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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

HYPE Innovation

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality.

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Scaling Edges vs. Transforming Core

Innovation Excellence

Dual approaches are evermore finding their way into corporate strategy, development and innovation. There are several manifestations at play, such as.

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If the Door is Shut, Open it. If the Door is Open, Shut it.

Destination Innovation

In looking for innovations it is sometimes helpful to consider whether your product or service is open or closed. If it is open what would happen if you enclosed it? If it is closed what would happen if you opened it? The opposite approach to the current method can yield powerful new ideas. Here are some examples. Computing. • For years software products were completely closed systems.

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Research is Collaborative

IdeaScale

Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open, networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners. ESIP is supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 110+ member organizations all working together to collaboratively share research, funding opportunities, and to network with one another. According to ESIP their mission is to foster connection between “the functional sectors of observation, research, application, education and use of Earth science.”.

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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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A feast of opportunities for Siemens?

Paul Hobcraft

I decided to invest a decent amount of time into the Siemens 3 rd Quarter Announcements and it has been worth it. I really don’t understand the investor and analysts attending this event as they are just becoming more fixated, caught in their own view of the world, continuing to stay stuck in their recurring positions and constant looking in the rear-view mirror.

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Happy 9th Birthday Digital Tonto!

Digital Tonto

My favorite posts over the last year Related posts: Happy 8th Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy 4th Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy 2nd Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy 3rd. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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3 Steps to Design Your Innovation Management Program

IdeaScale

Disrupt or be disrupted has been the slogan of the past few years as new startups repeatedly overturn and overtake established companies that have been around for years. This trend has given rise to “ innovation management ,” a term that risks being ignored simply for how wonky it sounds. After all, can “innovation” ever really be managed? And stodgy as the term might be, I think it actually helps us to redefine some of our deeply held (and erroneous) beliefs.

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The History Of The Killer Questions

Beyond the Obvious

I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas […].

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Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Blockchain

Digital Tonto

Eliminating information bottlenecks is how blockchain will truly change the world Related posts: Bitcoin May Not Survive, But The Technology Behind It Will Live On. Marketers Need To Start Preparing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Your Startup (or Innovation Program) Needs Both Kirk and Scotty

helloFUTURE

To Be Successful, You Need Both These Attributes In Equal Measure If you look at most of the successful startups (and internal innovation programs) throughout history, you’ll note a trend – there are usually two or more partner founders (or intrapreneurs) right there at the beginning (although eBay is a notable difference). Additionally, these partners… The post Your Startup (or Innovation Program) Needs Both Kirk and Scotty appeared first on hellofuture.

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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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Establishing an Effective Innovation Process Architecture

Sopheon

See why it's important to establish an effective innovation process architecture and explore the four pillars of innovation management. The post Establishing an Effective Innovation Process Architecture appeared first on Sopheon.

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How You Ask for Innovation Matters

Gregg Fraley

Six Considerations for Inclusive Innovation. The Wall Street Journal published an article this week, Why Innovation is a Team Sport. . It reveals a broad based study on innovation done by the research firm Great Place to Work. You can download the entire white paper at Great Places website. Nicely done survey GP2W! Essentially, the survey says that companies that are more broad-based and inclusive in innovation have better growth prospects.

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Building a Culture of Innovation: A Lesson from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Planview

Can the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum really teach you a thing or two about building an innovative culture? You bet. Read on. In an article on Innovation Leader, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO, Greg Harris, shared his thoughts on what innovation means to the nonprofit organization. One notable insight that Harris mentioned was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s adoption of the minimum viable product (MVP) approach to driving continuous improvement.

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What Role Does Research Play in Innovation?

InnovationManagement

A lot of innovation programs have naturally grown out of research and development groups, but most true innovation is a departure from what’s come before so what role does the “research” in “research and development” play in innovation?

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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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Four Ways to Overcome the Impossible

Innovation Excellence

“You’ve heard it a million times but here’s why it’s true.” I’m just coming off of a one year build of a new startup. As with most startups, it’s been a wild ride, with more twists and turns, obstacles and challenges, learning and growth than I would ever have imagined. You’d think after having made.

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The importance of coaching intrapreneurs

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Intrapreneurship is an innovation engine for the corporation. But does it soar on its own? Or does it require some guidance and coaching to blossom?

