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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on it became clearer and clearer that it would be impossible to hit the target, which would have an impact on the overall team budget. It takes years to make a new operating system.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It can reveal what it takes for an innovation system to be persistent. A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs.

System 53
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The Employee Suggestion System Turns 135

Planview

Towards the end of the book, Osborn touches on the popularity of “employee suggestion systems,” the wooden box precursor to the practice of collaborative innovation for today’s Digital Age, which typically includes a virtual component. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

System 40
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The Employee Suggestion System Turns 135

Planview

Towards the end of the book, Osborn touches on the popularity of “employee suggestion systems,” the wooden box precursor to the practice of collaborative innovation for today’s Digital Age, which typically includes a virtual component. Excerpt on “employee suggestion systems” from Your Creative Power from 1948.

System 40
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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Have you ever heard of someone trying to “game the system”? If humans set a specific target for an Artificial Intelligence system, it will try everything it can to optimise its performance to meet that target. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos.

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The energy transition we are undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

Humans need their sleep, and it is the environment that enables that, and as 70% of the world’s population by 2050 will live in cities, all are becoming “ highly dependent” on energy to fuel the system. We lack leadership here. We need inspirational leadership.

System 153
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Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design Examples in Healthcare

InnovationTraining.org

Using a 15-minute “huddle” structure, the healthcare provider was able to develop a system that made it easy for important knowledge to quickly escalate up to executive leadership and be addressed. Using Design to Create Better Healthcare Spaces.