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Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Generative AI design.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. We must question partnerships we have seen work in the past and ask if they are suitable for the future. Innovation is undergoing a radical change, in opening up to technology, collaborative thinking and the value of generative AI thinking.

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Open Innovation 101: Easy Ways to Get Started

HYPE Innovation

Open innovation comes in all shapes and sizes, and how to implement it in your company can sometimes feel daunting. But it’s easier to get started than it might seem!

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The Value of Corporate Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Competing in today’s global digital economy requires increasingly complex contributions: Employees need to be motivated to go above and beyond; customers need to be inspired, and their feedback needs to be incorporated; and the demands, opinions, and goals of civil society and government are also critical. The value of organizational purpose is to help coordinate activity among stakeholders in this complex system.

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Made to last

Idea to Value

Over the weekend, we stayed with my parents. For my toddler, they brought out some of the toys they had kept from when I was still a baby. One of the hits was a wooden toy train set which must now be over 40 years old. And my child loved it (although there were significantly more “accidents” than I remember being responsible for). Still working after being more than 40 years old That made me think about how some things are built to last, while others are built to be consumed and then

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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.

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The Ultimate Guide to Innovation Product Development for Success

IdeaScale

As we step into 2023, innovative product development has become more crucial than ever before. With rapidly evolving technology and changing consumer needs, businesses need to stay ahead of the curve to remain relevant and successful. In this ultimate guide to innovation product development, we'll explore the key steps you need to take to create [.

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Design Thinking Requires the Human Touch in a World of Technology and GenAI.

Paul Hobcraft

Design thinking always requires the Human Touch. Design Thinking is seen as the essential element that will combine with technology and AI in the future, yet the need for the human touch will still be essential. As we form more around ecosystem thinking and design, design thinking will be essential as the significant enabler to creative input. There is a fascinating change by embracing Design Thinking principles differently in the future of innovation; organizations can foster a more profound cu

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How to Self-Promote — Without Sounding Self-Centered

Harvard Business Review

Promoting your own accomplishments can feel uncomfortable, and poses a dilemma: It can make you appear more confident and capable, but can also make you seem less warm, less friendly, and more selfish. On the other hand, self-deprecation or deflecting credit, may make you seem approachable but it diminishes your competency. New research, based on a series of 11 studies, suggests that dual promotion — in which you compliment a colleague or peer while talking about your own accomplishments — can b

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The One Thing You MUST DO Before Developing Your Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

Innovation is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It is a complex and dynamic process that requires a clear vision, a strong culture, a skilled workforce, a supportive environment, and a robust system. Innovation is also a journey that involves different stages of maturity, from initiation to optimization. Each stage has its own characteristics, challenges, and opportunities. [.

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Six Leadership Myths Sabotaging Your Team

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus We all arrive at leadership with certain preconceptions about what makes a successful leader. Sometimes we form an idea of what great leaders do based on historical leaders or modern-day leaders who are always getting media attention.

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AI & InnovationOps Can Advance Product Innovation | Sopheon

Sopheon

While generative AI is taking the business world by storm, it’s important to note that it’s not necessarily new. Many of today's promises for AI were also made in the past. It was less than 40 years ago that LISP machines , packed with expert knowledge, were supposed to unlock the promises of AI. What went wrong? ''People believed their own hype,'' said S.

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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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Our Favorite Management Tips About Showing Gratitude at Work

Harvard Business Review

Celebrating your team members, especially around important holidays, can be a powerful, generous, and motivating gesture. This article includes a curated selection of HBR’s Management Tips on how to show gratitude and appreciation at work.

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Lean Six Sigma: Definition, Principles, and Benefits | KaiNexus

Kainexus

In a world where efficiency is the lifeblood of success and waste is the silent killer of profits, there exists a methodology that promises to transform businesses and organizations into lean, mean, profit-producing machines. Imagine a system that combines the precision of a surgeon's scalpel with the power of a sledgehammer, aiming to eliminate errors, reduce costs, and maximize quality.

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Four Things All Leaders Must Know About Digital Transformation

Innovation Excellence

(But Most Don’t) GUEST POST from Greg Satell Today, technology has become central to how every business competes. Futuristic advancements like artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing are no longer pie-in-the-sky propositions, but mission critical initiatives that leaders are racing to implement within their organizations. Unfortunately, most of these initiatives fail.

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Please Reenergize, Revitalize, Reconnect and Reimagine at CoP28.

Innovating4Energy

As all the delegates of CoP28 pack their things and head off to Dubai, will there be any real, lasting consensus on how we can manage our world where achieving rapid decarbonization is the priority? There are so many conflicting opinions, vested interests and “evidence” but can CoP28 achieve that with the right partnerships and immediate political, corporate, and financial action, we can live in a world beyond coal, oil, and gas — one that is safer, cleaner, healthier, and more affor

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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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To Solve Big Problems, Make Everyone Feel Included in Your Mission

Harvard Business Review

It’s human nature to want to spend our days working on something more than a paycheck, and the best leaders find ways to connect their teammates’ work to something bigger. That starts by making everyone feel included in the mission. If your team feels connected to the mission, then making big bets and solving big problems will always be within your reach.