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19 Options to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy

BrainZooming

A client raised a question about what more it can do to quicken its pace of innovation ? As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. and lots of articles, too! Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

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The Subtle and Critical Art of Questioning

Rmukesh Gupta

Lawyers have known all along that the way word their question to a witness, determines the response they get from the witness. They have used this practical knowledge for decades to both right the wrongs and wrong some rights. . In a research paper titled, “ Eliciting the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: The Effect of Question Phrasing on Deception , ” Maurice Schweitzer (Wharton professor) & his team of researchers discovered that subtle tweaks in the way a question is a

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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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Every Business Must Prepare For An AI-Driven World. Here’s How:

Innovation Excellence

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the first computer-aided design (CAD) software packages began to appear. Initially, they were mostly used for high-end engineering tasks, but as they got cheaper and simpler to use, they became a basic tool to automate the work of engineers and architects. According to a certain logic, with so.

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The right time horizon for technology development

Mike Shipulski

Patents are the currency of technology and profits are the currency of business. And as it turns out, if you focus on creating technology you’ll get technology (and patents) and if you focus on profits you’ll get profits. But if no one buys your technology (in the form of the products or services that use it), you’ll go out of business. And if you focus exclusively on profits you won’t create technology and you’ll go out of business.

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Four Free Hacks to Make Your Travel More Comfortable

Stephen Shapiro

I am on the road nearly 200 days a year. With over 30 years of travel under my belt, I’ve discovered many simple and free ways to make your travel more enjoyable. Here are my four favorites. I hope you like them as they’ve made my life a lot better. Keeping Window Shades Closed. After a long flight, it feels to great to hop into bed for a good night’s sleep.

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How the mind makes new ideas: Bending, breaking, blending

Rmukesh Gupta

In this short video David Eagleman shares how all new ideas originate by bending, breaking or blending existing ideas. . Watch the video here. . Simple, yet profound. Once we know this, there is an amazing array of things that we can create. . Also reminds me of a post that I had written long back – 3 Ways to Systematically Come Up with Breakthrough Ideas.

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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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Innovating Human Resources

Innovation Excellence

If you boil down the function of Human Relations to logical extremes, you end up with polar opposites. On one hand, you have the traditional view of HR: a place to fill out all of your essential employee paperwork, ask questions about benefits, send out messages about birthdays, and a place to be heard if.

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ITONICS mentioned in the Gartner Hype Cycle on Enterprise Architecture

ITONICS

The recently published Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture 2018 by Gartner deals with various technology-enabled business models and solutions within today’s enterprise architecture. Gartner considers four different phases: On the Rise (e.g. Trendspotting, Human-Centered Design, Customer Journey Analytics), At the Peak (e.g. Security Architecture, Design Thinking, Digital Twin), Sliding Into the Trough (e.g.

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Inside Baker Hughes’ Energy Innovation Center

Innovation Leader

Four years ago, Baker Hughes opened its Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City. This July, the company reinvented the facility, unveiling the Energy Innovation Center.

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InnoCentive Helps Innovate New Treatments for ALS

Innocentive

InnoCentive recently partnered with the ALS Association and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”) to create and release a premium challenge aimed at helping find treatments for people with neurodegenerative diseases like Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). InnoCentive has previously awarded Solvers over $1M for solutions in the field of ALS research.

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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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Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Innovations

Innovation Excellence

I had the good fortune to work with Dr. Amar Bose and with the great company he founded. I helped to bring into the world two blockbuster products – BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System. Here are seven product development process lessons learned from our experience creating products enjoyed by millions of customers. Lesson.

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University Crowdsourcing Zero Carbon Goal

IdeaConnection

The University of London has set itself a monumental challenge – to reach zero carbon emissions by the year 2036. To help it achieve this goal it is going to crowdsource a new zero-emissions program, covering its operations and built environment. Since 2010, carbon emissions at the university have been reduced by 47% and 100% of its energy needs come from renewables.

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Negotiation.

100%Open

Use Business Empathy. There is a lot of talk about negotiation in the media currently. Much of it seems somewhat macho and much of it from people with little direct experience of contemporary business practice. Here’s a look at the lexicon that we’re all reading a lot at the moment. This adds up to a form of aggressive negotiation that is more akin to warfare, employing brinkmanship as first resort when it might be more effectively deployed as a last resort.

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Qmarkets’ Partners with World Renowned Innovation Powerhouse Platypus Labs

Qmarkets

Qmarkets is excited to announce that they will be partnering with acclaimed Innovation-as-a-Service provider Platypus Labs. With a Fortune 100 digital transformation guru, and a presidential award-winning innovation expert as co-founders, Platypus Labs brings a diverse wealth of innovation talent to Qmarkets’ customers. Tel Aviv, June 27, 2018 – Platypus Labs – a US-based innovation enablement and consultancy, geared towards helping clients develop a systematic, holistic, and value-driving

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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.