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Develop Your Annual Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

It’s that time of year when organizations close the books for the current year and start focusing on the next. As you work through your annual planning, it’s important to consider your annual innovation strategy as well. This type of planning makes innovation projects far more effective and helps ensure ongoing support from leadership. Preparing Your Annual Innovation Strategy.

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Uber’s latest innovation: using a friend’s location as a destination

Idea to Value

Uber, the ride-sharing app already making taxi-services obsolete, has just announced their latest feature, and in my view it is a perfect example of innovation. It allows you to ask a contact whether they will allow you to use their location as a destination for their Uber ride. Genius. Check out the video above to […]. Originally published at Uber’s latest innovation: using a friend’s location as a destination.

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Coping with Digital Transformation: Adopting a Rapid Innovation Process

HYPE Innovation

As we start to close out our 2016 year, apart from the rush to finish certain tasks off, it is a time of reflection and some forward thinking to welcome in the New Year. From my standpoint I am simply amazed at how the world seems to be spinning faster and faster. I am convinced my working days are shorter or the clock is moving faster. I never seem to finish what I had intended to complete by the end of a day or week.

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Can You Afford Your Legacy System?

Daniel Burrus

Like someone who balks at throwing out a threadbare T-shirt unfit to wear in public, many organizations are slow, or even hesitant, to upgrade their legacy system technology. The reasons for this can vary from the fact that all of their systems are running on it, to the time and expense of modernization, to a more watered-down rationale: “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?”.

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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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How Universities are Using Crowdsourcing to Innovate

IdeaScale

Innovation starts in more than just the library. Learn how universities are using crowdsourcing. Universities are the source of some of the most powerful changes and innovation in the world. Centering some of the greatest minds in the world and giving them the freedom and brainstorming tools to investigate in their disciplines has pioneered social and economic change beyond all hopes.

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What Top Gear vs. The Grand Tour teaches us about creativity vs ownership

Idea to Value

You may be asking yourself what comparing two shows about fast cars has to do with creativity. The answer is … quite a lot actually. Let me explain. It all comes down to a complicated juggling act which everyone and every company struggles with at one point or another: The legacy of previous ideas vs […]. Originally published at What Top Gear vs.

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Wow, Christmas already?

Exago

The post Wow, Christmas already? appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Why is Diversity Important to Innovation

IdeaScale

There are a number of reasons why diversity should be important to businesses, both diversity of an employee base and diversity of consumers: because representation matters, because top talent often want to work for a company that values diverse voices, because a focus on diversity looks good to funders. But the bottom line is that lack of diversity may negatively impact your innovation efforts, and emphasis on diversity is beneficial for your company.

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Give the gift of creativity to your family in 2017, and merry Christmas

Idea to Value

Our Christmas gift to you: Get 25% off your first month of Deep Creativity Training (now only $9) by using the coupon code “THANKSNICK” at checkout. Seasons Greetings from me and everyone else at Idea to Value. It’s been a fantastic first year for us, with so much to celebrate: Starting the website in March. Hosting interviews and Webinars with some of the world’s top experts in Creativity and Innovation.

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10 Great Ideas That Were Originally Rejected

Innovation Excellence

History has shown us that a lot of wise people haven’t been able to recognize the potential of a great idea. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” Western Union internal memo dated 1876. “I do not believe the.

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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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Designing Progressive Web Applications for the Future

Boxes and Arrows

Google unveiled progressive web apps around 12 months ago. We’ve now had the chance to look at some of the pioneers of the technology, see how they’ve managed to implement the concepts, and look at their results. As both a web and Android developer, I’ve been very interested in progressive web apps, not just from a professional point of view but also because this is a technology that I actually believe in.

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Standing At The Dumb-End Of Our Smarter Future

Bill Fischer

What could ever be dumb about the fast-arriving internet of things — that seemingly inevitable assemblage of ever more networked devices, products and everything in-between?

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Three Critical Habits Of Leaders People Want To Follow

Faisal Hoque

Some leaders are better at motivating their teams than others. Here's what it takes. The post Three Critical Habits Of Leaders People Want To Follow appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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The New Year: Going From "I-It" to "I-Thou"

Mills-Scofield

Pemaquid Lighthouse, Maine © Mike Taylor & Sonia MacNeil [link]. 2016 is coming to a close, and not soon enough for some. 2016 (well, most of the 20th & 21st Centuries) has been a year of I-It * – where the I (yes, that’s us folks) treat others as It’s – as functions, transactions, products, services – provided for our benefit and happiness.

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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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The Only Three Swim Lanes that Matter to a Business

Innovation Excellence

In the course of my training with business leaders, we inevitably come to the existential business question… “What is the purpose of a business?” This is a great question, and one with a very simple answer. The purpose of a business is to create value. That’s it. To create value. Plain and simple. That.

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Standing At The Dumb-End Of Our Smarter Future

Bill Fischer

What could ever be dumb about the fast-arriving internet of things — that seemingly inevitable assemblage of ever more networked devices, products and everything in-between?

