Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 4, 2020

I'm writing a series of posts that discuss some of the most important traits and skills that are needed to support innovation now, in the midst and in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. I've written about beginner's mind and why that skill will be vital. I've also written about being comfortable in ambiguous settings. Today I am writing about another rare capacity - the ability to have empathy with prospects and customers.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 4, 2020

How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits. We all face times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed or unable to cope due to unmanageable pressures. Our body’s response to shattering situations is what we call stress. This is one of the rapidly growing concerns today. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major stressful impact on the entire world.

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InnovationTraining.org

MAY 4, 2020

Learn to apply an empathy map template to help you visualize your users’ needs and wants across dimensions. When it comes to designing better products, services, and experiences, getting into the mindset of your end user is crucial. However, many designers struggle or even outright fail to understand exactly what their users need or are looking for.

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IdeaSpies

MAY 4, 2020

In times of turmoil we must look through the noise and see the trends that will shape our future. Crises are not new, however this.

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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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Rmukesh Gupta

MAY 4, 2020

I came across this music video that made me sit up and brought a big, wide, smile. Watch it first here. This is a prime example of what happens when you bring together people who are willing to test boundaries, explore, stay curious and above all want to express themselves. The choreography, music, the interaction between the panes is simple yet comes alive.

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Rebel & Reason

MAY 4, 2020

Before COVID-19, having a solid digital strategy was not the most pressing tool that schools around the world worked hard to create. Now however, that story is completely different. As schools across the world have been forced to shut down, their lack of online consideration is being thrown in their face. . Students, teachers, and professors alike have been sent home and forced to adopt the virtual education model.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

I attended a very special meeting of minds in a remote part of Yorkshire, England at The Centre of Management Creativity , hosted by John Varney, a great mentor who was instrumental in my decision to start my business some 25 years ago. I chose to take the train and bicycle to reach this very special place. This allowed me some quiet space for reflection and a good amount of exercise.

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Idea Drop

MAY 4, 2020

In unprecedented times like this, new ideas can provide a much needed way forward by solving short-term challenges and delivering solutions to enable your business to face those challenges head on. Here, at Idea Drop, we want to support you through today’s crisis, and we’ve formulated a three-phase change management strategy to help do just […].

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Premise: We are all living in an almost once in a lifetime situation with almost entire countries and continents being forced to stay at home due to the current pandemic situation. We are now at a time when almost all the countries are looking forward to gradually opening up the lockdowns and allowing people to restart their work, albeit in a controlled fashion.

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Innovation Leader

MAY 4, 2020

Wayfair, an online furniture and home goods retailer, maintained an innovative culture as it grew from a two person operation to a company with thousands of employees.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

We’ve all heard the story of Newton and the apple. According to the legend, he came up with the theory of gravity when he was sitting under a tree and an apple fell on his head, at which point it all suddenly dawned on him. We love to hear stories of these great aha moments. The question is, are they true? Are innovations really born out of these miraculous moments of insight?

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 4, 2020

How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits. We all face times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed or unable to cope due to unmanageable pressures. Our body’s response to shattering situations is what we call stress. This is one of the rapidly growing concerns today. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major stressful impact on the entire world.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

By David Bruel & Frank Pagano. Spoiler Alert. This short piece is not about innovation. It’s about the culture needed to win in an ever changing marketplace, especially after Covid 19. Yes, you will need chaos – yet of a special kind – to survive, thrive and win, all thanks to the right people. All you have to do is serve them an unorthodox career path, with apparently unstructured processes.

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Tembosocial

MAY 4, 2020

When the sailing is a bit smoother, many of us are driving towards disruption, working to inspire innovation and collaboration at work.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Crowdsourcing has several business applications: funding source, task assignment, knowledge sharing, and more. It’s helped product teams, marketing departments, strategic decision makers and tons of other disciplines to complete projects. I’m sure you’ve purchased a product that was dreamed up by someone in the crowd, we’ve all laughed at Super Bowl ads that were once crowd creative, but how do you know when it’s a good tool for you and your team to reach out to the crowd?

