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What is Total Innovation Management? Achieving Excellence from Idea Generation to Implementation

Qmarkets

To maximize the ROI of your innovation initiatives, it’s vital to gain input from as many sources as possible and ensure all departments take part in a culture of ideation. In this article, we explore the concept of Total Innovation Management (TIM) and how you can leverage it at your enterprise. One of the most famous fables from India is ‘The Blind Men and the Elephant’.

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He-Man can teach you powerful lessons about how to successfully manage continuous innovation

Board of Innovation

The whiplash journey of Mattel’s beloved kids’ toy range perfectly sums up the fundamentals and key challenges of managing continuous, successful corporate innovation. The post He-Man can teach you powerful lessons about how to successfully manage continuous innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Stop Asking Your Team to Innovate Like Entrepreneurs… Until You Make Decisions Like VCs

Peer Insight

Corporate innovation teams are taught in their organizations, and in the media and classes, to act like entrepreneurs navigating risk in a new venture or idea. But entrepreneurs usually work in partnership with their Venture Capitalists (VCs), because together they can better squeeze out the risk and thus both win. So why do we expect our corporate innovators to tackle risk alone?

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Strategic and Systemic Alignment – why they really matter

Innovation Excellence

In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a wide range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet” – by agreeing to and articulating a common purpose, clarifying roles and goals and driving.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Innovation building blocks

Jeffrey Phillips

I like music - but that does not exactly make me a good musician. Over the years I've taken lessons on the piano, tenor saxophone, bagpipes and most recently the acoustic guitar. One thing I've learned is that every competent teacher of any instrument wants you to learn and practice your scales. As a kid I hated scales. Scales are just going up 8 notes and coming back down.

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How to Scale Your Innovation Program

IdeaScale

Innovation drives growth.?. Any well-run business grows, whether at a rapid clip or steadily as it adds clients, products, and services. Thus, every part of a business feels growing pains; departments need more staff, solutions that worked before begin to struggle under the increased volume, and informal approaches break down. This is true of innovation strategy as well, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

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The First 5 Things to Do When You’re Given Responsibility for Corporate Innovation

Innovation Leader

There are major risks of failure that surround every new innovation program. But there are also ”clear steps that innovation leaders can take to mitigate these risks, while increasing the likelihood that they can generate a concrete ROI for their company,” writes Alex Slawsby, a Director of Innovation at the.

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How To Choose The Best Idea Amongst All to Execute

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: I am sure that we all get into a situation where we are required to come up with a set of ideas that will solve a specific problem that we have run into. The question then is how one decides which ideas deserve to be picked from the bunch of ideas that we came up with. We need some sort of a framework that will allow us to decide the value of each of the idea so that we can pick one that is most valuable.

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Efficiency Innovation vs Tranformational Innovation

Strategyzer Innovation

Efficiency innovation is easier to do, it's about management. Where it gets hard is transformational innovation. So what can you do as a leader?

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Three Creative Thinking Challenges

Destination Innovation

Are you creative? I want to show you that you are can be more creative than you might think. Please take a moment to view these three Creativity Challenges on Youtube. Creative Challenge #1. Creative Challenge #2. Creative Challenge #3. Please try the challenges and prove to yourself just how creative you can be! They are taken from six creative challenges included in my new course – Boost Your Personal Creativity.

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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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To succeed in 2020, the 6th element is flexibility and resilience

Exago

Innovation is an ongoing process. As such, the sixth and final element for managers to consider to innovate successfully in 2020 is flexibility for change and resilience for survival. The post To succeed in 2020, the 6th element is flexibility and resilience appeared first on Exago.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. source: pixabay.com. Sometimes the problem is compatibility with legacy systems, but there are also skills gaps to overcome, decisions about how much tech you need and where to apply it, and coping with business disruption or temporary lags in productivity.

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Peeling away the layers of your innovation reality

Paul Hobcraft

So do we have a clear understanding of where we are in our current innovation capabilities? We have to establish a way to map our ‘terrain of innovation reality’ in not just how we are performing but what lost opportunities have slipped through. Why well simply because we lacked the awareness to seize on these opportunities when we first spotted them.

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Are Innovation and Empathy in the Cards?

Braden Kelley

As part of the leadership team for a new human-centered problem-solving offering for select Oracle customers, I’m always on the lookout for new tools to integrate into our flexible problem-solving process to help clients innovate, grow or transform.

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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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Culture and innovation bias - the first building block

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts about the fundamentals of innovation success. In my previous article I wrote about the importance of fundamentals in any activity , using music and practicing scales as an analogy for understanding the fundamentals of innovation. In this post I'm going to be writing about two very interconnected issues - organizational culture and the bias for, or against, innovation.

