Sat.Sep 24, 2016 - Fri.Sep 30, 2016

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Innovation, ecosystems, platforms and the promise of more to come

Paul Hobcraft

Jeffrey Phillip s and I are launching our fourth collaboration together, this time we are exploring innovation ecosystems and the growing impact they are having in the business world through their ‘conecting and collaborating difference’ that can lead to vastly different final customer experiences. I just want to reaffirm what he has written on this, originally over on his site.

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Creating Meaningful Organizations - Learnings from the 2016 Academy of Management Meeting

HYPE Innovation

Making organizations meaningful. Noble pursuit and this year’s theme at the Academy of Management’s 76th Annual Meeting (AOM) where close to 10,000 students, scholars, and professionals in the management and organization space gathered to discuss companies’ raison d’être.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

There are pervasive myths that older people are stuck in their ways, lack creativity and dynamism and cannot cope with new technology. This is reflected in ageism in hiring. According to research firm Payscale, the median age of a worker at Facebook is 29, at Amazon it is 30 and at Microsoft 33. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter.

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6 Things Every Organization Needs To Innovate

Digital Tonto

From corporate giants to startups to world class labs, here are the 6 things every successful innovator has in common. Related posts: If You Want To Innovate, Follow These 5 Rules. How Wells Fargo. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Innovation, ecosystems, platforms and the promise of more to come

Paul Hobcraft

Jeffrey Phillip s and I are launching our fourth collaboration together, this time we are exploring innovation ecosystems and the growing impact they are having in the business world through their ‘conecting and collaborating difference’ that can lead to vastly different final customer experiences. I just want to reaffirm what he has written on this, originally over on his site.

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How Crowdsourcing Evolves: The Four Stages to Transformation

HYPE Innovation

The innovation management industry is highly fragmented today, which makes it confusing to understand which methods apply to which scenarios, and what the difference is between those doing crowdsourcing, and those doing enterprise programs designed to facilitate business transformation.

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We Need 21st Century Solutions For 21st Century Problems

Digital Tonto

It is no longer enough to simply think about problems and propose solutions. The challenges we face in the 21st century require that we collaborate around them. Related posts: The Biggest Problems. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Retro Motorcycles Signal Innovation In Goshen, IN

Gregg Fraley

Manufacturing in America — Using the Past to Create an Innovative Future. It’s heartening to learn about a small USA manufacturer who’s doing something creative, new, and intere sting. Janus Motorcycles in Goshen, Indiana is creating hand-crafted, small batch motorcycles. These are simple, accessible, easy-to-work-with bikes. They are throwbacks in a certain way, but don’t get me wrong they’re elegant.

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10 Sources to step up your innovation game

Board of Innovation

Innovation involves research, and you need to be aware of what is happening around your business. In many cases, you can learn a lot from products or services that are already out there. Maybe by doing research, you could find some innovative ideas from other industries which could eventually fit yours. But finding the right trends or inspiration can be a.

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Are You Obsolete?

Mills-Scofield

Do you say, "Can you tape that show for me" when you'll be out missing a TV show or "Will you roll up the window?" when you're in the car? When your friend keeps repeating himself over and over do you tell him he "sounds like a broken record"? How often do you "hang up" the phone, "dial" a number or "ring" someone up? Think about it - 25% of the USA population doesn't know what it means to dial a phone let alone hang one up!

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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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Startups Studios: a new kind of startups and innovation accelerators

Innovation Excellence

Startups Studios Startups Studios are a new kind of accelerators for innovation: instead of accelerating startups previously settled, like traditional incubators and accelerators do, they participate to the set-up of the start-up. A start-up studio is a company that starts companies: Sometimes they generate their own genuine ideas, and find out the right team to.

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Lessons in Marketing and Customer Engaement from A Hilarious TED Talk

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently stumbled on to this hilarious TED talk by a British comedian – James Veitch. Firstly, I would urge you to watch the TED Talk below: Lessons from this TED Talk: 1. Unsubscribe. First and the most obvious lesson for marketers is for us to honour our subscribers wish to unsubscribe, by actually taking them off the list. One of the ways to do is by a double unsubscribe process: First you thank them for having been on the list for so long.

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Interview: The life of an intrapreneur

Board of Innovation

We want to introduce you to a corporate startup that arose from one of our hackathons: Ella. We had an interview with Bart Pollentier, project lead of Ella. In one of our older blog posts, we talked about how we identified and selected the right intrapreneur. First, who or what is Ella? This corporate startup is the result of a one-week hackathon. Read More.

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The Subtraction Technique: When Less is More

Innovation in Practice

Take a look at these four items and tell me – what do they have in common? Here, you see an exercise bicycle, a package of powdered soup, a contact lens, and a child’s high chair, the kind that slips over the edge of the table. Do you see it? Most people would answer that they're all consumer goods, or that they all provide convenience to the consumer.

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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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Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing

Innovation Excellence

Business in the digital age has become a seemingly neverending series of “next big things.” Whether it’s e-commerce, search engine optimization, social media, big data or something else, the pattern of firms struggling to adapt is as predictable as Gartner’s hype cycle. First there is widespread panic, then a rushed effort to get up to.

