Idea to Value

APRIL 26, 2016

Sometimes, it takes a while for the best ideas to incubate into something original and beautiful. In this great new TED talk, Organisational Psychologist Adam Grant outlines what he has learned by studying “original thinkers” He outlines his research that suggests that between extreme procrastinators who leave their most important work until the last possible moment ( which is an especially bad problem for entrepreneurs ) and what he calls “precrastinators” who start work

Study 143

Study Creativity Training Learning 143

HYPE Innovation

APRIL 26, 2016

In case you were wondering: the 2016 Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn was a blast! It also broke last year’s attendance record by attracting no fewer than 180 innovation management practitioners from around the globe for 2 days of experience sharing, workshops and networking. A definitive gathering indeed with plenty of take-home ideas – a handful of which I plan to share in upcoming posts.

Learning 140

Learning Innovation Management Innovation Management 140

Exago

APRIL 28, 2016

The clock is ticking. Most managers (86%, to be precise) believe transformation in their companies is imperative to guarantee unrelenting success. However, one in five companies has failed in its innovation attempts, and three in five have not yet made any effort in this area. The post What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge appeared first on www.exago.com.

Idea Management 133

Idea Management Learning Management Company 133

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 28, 2016

Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. We must learn to explore and exploit at the same time, both in parallel and where needed, in separate ways, or entities. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much.

Innovation 130

Innovation Technical Review Disruption Change 130

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.

Data

Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2016

Sometimes it takes my breath away what some people can do with a little imagination, careful planning and some hard work. In this short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, they recreate the actual scale of our solar system, taken from the perspective of the Earth being the size of a marble. The sun and all the other planets are created to the same correct scale in the Nevada desert.

System 131

System Comparison Video Training 131

HYPE Innovation

APRIL 27, 2016

A few months ago, The Economist published an excellent piece on how the fashion for making employees collaborate had gone too far. We wrote about the trend too here on the blog, explaining how excessive collaboration harms organizational performance and stifles innovation (hint: overworking employees for only marginal gains).

Open Innovation 119

Open Innovation Strategy Strategy Management 119

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 28, 2016

In truth, neither view fully represents today’s business environment. Certainly, companies like Apple and Southwest are still able to dominate their industries, but the source of advantage has changed. We no longer compete in a resource economy, but a semantic economy where firms that can build, manage and widen connections win out.

Competition 66

Competition Collaboration Resources Industry 66

Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2016

James Dyson has just revealed what his engineering firm has been working on for the past four years: the world’s most advanced hair dryer, called the Supersonic. Known best for its high-end vacuum cleaners, Dyson has consistently entered new markets which make use of its digital motor technology to get more airflow through smaller areas. It achieved this to great effect with its hand-drying solution, and to a lesser degree with its bladeless fan.

Innovation 105

Innovation Video Marketing Training 105

BrainZooming

APRIL 26, 2016

This afternoon, I’m leading a three-hour Brainzooming workshop on creating branded content marketing at the Social Media Strategy Summit in Chicago. While it’s nice to be able to stretch with more time (typically these content marketing workshops are two hours at the Social Media Strategy Summit), I still feel as if there will be a lot of material that we won’t have time to fully cover.

Resources 55

Resources Marketing eBook Strategy 55

Norbert Bol

APRIL 23, 2016

Last week I wrote about how Facebook is becoming the innovation platform. Singaraju et al. (2016) point out that social media platforms should not only be viewed as a context in the communication, value co-creation or innovation between participants. A social media platform can be seen as an actor as well, when it is able to generate higher order information through specific algorithms.

Industry 52

Industry Resources Marketing Strategy 52

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.

Artificial Inteligence

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 25, 2016

“We need to rethink the term “innovation” and we should drop the term “innovation culture” entirely.” Stefan Lindegaard shares his latest presentation: Rethink Innovation!

Innovation 62

Innovation Culture Radical Innovation Disruption 62

Gregg Fraley

APRIL 26, 2016

Getting a Mandate to Innovate is Key. Larger companies typically have an innovation process in place. They don’t always work, but the majority of the Fortune 1000 has some kind of innovation process or system. There is an implied consent then, to innovate, at those organizations. There are people, budgets, expectations. At smaller companies, the Mis-Fortune 5000 as I sometimes jest, there is often not a process in place.

Project 47

Project Innovation Innovation Processes Strategic Management 47

BrainZooming

APRIL 28, 2016

Today at the Social Media Strategy Summit, along with Kaite Stover, Director of Readers’ Services at the Kansas City Public Library , I’m presenting a fun case study. The presentation is about how the Kansas City Public Library was able to “sponsor bomb” the 2015 Major League Baseball Playoffs and World Series with a book spine poetry campaign.

Strategy 54

Strategy Strategy How To Case Study 54

Mills-Scofield

APRIL 29, 2016

I was so honored to be a guest on DisrupTV with my good friend Vala Afshar of Salesforce and Ray Wang , founder of Constellation Research. As to be expected, we had a great time talking blue lobsters, innovation, virtues, strategy and women in tech. Take a look!

Meeting 46

Meeting Disruption Strategy Strategy 46

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.

