HYPE Innovation
JUNE 9, 2023
In today's competitive business environment, effective idea management is essential for driving innovation and staying ahead of the competition. But how can you ensure that your idea campaigns are producing results?
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 8, 2023
Innovation is a complex process that requires effective connections and collaborations among individuals and teams. Stepping back, I want to draw down on a series of perspectives I have found invaluable to me. A very inspirational article by Larry Schmitt on the Innovation Stack, the depth of work that Sangeet Paul Choudary has explored around Platforms and his Building Block Thesis built out further on numerous views have been researched for building out innovation stacks, building blocks, and
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Digital Tonto
JUNE 18, 2023
One of the toughest things about ideas is that they can only be validated forward, never backward. You never know if you have the right idea until it’s been tested in the real world and, even then, there could be some confounding factor you may be missing. As Kevin Ashton put it, “Creation is a long journey, where most turns are wrong and most ends are dead.
Idea to Value
JUNE 26, 2023
Have you ever had a situation where you felt like you were not getting the credit you deserve for your contributions? Or have you ever wondered how other people seem to not understand how good an idea that you had was? Then you might be suffering from a cognitive bias known as the Egocentric Bias. What is the Egocentric Bias? Egocentric bias is the tendency for people to rely too heavily on one’s own perspective, and/or have a higher opinion of oneself than is actually true.
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2023
The platform shift to AI is well underway. And while it holds the promise of transforming work and giving organizations a competitive advantage, realizing those benefits isn’t possible without a culture that embraces curiosity, failure, and learning. Leaders are uniquely positioned to foster this culture within their organizations today in order to set their teams up for success in the future.
Business and Tech
JUNE 28, 2023
Swapping out an outdated legacy point-of-sale solution sounds intimidating. But the benefits of a modern, cloud-based unified POS and payments platform can’t be ignored. Ana Wight General Manager of Retail, Lightspeed “When you integrate your payments with your commerce platform, you take out a lot of manual steps, a lot of errors.” The world is enduring a period of economic uncertainty — 85% of U.S. small businesses are concerned about a looming recession, according to the Small Business &
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Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 16, 2023
I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform de
Digital Tonto
JUNE 11, 2023
These days, innovation has become, far too often, solipsistic and self-referential, pursued for the glory of the innovators themselves rather than for the benefit of anyone else and there is increasing evidence the venture-funded entrepreneurship model is crowding out more productive investments. We need to move away from hype and focus on impact. Because digital technology has become so pervasive, offering a substantial architecture that lends itself to tweaking, we’ve lost the plot.
Idea to Value
JUNE 19, 2023
I just wanted to share some quick news. I was honoured to find out that I was recently selected by Thinkers 360 as their #1 Thought Leader and Influencer on the topic of Creativity.
Destination Innovation
JUNE 19, 2023
In his book, The Expectation Effect , David Robson produces a wealth of research to demonstrate that our expectations have remarkable power to influence the mind and the body. People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer than those who do not. Lucky charms really can improve the performance of athletes. Even when people know that the pill they are taking is a placebo, their health benefits.
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.
Business and Tech
JUNE 21, 2023
Melinda Emerson, AKA SmallBizLady , is a leading expert on small business and becoming your own boss. We asked her about the current climate for entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses and any advice she had for those looking to forge their own path in the business world. Now that COVID is pretty much in the rearview mirror, is this a good time for budding entrepreneurs to take the leap and start their own businesses?
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2023
What is Incremental Innovation? Incremental innovation is defined as the continuous improvement and advancement of existing products, processes, or services within an organization. It involves making small, gradual changes or enhancements to existing offerings to enhance their performance, functionality, efficiency, or user experience. Unlike radical or disruptive innovation that introduces completely new and [.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 27, 2023
After a series of posts introducing and explaining the thinking and design behind the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, I thought it would be a good idea to put this into a sequence of visuals that should take you through this to provide a decent understanding of its make-up and logic. Organizations in today’s business environment need to adapt rapidly and dynamically, have the need to bring the innovation management process into a constant technological advancement, and be more tailor
Digital Tonto
JUNE 4, 2023
The simple truth is that change rarely, if ever, starts at the top because it is people with power that create the status quo. They are attached to what they’ve built and take pride in their accomplishments, just like the rest of us. That’s why, to bring about genuine change, you need to mobilize people to influence institutions. At a pivotal moment during the height of the civil rights movement, Robert Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States and brother to the President, would turn to th
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.
Idea to Value
JUNE 7, 2023
There is an old adage that children are more creative than adults. That in order to become more creative, you should reconnect with your “inner child” Yet what does the science and research say? Are children really more creative than adults? The answer is a little complicated. How children are more creative than adults Numerous research studies have found that children can be much more creative than adults in certain instances.
