Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 11, 2023
GUEST POST from Ayelet Baron A CEO’s recent request for a workshop on Thinking Like a Futurist got me thinking. We all have the power to engage with the unknown and be active players in shaping our future.
Daniel Burrus
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Companies are founded with innovation. Smaller start-ups pop up because they have an idea that no one in the market has done before, or a way to improve the industry they enter. It is no secret that many new businesses do not last because they stick with that initial revolutionary idea, living in the present success they have found with no new ideas to bring to the table in this ever-changing world.
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Carla Johnson
OCTOBER 10, 2023
October 10, 2023 Disruptive innovation is your guiding star to coming up with new, great, and reliable ideas. Everyone is capable of being an original thinker. You just need to be in the right environment. Too often organizations underestimate the power of their people, leaving the potential of problem-solving abilities in the dust.
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The interplay potential in exploring the combination of humans, technology and AI This interplay between humans, technology, and AI is dynamic and involves continuous interaction, collaboration, and feedback between these elements. The future of innovation, by combining these, offers a very rich promise to provide a fascinating and different future.
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.
Tullio Siragusa
OCTOBER 9, 2023
The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. While there’s no denying the appeal of these advancements, there’s also tremendous value in the manual, old-fashioned approach to problem-solving and discovery.
TechEmpower Innovation
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2023
We may not know what tomorrow’s jobs will look like, but we can safely assume that when people are more curious, emotionally intelligent, resilient, driven, and intelligent, they will generally be better equipped to learn what is needed to perform those jobs, and provide whatever human value technology cannot replace. Rather than betting on specialists or forcing people into specific niches, organizations need to focus on expanding people’s talents.
Digital Tonto
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Shortly after I first arrived at college, my wrestling coach told my teammates and I that we would all be attending a freshman technique camp. It turned out to be something quite different than what I had expected. He didn’t teach us any advanced or esoteric method, but instead demonstrated the basics. It was incredibly humbling. The fact that we were there in the first place, competing for a Division 1 program, meant that we had all demonstrated outstanding accomplishment.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 10, 2023
GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Why are people so concerned about, afraid of, or resistant to new things? Innovation, by its very nature, is good. It is something new that creates value. Naturally, the answer has nothing to do with innovation. It has everything to do with how we experience it.
Christensen Institute
OCTOBER 10, 2023
With college, the research suggests, comes connection. In recent years, multiple studies looking at economic mobility , friendship circles , and adults’ job, education, and housing networks , have revealed a consistent “connection premium” enjoyed by college grads. Most colleges aren’t shy about marketing themselves as hubs of connection. But if colleges care about equity and access, there’s a deeper question that college campuses should be asking about their students’ networks: Who is forming n
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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Too many project leaders think rigidly about Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and believe that they need to choose between the two. But many projects — especially those with diverse stakeholder needs and complex structures — benefit from a hybrid approach that combines aspects of Waterfall and Agile. The rise of hybrid methods isn’t tied to a particular time or event; instead, they have evolved organically as a response to the needs of modern, complex projects.
Sopheon
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The best chefs will tell you that a great meal isn’t salty, but salt is absolutely critical to bringing out the flavor a dish already has. At Sopheon, we like to think of our customers as the main course and our innovation management software, Accolade, as the seasoning. The brands we partner with already come to the table with a track record for innovation, and we just help to do it at scale—innovative flavor enhancement, if you will.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 8, 2023
GUEST POST from Pete Foley I’m obsessed with the newly opened Sphere in Las Vegas as an example of Innovation. As I write this, U2 are preparing for their second show there, and Vegas is buzzing about the new innovation they are performing in. That in of itself is quite something.
Christensen Institute
OCTOBER 10, 2023
You might be wondering what, exactly, I mean by this question. Value-based care has been the strategy of choice for health care’s new entrants over the past decade-plus. Not eager to be left behind, and given government incentives to provide this type of care, many incumbents have attempted to implement similar strategies—usually with limited success.
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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Lots of variables influence our day-to-day decision making — though perhaps none more potently than the attitudes and preferences of other people. The human instinct to seek belonging with others helps us collaborate and build systems and societies. But it also gives ill-intentioned people an opening to mislead, lull, and even coerce us into serving their interests instead of our own.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Vanessa and Joe Ariel envisioned a nationwide food delivery marketplace and co-founded Goldbelly in 2012. Read about the inspiration, journey and more, here.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 9, 2023
GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1928, Alexander Fleming arrived at his lab to find that a mysterious mold had contaminated his Petri dishes and was eradicating the bacteria colonies he was trying to grow. Intrigued, he decided to study the mold. That’s how Fleming came to be known as the discoverer of penicillin.
Kainexus
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Most of us have memories of playing the game of catch either as children or with our children. I really shouldn’t call it a “game” because there are no winners and losers. There is no defense because everyone is on the same side. One participant tries to deliver the ball to the other in a way that they will be able to grab and return it. The ability to catch and throw a ball is important because it is a foundation for success in many other, more complex sports.
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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
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2023
There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine. A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Launched in 2016, Jisr has ensured that over 3,000 clients have combined all their HR operations into its singular HR tech platform.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 13, 2023
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski There are many types of companies, and it can be difficult to categorize them. And even within the company itself, there is disagreement about the company’s character.
Kainexus
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Continuous improvement, often called Kaizen, is a fundamental concept in manufacturing that emphasizes the ongoing, incremental enhancement of processes, products, and operations. It involves a culture of constant vigilance for inefficiencies and a commitment to making minor, regular improvements. In manufacturing, continuous improvement is vital as it leads to increased productivity, higher product quality, reduced waste, and cost savings.
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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2023
In the face of escalating complexities, organizations are increasingly relying on teams to tackle these intricate issues and drive pivotal organizational decisions. To extract maximum value from team dynamics, leaders must remain mindful of potential biases that may impact team dynamics and to actively steer and fine-tune team processes. Specifically, the authors urge leaders to address a decision-making bias they call the solution fixation trap, which emerges when a team rushes into discussing
Strategos
OCTOBER 11, 2023
In an ever-changing business environment, the organizations that innovate and thrive recognize the power of inclusivity and diversity. The need to harness this power during strategy creation has never been more critical. But what does that mean, and how does it work? Much has changed in the last three years, but much has returned to how things were before COVID-19.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 12, 2023
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken The heliotropic effect is the tendency for any living thing to be drawn toward energy. For example, if you put a plant on a windowsill, it will eventually lean toward the window where the sun comes in, soaking up those rays as the nourishment it needs to sustain its life.
Kainexus
OCTOBER 10, 2023
We all identify goals to improve ourselves in some way. Whether our goal is to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our family, or increase our productivity, we all have something we're striving for. However, in too many instances, we lose sight of our goals and fall back to old behaviors and the same results. Continuous improvement is no different.
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
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Companies often get into trouble because they make the wrong assumptions about what is valuable to stakeholders. A good way to avoid this trap is to reflect where your company sits on these three scales, which you should do in the order presented: commoditized vs. customized; rational vs. emotional; and assessable vs. unknowable.
Ecosystems4Innovating
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Integration Challenges are tough when you are building out anything new in structure, systems and approach; these changes are demanding. It is no different when approaching the design of Ecosystems: Ecosystems often involve integrating various technologies, systems, and platforms that must be designed to work together across multiple organizations. Ensuring seamless integration can be technically demanding as they must “speak” and exchange seamlessly to gain ongoing value and collect
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 7, 2023
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ImagineNation
OCTOBER 7, 2023
A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise. The article elaborated further by saying that, in terms of magnitude, the challenge is akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in
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