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A visit at Media Lab Bayern with Stefan Sutor

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Stefan Sutor is Head of Strategy and Innovation at Media Lab Bayern. What's the purpose of Media Lab Bayen? Stefan kindly takes for a tour in this tremendous entity.

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The Business of Two-Speed IT

etventure

What is Two-Speed IT? How can it accelerate time-to-market? In “The Business of Two-Speed IT” our Head of Technology, Martin Rudloff, explains Two-Speed IT for business leaders. As a leader, you are well aware of the pressure to drive innovation within your business. However, you may have had some unpleasant experiences in the past – where you fell short of your objectives, or even had an outright disaster!

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Are we doing enough? A blog about education and sustainability

Norbert Bol

In the previous Strategy Blog the importance of education was discussed and I added a poll with the question: “Do you think decision makers educate themselves enough about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship?” The majority of the voters indicated that decision makers do not educate themselves enough. Although I recognize that this poll has many limitations, it is fair to suggest that decision makers can never educate themselves enough in these complex matters.

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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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Moving Away from Best Practices

Innovation Excellence

If the work is new, there is no best practice. When you read the best books you’ll understand what worked in situations that are different than yours. When you read the case studies you’ll understand how one company succeeded in a way that won’t work in yours. The best practices in the literature worked in.

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3 Key Characteristics of Good Business Metrics

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently read a HBR article titled, Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics. The post talks about the importance of having the right kind of metrics for your business. In my opinion, metrics are like the dashboard you have on the car. They do have some value but are of no use if you are going in the wrong direction. However, if you know exactly where you are going, then the metrics can help you reach your destination safe and sound.

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Dell Technologies: The Cloud Services Layer

Information Playground

After spending the better part of 2016 collaborating with my new colleagues from DELL Technologies, I’ve been blogging my way through a technical vision for the new company. I’ve described the industry benefits of this vision in two ways: Economic benefits: decades of technology expertise results in reduced costs and improved efficiencies. Innovation benefits: a portfolio positioned to support new business models in the face of digital disruption.

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Millennials in the Workplace

Idea Champions

While this video is a bit over the top and stereotypical, it does have the potential to spark some useful dialogue about the challenge of fully engaging Millennials in a way that works for everyone. The good news? Idea Champions is in the process of developing a very cool workshop for organizations committed to finding new and better ways of tapping into the brilliance of Millennials.

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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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Pleasure to Innovate

Innovation Excellence

Stéphane Bernard published with Olivier Pujol ‘Pleasure to innovate‘, finding out the idea, and executing it. He kindly accepted to answer our questions on innovation learnings.

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Lesson in Leadership I Learnt While Teaching My Son Math

Rmukesh Gupta

The Situation: I have a 12 year old son and it is my responsibility to teach him Math at home. Well, I was trying to teach him the concepts of algebra and Ratios and was having a tough time getting through to him and was getting frustrated at my inability to teach him the concepts and his unwillingness to learn (or at least that is what I thought). Then I had a friend who came home to meet me and saw my predicament.

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Sort By Importance

Mike Shipulski

Urgency is important, but it’s not everything. It creates focus, but washes out the radical fringe. It’s easy to measure, but easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to work on. In the heat of the moment urgency is king. Frantic project managers take shortcuts to meet a deadline defined fourteen months ago; Lean Startup-ers ready-fire-aim their way from pivot to pivot; And resources flow to projects that are scheduled to finish soonest.

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Work Smart #40 – Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice

Getspeakup

“Good management isn’t policing people, it’s setting a clear direction and unblocking them when they need help.”. Jack joins us on Work Smart to discuss making teams move faster and perform better. Topics covered: -Jack’s Work Smart tip: one-touch emails. -Managing teams and aligning everyone around goals/measurements. -Making work a better place to be.

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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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Inventors are Not Created Equal

Innovation Excellence

How to Recognize and Grow Different Types of Inventors Innovators are often difficult to recognize. They don’t wear signs or fit a particular personality profile. Sometimes they quietly go through the day while drawing little attention to themselves and many times it seems they cannot stop talking about their ideas or inventions. What often happens.

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Lessons In Customer Loyalty

Rmukesh Gupta

The Offer: I got a message from Raymond indicating that they missed me as I had not shopped with them for some time and that they would love to have me back to their shop. And that they would like to give me a gift of INR 500. It clearly says that the discount code is not valid for a certain items and end the message with T&C, with no further information.

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Digitization and digital transformation – an overview of the most important topics from the month of September

etventure

What did September bring in the way of digitization news? It is the end of the month and, as usual, we are providing an overview of the most important topics in the media. This blog covers Daimler’s digital offensive, the need for changes to corporate culture, and the advantages of digitization in respect to social equality. Daimler restructures its company for digitization ( FAZ ).

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International Hackathon for Banking Innovation

IdeaConnection

Last weekend, Barclays Bank organized what it claims was the largest hackathon in financial services across two continents, ever. The huge open innovation event, called Rise Hackathon: Episode II – The Bank Awakens saw 547 teams and 1,045 participants compete over 36 hours in Mumbai, India, and Manchester, UK. Their mission was to explore the best and most innovative emerging ideas and disruptive technologies to help shape the future of banking.

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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.