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Confusing the ends and the means

Jeffrey Phillips

I've written before (and often) about challenges around clarity and communication introduce difficulty when corporations try to create new products and services. Notice that for a blog about innovation, I didn't use the "i" word in the sentence above. That's because I think corporations confuse the ends from the means, and in doing so create unnecessary barriers to creating valuable products and services.

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Building the new dynamics into our capacity to innovate

Paul Hobcraft

Do we know what are the dependencies and commentaries are for building and sustaining innovation success? How do you sustain innovation, is it more through the structuring of everyday work, by creating a particular set of social rules and resources that foster specific routines? We work really hard at maintaining these but often we end up with simply incremental innovation that might just ‘nudge’ the growth needle but does little more than sustain us in the present.

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The Organizational Learning Framework

HYPE Innovation

Previously, we looked at how to get the most from academic research on innovation. Now that you know a great deal about how all this works, let me walk you through an example. Let’s imagine you are as diligent a company as GfK and are running a permanent idea campaign on leveraging new idea sources using the HYPE Enterprise software. Your employees spot a number of gaps in your current knowledge landscape and agree that the best way to close those gaps is by bringing in scholarly know-how.

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How innovation has become everyone’s job

Exago

We just cannot understand the evolution of idea management metrics without understanding first the evolution of innovation in the corporate world. What was considered an 'innovation' in the 50s, in the 70s? And how did we gauge its results? The post How innovation has become everyone’s job appeared first on www.exago.com.

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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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"T" time for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Lately I've worked with or encountered a number of corporate clients who are trying desperately to innovate. Their executives and management teams recognize the importance of innovation, and even include innovation as top three priorities or as a component of the annual strategy. What's worse, unlike in the past, executives are starting to demand action on innovation, rather than simply use it as a speaking point or throw-away line.

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Thought Leadership Builds Firm Value

Braden Kelley

Consulting firms sell expertise, and their currency is trust. Large consultancies like Boston Consulting Group, Bain, McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture and others make their money from being a trusted advisor to companies around the world. Why do companies trust them?

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An Innovative Mindset: The Foundation for Your Innovative Thinking

Innovation in Practice

By John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska. . One of the most common excuses we hear from folks who are reluctant to embrace innovative thinking is that they "are not creative" or not "right-brain thinkers." We like to gently remind them that the ability to think innovatively is in fact a learned skill, and can be improved with rigorous practice. In fact the old myth of right-brain versus left-brain predominance is incorrect.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Creativity in No Time

BrainZooming

I recorded a video for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) that ties into my presentation at their conference on creative thinking skills and “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation.”. The video’s topic? “How do I realistically find time to think more creatively or innovatively about my business when I don’t have time; I just have to get things done?”.

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5 Habits Of Truly Disruptive Leaders

Faisal Hoque

Disruption and leadership might seem opposing forces. Here's how the best leaders reconcile the two. The post 5 Habits Of Truly Disruptive Leaders appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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How To Decide Whether Holacracy Is Right For You

Digital Tonto

Whether you decide to pursue Holacracy or not, you should take some time thinking about the issues that it brings to the fore and ask: If not Holacracy, then what? Related posts: 4 Questions Every. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Scaling-up your innovation internationally, with Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler, heading the PIC Master at Polytechnique Engineering and HEC Business School, just published a book on 'Innovation management and globalization', encompassing the research work and internship experience of their students.

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Creative Boredom – 5 Ways to Get Your Creativity Going Again

BrainZooming

If you do even the most exciting things too much, you can lose the sense of surprise as creative boredom sets in. Heck, on my tenth roller coaster ride at New York New York the other evening, I was even falling asleep while zooming high above the Las Vegas strip. Ten times through, everything was pretty predictable. If you find yourself beset by creative boredom, what can you do?

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Huff Post Live Interview: Is Your Job Killing You? What Can You Do About It

Faisal Hoque

Faisal Hoque, founder of Shadoka and author of “Survive to Thrive,” shares his tips on how to stay calm in the face of daily work stress. The post Huff Post Live Interview: Is Your Job Killing You? What Can You Do About It appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Cultivating Innovation Agility

Innovation Excellence

Outlining the benefits of adopting a business eco-system accelerates the innovation process, reduces the risks inherent in innovation, and engages the entire organization as “co-ideators” and broader ecosystem in the innovation effort.

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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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Comment on Change the Question, Change Your Kids by Gebildete

Stephen Shapiro

Oh, that’s the point. would you like to do a presentation or the illustration? But I don’t like them all. I’d like to dance. People, please, ask mу the open questions. During chats on the konstruktor I’m trying to ask only the open questions as I prefer.

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Leadership – What Real Transparency Looks Like

BrainZooming

One church I regularly attend received a new temporary pastor, replacing another relatively new pastor. It is a bit of a mystery why the previous pastor left, leading to an information void causing speculation about what is going on and what will happen next. This speculation extends to the new priest, who seems to have a past, based on a Google search.

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4 Ways to Breathe New Life into Your Innovation Program

Planview

You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid , and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Spigit to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. So why aren’t things taking off how you imagined they would? If you’re still struggling to make the connection between ideas and outcomes, here are 4 things you can do to invigorate your innovation program. 1.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of October 2015

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

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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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Comment on Change the Question, Change Your Kids by Paul Niggebrugge

Stephen Shapiro

Absolutely agree…you can’t push a rope! The quality of the question determines the quality of the result. To some degree we all have to be aware of our “confirmation biases”…all about perspective and perception. Thanks Stephen for all you share!

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Leadership Training – Walmart Hopes for Big Impact

BrainZooming

We haven’t shared an “Inside the Executive Suite” piece from Armada Executive Intelligence in some time. We’re happy to have them back today with an article adapted from a newsletter they published on a leadership training program Walmart is rolling out in its US stores. The original Wall Street Journal story provided the basis for the folks at Armada to translate the Walmart situation to other organizations.

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The Future of Jobs —Anticipate Job Needs in an Increasingly Tech-focused Economy

Daniel Burrus

When it comes to the future of your industry, how secure do you feel, not only in your position, but in your career, your abilities, as a whole? The era in which a professional could go to school for a specific skill or trade, develop his or her acumen and skills, and stick with that skill set to establish and grow a career until retirement has passed.

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Organizational Models for Breakthrough Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Innovation activities that are radical or disruptive in nature, should be separated from incremental innovation around a company’s established core business.

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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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What’s driving eco-innovations?

Norbert Bol

There is an interesting article in press (Hojnik & Ruzzie, 2015) about the drivers of eco-innovations also known as environmental innovations and green innovations. Eco-innovations are improvements in product, process, marketing and/or organization with the aim of having fewer adverse effects on the environment and more efficient use of resources.

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Good Business Is the Best Art

Innovation in Practice

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.". —Andy Warhol. Recognizing that business is an art form and that you, as a businessperson, are an artist is critical to surviving and thriving in the sharing economy. Leading brands must see themselves as artists of business first and agents of commerce second.

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Comment on Innovate Like Sherlock Holmes by Gebildete

Stephen Shapiro

I am also a fun of Sherlock Holmes. I will use his will to increase the eficiency of my work on the konstruktor.

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Building Firm Value with Thought Leadership

Innovation Excellence

While most consulting firms spring to life and find early success because of the strength of their thought leadership, in general, over time most consulting firms tend to under-invest in thought leadership and as a consequence they find themselves vulnerable to new entrants nibbling around the edges of their core business and see their growth slow and eventually turn negative.

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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

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Why Innovators Embrace Failure

KindlingApp

Despite what you’ve been led to believe, failing is OK. If you’re committed to innovation (and you should be! ), you’re dealing with change. You’re adapting rapidly. You’re not going to hit the bullseye every time. Failures might sting, but if you change your viewpoint, you’ll start to be grateful for them. The prospect of failing can be offputting, so we often react by choosing not to pursue our riskier ideas.

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You’re worth it.

Mike Shipulski

Why are you holding back? Why aren’t you giving your best? Why are you blocking yourself? An open, honest disagreement can be a positive learning experience for both. If your intensions are good, everything works out well. I’m not sure why, but when your pockets are full of good intensions, the universe is kind to you. But the universe’s kindness doesn’t manifest in the outcome you want.

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A Seamless Strategy: CloudLink

Information Playground

In a recent post I introduced the importance of considering a "seamless" strategy when creating inter-cloud architectures. There are a set of technologies that can facilitate agile and frictionless movement of application workloads and data from a traditional enterprise data center to a different cloud architecture. In this post I would like to discuss CloudLink as one of those technologies.

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Want to Create Products Customers Love? Integrate User Experience

Innovation Excellence

Chad McAllister interviews Larry Marine about about the critical steps for applying UX to product development. Larry is a User Experience expert that has helped many companies improve their products as well as design new products. He came to the field of UX through Don Norman’s Cognitive Science program at UC San Diego. Norman is frequently referred to as the father of UX and Larry learned directly from him.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your