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Stars, likes, investments – pick what suits you best

Exago

From likes to star ratings and market investments – or all of them working together – the Idea Market 3.5 release integrates multiple evaluation methods to choose from while setting up each challenge. A powerful differentiator, our solution is designed. Read More. The post Stars, likes, investments – pick what suits you best appeared first on www.exago.com.

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The Declaration of Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In the spirit of July 4th, and more importantly focused on the real need for innovation and the significant resistance to innovation in larger companies, it occurs to me that innovators need to create their own Declaration of Innovation. In 1776 a group of small colonies banded together to throw off what they saw as burdensome government in which they had little to no say.

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Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read

Digital Tonto

The absolutely essential books for anyone who wants to change the world. Related posts: Summer Reading List: The Books Behind the Buzz. Summer Reading List: Books That Make You Think. Summer. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Dealing with the innovation legacy lying within your business.

Paul Hobcraft

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back.

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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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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a step-by-step framework of 10 Key Imperatives that an organization must take to achieve profitable business growth through innovation. While a structured, repeatable innovation process is critical to create and sustain innovation in a competitive, dog-eat-dog marketplace, it alone is not always sufficient to turn a great innovative idea into a profitable “on-the-store-shelves” reality.

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Retaining the innovative spark

Jeffrey Phillips

Phil McKinney wrote a nice post yesterday about the failures of Kodak and Nokia. I did some consulting work (systems, not innovation) years ago as Kodak was beginning its long slide toward obsolescence, and it was evident to everyone there that film was king. Even as the first digital cameras were coming out, Kodak was far more focused on film. They were in a desperate fight with Fuji to retain market share in film, as the digital camera sales were ramping up.

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Dealing with the innovation legacy lying within your business.

Paul Hobcraft

I know the feeling, there has been such a considerable investment that has gone into previous innovation processes to get them established but much of this is actually out of date, it has become today a real ‘legacy’ issue but there is, of course, a real reluctance to challenge it. Well you should! Often this reluctance to dispose of these old systems, processes and inadequate frameworks is holding innovation back.

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America’s Distinctive Brand Of Change

Digital Tonto

Throughout our history, it has been our openness that has made us a beacon to both new people and new ideas. That, in turn, has given us the ability to transcend our challenges and forever begin. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read

Innovation Excellence

I’m writing a book to give managers a more complete account of how to match problems with solutions. To do so, I’ve cast a wide net, talking to a diverse array of executives and researchers about their work. There have also been many books that I’ve found helpful. So for this summer’s list, I’d like to highlight 17 books that I think innovators should read.

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Alvin Toffler the Original Futurist

Daniel Burrus

We recently lost a true avant-garde with the passing of futurist Alvin Toffler. I had the pleasure of meeting this great writer and forward thinker on several occasions. Toffler was a visionary who brought the subject of the future to both mainstream media and business with his groundbreaking book Future Shock (1970). I first met Alvin and his amazing wife, Heidi, in the late 1980s; they were in the front row as I delivered a keynote speech about the future of technology-driven change, a speech

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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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9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now

BrainZooming

This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration. As we look ahead to clients’ strategic planning processes, we’re developing new strategic thinking questions to freshen our Brainzooming strategic planning exercises.

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Open Innovation Challenge to Map the Earth in 3D

IdeaConnection

Over the years, satellites have snapped super sharp images of our planet from all angles. And while they have provided us with a lot of insights into the Earth, these two-dimensional photos have their limitations. To improve on the current technology the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in the United States has launched an open innovation challenge.

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The 3 Big Technologies for the Next Decade: Genomics, Nanotech, Robotics

Innovation Excellence

Technology does not produce progress by itself, we need to find important problems for it to solve and then must change how we work in order to take advantage of it. So while smartphone apps are cool and add convenience to our lives, the real impact of digital technology lies in front of us.

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Packaging Industry Challenges – a Nexus for Open Innovation

Innocentive

More than any time in history, diverse industries, companies and organisations are opening up their processes to a global crowd in the hope of expediting progress and finding diamonds in the rough. One industry that has certainly taken up the open innovation approach is packaging; the nexus of many scientific disciplines, the diverse technology uses, and the real-life applicability have made this a hot-bed of crowdsourcing Challenges.

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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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ISPIM Prize for Excellence in Innovation Management awarded to Imagine with Orange

Rapid Innovation in digital time

ISPIM, International Society for Professional Innovation Management, is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants and public bodies who share an interest in innovation management.

