Sat.Dec 12, 2015 - Fri.Dec 18, 2015

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Nine Famous Entrepreneurs who were College Dropouts

Destination Innovation

Infographic from guest contributor Marianna Velma writer from Austin, Texas. The post Nine Famous Entrepreneurs who were College Dropouts appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Striving for the innovation balance: between exploring and exploiting.

Paul Hobcraft

We never seem capable of adapting as well as we should be. Adapting always seems a work-in-progress, or it is often something where we are simply making little or no progress! We often stay ‘stuck’ in the way we do ‘things’ around here, never seemingly able to break out into something new or different. To adapt we need to open ourselves up to learning and adjusting our organizational ‘form’ in new ways.

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What Carl Sagan might have said about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm going to reach for one of those grand unifying theory type of thought experiments today, connecting what Carl Sagan said about science with what we believe to be true about innovation. Sagan had a wonderful way of explaining science. I especially enjoy what has come to be called the " Baloney Detection " kit. You can see the entire discussion of the Baloney Detection kit on the wonderful Brain Picking site (which you should visit regularly for its expansive look at a whole host of topics).

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Social innovation, a world of challenges and opportunities

Exago

Incremental innovation, we’ve seen, promotes not only trust and collaboration but also calculated risk-taking. Yet innovation also takes shape in radical, disruptive, social frameworks, and by building the adequate organisational competencies. Let’s have a look at two examples. Social innovation. Read More. The post Social innovation, a world of challenges and opportunities 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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Google’s Insights into Successful Teams and Managers

Braden Kelley

A little over five years ago I created an evolution of a Gary Hamel framework from The Future of Management that I titled The Innovator’s Framework and included in my popular first book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire.

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Innovate with the Experience – Make it Memorable

Destination Innovation

We tend to focus our innovation efforts on new products, services or processes. The questions we ask are: * How can we make our product better, cheaper or different? * How can we make our service better, easier or different? These are always good questions to ask but sometimes we should try this question: * How can we make the experience of using our product or service memorable?

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The 8 Characteristics of a Strong Innovation Program

HYPE Innovation

Innovation is the hallmark of a company that grows, prospers, and makes its mark on both the industry and the world. Though innovation is often attributed to a single idea, there are actually a number of characteristics that help contribute to an environment of innovation. Here are some of the hallmarks of innovative organizations. Can you replicate their success with your innovation program?

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Change Resistance is Not Inevitable

Braden Kelley

The idea that people always resist change is a lie, and it is extremely damaging to organization’s seeking to increase their organizational agility.

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle Books

Destination Innovation

Here are our most popular lateral thinking puzzle books: 290 Wally Test puzzles – trick questions designed to catch you out and make you groan when you hear the answer. Great for kids and wise guys of all ages. * On Amazon.co.uk. * On Amazon.com. A collection of all the great classic lateral thinking puzzles. Contains the most popular and intriguing puzzles for you to try out on your family and friends. * On Amazon.co.uk. * On Amazon.com.

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Top Posts of 2015

Digital Tonto

My top posts over the past year. Related posts: Top Posts of 2010. Top Posts for 2014. Top Posts of 2012. Top Posts of 2013. Top Posts of 2009. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Creating Effective Social Impact Leaders (or, Leaders!)

Mills-Scofield

Leadership: is "Social" Leadership really that different? I submit it isn't and this guest post is by Robin Pendoley is Founder & CEO of Thinking Beyond Borders , should make you think. See Robin's bio below - after you read this great post! The social impact sector does a lot of harm. Often, our victims are those who we set out to support -- the people and communities that are already vulnerable in our society.

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Give the Gifts of Innovation and Change

Braden Kelley

2015 is quickly coming to a close and perhaps you have a little bit of money left in your budget.

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The perfect intrapreneur: a skillset

Board of Innovation

Intrapreneurship has become a hot topic, but who are these intrapreneurs? What makes them so special? Why are people saying that ‘intrapreneurs are the ones saving the future of the company’? Can you just grab an entrepreneur, wrap him in a suit and put him in a corporate environment? Great guess, that won’t work in most cases, therefore I’ve made. Read More.

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Collaboration Is The New Competitive Advantage

Digital Tonto

In the past, we could dominate by accumulating resources and driving efficiency, but now it is agility and interoperability that rule the day. Related posts: The Future by Design. A Radical Shift. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Library Innovation Strategy – Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

BrainZooming

Today’s Blogapalooza article is from Lindsay Santee , a marketing manager and student in Max Utsler’s Innovation in Management of Communications class at The University of Kansas. We’re doing work with the Kansas City Public Library, so I’m more attuned to library innovation strategy than might be typical. Lindsay’s story on the Human Library is an intriguing innovation in disseminating content that doesn’t sit on a library shelf.

