Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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The Geek who Changed the World

Destination Innovation

Tim Berners Lee. Sir Tim Berners Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He created its three fundamental components: the formatting language HTML, the address system URL, and the HTTP system for linking sites. He was born in 1955 and grew up in London. As a schoolboy he was an avid trainspotter. He learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway.

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Unilever partnership pledges £40 million to support social enterprises

Exago

In partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Unilever is expanding its commitment to support social enterprises through the joint initiative TRANSFORM. To invite ideas and collaboration to further catalyse impact, they have chosen Exago’s open innovation management software. The post Unilever partnership pledges £40 million to support social enterprises appeared first on Exago.

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4 Essential Tips for Better Innovation Performance

HYPE Innovation

Right before January 1st, I felt an (in)explicable urge to “rant” about New Year’s resolutions on LinkedIn. And I had my reasons: websites were, as they usually are, racing to publish/ showcase stock advice, standard methods/tools and other types of “one-size-fits-all” solutions for all conceivable innovation management problems.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 26 January 2018

Imaginatik

As we head on in to the 2 nd month of the year, this post highlights recent articles on hot topics that are shaping and changing the future not only of innovation and the tech space, but of our lives. Enjoy this next instalment! Why Digital Transformation Is Now On The CEO’s Shoulders. Go digital or go home. Digital transformation is a global phenomenon and a universal disruption, changing every industry and every sector.

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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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Why we should expect more disruptive innovations

Jeffrey Phillips

I've used the example of Tower Records before - a behemoth astride the recording industry - brought low very quickly by a sudden shift in music distribution. The shift from physical media to digital media, and the shift from albums to songs as the distribution format made Tower suddenly obsolete. Similarly, Blockbuster experienced almost the exact same disruption.

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How To Build Your Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Your team should be the people who want to be there. There is no innovation without a strong team. Every great idea had a string of brilliant minds behind it, from those who design the concept to those who execute it. So how do you build the best possible innovation team? Get Volunteers, Not Appointees. To start, you need people who want to be there.

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This Startup Is Using Pollution to Help Build a Clean Energy Future

Digital Tonto

It could shift the economics of energy toward renewables Related posts: Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important Technology In The World Right Now. Inside The Race To Build A Battery That Can. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies

BrainZooming

We have designed several branding strategy scopes of work recently where the available time between developing strategy and implementation is tight. In these cases, a critical question arises: How do you open branding strategy development to other partner organizations to create a seamless implementation process? 5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies.

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How Can Open Innovation Complement Agile?

Innocentive

Agile has taken over and transformed the software industry — you would be hard pressed in 2017 to find development teams who have not implemented at least some of the concepts. Agile principles have even been successfully adopted outside the development world; Agile methods help National Public Radio put together new programming, Saab to produce new fighter planes. even corporate behemoth General Electric has gotten on board.

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6 absolutely crazy ideas that actually worked and made money

hackerearth

“Good ideas are always crazy, until they are not.”. -Larry Page, Co-founder, Google. Genius ideas come in many forms. And sometimes, they come from the least expected places. Innovation knows no boundaries. Just like it was an unorthodox idea that gave us the good fortune of sticking our to-do lists all over our desks with Post-It Notes, there is a whole world of similar unconventional, very nearly crazy, yet innovative ideas that actually worked.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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The Problem with Corporate Innovation Programs | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Corporate innovation programs are growing in popularity as more and more industry incumbents come face to face with the realities posed by disruptive innovators. However this means a new set of problems arising. In this article, we cover examples of innovative solutions to these problems.

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13 Strategic Thinking Questions to Imagine a Radically Different Future

BrainZooming

Need to challenge your team to being imagining the future, realizing it may look hardly anything like today ? Originating in a long-term future visioning exercise we designed and facilitated for a client, we developed these questions to prompt a group’s thinking about dramatic future change. The point was to push them to consider the future as something other than a trend line based on yesterday and today.

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5 Signs You Need an Idea Management Solution

IdeaScale

Not everyone knows the opportunities associated with idea management software , so sometimes it’s hard to make a case to adopt it at your company. But here are a few of the signs that you’re ready for an idea management solution: You’re Falling Behind the Competition. Other key players (or new kids on the block) are coming up with far superior, new products and services and they’re doing it faster than you are.

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Nobody likes pizza – we just like the way it solves our Job to Be Done

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Nobody likes pizza – we just like the way it solves our Job to Be Done appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Introducing Future² - Innovation in the Enterprise | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

As part of Collective Campus' ongoing mission to share insights, case studies, experiences and trends on how to successfully innovate in the enterprise, we've just launched our podcast, titled Future².

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The Value of Team Diversity

IdeaConnection

Question: what is the not-so-secret sauce that makes companies more innovative, creative and profitable? The answer is diversity, having a mix of genders, ages, races, cultural perspectives, expertise and ethnic backgrounds. Diversity should not be seen as a box-ticking exercise, as something to comply with because it is the right thing to do and looks good in the marketing photos.