Data

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 28, 2016

Recently I had an opportunity to interview Chris Laping, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Red Robin restaurant chain about some of the challenges in achieving successful organizational change. Chris' is a voice that emerged from the darkness as I was creating the Change Planning Toolkit™ and conducting the research for my latest book Charting Change and its focus on beating the 70% change failure rate.

Change 51

Change Leadership Management 51

Rmukesh Gupta

APRIL 29, 2016

I was attending an online sales kick off meeting where i heard Anthony Iannarino present. He is an international speaker, author, and sales leader. He posts daily sales tips and insights to The Sales Blog. Learn more about Anthony , his keynotes & workshops, or contact him directly. He shared a list of 20 reasons why sales people lose deals. I found it incredibly useful and true.

Strategy 45

Strategy Strategy Competition Meeting 45

BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction. She saw documenting as many vision statement examples as possible as a huge help to getting it right this next time.

Examples 52

Examples Strategy Strategy Conference 52

Daniel Burrus

APRIL 27, 2016

Bank notes and silver coins are starting to feel incredibly primitive or quaint at best to an increasing number of shoppers. Many are happier using their credit or debt card for both their online and offline purchases. Now that the U.S. has joined Europe and other nations by requiring a chip-in-card system, the pressure is on technology to increase security and at the same time replace other annoyances from our past such as PINs and the dreaded passwords. . 53% of us forget crucial passwords mor

Technology 43

Technology System Report Data 43

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

Report

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 29, 2016

This article is the first in a series of 3 articles discussing measuring product innovation.

Product Innovation 61

Product Innovation Innovation 61

Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 27, 2016

Love your 1 minute videos. I also have your book on my nightstand, big admirer of your style of challenging the status quo. Congrats for the new start and I wish you all the best.

Video 40

Video Innovation 40

CorporateIntel

APRIL 23, 2016

We lost a great business leader earlier this year. His name was Andrew S. Grove, known to many as Andy Grove. He survived Nazi-occupied Hungary as a child, then Soviet-controlled Hungary, immigrating to the United States at the age of 20 in 1956. He received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from U.C. Berkeley and became a star engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Leadership 40

Leadership Learning Marketing Roadmap 40

Svava

APRIL 23, 2016

Lifee is a wristband for kids that motivates physical activity while being entertaining and easy to use. Wear Lifee and your everyday life becomes a game. - Patrik Jutterström.

40

40

Advertisement

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.

Company

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 28, 2016

The powerful combination of designing and providing something that pushes our existing knowledge, our boundaries, understanding or expectations — and capturing it in thought, explanation, or detailing the discovery makes up the art and science of innovation. We just need to find even better and consistent ways to combine them continuously.

Innovation 46

Innovation Design 46

IdeaConnection

APRIL 29, 2016

It seems intuitive that being outdoors, surrounded by nature and natural beauty is good for the heart, soul and mind. But just how healthy is it? A new crowdsourcing app developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK could help them to understand more about the relationship between biodiversity and well-being. NatureBuzz can be downloaded for free on iOS and Android platforms and asks participants three times per day to answer questions about how they feel and whether they are

Crowdsourcing 40

Crowdsourcing Study Data Project 40

Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 28, 2016

Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, the author of Listening for Success is a different Steve Shapiro, and he sadly passed away many years ago. However, his work continues to inspire.

Innovation 40

Innovation 40

Svava

APRIL 28, 2016

After building an MVP it is important to gather customer feedback and see whether you should have be building the MVP in the first place and if it´s solving a problem for customers or not. Most of the ideas people have can be realised from the technical point of view but the question is always if there is a demand on the market and this is sometimes difficult to find out.

Data 40

Data Marketing 40

Advertisement

“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.

Generative AI

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 26, 2016

One innovation method is to invite customers (in a B-2-B situation) or consumers (in a B-2-C scenario) into the creative process with you. Here, they will ideate, workshop concepts that arise in the session, augment concepts provided for them, and create some new product or service ideas that do not yet exist.

Creative Process 45

Creative Process Ideation Creativity Innovation 45

Mike Shipulski

APRIL 27, 2016

I don’t believe the role of Chief Innovation Officer has a place in today’s organizations. Today, it should be about doing the right new work to create value. That work, I believe, should be done within the organization as a whole or within dedicated teams within the organization. That work, I believe, cannot be done by the Chief Innovation Officer because the organizational capability and capacity under their direct control is hollow.

Innovation 40

Innovation Resources Project Meeting 40

Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 27, 2016

We at Innovation 360 Group are very proud to announce that Magnus Penker, CEO and one of the founders of our company, has been appointed as a speaker at the most important forum for global entrepreneurship – The Global Peter Ducker Forum in Vienna. This year’s theme will be “The Entrepreneurial Society” and renowned personalities from the business world such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Clayton Christensen and Philip Kotler will attend this year’s edition of the Forum.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Groups Company Innovation 40

Innovation 360

APRIL 27, 2016

We at Innovation 360 Group are very proud to announce that Magnus Penker, CEO and one of the founders of our company, has been appointed as a speaker at the most important forum for global entrepreneurship – The Global Peter Ducker Forum in Vienna. This year’s theme will be “The Entrepreneurial Society” and renowned personalities from the business world such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Clayton Christensen and Philip Kotler will attend this year’s edition of the Forum.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Groups Change Company 40

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

Leadership