HYPE Innovation
JUNE 21, 2023
The culture and atmosphere in a team can either stimulate a spirit of innovation or destroy the thirst for it. How can you create and positively influence your organization's innovation environment to foster collaboration and interaction and ensure you maximize the potential for success?
Business and Tech
JUNE 20, 2023
A lack of dental and vision care can affect overall employee well-being. And companies, both large and small, also feel the impact with lowered productivity levels — as well as negative effects on employee retention and attendance. Just consider this alarming statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “More than $45 billion in productivity is lost each year as a result of dental emergencies requiring unplanned care.
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2023
What is Product Ideation? Product ideation is defined as the process of generating, developing, and refining new product ideas with the aim of addressing customer needs, solving problems, or offering unique value propositions. It involves activities such as brainstorming, market research, trend analysis, and user feedback collection to generate a wide range of [.
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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
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 19, 2023
How difficult would it be to embrace this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework, as it is often argued that most people want to keep innovation management and its process simple? I wonder if that is the current incumbents, be these current innovation management software providers or individuals inside the organizations resisting change, as it brings significant uncertainty of change and disruption to the (inadequate) process, one that I feel is not fit for today’s and tomorrow’s
Digital Tonto
JUNE 25, 2023
As I explained in CASCADES, there were myriad reasons for #Occupy’s failure. One of the gravest errors, however, was the insistence on ideological purity and the lack of any effort to understand those who had different ideas from their own. If you expect to bring change about, you need to attract, rather than overpower. Empathy is a good place to start.
Idea to Value
JUNE 28, 2023
Some people still debate whether creativity is something which only certain people are born with, or whether it can be developed in everyone. Well, we have already previously seen that creativity is determined more by our nurture (upbringing) than by our nature (genes we are born with). However, we have also seen that children appear to be more creative than adults , and that divergent thinking creativity rates fall as we age.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2023
Companies are integrating AI into their operations so quickly that job losses are likely to mount before the gains arrive. White-collar workers might be especially vulnerable in the short-term.The speed of this adoption presents an opportunity for companies to step up their pace of innovation, however — and if enough companies to go on offensive, then we won’t have to worry about AI unemployment.
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
Business and Tech
JUNE 21, 2023
Carolyn Berkowitz is the president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals (ACCP), which advocates for corporate social impact professionals. We talked to her about why businesses should be a force for social and economic good, and how organizations with fewer than 500 employees can develop and implement policies to achieve this goal.
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2023
What is Product Innovation? Product innovation is defined as the creation and development of new or improved products, services, or processes by a company or organization. It involves introducing novel ideas, technologies, features, or designs that provide added value to customers and differentiate the product from existing offerings in the market.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 12, 2023
In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Today we are missing a comprehensive structure or innovation process to achieve this, we need a radically different approach to managing innovation.
Christensen Institute
JUNE 7, 2023
In fewer than five years, the World Bank has cycled through three Presidents. Jim Yong Kim left the bank abruptly in 2019 (a move that necessitated Kristalina Georgieva to serve as acting President for two months); David Malpass didn’t finish his first five-year tenure and left in June, 2023; and now, Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard Inc., sits at the helm of the world’s most prominent development institution.
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Idea to Value
JUNE 30, 2023
Have you ever wanted to buy something, but the person selling wanted more than you thought it was worth? That person might have been suffering from the Endowment Effect. The Endowment Effect is a cognitive bias where people who own a good to value it more than people who do not. It was popularised by the work of Daniel Kahneman, Jack Knetch and Richard Thaler, especially their 1990 research.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2023
An entirely new “management paradigm” for data is needed. As used here, a “management paradigm” embodies a common language, a holistic vision of the ways data should contribute, a clearly defined organizational structure showing how data integrates across the organization, along with clear roles and responsibilities for all involved. Eventually, it needs to incorporate corporate culture, relationships with universities and vendors, policy, and anything else that advances, or holds back the effec
Business and Tech
JUNE 21, 2023
Bill Gallagher, AKA the Scaling Coach , is a keynote speaker and entrepreneur who helps fellow founders and CEOs grow their businesses sustainably, often through fostering more productive and more positive environments. We asked him about some of the keys to creating a better workplace environment, and how to overcome the growing pains inherent in running a successful business.
IdeaScale
JUNE 27, 2023
What is Radical Innovation? Radical innovation is defined as a significant and transformative breakthrough in technology, business models, processes, or products that creates a substantial shift in industry or society. It involves introducing revolutionary ideas, concepts, or approaches that challenge existing norms, disrupt markets, and often result in groundbreaking advancements.
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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