Sat.Nov 21, 2015 - Fri.Nov 27, 2015

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Sitting on untapped potential – Exago’s director in ‘Switched on Leadership’

Exago

‘If you want to improve a process, enhance customer experience or create and perfect a product or service, the solution likely lies within your organisation.’ So, ‘Instead of using substitute brains, why not harness this collective intelligence to solve business. Read More. The post Sitting on untapped potential – Exago’s director in ‘Switched on Leadership’ appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Constructing Innovation as Value Management

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation needs to create value, both short-term and progressively over time. It fuels the growth and fires the imagination. Yet our innovation activities are constantly coming up short for the leaders within our organizations, who continue to remain disappointed in its final outcome to stimulate and drive the growth they want to see. It is actually the classic “chicken and egg”.

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Embedding innovation deep in your culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Over the last few weeks I've been working with a client that is struggling to fully implement a new strategy that introduces innovation as an important component of day to day operations. The company has a strong executional culture and has been successful in the past, but recognizes the need to do more innovation and more consistently. As you might think, I've been working with them on their rewards, motivations, language, communication and other factors that build or sustain culture, trying to

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Building a Global Sensing Network – Revisited

Braden Kelley

When I first wrote about Building a Global Sensing Network I wrote in the specific context of the war for innovation and the need to make sure you’re fighting it outside your organization — not inside.

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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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Marketers Need To Shift From Crafting Messages To Creating Experiences

Digital Tonto

Instead of carnival barkers, we must begin to think like concierges, helping and assisting customers as we collect data in real time. Related posts: Marketers Need To Rethink The Customer Decision. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Challenges being Faced by Innovation Consultants

Paul Hobcraft

From my perspective I’ve been looking at a real challenge today, that many consultants offering innovation services are not providing real sustaining consulting value to clients, only ad-hoc services. Unless this changes it will continue to erode the clients’ confidence in these service providers and they will be seeking increasing internal solutions to tackle their problems.

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Change Agents and the Future of Change Management

Braden Kelley

Recently I was identified in a mini research study as one of the top Key Opinion Leaders in change management on Twitter by Maven7, and they were curious about some of my opinions about organizational change, and asked me these … Continue reading →

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Why Organizations Fail

Digital Tonto

Most organizations are highly efficient at specific tasks, but often fail when presented with a problem they weren’t designed for. Related posts: Why We Need To Change The Software In Our. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks Jason. I appreciate the fact that you really got the point I was trying to make. The decisions we as individuals make is a personal one. We can accept free or low fee gigs – or not. But if other speakers reduce their fees, although it makes it more difficult as an industry to keep fees higher, it is simply the nature of free markets. Instead of complaining about what others are doing, we need to continuously innovate to create something of higher value than others.

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Ignore focus groups: a guide to do your own customer validation

Board of Innovation

When working with corporate teams I regularly face discussions on when and how to do customer research. For many managers talking to potential new customers is completely out of their comfort zone. I am convinced this is not with bad intentions as managers in large enterprise are mainly working in 3 modes: Do nothing (Talking to customers is the responsibility of someone else, other.

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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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Graphene Application Challenge Prize?

Gregg Fraley

The Graphene Challenge. Graphene is a new material that is just in its infancy in terms of commerical usage. It’s from graphite, the stuff in pencils. It’s magical stuff — 150 times stronger than steel, flexible like rubber, and potentially usable in electronics, water filtration, energy, building construction, medical, and more. It’s the thinnest material known to man at this moment.

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The Smart Manager Interview: The Path of Endurance

Faisal Hoque

Success often results from simple detours or mistakes made by people on alternative quests. The post The Smart Manager Interview: The Path of Endurance appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Strategic Conversations – 12 Things to Listen For

BrainZooming

I don’t have statistically validated data for this claim. I’d be comfortable speculating, however, that a high percentage of productive strategic conversations are wasted. What do I mean by “wasted” strategic conversations? Those are conversations where no one is actively listening and capturing important ideas and information in ways those participating in the strategic conversations (and others) can use them later.

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Interview with Craig Swann, Music Innovator, on the Launch of LoopLabs

Innovation Excellence

We sat down with Craig Swann, a well respected digital music innovator and the founder of Looplabs, a new collaboration platform that he calls the "Google Docs" of music that is disrupting music studios and allowing individuals to make music in a whole new way. The interview and your chance to make your own loops follows.

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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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User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

Boxes and Arrows

The majority of our work at Google has involved conducting user research with small business owners: the small guys that are typically defined by governmental organizations as having 100 or fewer employees, and that make up the majority of businesses worldwide. Given the many hurdles small businesses face, designing tools and services to help them succeed has been an immensely rewarding experience.

