Sat.Nov 07, 2015 - Fri.Nov 13, 2015

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The challenge is on: ‘People@Liberty’ launched on Innovation Open Day

Exago

Liberty Seguros Portugal, awarded several times for being ‘a great place to work’ and promoting ‘excellence at work’, wants to take its employees’ creativity and engagement to a new level. The insurance company has set in motion the ‘People@Liberty’ programme, Read More. The post The challenge is on: ‘People@Liberty’ launched on Innovation Open Day appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Exploitation and exploration go hand in hand

Jeffrey Phillips

Exploiting and exploring are two terms my good friend Paul Hobcraft uses to delineate the activities most corporations SHOULD be conducting every day. Exploiting existing models, processes, markets and frameworks to obtain all of the available revenue and profit possible. This concept of exploiting existing models and existing reality is something that today's corporation is relatively good at doing, if not completely optimized to do.

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Architecting the Organization for Change

Braden Kelley

In my last article and the first free download from the Change Planning Toolkit™ on The Five Keys to Successful Change™ we looked at the five different disciplines that must come together to make any organizational change effort (or even … Continue reading →

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Don’t Choose the Least Bad, Choose the Best Possible

Destination Innovation

Phil Libin. I heard Phil Libin speak at the FT Innovate conference in London. He was a founder of Evernote and now works as a partner at General Catalyst who manage venture capital funds. He explained that when we compare different opportunities there is a natural inclination to select the least bad. This is because the primeval part of the brain is programmed to assess risk and to value the reduction of threat above opportunity.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Content Is Crap And Other Rules For Marketers

Digital Tonto

We never call anything that’s good “content.” Nobody walks out of a movie they loved and says, “Wow! What great content!” Related posts: How To Stop Failing At Content Marketing. Why Some Content. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Fun Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Last-Minute Ideas

BrainZooming

Strategic planning is typically serious stuff. That doesn’t mean, however, that doing strategic planning is best served by conducting things in a boring way. Frustrations with boring strategy sessions are probably why so many people visit our website looking for creative ideas on fun strategic planning exercises. We’ve previously published some fun strategic planning exercises.

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Your Loyal Customers Love Innovation. Give It to Them

Innovation in Practice

A great source of new sales growth is with your existing loyal customers. After all, they already understand the category, they trust your brand, and you have an existing relationship - meaning you’ve been given permission to interact with them. When I say loyal customer, I mean one that buys 100% of the product or service from you and no one else like your main competitors.

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What Should We Do When The Government Makes And Industry Takes?

Digital Tonto

Virtually every technological wonder and miracle cure that we enjoy today has its roots in some government program Related posts: We Need To Innovate The Science Business Model. 4 Government. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Branding Strategy – The Best Brand Promise EVER

BrainZooming

Great branding strategy examples abound. You just have to be on the lookout for them when they come across your path. We were in St. Joseph, MO for a client session. The highlight of the car trip was driving by this ice cream stand, Kris and Kate’s Ice Cream Treats. Can you believe how cute this place is? Although the sign outside said it is closed until March, a stop on the way back through town was mandatory to get a few pictures.

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Technology Will Drive a New Innovation Core

Innovation Excellence

Not only will we need a new innovation management system, we will need to build this on multiple engagement platforms. Our growing pressure is to find solutions that offer a cohesive and business-focused approach to the new socially enabled enterprise.

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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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Faster Innovation

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Mash UK is organizing a mash-up on Faster Innovation, where they’ve kindly invited me to share the ‘Rapid Innovation Platform‘ experience.

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Ultra Innovation

Norbert Bol

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The persistence of innovation can be described as the phenomenon where past and current innovation are a good indicator for future innovation because there is the belief that the competitive advantage of firms are rooted in the the capability to innovate over longer periods of time.

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8 Things to Understand about Being an Expert

BrainZooming

In all likelihood, if you’ve found your way to this website over here in our little spot on the Internet, YOU have the experience, knowledge, and credentials to be an expert in SOMETHING. That means there is a topic (or maybe there are multiple topics) where you can make a credible claim to be able to offer insights, ideas, and commentary where you are the source.