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Comment on Innovation Minute #25: How to Conduct Healthy Experiments by Ramkumar Yaragarla

Stephen Shapiro

Hi Stephen, that was a good video. You have put out your thought on having three sets of people, the seekers, the solvers and the experimenters. It has always been that solvers had a group of people within them who would experiment, iterate and investigate new solution for innovation. You are proposing, the solvers to be independent people. So, what would their role be ?

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Obama Receives Recognition for Open Innovation Achievements

IdeaConnection

President Barack Obama has been honored with the Award for Outstanding Global leadership in Open Innovation. This public and well-deserved recognition took place at the recent World Open Innovation Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Every year, the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at Berkeley-Haas wants to recognize a global leader who applies open innovation to create significant change.

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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 2017 will Accelerate and Deliver the New Innovation Era

Innovation Excellence

So what are the critical paths of the New Innovation Era? It is the powerful effects of different conditions, solutions and forces combining that will deliver the new innovation era in accelerated forms in 2017. We have a perfect merging of conditions that will have a transforming storm effect on innovation that are converging rapidly.

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Social Media Integration and Open Innovation Software

eZassi

eZassi Uses Social Sites like Linkedin to Sign-In and Auto Profile Users. How many times have you been interested in something online, only to abandon moving forward when you see a cumbersome sign in process, replete with password entry a confirmation email in the way? A 2012 study by Blue Research found 86% of people are bothered by the need to create new accounts, 54% consider leaving the site, and 88% say they have given inaccurate information.

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Comment on Innovation Minute #25: How to Conduct Healthy Experiments by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

I’m so glad you bumped into my site. The solvers are those who are looking for solutions. What I find is that the person who wants a problem solved is often too close to the challenge and therefore has a limited range of possible solutions (expertise is the enemy of innovation). Therefore, I want to turn to a different group of people to find solutions; people who are not as close to the problem as I might be.

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Understanding the trajectory of the competitive landscape

Mike Shipulski

If you want to gain ground on your competition you’ve first got to know where things stand. Where are their advantages? Where are your advantages? Where is there parity? To quickly understand the situations there are three tricks: stay at a high level, represent the situation in a clear way and, where possible, use public information from their website.

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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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When More Innovation Isn’t Your Best Option

Innovation Excellence

The more innovation, the better. That seems to be the going mantra. After all, who wouldn’t want to come up with something new? You can gain additional share of existing markets, or even create new ones. But there comes a tipping point. One where more innovation doesn’t help a business. It hurts it. When improperly.

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5 Takeaways from the 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit in New York

Planview

The recent 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit in New York saw no shortage of phenomenal topics, speakers, and discussions. Throughout the conference, there were several themes that became major talking points, including: Digital disruption. Building a culture of innovation. Disruptive technologies like virtual and augmented reality. While there was plenty of information to absorb in every session, here are our five key takeaways.

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Give the gift of creativity to your family in 2017, and merry Christmas

Improvides

Our Christmas gift to you: Get 25% off your first month of Deep Creativity Training (now only $9) by using the coupon code “THANKSNICK” at checkout. Seasons Greetings from me and everyone else at Idea to Value. It’s been a fantastic first year for us, with so much to celebrate: Starting the website in March Hosting […]. Originally published at Give the gift of creativity to your family in 2017, and merry Christmas.

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How the Creative and Business Sides Can Get Along

Innovation Leader

American Greetings’ Carol Miller describes how the company creates meaningful connections with family and friends, bridging creativity and the business side of greeting cards.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Ten Innovation Strategies for the Holidays

Innovation Excellence

Ideas are a key part of any innovation. We often talk about the Eureka moment, and an idea simply popping into our minds out of thin air. There is considerable evidence that we are more likely to have a Eureka moment when our thinking is not focused on the problem at hand, as narrow focus.

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LEADERS CAN’T GO IT ALONE: 6 Steps to Building a Coalition

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

While there is perpetual discussion about what leadership is all about, in the final analysis, leadership is about getting things done. If you cannot move your agenda, you are not a leader. Moreover, an agenda mover knows that he or she cannot do it alone.& As a leader, if you attempt to rely solely on your own own skills, knowledge, and intelligence, you will lose out on some of the vita.

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Uber’s latest innovation: using a friend’s location as a destination

Improvides

Uber, the ride-sharing app already making taxi-services obsolete, has just announced their latest feature, and in my view it is a perfect example of innovation. It allows you to ask a contact whether they will allow you to use their location as a destination for their Uber ride. Genius. Check out the video above to […]. Originally published at Uber’s latest innovation: using a friend’s location as a destination.

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Season’s greetings from all at 100%Open

100%Open

You’re welcome to connect with us at our new home this festive season. There’ll be mince pies and hot chocolate for those that do! This year we are donating our Christmas card money to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Our donation will help to support their vital humanitarian work in conflict and disaster zones. The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected, providing support across areas such as water, shelter, health, land mines, violence against w

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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