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When doing new work, you’ll be wrong.

Mike Shipulski

When doing something from the first time you’re going to get it wrong. There’s no shame in that because that’s how it goes with new work. But more strongly, if you don’t get it wrong you’re trying hard enough. And more strongly, embrace the inherent wrongness as a guiding principle. Take Small Bites. With new work, a small scope is better than a large one.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of June 2016

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Using Systematic Innovation on Digital Assets

Innovation in Practice

The SIT method is great for creating exciting new products and services. Now I want to show you how to apply these techniques to digital assets. For example, let’s apply the Attribute Dependency technique to a website. You start by listing the internal and external attributes of the site like the one here. . Internal: 1. color 2. design 3. graphics 4. information 5. link locations 6. page loading speed 7. contact information 8. length of text.

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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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Banking for a better future

100%Open

In 2015, after two years of intensive public consultation and an historic accord with 193 countries, the United Nations (UN) set the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This ambitious agenda aims to tackle 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across social, environmental and economic dimensions. Following this, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon put a call out to the private sector to get behind the momentum set by world leaders and help to achieve these goals.

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Financial Post: Reverse Engineering a Startup

Venture2

The Financial Post (Canada) published an article on McCain Foods and their partnership with Fiddlehead, a technology startup in the food-tech space. Michael Docherty of Venture2 was quoted extensively in the article about both the importance of corporate/startup co-creation and its challenges ( read here ). The post Financial Post: Reverse Engineering a Startup appeared first on Venture2 Inc.

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Brexit as an Innovation Opportunity

Innovation Excellence

What we should be thinking about now is less how to put the broken eggs back together again, and more about how to use this instance to innovate the structure of government and how we intend to provide good governance to the people in the UK, in the EU, and more broadly what this event means in a global context.

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Topics Are Overrated!

It's Saul Connected

Go Off-Topic To Find New Ideas And Opportunities. Ever notice that we seem to learn more from conversations and experiences that careen off-topic? Topics are overrated! Admit it. In every conversation, it’s always the throwaway or tangential comment that sends whatever neurotransmitter through whatever synapse, goading our brains into action. It doesn’t matter if it’s a discussion in a corporate conference room, cocktail party chatter, or banter at the family dinner table.

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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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Intuit Executive On Rolling Out Lean Startup for Maximum Impact

Innovation Leader

If you’ve been debating whether to roll out lean startup methodology in your organization, Bennett Blank of Intuit has a question: What are you waiting for?

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Recommended For Your Summer Reading “The Founder’s Mentality”

Adam Hartung

Summer is here, and everyone needs a business book or two to read. I’m offering some thoughts on “The Founder’s Mentality” by 2 very senior partners and strategy practice heads at Bain & Company – Chris Zook and James Allen. Bain is one of the top 3 management consulting firms in the world, with 8,000 consultants in 55 offices, and has been ranked as one of the best places to work in America by Glass Ceiling.

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Climbing Innovation’s Value Creation Curve

Innovation Excellence

When it comes to determining whether something is a successful innovation, there is one absolutely crucial test: Does it create value? That value may come in many forms. Usefulness for the customer, profits for a company, or social good for a nonprofit, but it must be there.

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Dirty Martini Sunset

Gregg Fraley

Just for fun. Had a Dirty Martini on the deck at the Stray Dog in New Buffalo, MI. Good times.

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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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Inside the NYC Ecosystem: MasterCard, Barclay’s Rise & More

Innovation Leader

Our New York Field Study brought a group of 50 innovation executives to GrandCentralTech, Work-Bench, IBM Design Studio, MasterCard Labs, and more.

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30 Ways to Know If You Have What It Really Takes to Innovate

Idea Champions

Do you have what it takes to innovate? I'm not talking IQ, degree, or job title. I'm talking the curious confluence of behaviors that come with the territory of being someone who turns top of the line ideas into bottom line realities. 1. You come up with great ideas in the shower and car. 2. You like to stay up late. or get up early. or both. 3. You're comfortable with ambiguity and chaos. 4.

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Agile at Orange France

Innovation Excellence

Koen Vermeulen is CIO at Orange France, and awarded CIO of the year in 2015. He kindly accepted to answer a few questions related to the implemnation of Agile methodology, and how it brings a brand new spirit for innovation projects.

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Idea Hunt is Launching an Ambassador Program

Svava

At the Close of One Era, Another Begins.

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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