to decide on one of them but my husband wants his Fredrik Strage chronicles in Dagens Nyheter , and I, believe it or not, start every Saturday breakfast with Glossy Weekly SvD Perfect Guide from Svenska Dagbladet.

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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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Sustainability strategy in tough times

Norbert Bol

The april (2015) special edition of the scientific journal of Long Range Planning is called “ Doing more with less? Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. One might expect that in tough times there is less focus on sustainability.

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Organizational Models for Breakthrough Innovation

Integrative Innovation

As we have suggested earlier, innovation activities that are radical or disruptive in nature, should be separated from incremental innovation around a company’s established core business. The main reasons are: Required capabilities, structures, approaches, success metrics and culture for radical/disruptive innovation are highly incompatible with those required for incremental innovation.

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Inside the Entrepreneur-Led Innovation Group at Eastern Bank

Innovation Leader

Dan O'Malley had tried to disrupt the banking industry from outside. Now, he's working within it, as the founder of Eastern Labs, an innovation group at Eastern Bank. Includes slides.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

This article was updated on Apr 29th 2015. “What does it take to create a Unicorn – a company that achieves a valuation of $1 Billion or more within five years of first opening their doors and why are there more of them than ever? Is it luck or do they all have something in common, something that under the right conditions can be replicated? In this article I look under the covers of 34 of the worlds’ fastest growth companies to reveal all the techniques they have in common.”.

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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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Light the Fire and Clear the Path

Mills-Scofield

'In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. They come from deep down inside. Make your body and mind shake with excitement. These are soul sparks.” I am blessed to have had bosses who saw soul sparks in me and gave me opportunities to develop and spread them.

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Leader in coming week´s Innovation Special Report published in the Swedish Business magazine Dagens Industri

Innovation 360 Group

What´s happening now will have a greater impact on us than the innovation of the railway! When I talk about the ongoing globalization I talk about it as a series of waves, and right now, I´d say, we are in the midst of the third globalization wave. This third globalization wave is powered by three distinct factors on the market; the low interest rate ever, the ever increasing pace of digitalization and the likewise increasing pace of automation in general.

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Leader in coming week´s Innovation Special Report published in the Swedish Business magazine Dagens Industri

Innovation 360

What´s happening now will have a greater impact on us than the innovation of the railway! When I talk about the ongoing globalization I talk about it as a series of waves, and right now, I´d say, we are in the midst of the third globalization wave. This third globalization wave is powered by three distinct factors on the market; the low interest rate ever, the ever increasing pace of digitalization and the likewise increasing pace of automation in general.

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Interview: How can companies innovate FASTER?

Improvides

In the past month, I was interviewed by CMSWire, a leading online magazine, around my views on helping companies improve their innovation capabilities. Their particular question: How can companies innovate faster than their competitors? Click here to read the article on CMSWire. My primary insight in the article is that if you empower your people to […].

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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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Reality Start-Up TV

100%Open

We were recently asked to comment whether TV shows like Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice are good for British business. When these programmes were first aired they were highly entertaining and a real boost to the idea that entrepreneurship is for everybody. However I have always felt that they portray a very warped sense of what it means to be in business, and in particular what is involved in getting a new venture off the ground for the following reasons: Chasing cash not customers –

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Is VUCA the End of Strategy and Leadership?

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Is VUCA the end of strategy and leadership? In the current era of volatility, unpredictability, complexity and ambiguity, managers need to adapt the way to navigate. We’ve all been in meetings during which two parties were arguing about whether they should spend their time discussing strategy or focus on organizing immediate action. This kind of debate is likely to become more and more.

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Untangling Innovation Metrics

Innovation Leader

Measuring innovation has come up in every interview, conversation, and Field Study. This report captures what we’ve learned so far — both what executives are tracking today, and what they’re still working to capture.

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Will VR disrupt Reality?

Innovation 360 Group

David Roberts, former Special Agent and Singularity University faculty member, made an interesting example of possible disruption, when comparing the steady, linear improvement of how we experience reality, with the exponential improvements of VR systems, and tools. Reality is improved by better glasses, better prosthesis, and better smartphones helping us improve our daily lives.

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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.

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Responsibility for sustainability

Norbert Bol

The scientific journal Organizational Dynamics is preparing a special issue about “The leadership imperative for sustainability and corporate social responsibility” In other words what is the responsibility for sustainability of business leaders? Most business leaders describe their responsibility in terms of economic-, social- and ecological performance.

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Check Your Body As Often As Your Email

Innovation 360

The exponential implications on healthcare are truly disruptive. The revelation of the Apple Watch did not take the tech community by storm, but during the first 24 hours after 23andMe and Apple launched their ResearchKit app mPower 7,400 individuals with Parkinsons enrolled as clinical testers. Up until that date the largest research group was 1,700 individuals.

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VC to CV

100%Open

Who’d be a venture capitalist in 2015? In spite of the evergreen nature of BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den with its photogenic piles of cash it seems there are countervailing trends that are emerging in how start-ups and SMEs can access the funding they need to grow. Here we examine three alternative ways that are gaining ground. 1. Corporate Venturing.

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The Flaming Lips and Economic Development

Gregg Fraley

'Consider Attending the Creativity World Forum 2015. As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. I’ve written here previously about how effective their model is in getting broad-based involvement, participation, and attendance. This is arguably the most successful creativity conference in the world right now.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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How Mindful Innovation is Accelerating the Rate of Health & Performance in the Enterprise

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Our Mindful Innovation vision is to refine organization health strategies, reveal population health improvement interventions and weigh productive advantage business models to improve the economic wellbeing and quality of life of consumers worldwide. “Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it,” wrote author James Balldwin.

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Raise The Minimum Wage: It’s Innovation Policy

It's Saul Connected

Raising the minimum wage across the U.S. may be our best innovation policy. You wouldn’t know it from either our current innovation policy or the partisan catfight, cable news talking heads, and tired political arguments about minimum wage. A higher minimum wage is a good thing. It puts more pressure on companies to innovate to increase the value of their products, services, and business models.

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Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

Improvides

With it's new Kickbox programme, Adobe is giving every employee with an idea the opportunity to go out and experiment on it. The smartest part: they're completely happy for that idea to fail. Adobe as a company has an innate link with creativity. After all, it produces some of the most widely-used software products used […]. Originally published at Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

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Check Your Body As Often As Your Email

Innovation 360

The exponential implications on healthcare are truly disruptive. The revelation of the Apple Watch did not take the tech community by storm, but during the first 24 hours after 23andMe and Apple launched their ResearchKit app mPower 7,400 individuals with Parkinsons enrolled as clinical testers. Up until that date the largest research group was 1,700 individuals.

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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.