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The Wisdom of Crowds

IdeaScale

Everyone has some wisdom to offer. It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. It provided for powerful reflection on what we’re doing right, and perhaps more importantly, wrong. In the book, author James Surowiecki builds the case for the efficacy of “intelligent groups,” or “…under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the

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2020: A Decade To Rediscover Our Humanity

Digital Tonto

We are present at the creation of a new technological era in the midst of a pivotal political moment. The choices we make over the next decade will have repercussions that will reverberate throughout. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What’s Inside the CEO’s Innovation Playbook?

Braden Kelley

Recently I received an advance copy of “The CEO’s Innovation Playbook” – the latest white paper from Mastercard and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services.

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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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The digital revolution will not be evenly distributed

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing today about digital transformation, and starting with two of my favorite quotes. The first, referenced in the title, is from William Gibson, the author of Neuromancer and other great sci-fi books, who wrote: "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed". That is, we experience glimpses of the future everyday, and some places or companies are more advanced than others.

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Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Innovations Will Play an Important Part in Full Lifecycle CO2 Emissions Reductions

Sopheon

How will organizations innovate electric vehicle battery recycling to achieve a low carbon lifecycle? Solving this dilemma will be just as important as NPD. The post Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Innovations Will Play an Important Part in Full Lifecycle CO2 Emissions Reductions appeared first on Sopheon.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2019

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2019 was our eighth full year of operations. To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2019 from our archive of nearly 7,500 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors.

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About-Face: How AI and Augmented Reality is Transforming Skin Care

Wellspring

The personal care industry has seen many trends come and go over the years. With promises to revitalize and rejuvenate, clarify and cleanse, or depuff and detoxify, marketers have effectively built associations between certain ingredients, like charcoal or cucumber, and these claims/promises. However, consumers that test out products based on trendy ingredients, hoping for the implied outcome, are often disappointed with the results.

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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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Give your employees a reason to keep coming back

Tembosocial

It's only half true that "if you build it, they will come." When it comes to the digital workplace, we need to give employees reasons to keep coming back. In a new article for CMSWire , Asif Rehmani points to incentive programs as a way to drive long-term adoption of Microsoft Office 365.

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A way to see ideas

IdeaSpies

Read the following paragraph.I cdnuolt blveiee taht ppoele cluod aulaclty raed and uesdnatnrd tihs. The phaonmneal pweor of the hm.

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TalkTalk.io

Board of Innovation

A venture in the making An update on the start-up project one of our colleagues started in 2019. LOOKING BACK One of our colleagues was approached with a background in natural language processing and voice interface engineering who had developed an asset they referred to as the ‘TalkTalk mic’ The TalkTalk mic in a nutshell: […]. The post TalkTalk.io appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Invisible Solutions Available for Pre-Order

Stephen Shapiro

I’m very excited to announce that in less than 2 months, my 6th book, Invisible Solutions, will be published. But you don’t need to wait until March 3rd to order you copy. Pre-order now on Amazon. You can learn more about the book and receive a free bonus item now by visiting the Invisible Solutions book page. Thanks for your support! The post Invisible Solutions Available for Pre-Order appeared first on Stephen Shapiro.

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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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Let’s Face Facts, The Digital Revolution Has Been A Huge Disappointment

Innovation Excellence

One of the most often repeated episodes in the history of technology is when Steve Jobs was recruiting John Sculley from his lofty position as CEO at Pepsi to come to Apple. “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life,”Jobs asked, “or do you want to come with me and.

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The Act of Leading Vs Being a Leader

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: I was talking to one of my friends about leadership and what it means to be a leader and is there a distinction between being a leader and the act of leading. What follows is my understanding of the difference. Would be a great to riff at this. Apart from the fact that one is a verb and the other is a noun, there are a few other important things that we need to understand.

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Virtual power plants (VPP) & the decentralization of the energy industry

Board of Innovation

Learn about how VPPs are contributing to the decentralization of the energy industry and take a closer look at the business model of leading European operator, Next Kraftwerke. The post Virtual power plants (VPP) & the decentralization of the energy industry appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How to Motivate Yourself When It’s Most Difficult

Tullio Siragusa

How to Motivate Yourself When It’s Most Difficult. We always show up our best when we are optimistic, hopeful, confident and resourceful with clear thinking and vision. When we are enthusiastic and highly motivated with envisioned purposes, lined-up desires, and set goals, we are operating with high emotional intelligence. But life rarely behaves that way.

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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.