Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2016

In Bangladesh, 70% of the population live without regular electricity, often in tin-sided huts which can reach 45°C inside. This simple solution is made from recycled materials and can cool a room by 5 degrees, making life much more bearable. It works by the same underlying physics as a refrigerator, where pushing a gas through a small hole causes a cooling effect once the gas expands again on the other side.

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HYPE Innovation

JUNE 8, 2016

This is the Red Queen, one of the famous characters in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. And whilst she is an undoubtedly intriguing person, someone you might want to get to know better, here’s a word of advice. Don't try playing chess with her – you’ll very soon find yourself out of your depth! There are three problems you’ll have to confront if you do decide you'd like to give it a go.

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Exago

JUNE 9, 2016

Giving you easy access to new sources of innovation, open innovation practices allow you to ask different questions of different communities. The post How to conquer your audience appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 6, 2016

I'm a sports guy. I like all kinds of sports. Grew up playing baseball, football and running track. When my kids came along naturally they adopted other sports than the ones I was familiar with so I've learned to "love" swimming and soccer. If you know swim meets you'll appreciate the joke we pass around our family: I hope my last day on earth is at a swim meet, because they never end.

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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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Idea to Value

JUNE 10, 2016

Believe it or not, this isn’t the only innovation website out there, and I’m not the only innovation consultant in the world. Shocking news, I know 😉 There are some excellent other authors out there on the subject, and occasionally they will release something so insightful that it is my duty to let you know about […]. Originally published at Excellent review of the latest 2015/2016 innovation consulting reports.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 8, 2016

The crazy predictions Ray Kurzweil made a decade ago don’t seem so outlandish now. Related posts: The Singularity: Apocalypse or Nerd Rapture? Facebook, Instagram and the Singularity. Business. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 10, 2016

I'm pissed off today. I'm pissed off because our elected officials continue to denigrate entrepreneurs and business people. Yesterday Nancy Pelosi, the democratic demogoge of Hollywood, lectured people about the iPhone. Steve Jobs and Apple, she claimed, did not create the iPhone. If this is true you must be wondering, well, how did they get all that revenue and profit then?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 8, 2016

A Great Leader paints an ABC vision – Appealing , Believable and Challenging. You cannot expect your team to be enthusiastic and innovative if they do not know the direction in which they are headed. It is up to the leader to set the course and give a bearing for the future. This is set in broad terms and is described as the mission, core purpose or vision for the organisation.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 5, 2016

What makes Elon Musk so extraordinary is that he is able to entertain unlikely ideas, while at the same time examining them under a rigorous analytical lens. Related posts: The Improbable Origins of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 6, 2016

The vast majority of executives (even "enlightened" innovation leaders) unwittingly kill promising innovations long before the upside or risk can be determined. This silent killer curtails or dooms most corporate innovation efforts. In this thought paper for Imaginatik's, Ramón Salinas shows us why it doesn't have to be that way.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 8, 2016

There are a few relatively hide-bound industries in the US that have to date been somewhat impervious to real innovation. If you've followed this blog you know that I believe traditional retail banking is one of those industries. Retail banking is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Another industry ripe for innovation is the book publishing industry.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 7, 2016

The new innovation in business book Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation explains that the main reason even the most promising innovative ideas fail is due to the organizational failure to implement the innovation plans. Why is it that organizations shy away from innovation implementation? As discussed in Chapter 2 of Robert’s Rules of Innovation II , innovation implementation is frequently impeded by an organization’s deep-rooted culture of fear and subsequent innovation a

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

My natural inclination when it comes to business strategy is to identify what is MOST IMPORTANT and build everything around that. Tie the objectives, priorities, and strategies to a very tight focus for an organization. Mass the resources and the organization’s attention on that single area and put everything toward implementing it successfully. My most memorable example of this goes back to early in my career.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 5, 2016

Innovation is an iterative process. You can create a detailed plan for how to innovate, but these strategies rarely survive their first contact with the market. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face,” said boxer Mike Tyson. Success comes when you learn to adapt. It is more important to have the right people and mindsets in place than to have a perfectly crafted plan.