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Creative and critical thinking in innovation

Norbert Bol

Last week I received quite some interesting feedback to my blog about the circular economy. Many of the reactions were about the way to approach the broad concept of the circular economy. Design thinking was suggested, but also it was suggested that the issues in our current economy should not be thought of as problems to be solved, but should be approached as conditions to be managed as if they were a chronic disease.

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Education and Change

Beyond the Obvious

About a year ago I got a call inviting me to participate in a meeting with the Department of Education because they were actively looking at ways to innovate how kids are educated. I agreed to participate in a meeting in San Francisco, and I was happy to have the opportunity to do so. My […].

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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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How to Innovate in Government | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

A combination of values, processes, systems and resource allocation procedures prevent Government from adopting the behaviours and mindsets required to effectively support innovation.

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Choosing the Digital Transformation Strategy that is Best for Your Company

Qmarkets

In one of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. Watson remarks about a client and how attractive she is. “Is she?” says the detective. “I didn’t notice.” In response to his partner’s quip that he really is a human automaton – lacking of emotion – Holmes replies that he is taking emotion out the equation, since it might compromise his detective work. Similarly, when it comes to selecting a strategy for digital transformation, one must leave emotion behind and base the decision on what is best for the

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6 absolutely crazy ideas that worked and made money

hackerearth

“Good ideas are always crazy, until they are not.”. -Larry Page, Co-founder, Google. Genius ideas come in many forms. And sometimes, they come from the least expected places. Innovation knows no boundaries. Just like it was an unorthodox idea that gave us the good fortune of sticking our to-do lists all over our desks with Post-It Notes, there is a whole world of similar unconventional, very nearly crazy, yet innovative ideas that actually worked.

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14 Innovation Mistakes You Cannot Afford to Make

Innovation Excellence

Do you want to create an innovation-focused culture in your organization? Are you struggling to make it a reality? Are you tired of wondering why your team’s ideas don’t always seem to pan out as originally planned? Or do your team’s problems actually stem from the idea-generating phase? There could be countless issues standing in.

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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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Future Squared Episode #2: Corporate Hackathons | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In this podcast, Sean Qian interviews Collective Campus co-founder Steve Glaveski to dissect what the corporate hackathon is, what the benefits are, how it's broken and how best to approach running one.

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Open Innovation Game

Open Innovation EU

The use of Open Innovation is to a large extent related to the rise of technology. Not only does technology smoothen Open Innovation, also the adaption of new technologies to the core business (model) can be accelerated by participating in Open Innovation networks. In fact, when talking to businesses the questions that they have do almost never directly include the use of Open Innovation as a goal.

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How to Deal with Creative Burnout

Phil McKinney

Have you found yourself facing the impossible task of innovating another element for your business? Does your normally creative effort somehow seem like a chore? These are some of the signs that you may be facing creative burnout, a very real form of mental exhaustion caused by constant stress or psychological strain. In innovation, its […].

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Join The Global Movement

100%Open

Displacement of people is one of the pivotal global issues of the early 21st century. It is a growing problem (66 million and rising at an average of 10% a year since 2005, due to a perfect storm of climate change, conflict and demographic changes). Trends indicate that children comprise well over 50% of any future displaced population and that this percentage is rising.

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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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Why Corporates Should Partner With Startups | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Large companies faced with the imminent threat of disruption posed by technologies such as cloud and mobile are having to reassess their place in the business landscape. Corporates need to figure out how to stay relevant not just in today’s ultra-competitive environment but also well into the future, to avoid having their bottom lines wither away.

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When it’s time to think inside the box

Innovation Excellence

It’s a common call – we want more innovation, disruptive innovation, new options. We need to think outside the box. It often makes sense to think outside the box. When the usual thinking hasn’t solved the problem, new approaches are needed. After all, if the same people are sat at the same table trying to.

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If you want to learn, define a learning objective.

Mike Shipulski

Innovation is all about learning. And if the objective of innovation is learning, why not start with learning objectives? Here’s a recipe for learning: define what you want to learn, figure how you want to learn, define what you’ll measure, work the learning plan, define what you learned and repeat. With innovation, the learning is usually around what customers/users want, what new things (or processes) must be created to satisfy their needs and how to deliver the useful novelty to them.

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How to Connect Innovation to Institutional Learning

InnovationManagement

In November, the United States Coast Guard presented at Open Nation on their Coast Guard ideas program. They talked about how lessons learned from previous extreme weather occurrences (Sandy, etc.) still hadn’t become institutional knowledge by the 2017 hurricane season when they were so desperately needed. The reason that this hadn’t happened was that all of the methods for collecting new ideas were slow and opaque.

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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