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Discover your unique innovator’s Sensory Profile.

Paul Hobcraft

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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Why Collaboration in Innovation is the Key to Unlocking Your Company’s Potential

IdeaScale

In today's fast-paced business world, collaboration in innovation has become increasingly important for companies looking to stay ahead of the curve. In fact, companies that foster a collaborative culture are more likely to achieve success than those that operate in silos. In this blog post, we will explore why collaboration is the key to unlocking [.

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Famous for being Anonymous

Destination Innovation

Here is a lateral idea – become famous by remaining anonymous. Banksy, an elusive street artist whose identity remains unknown, has left an indelible mark on the global art scene with his thought-provoking and often politically charged works. Emerging from the graffiti subculture in Bristol, England, Banksy gained international acclaim for his distinctive stenciled artworks that blend dark humor, social commentary, and poignant messages.

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From Wheels to Web: The Innovations That Made Us

IdeaScale

Innovation! Without Pain There Is No Gain: Why is innovation so challenging? Thomas Edison underwent over 1,000 attempts before successfully inventing the light bulb. Visionaries like Karl Benz and Henry Ford dedicated over 20 years to inventing and reinventing, facing numerous unsuccessful attempts to achieve widespread adoption of the automobile. Even the internet encountered a [.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Can We Finally Kill The Idea Of Leaderless Organizations?

Digital Tonto

For a while now, management gurus such as Gary Hamel have been advocating for flatter organizations, yet there is little evidence that eliminating leaders is a viable model. In fact, when Wharton Professor Ronnie Lee took a close look at game software developers, he actually found that the number of levels of bureaucracy increased significantly, not decreased, over the last 50 years.

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Research: Setbacks Can Actually Boost Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve hit a big pothole on the road to success, take heart. Research shows that setbacks can galvanize your career in unexpected ways that make you more successful. Three practices are key to turning them to your advantage: exploring whether your goals still fit your aspirations, opening yourself to unorthodox opportunities, and adopting a growth mindset.

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What is Crowdsourcing? Definition, Types, Benefits, Examples and Best Practices

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is defined as an innovative and decentralized problem-solving approach that harnesses the collective intelligence and diverse skills of a large community, known as the 'crowd'. This transformative method empowers organizations to outsource tasks, driving efficiency and creativity beyond traditional boundaries.

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CEO Secrets of a Successful Turnaround

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken While most outside of the tech industry won’t know the Avaya brand, most will have experienced its technology if you’ve contacted customer support or communicated directly with a brand for any reason. It is a multinational technology company based in the U.S.

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You Need To Be Skeptical Of Advice From Business Pundits And Gurus. Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

When I lived in Poland, a common aphorism advised that “life is cruel, and full of traps.” From an American perspective, the aphorism can be a bit of a culture shock. We tend to believe in the power of positivity, the American dream and the can-do spirit. Negativity can be seen as something worse than a weakness, both an indulgence and a privation at the same time.

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How Companies Can Build Trustworthy AI Assistants

Harvard Business Review

The journey of the AI assistant is already well underway. We’re seeing the evolution to agent take shape in three phases: assistant, concierge, and agent. This evolution is exciting and promises to make our lives much easier — eliminating mundane tasks and helping us become more productive. But anyone who has ever had an assistant knows that the relationship only works if there is trust.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Innovation activity is at an all-time high. From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. But what happens next? Eventually, you need to identify which solutions best fit your business needs.

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Fun Facts About Concept Testing

IdeaScale

Purchase Intention: Predicting success in concept screening Companies spend millions of dollars every year using purchase intention as a way of predicting success in concept screening. Given the reliance on “purchase intention” as a key predictor or success, there probably isn't as much scrutiny of the measure as there should be. So here it is. [.

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Skills versus Judgement

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Best practices are good, but dragging projects over the finish line is better. Alignment is good, but not when it’s time for misalignment. Short-term thinking is good, as long as it’s not the only type of thinking.

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What It Takes to Build a Best-In-Class Company — 3 Essential Elements

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The journey to excellence is not a matter of chance but a deliberate pursuit to shape the future and raise the bar for all who follow.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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Use GenAI to Improve Scenario Planning

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI can help organizations overcome inherent shortcomings in conventional processes for performing contingency scenario planning. This article explores how the technology can do that and provides an example: a simulation that the authors conducted.

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The Failure of Innovation Training

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Innovation departments are continuing to fail. Of course, innovation projects are supposed to fail in great numbers, but the idea of a corporate innovation department itself is under tremendous pressure. The macroeconomic climate is battering companies around and leading to budget cuts across the board. Companies are focusing on the core business and cutting funding to anything viewed as risky or not of immediate value.