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The Smart Manager Interview: The Path of Endurance

Faisal Hoque

Success often results from simple detours or mistakes made by people on alternative quests. The post The Smart Manager Interview: The Path of Endurance appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Project Management – 8 Chracteristics of a DRI

BrainZooming

It’s easy for people in big meetings to weasel out of taking responsibility for taking action and moving an initiative forward. What’s the project management answer to addressing this tendency among teams and team members? One answer is making sure you identify a DRI. DRI stands for a Directly Responsible Individual. I heard this acronym during a presentation from Amanda Sibley (@AmandaSibley) of Hubspot.

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Overcoming passive resistance to innovation

Norbert Bol

The development and introduction of new products are important for the long term success of a company. When new products are being introduced to the market, there is always a concern for customer resistence. Customer resistance can be active when it is based on a negative evalution of the new product, but it can also be passive when it is based on the idea that there is no need for the customer to change because the customer is satisfied with the status quo without a real evaluation of the new p

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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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A Word of Thanks from the Spigit Team

Planview

It’s the season of turning leaves, warm sweaters, hot drinks, hearty foods, and for many (including the team here at Spigit), giving thanks. And that’s exactly what we want to extend to you — our amazing customers, loyal readers, and passionate advocates and partners. In other words, our crowd. From the very bottom of our innovation-loving, idea-having hearts, thank you.

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Three Leadership Lessons From Tree Climbing Goats

Adam Hartung

No. You’re not seeing things. These are goats in trees. These goats love the fruit growing on argon trees west of Marrakesh, Morocco. They don’t care so much for the nut inside, so they spit it out. People gather those nuts and make them into argon oil highly valued for food and in beauty products. I was startled by these goats. It was, at the very least, mentally disruptive.

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Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (2/2)

Rapid Innovation in digital time

How compares Open Innovation with the Crowd with Participative Innovation? And what if, if Open Innovation, which was intended to seek out outside, were coming back inside?

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Innovation and The Art of Implementation (Part 2)

Innovation Excellence

The reason innovation implementation can seem like an overwhelmingly daunting process is largely due to people-related issues. Such people-related issues require patience (and intestinal fortitude) as well as organizational structure to combat. A key element to implementing innovation is.

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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.

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Scarcity and Abundance

Mike Shipulski

Supply and demand have been joined at the hip since the beginning. When demand is high, the deck is shuffled so supply seems low. The fabricated scarcity drives up prices and shareholders are happy. When demand is low, the competition pushes each other on price. The abundance creates a commodity, and it’s a race to the bottom. But this is old thinking.

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Yes, There is Such a Thing as an Ugly Baby

Innovation in Practice

Imagine you’re working on a new initiative, and you come up with a great idea. You do some research on it, and you find some really good evidence to support your point-of-view. You think to yourself, “The team is going to love this.” So you go to your boss to pitch the idea. But the boss seems skeptical. So she asks you to go out and do a some more research on it.

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9 Ways to Engage Your Crowd

Planview

As an innovation practitioner, ensuring that program leaders can motivate people to participate in their innovation programs is something I spend quite a lot of time thinking about. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that crowdsourced innovation is extremely effective. But, to be successful, you must find the right approach to consistently — and repeatedly — engage your crowd. ‘Build it and they will come’ is a lovely idea, but I’m afraid that if al

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Are All Your Ideas Worth Nothing?

Innovation Excellence

There are many reasons why people say ideas are worthless.Take two companies with a similar idea, Google and AltaVista, one is the multibillion dollar envy of the tech world, the other a broke, wound up company bought out by Yahoo. The difference?

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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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Selling Your Sizzle

Daniel Burrus

You’ve anticipated the future, you’ve read the Hard Trends that are shaping the future, and you’ve developed a product that you’re positive is the next big thing. But how do you convince others that it is? In an era of budget, time, and labor constraints, is it possible to sell your ideas and concepts (which often require money, time, and labor to implement) to the CEO, CFO, Board of Directors, or whoever is in charge of the final decision?

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Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (1/2)

Rapid Innovation in digital time

What is Participative Innovation? And how does it intersect with Open Innovation with the Crowd?

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Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks Jason. I appreciate the fact that you really got the point I was trying to make. The decisions we as individuals make is a personal one. We can accept free or low fee gigs – or not. But if other speakers reduce their fees, although it makes it more difficult as an industry to keep fees higher, it is simply the nature of free markets. Instead of complaining about what others are doing, we need to continuously innovate to create something of higher value than others.

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Building a Global Sensing Network – Updated

Innovation Excellence

When I first wrote about Building a Global Sensing Network I wrote in the specific context of the war for innovation and the need to make sure you’re fighting it outside your organization -- not inside. We looked at how most organizations.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib