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Why is developing digital products one of the solutions to overcome the crisis?

mjvinnovation

The officeless – now home office – is nothing new. Many organizations were already testing this type of distributed management. But still nothing on a large scale. Therefore, this at-home life’s effects were not felt as a need to realign strategies and even rethink business models. But today, there is no way to postpone the innovation plans in the pipeline.

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You’re Awesome! How Sarcasm Enhances Creativity

Innovation in Practice

Sarcasm is the idea of using irony in a way to mock somebody or to insult them. While sarcasm can be insulting and hurtful to somebody, it also has an important positive aspect. . Sarcasm can lead to higher levels of creativity. . New research by Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, Adam Galinsky, the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, and Li Huang of INSEAD, the European business school, found that sarcasm is a process that activates the mind and it’

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Hindsight is 2020: The Hindsight Bias

Idea to Value

The phrase Hindsight is 20/20 usually refers to the fact that it is usually easier to analyse and evaluate events after they have already happened, rather than when you’re in the middle of them. There is also a very interesting cognitive bias known as the Hindsight Bias , which is the tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) was born in 1973 in Illinois. His parents were immigrants from Taiwan who met at graduate school. Hsieh studied computer science at Harvard University where he was a member of a prize-winning programming contest team. While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. One of his customers was Alfred Lin, who became his friend and later became CFO and COO at Zappos.

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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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How Can You Align Product Development with Business Strategy?

IdeaScale

When developing new products, organization leaders must ensure their efforts align with the overall business strategy. This is essential for success because it relates the new product to the company mission. According to product development research, one in seven product ideas will be successful. Those that are, tie directly into customer needs to fulfill a demand or … Continued.

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Pfizer Pharmaceutical, AstraZeneca and Amazon to Build New Innovation Laboratory in Israel

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The Innovation Lab will have a budget of 10 million dollars, will be located in the Rehovot Science Park and will begin operations in 2021. The partners will include the pharmaceutical companies Teva and Merck, as well as the Biotech Fund.

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6 Steps to Continuous Improvement in Automotive Manufacturing

Kainexus

Manufacturers of all kinds seek to achieve continuous quality improvement because it ensures the consistency of products delivered to customers and protects against the competition. It also paves the path to compliance with industry-specific standards. This is crucial in the automotive sector because defective vehicle parts may lead to expensive recalls or worse accidents that cost lives.

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Are Too Many Zoom Meetings Stifling Your Creativity?

IdeaScale

2020 has been a year of change management around how we work, particularly with videoconferencing. While the results haven’t been consistently positive, as any parent can tell you, they have been positive enough that Zoom calls, Teams meetings, and FaceTime will be part of the working world going forward, whether to save money on trips … Continued.

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Member Spotlight: Steven Rader

Innovation Leader

Steven Rader is the Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA. We sat down with Steven as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.

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Podcast S4E93: Christiane Michaelis – How art can help businesses learn to be creative

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Founder of the Dirty Easel, Christiane Michaelis. We speak about what it takes for people to get back in touch with their inner creativity, and how art can be used to unlock this. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:00 – Christiane’s start in music and theatre. 00:06:30 – What is different learning from professional creatives. 00:11:00 – How she prefers the creative times of developing something new, rather tha

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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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I Have a Question…

Phil McKinney

“Dad – what’s that?” My daughter, 4 or 5, was in her car seat as we were running errands. She grew impatient with my delay in answering her question. “That!” she said as she pointed out her window at the curb. “It’s called a curb,” I explained. “What’s it made of?” “Cement.” “What’s cement?” I […].

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How a Pandemic Promoted Innovation in Manufacturing

IdeaScale

Like all industries, manufacturing has seen many changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In just a few short months, supply chains were cut off, and manufacturers were forced to innovate or close their doors. Surviving businesses need to create an innovation strategy that aligns with new and existing goals. Here are examples of how a global … Continued.

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Mistakes Were Made: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

Kainexus

On January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank ow ned by the Purity Brewing Company filed with 2.3 million gallons of molasses weighing approximately 12,000 tons burst. As a result, a wave of molasses rush ed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour, killing 21 people and injuring another 150.

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#2,050 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: The Talk Graph

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

One of the biggest trends of 2020 was the rise of audio centric apps and services. From podcasting and smart speakers, to voice controlled assistants and hearables, audio was all the rage. A trend that is likely only going to increase throughout 2021 and beyond as witnessed by the early success of Clubhouse. As the New York Times puts it: “Clubhouse, which took off in May and has 600,000 registered users, lets people join pop-up audio chat rooms.

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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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7 Looks Back At 2021

helloFUTURE

Yes, you read that right. This post will be written on December 31st, 2021, but was published on December 31st, 2020. As a futurist, we are usually right, but at the wrong time. So this is a list of everything that happened in 2021, just in time for your 2021 planning. Since we all live… The post 7 Looks Back At 2021 appeared first on hellofuture.

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How a Pandemic Promoted Innovation in Manufacturing

IdeaScale

Like all industries, manufacturing has seen many changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In just a few short months, supply chains were cut off, and manufacturers were forced to innovate or close their doors. Surviving businesses need to create an innovation strategy that aligns with new and existing goals. Here are examples of how a global … Continued.