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What is Customer Experience (CX) Innovation? Definition, Examples and why CX Experience matters?

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Customer Experience Innovation? Customer experience innovation is defined as the process of creating and implementing new ideas, strategies, technologies, or approaches to enhance the overall experience that customers have when interacting with a brand, product, or service. It involves identifying opportunities to deliver greater value, satisfaction, [.

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Competing Successfully in an Ecosystem World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1980, a young Harvard Business School professor named Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which drove thinking on the subject for the next 30 years. In essence, he argued that you build sustainable competitive advantage by maximizing bargaining power throughout a value chain.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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4 Ways to Bring Your Team Back From the Brink of Innovation Extinction

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Innovation often seems constrained by not enough time and resources — but really, it's a lack of playfulness that prevents our best ideas from emerging.

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The Rise of the Meta City

Harvard Business Review

New York and Miami, Dubai and Cairo, the Bay Area and Austin. Pandemic-era migrations have created strong new connections between cities — and companies need to update their location strategy to keep up.

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The Power of Bottom-Up Systems in Organizational Success

Tullio Siragusa

The Power of Bottom-Up Systems in Organizational Success In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the success of an organization is heavily influenced by its management style and approach to goal setting. The traditional top-down management paradigm, characterized by directives flowing from the top echelons to the grassroots, is undergoing a significant transformation.

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What is Business Process Innovation? Definition, Examples, Process and Best Practices

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Business Process Innovation? Business process innovation is defined as the significant and transformative changes made to existing processes within an organization to achieve better efficiency, effectiveness, and overall business performance. It involves reimagining, redesigning, and implementing new ways of conducting business activities with the aim of [.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Four Growth Mindset Myths

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard It’s not about profit, you don’t have to be upbeat all the time and you actually have a hybrid mindset! # 1 – Growth mindset equals business growth, profits A common finding by Neuro Leadership Institute is that some leaders believe growth mindset is about profits.

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How a Financial Services Provider Used VSM to Increase Delivery Efficiency

Planview

In today’s competitive business environment, companies are relentlessly seeking ways to optimize their solutions delivery, with a strong emphasis on improving efficiency. To achieve a significant boost in this area, it is imperative to establish and maintain end-to-end visibility into the value streams that comprise an organization’s operations.

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To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors

Harvard Business Review

The risk with generative AI is not that leaders fail to try it, but that trying is as far as they get. Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water.

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Mark Graban & Greg Jacobson: Thanksgiving Processes, the AME Conference, Technology, Favorite Books [Podcast]

Kainexus

Here's the latest episode of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement podcast, this time featuring another conversation with Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson.

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The Future of Customer Loyalty: Rewards, Retention, Appreciation, and More

Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One

Elevate your retail game by unleashing the power of customer loyalty! The holidays are the perfect time to redefine and reimagine your retail strategy, as modern customers are being re-engaged through creative retention tactics. Discover how the combination of loyalty management and MACH technology can revolutionize your retail strategy, ensuring sustained customer success through the holiday rush, into the new year, and beyond.

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What is Organizational Engagement? Definition, Importance and Effective Strategies

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Organizational Engagement? Organizational engagement is defined as the level of involvement, commitment, and connection that individuals within an organization have toward their work, the organization's goals, and its overall mission. It encompasses both the employees' emotional and intellectual involvement in their work and their dedication to contributing [.

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Reinventing the Retail Store

Innovation Excellence

Online orders are increasingly fulfilled through stores, making retailers much more efficient and competitive GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky I’ve worked with a lot of online retailers over the years, and a frequent question I’ve received is, “When you have physical stores and you also have an online presence, where should you be shipping goods […]

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Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma

Moves the Needle

The debate that has raged on since the pandemic; personal productivity. Brant would argue that being in the office does not make someone more productive than working from home. In this podcast from a recent LinkedIn Audio event, Brant will go over how to maximize personal productivity by the use of a KANBAN board. The post Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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OpenAI’s Failed Experiment in Governance

Harvard Business Review

OpenAI has undoubtedly succeeded in its product innovations, with ChatGPT. But its governance innovations have failed spectacularly. Put in place to guard against the abuse of its product, the company’s unusual structure — a nonprofit that owns a for-profit — proved unpredictable and subject to the whims of its directors. There’s a reason the most successful startups stick to best practice: A more traditional governance structure would help OpenAI to scale while making the development of its tec

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.