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Innovation Requires Ambidextrous Management

Innovation Excellence

For quite some time, I've been advocating the idea that successful and sustainable corporate innovation management systems should be based on the following cornerstones.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Top 10 Innovation Links of the Week: 11.13.15

Planview

Welcome to our brand new weekly link roundup, featuring a carefully curated selection of hand-picked links to great content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are our 10 favorite discoveries from this week. 1. 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company. Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. The skinny: Renowned innovation leader, management expert, and founder of Strategos Gary Hamel explains which essential parts of the innovation engine you’re prob

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We’ve Reached The Tipping Point Of Consumerization. Here’s What It Means For Companies

Daniel Burrus

You may have read that we’ve reached the tipping point of consumerization in the IT field. This means that a majority of IT developers now think about products in a new way. Businesses and organizations are no longer the target audience of IT development — the focus has shifted to the individual consumer. The popularity of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policies in the office has accelerated this new style of thinking.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

BrainZooming

Do you ever get stuck with a big list of items and struggle to make sense of it all ? We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic planning exercises about a new initiative. They identified a wide array of ideas related to what they were currently doing to carry out the initiative. This was even before formally launching the initiative.

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(Lack of) Innovation at Non-Profits

Innovation Excellence

Through the Southern Growth Studio, I have the great honor to work with non-profits. Big ones. Growing ones. And ones on the verge of collapse. There is an odd tendency for almost all of these organizations to respond to innovations in the same way; they.

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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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How to create a connected company (and how XPLANE can help)

Xplaner

A new kind of company is emerging. A kind of company that is more innovative, leaner and faster. Companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, who seem to be able to operate at massive scale and still maintain the agility of a startup. Fascinated by these fast-moving, agile organizations, I spent several years researching how they operate. I wrote a book that summarized what I found, called The Connected Company.

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Do Good Ideas Come from Collaboration or Conflict?

KindlingApp

Not every idea can be the best idea. When ideas (and idea-havers) go head-to-head, we usually anticipate one of two consequences. There will be collaboration, or there will be conflict. These are two divergent events, but their outcomes can be surprisingly similar. The Amazon Approach: Whose Idea Is Best (or Worst)? Amazon has recently made headlines for its ultra-competitve culture.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

Do you ever get stuck with a big list of items and struggle to make sense of it all ? We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. They identified a wide array of ideas related to what they were currently doing to carry out the initiative. This was even before formally launching the initiative.

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A New Approach to Business Model Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Gijs van Wulfen shares his insights from the McKinsey report on a new approach to business-model innovation.

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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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Millennials and the Future of the Workplace

Be-novative

There have been so many changes in the workplace in the past 10-15 year. Mobile phones, internet, faster and smarter technologies that make it easier to get things done. I wonder if anyone today would willingly go work in a place that didn’t have an internet connection. Our knowledge of these tools makes us eager to use them in our work and everyday lives.

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World Leader in Fleet Management and Telematics Enters the US Market

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Cartrack Holdings – the leading global provider of vehicle fleet management and insurance telematics – is expanding its operations into the United States, following rapid growth in Asian, European and African markets.& & & & & & Launched in 2004 as a stolen vehicle tracking and recovery service in South Africa, Cartrack has since leveraged its pioneering GS.

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Kobe Bryant on Storytelling

Idea Champions

Why create a culture of storytelling? How to tell a good story. Excerpt from Storytelling at Work. The slam dunk of storytelling books. A story not by Kobe Bryant and not in my book.

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Outcome-Driven Innovation: Know what customers want before developing the product

Innovation Excellence

An old marketing adage is that half of a company’s advertising is effective, we just don’t know which half. A similar conundrum faces innovators and product developers, with the best companies finding success with about half of the products they create (and the odds are much worse for average companies).

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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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A Seamless Strategy: CloudBoost

Information Playground

In a  recent post  I introduced the importance of considering a "seamless" strategy when creating inter-cloud architectures. As part of that post I introduced a set of relevant technologies that apply to moving workloads and data between cloud deployments. The first of these technologies was CloudLink. I emphasized CloudLink as a foundational security approach for enterprise accounts that are moving or placing specific application workloads and data into a public cloud envi

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How a New Effort to Find Life Beyond Earth Echoes Disruptive Innovation in Business

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Scientists are within about 8 years of making two of the most disruptive discoveries in human history. The question “Are we, as an island of life, alone in the universe?” – is on the brink of getting a definitive answer, using a series of dramatic “business model” and technology innovations. Even the question of whether intelligent civilizations exist beyond Earth.

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How Taco Bell Accelerated Progress on Digital and Mobile Initiatives

Innovation Leader

When Taco Bell tried to deliver new technologies, the restaurant chain felt like it wasn't moving fast enough. A 20-person team focused is changing that.

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Design Thinking in Lima Peru

Innovation Excellence

Silicon Valley's Innovatioship recently three days leading an open-invitation workshop in design thinking. It attracted a wide range of participants from Lima and other parts of Peru, from local CEOs wanting inspiration to students looking to increase their innovation skills.

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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.