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Trends Drive Value- Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft

Adam Hartung

Every industrial "era" is based in technology innovation. Those innovations are valued by investors and are reflected in the stock market. Watch carefully for the trends.

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#2,049 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: Shopatainment

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Connie Chan from the VC Firm Andreesen Horowitz recently tweeted out something that caught my eye, a post about the future of retail shopping. She also blogged about it and after you read what she had to say you’ll know why I was so intrigued: “We all shop for different reasons. We shop out of necessity and utility, of course. But for some of us, shopping also evokes joy, comfort, validation, even stress relief.

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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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Care to Do Better: Key Insights from Accenture’s 2020 Report

InnovationTraining.org

A high-level summary of Accenture’s latest report on rebuilding the employer-employee relationship. The latest Accenture’s research study asks businesses to “care to do better” – making the case that investing in your employees and building the employer-employee relationship is necessary to doing business best. Since COVID-19 hit, leaders have been tested in real-time to keep their business viable while taking care of their employees during an unimaginable social an

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You’re Awesome! How Sarcasm Enhances Creativity

Innovation in Practice

Sarcasm is the idea of using irony in a way to mock somebody or to insult them. While sarcasm can be insulting and hurtful to somebody, it also has an important positive aspect. . Sarcasm can lead to higher levels of creativity. . New research by Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, Adam Galinsky, the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, and Li Huang of INSEAD, the European business school, found that sarcasm is a process that activates the mind and it’

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Navigating with wisdom on the stormy waters of 2021

Values Centered Innovation

2020 was a year that we didn’t see coming. Our vision was blindsided, our foresight clouded. While there are many, many lessons to be learned from this year of 2020, it’s that the days are over for having the world slow down enough to allow a carefully engineered cruise to well-defined outcomes. We’re immersed in what sometimes feels like a tidal wave of change, whereby: “Best results” is a fast-moving target in a fast-changing world.

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#2,048 – 2021 Breakthrough Nominee: Vision AI

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

What’s the Next Big Thing going to be? Virtual Reality? The Internet of Things? Synthetic Biology? Genetic editing? What about Vision AI? Daffodil Software explains what it is, “Vision AI (also known as Computer Vision ) is a field of computer science that trains computers to replicate the human vision system. This enables digital devices (like face detectors, QR Code Scanners) to identify and process objects in images and videos, just like humans do.” And if the field continue

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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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From idea to commercial proof in 10 weeks – idea generation at the forefront

Innovation 360 Group

Statistics belie the common misconception that you can transform a eureka moment into a commercial success. Rather, it is the result of thousands of experiments, failures, observations, and inspirations from history and other disciplines, as well as an unbiased creation process which sees thoughts grow step by step. The post From idea to commercial proof in 10 weeks – idea generation at the forefront appeared first on Innovation360.

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023: The Temptation of Creative Ideas: How We View Ideas Differently Depending on the Source

Innovation in Practice

The next time you come up with a great idea, do me a favor – don’t share it with anyone! If you want your ideas to have the best chance of getting accepted and implemented, then be careful how you share them. People evaluate ideas differently. They evaluate ideas based on the person who offered the idea. If they like the person, they like the idea.

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Navigating with wisdom on the stormy waters of 2021

Values Centered Innovation

2020 was a year that we didn’t see coming. Our vision was blindsided, our foresight clouded. While there are many, many lessons to be learned from this year of 2020, it’s that the days are over for having the world slow down enough to allow a carefully engineered cruise to well-defined outcomes. We’re immersed in what sometimes feels like a tidal wave of change, whereby: “Best results” is a fast-moving target in a fast-changing world.

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#2,046 – The Greatest Ideas of 2020

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

2020 may have been the worst year ever but it was also one of the greatest years ever in terms of innovation. Here’s a quick look at some of the absolute greatest ideas of the year: mRNA Technology: The fact that we’ll have a coronavirus vaccine in less than a year, instead of the decade that it should have taken, was all thanks to mRNA technology, a new vaccine development method that lets the human body do the heavy lifting paving the way for a healthcare revolution in the years to

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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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Making Transformation Happen at DBS, Charles Schwab

Innovation Leader

Leaders from DBS and Charles Schwab discuss how their industries are pivoting to meet new needs during the pandemic…

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Favorite Podcasts of 2020

Michael Roberto

Earlier this week, I listed some of my favorite books from 2020. Today, I turn my attention to podcasts. Like many of you, I listen to some very popular ones about which most readers will be familiar (e.g., Freakonomics, How I Built This, Hidden Brain). However, I thought that I would feature three original podcasts that truly proved thought-provoking this year, and perhaps may be unfamiliar to some of you.

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Understanding Digital Customer Service And How To Improve It

Acuvate

Understanding Digital Customer Service and How to Improve it The digital world has changed the buying process! Customers today are well-informed of products and the market. When they enter stores or talk to a sales representative, today’s customers already know what they want to buy and how much they want to pay for it. They […]. The post Understanding Digital Customer Service And How To Improve It appeared first on Acuvate.

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How to transform your organizational culture with Design Thinking

mjvinnovation

Companies of all sizes, operating in the most diverse segments, strive to promote creativity, consequently innovating consciously. What all recognized innovation leaders have in common is that, at some point, they have transformed their culture. How do you transform something as integrated as a business culture? Some methods can help with this process, methods that are made just for this.

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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.