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Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Innovation

Gregg Fraley

Time to Plan for 2016 Innovation Now. This time of year it’s natural to get an innovation plan in place — if you’re not there already — the time is now. Talking to customers about their innovation efforts I’m hearing regrets in December. Wishes for having done more, and done more sooner. Shel Silverstein wrote a poem that sums it up nicely: Woulda-Coulda- Shoulda.

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Trusting Your Life’s Journey

Faisal Hoque

In life’s journey there are many encounters. Some are planned, some are by accident, and some by divine intervention. The post Trusting Your Life’s Journey appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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The Year in Inspiration

Be-novative

What innovations have you ushered in during the past year? We’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of many of our clients’ innovation initiatives, which are inspiring and motivating. We’d like to share with you some of the most exciting challenges they’ve come up with. A few of them are listed below, and you’ll see how diverse they are. We hope they’ll inspire you as well!

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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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Strategic Direction – Listening for Divine Messages

BrainZooming

I have been having Facebook conversations with a friend for several weeks about God’s voice in providing strategic direction – whether personally or for a career. Amid those conversations and sharing a message I had received in prayer one morning that was for HER specifically, I happened upon an idea: God reaches us through those that reach us.

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The fallacy of "modern" management when it comes to innovation management

Moves the Needle

We’re in an amazing time. The rate of technological change and adoption gives consumers more choice and power than ever before. For the consumer, this is awesome. For big business, it’s a threat that must be navigated successfully. Doing so means a new kind innovation management because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick.

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Can you learn to be more creative?

Innovation in Practice

by Todd Bookman (with permission). . First, a definition. "So my definition would be, in order for a certain idea to be creative, it must possess two major components. One, it has to be new, novel, something we haven't seen before," says Rom Schrift, a marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. "But it also has to be useful.

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READ THIS BOOK: Robert Brands’ 10 Rules of Innovation

Planview

You know innovation matters, and you know it should be built into your organization and business strategy at a fundamental level. But wouldn’t it be great if someone who knows what they’re doing would tell you how to make that happen in a clear, direct, and practical way? Thanks to Robert F. Brands , author of Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival , you’re in luck.

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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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Creative Thinking Activities – 3 Questions to Stop Squandering Diversity

BrainZooming

Based on all The Brainzooming Group experience in helping clients generate new ideas and innovative strategies, diversity is vital to successful creative thinking activities. Many organizations and people make decisions, however, leading to squandering diversity. Maybe it’s because there’s comfort in being with others like themselves. When Very Few Things Are Not Like the Other.

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Open Innovation is the new normal, with Hannes Erler, at Swarovski

Rapid Innovation in digital time

"Over the years, Open Innovation has become the new normal" states Hannes, Director Open Innovation Networks at Swarovski.

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Corporate identity influences sustainability and innovation

Norbert Bol

In the journal of Technological Forecasting & Social Change is an interesting article about the effects of corporate identity on innovation strategies and sustainability (Staub et al., 2016). In this article corporate identity (the overall image of a company in the minds of customers, investors and employees) is divided into so called “hard” and “soft” identity drivers.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on The Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost.

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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.

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Free Strategic Planning Exercises – 5 Warnings to Know

BrainZooming

Checking our Brainzooming web analytics, “free strategic planning exercises” is a frequent search bringing people to the Brainzooming website. That is no surprise. We share all kinds of free strategic planning exercises, such as these , these , and these. Those strategic planning exercises simply scratch the surface. In fact, there are only a few exercises we use that we DON’T share with you here – all for free.

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Start-ups from another type: non-profit tech at FastForward

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Shannon Farleyis is founder & executive director at FastForward, an accelerator for technology nonprofits start-ups. Discover what this new kind of accelerator is aiming to achieve for the benefit of all.

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Trust, Motivation, Creativity, Innovation, Results (the real story)

Innovation Excellence

I can’t believe I’m about to do this. Don’t tell anyone, but today I’m going to defend management. Yes, the management that, according to Clayton Christensen, is not supporting the creation of radical ideas that will change markets.

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How to Set Up a Corporate Innovation Outpost That Works

Corporate Innovation

This is the fourth in a series about corporate innovation co-authored with Steve Blank. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on The Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost.

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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