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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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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 10, 2016

Here's what you need to know to balance your intuition with the data—now that there's more of it than ever. The post Will Data Science Make Your Business Instincts Irrelevant? appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Be-novative

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week we held an event, which gave attendees a new perspective on successfully creating and maintaining innovation culture in companies. With two guest presenters, we talked about innovation technologies and best practices from Fortune500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. Take a look at the recap on the main discussions! Exponential technologies – Stories from the Silicon Valley by Rita Veres, Market Lead and European Practice Lead at Aon Hewitt Singularity University (SU) sure is

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

When something has to give, what strategic priorities will you give up? When it is crunch time, what will emerge as your real strategic priorities? And are the priorities you pick the same strategic priorities you said you’d emphasize when it was time earlier in the year for strategic thinking? Those questions are front and center for me. Nearing last year’s close, I thought we knew specific changes in the make-up of The Brainzooming Group.

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Integrative Innovation

JUNE 8, 2016

Probably the most critical structural ingredient for innovation capability is how new ventures – internal as well as external ones – are to be implemented in the organization in order to get validated and scaled. Should it be entirely separated from the core business as stand-alone venture? Should it be integrated into an existing business unit?

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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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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 6, 2016

In a blog post that recently went viral, Marco Arment argued that Apple may be the next Blackberry. He pointed out that, while other tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google are advancing in key artificial intelligence technologies, Apple is falling behind.

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Be-novative

JUNE 5, 2016

What if you had the chance to shape the society you live in? Where would you get started? These were the questions we have set to get the answers for in the past few weeks. With the Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD), we started a public challenge to get a better view on the insights the citizens of the world can give. OECD is a global organization that provides a platform for governments to discuss their political and economic.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting.

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Innovation in Practice

JUNE 6, 2016

Take a look at the people around you at work. What do you notice? Well, we all differ from one another. But appearances aren't the only way we differ, it's the unique views and backgrounds that we bring that can help you boost your creativity at work. Diversity is a driver of creativity. When you invite a group of colleagues to an ideation session, it's important that you have diversity in your team.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 8, 2016

The words “creative” and “creativity” have been hi-jacked by the world of advertising. The word means something specific to those familiar with Mad Men or Thirty-something advertising stereotypes. In these cases – and the cases of classic advertising – creativity was visual, copy, or positioning cleverness applied at the end of the new product process, when it was time to market downstream.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 5, 2016

Last week I wrote about knowledge sharing in project teams. This week I would like to discuss the importance of knowledge sharing for learning, creativity and innovation. Although there are many theories of knowledge sharing behavior (Razak et. al, 2016), in my opinion the most important aspect of knowledge sharing is that the right circumstances are created to learn, to co-create or to innovate.

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IdeaConnection

JUNE 10, 2016

Communications and information technology giant Nokia has launched its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge for the fourth year running, and this time round is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). Up for grabs is €100,000 (approx. USD $113,000) incubation prize money to be shared between three winning teams. The winners will also join Nokia’s Innovation Accelerator Program to incubate their ideas within Nokia, access the multinational’s global market and network with investors.

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Mike Shipulski

JUNE 8, 2016

Today’s work is complicated with electronic and mechanical subsystems wrapped in cocoons of software; coordination of matrixed teams; shared resources serving multiple projects; providing world class services in seventeen languages on four continents. And the complexity isn’t limited to high level elements. There is a living layer of complexity growing on all branches of the organization right down to the leaf level.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 9, 2016

If you want to know how to leverage content marketing to position your product in your customer’s mind, a great person to ask is Jerod Morris, VP of Marketing at Rainmaker Digital. Previously CopyBlogger, Rainmaker Digital is the most authoritative source I know for content marketing.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

JUNE 7, 2016

Victoria Mikhailova is an experienced leadership coach with multiple skills: situation understanding and intelligence, process communication, and emotional skills and competences, and organizational and individual behaviour, coaching for teams and managers.

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The Human Factor

JUNE 9, 2016

June has arrived, and you know what that means – for most of you it’s time for mid-year employee performance reviews. I can hear the pushback already. Who has time for mid-year reviews?! My employees know what to do; they should just focus on doing it! The better question is, who doesn’t have time for this critical leadership activity? To perform at their best, employees need feedback on a regular basis.

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100%Open

JUNE 10, 2016

With the Zika virus spreading rapidly in Brazil and beyond, new methods for personal protection, diagnostics, surveillance and mosquito control are urgently needed. It’s great to see an open innovation response to this problem; USAID’s $30m Grand Challenge for Development, ‘Combating Zika and Future Threats’. There is an increasing number of such challenges for public health innovation and it’s interesting to speculate why.

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