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5 Ways to Avoid Innovation Theater

Wellspring

Anyone reading the typical startup-world commentary about Innovation Theater might be tempted to make one of two assumptions. First, big companies are clueless about how to innovate. Second, they must be screwing up innovation on purpose – playing a cynical game just to convince outsiders (stakeholders, media, etc.) of what is in fact a flimsy, skin-deep effort to change.

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What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

InnovationManagement

After a decade working in innovation, I think many of us are sick and tired of seeing a funnel on another slide at an innovation conference. Lots of ideas at the top, just a few implemented ideas at the bottom… we get the idea. The post What Innovation Funnel Should I Use? appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Is the abundance of apps in the ecosystem killing productivity?

Tembosocial

Employee experience is a means to an end, not an end in itself. ? For all the time and attention and money we spend improving every part of the employee journey, from candidate to alumni and everything in between it must never be lost that the reason employee experience is important is that it drives customer experience.

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How to Leverage AI to Upskill Employees

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Artificial intelligence is the answer to polishing math skills and plugging our workforce pipeline.

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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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Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action

Tullio Siragusa

Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action. Self-confidence is knowing, acknowledging and acting your worth. It’s a magnet that attracts success. It is an ethereal idea that everyone of us desires of have as a strong trait. Naturally, it is not something we are born with, and it is not something you can achieve by dreaming or fantasizing. Anyone high in self-confidence has made some effort and taken some actions to boost themselves to get there. .

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Only A True Entrepreneur Will Agree With This Quote

Innovation Excellence

Defining who is and who isn’t an entrepreneur may be subject to debate by academics and pundits, but if you get this quote you’re one of us. “It’s better to burn out, Than to fade away” — Neil Young, from his song “Into The Black” When I was in the throws of building my company.

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Amazon’s Success Boils Down to Six Building Blocks

Innovation Excellence

Replicate Amazon’s secret formula for winning big in the digital age Having run strategy and leadership development programs across the Fortune 1000 for over the past 25 years, I’ve seen lots of business models. As I highlighted in a prior article on The Future of Seamless Shopping, nothing currently parallels Amazon when it comes to innovation.

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Innovation Insights from Our 2019 Impact Main Stage

Innovation Leader

Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a pioneer of the drone industry — shares his experience building and deploying autonomous vehicles at Innovation Leader’s 2019 Impact event.

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Will Putting Your Suggestion Box Online Help Your Office Avoid Becoming The Office?

Kainexus

If the internet is any clue, I’m not the only one who was prompted by its 10th anniversary to re-watch a bunch of old episodes of The Office. (For fans, there’s a great new podcast called Office Ladies featuring Jenna Fischer (Pam) and Angela Kinsey (Angela). They walk through each episode sharing the inside scoop.). There’s an episode during the second season in which Dunder Mifflin Paper Company’s branch manager, Michael Scott, learns that his boss is coming for a visit later that day to hear

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How to use crowdsourcing to validate market-research

Braineet

Traditional market research techniques like customer interviews and competitor analysis are a great way for businesses to discover valuable gaps in the market and develop new ideas for products and services. But once you’ve got these great ideas, what can you do to validate them? With the availability of crowdsourcing, it’s never been easier to … How to use crowdsourcing to validate market-research Read More ».

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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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Drones and Self-Driving Cars: Innovating in Regulatory Gray Areas

Innovation Leader

Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a pioneer of the drone industry — shares his experience building and deploying autonomous vehicles at Innovation Leader’s 2019 Impact event.

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Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action

Tullio Siragusa

Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action. Self-confidence is knowing, acknowledging and acting your worth. It’s a magnet that attracts success. It is an ethereal idea that everyone of us desires to have as a strong trait. Naturally, it is not something we are born with, and it is not something you can achieve by dreaming or fantasizing. Anyone with high self-confidence has made some effort and taken some actions to boost themselves there. .

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Left-Brained Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not a right-brained creative endeavor. It is a left-brained analytic process. In this 2 minute 36 second video, I provide background on why I believe this to be true. This is discussed further in my upcoming book, Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems. P.S. The left-/right-brained concept has been debunked.

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Buying Your Next Company Vehicle

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. Buying a new car for your business should be an easy decision, but it can also be complicated and stressful. There are a lot of different things that you will need to think about when it comes to choosing your vehicle, and then once you have it, you will need to worry about insuring it and picking the car up. In this article, we’ll talk about all of the ways that you can take the stress out of buying your new business vehicle.

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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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Evaluating Creative Ideas: Ask Why, not How

Michael Roberto

Source: publicdomainpictures.net Stanford Professor Justin Berg has conducted some fascinating new research regarding people's self-evaluation of creative ideas. How do they assess the ideas that they generate, and can they spot the best ideas at a very nascent stage of the problem-solving process? Berg finds that individuals are not great at spotting the very best idea.

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What Technology Do Modern Businesses Need to Utilise?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. source. In the last couple of decades, everything we do has been shaped by the internet, technology and the latest gadgets, from the way we work to the way we socialise. Technology is with us from the moment we wake up to when we go to bed- even the simple acts of calling for a pizza or a cab, ordering groceries and playing games are now done from computers and smartphones.

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8 Exciting Digital workplace trends To Watch For in 2020

Acuvate

As we forge into a new decade in 2020, we carry forward some of the most transformative digital technologies that have revolutionized the way we work. The outreach that technology today has and its capabilities in the workplace are so vast that artificial intelligence and other smart technologies can soon become our co-workers. In the past decade, we have seen organizations realize the fact that Employee Experience has a direct impact on not only attracting and retaining but also improving custo

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Content Marketing Basics Your Business Needs To Know About

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Business owners and executives should always be mindful of content marketing. In effect, this is the practice of using various forms of content to market and promote your business. It’s proven to be effective, and this particular marketing technique has risen in prominence over the last decade. Nowadays, content is king. Every single marketing strategy is based on a strong content marketing campaign.

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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