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Ancient Scrolls Reveal Modern Leadership Insights

Bill Fischer

Our quest for a better understanding of how AI will affect work in the future, gains insight from human talent enhanced by AI in a project to read ancient Roman scrolls.

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Top 10 Thanksgiving Innovations of All Time

Innovation Excellence

According to OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Tom the Turkey by Braden Kelley Call me crazy, but I’ve always been a big believer in fun as a key component to the successful pursuit of innovation.

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What Is Continuous Flow Manufacturing? + Keys to Success | Kainexus

Kainexus

Imagine a world where every production process flows seamlessly, like a well-orchestrated symphony, eliminating bottlenecks and delays. This is the world of continuous flow manufacturing, a revolutionary approach that has left an indelible mark on the industrial landscape. Continuous manufacturing isn't just a process; it's a mindset that challenges the status quo and drives organizations to redefine what's possible.

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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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Research: When — and Why — Employee Curiosity Annoys Managers

Harvard Business Review

Researchers conducted a series of studies to understand when curiosity may lead to different reactions in the workplace. They found that curious employees were often seen by their leaders as insubordinate and, in turn, less likable. However, curious employees who were politically skilled were not seen this way. They distinguished between constructive curiosity, which involved seeking information, knowledge, or learning by asking many provocative questions that don’t have easy answers, and uncons

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The Jonah Complex: How to Stop Sabotaging Your Success

Phil McKinney

Nestled deep within us all, there's a potential for greatness—untapped, unexplored, and just waiting to burst free. Yet, most people live with this vast ocean of potential trapped within, never knowing what they can achieve. Why do some achieve this greatness while others never even realize its existence? It's a question that has plagued many, and the answer may lie in what is known as the Jonah Complex.

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Why Evidence Plays a Key Role in Scaling Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Prove it to me! GUEST POST from John Bessant A good idea will sell itself, right? Unfortunately not — Emerson was spectacularly wrong when he suggested that all you needed to do was build that better mousetrap to have the world beating a path to your door.

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Why I think the energy transition as one of the most important areas of necessary focus

Innovating4Energy

We are about to have the CoP28 event in the UAE from 30 November 2023 to 12 December 2023, which is crucial for the energy transition. I feel this is an actual watershed event. Those representatives attending must push for substantial agreements on what needs to be done to reduce carbonization and other polluting gases, seek ways to provide clean air and a more equitable share and conserve resources, or we will forever say goodbye to achieving anything like the 1.5 C degree.

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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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Navigating the New Risks and Regulatory Challenges of GenAI

Harvard Business Review

The use of generative AI promises to continue to grow rapidly. Consequently, leaders must understand the risks and challenges of this new technology and develop policies and practices to guide its usage. This article explains the areas of concern and offers guidance in addressing them.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

Four Power Moves to Turn Economic Downturns into Innovation Uptrends During an economic downturn, it’s hard to think outside the bucks – let alone the box. We often jump to cost-cutting in an effort to preserve profits and cash flow. The logic is simple: we need to stay afloat. As a result, we focus internally, at the expense of forward-looking innovation.

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Las Vegas Formula One

Innovation Excellence

Successful Innovation, Learning Experience or Total Disaster? GUEST POST from Pete Foley In Las Vegas, we are now clearing up after the Formula 1 Grand Prix on the Strip. This extremely complex event required a great deal of executional innovation, and one that I think as innovators, we can learn quite a lot from.

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Get a Quick Start to Microsoft Fabric with Fabric Weave 

Acuvate

New York City is home to over 8.3 million people. To meet its residents’ drinking and wastewater management needs, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) works behind the scenes to provide over 1 billion gallons of drinking water daily to the city’s residents. Acuvate and Microsoft delivered new and delightful customer and employee experieces with conversational AI solutions built on a consolidated data stack.

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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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A New Generation of Robots Can Help Small Manufacturers

Harvard Business Review

Automation technology is creating incredible opportunities for SMEs. Smaller, flexible, collaborative robots (cobots) can be used across a wide range of applications from machine tending and welding to packaging, palletizing, and screw-driving. State-of-the-art software even allows swift reconfiguration of parts, finally making automation attractive to high-mix, low-volume manufacturers.

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Ready to add GenAI into your innovation ecosystem?

Ecosystems4Innovating

Innovation needs reinventing. There are new ways to capture, extract and deliver value. Adopting ecosystem thinking combined with Generative AI will augment, automate and rapidly scale innovation. For me, ecosystem innovation and generative AI have arrived at that pivotal point to significantly influence future innovation design. It is where we need to question workflows and processes, as openness has become increasingly central to our thinking and development-building process.

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Be Clear on What You Want

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you want a promotion, do the right thing. If you do the right thing, be prepared to be misunderstood. If you want the credit, you don’t want the best outcome for all. If you want to have focus, spend time outside.

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Strategically Navigating Innovation: A 10-Step Guide to IP Management with ISO 56005

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. In an era where ideas are currency, innovation has never been more crucial. Innovation is the cornerstone of progress, fueling growth and driving competitiveness in today’s dynamic business landscape. To harness the power of innovation effectively, organizations must navigate the intricate world of intellectual property (IP) management, a process that involves safeguarding novel ideas, inventions and creations while optimizing business potential.

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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.