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 4, 2020

No surprise. Last night’s episode of Rick and Morty was insane as the dastardly duo found themselves trapped inside of a children’s toy train from the Citadel of Ricks gift shop where they had to escape the story that they found themselves in, an ever-evolving story about story-telling based on their own stories, even those that have yet to be written.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. The phrase has become one of the most overused clichés out there. However, just like so many other clichés, there’s an underlying reason for this being the case even though I personally dislike the term.

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Acuvate

MAY 4, 2020

Microsoft’s Latest AI innovations In Office 365 Microsoft’s commitment to artificial intelligence is driven by the conviction that an AI-powered Office 365 can help the modern workforce overcome some major emerging challenges – exponential growth of data, increasing time demands, increased security threats, etc. In the last few years, Microsoft has introduced several new AI-driven […].

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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

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mjvinnovation

MAY 4, 2020

In this context, management will require leadership that is more prepared for scenarios of uncertainty and consequently be able to break traditional corporate mentalities and concepts. The issue is that there is no definitive manual that says if you check all these boxes then you can lead your team perfectly during volatile times. There are many materials with tips and theories but the key is for each manager to adapt and bring this into the reality of their team.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 4, 2020

Admit it. You want to be a Jedi. I know I do. There’s just something inherently awesome about being able to connect directly with the underlying force guiding the Universe, control people with your mind and wield a light saber against the forces of evil all while resisting the temptation to join The Dark Side. So it should come as no surprise that I’m a big fan of a new innovation that lets people control drones with a wave of their hands.

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The Human Factor

MAY 4, 2020

In today’s hyper-paced and chaotic world, few things are more important to success than the ability to respond quickly to sudden changes in external forces, market conditions, or customer needs. Whether the disruption comes from a pandemic, the introduction of a new technology, a new competitor that nobody saw coming, or drastic changes in economic policy and trade agreements, the companies that go to the head of the class are usually those that respond the quickest.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 4, 2020

Testing. Testing. Testing. We’ve heard it over and over again. If we are going to safely re-open society we first need to significantly ramp up our testing capabilities to ensure that we can catch and prevent future outbreaks before they occur. To date, that goal has been hard to reach. The federal government doesn’t even have the capability right now to test all U.S.

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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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The Human Factor

MAY 4, 2020

Hiring employees can be a long and costly process. There is time and money that goes into recruiting, interviewing, and hiring, as well as time and money to train new employees and get them up to scratch with all things that are going on in the business. That is why it is important to look for ways to retain your employees, so that they’re able to, and want to, stay with you for as long as possible.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 4, 2020

I hate thinking about death. It’s a morbid topic. Scary. Depressing. But in today’s day and age where sudden death seems almost inevitable it’s becoming increasingly necessary. Which brings me to the million dollar question: are you ready to die? I don’t mean that psychologically. I am certainly not ready and probably never will be.

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Michael Roberto

MAY 4, 2020

Source: Flickr During the current COVID-19 crisis, many organizations have had to be very clear about their priorities. With tremendous pressure on the business, and limited resources, companies often have moved quite nimbly to focus time, attention, and money on only the most important initiatives and activities. Leaders have been able to push less important or urgent issues aside.

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Viima

MAY 4, 2020

I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. They understood that even though they are seen as an extremely innovative company now, their current success is actually a result of innovations that happened a decade ago, and that to live up to their reputation, they now need to create the next wave of innovations to keep the company on thei

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

In the life sciences industry, the opportunity to use Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for complete “game-changing” transformation is very real. The many processes that comprise research, engineering, quality, regulatory, supply chain readiness and operations can be automated and integrated together to provide one streamlined flow. This is used to convert knowledge and innovative ideas into high-value products.

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Qmarkets

MAY 4, 2020

HealthIL – a major digital healthcare community created by the Israel Innovation Institute, as well as Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Social Equality – have expanded their operations with a trailblazing Counter-Corona platform – the Marketplace. Fuelled by Qmarkets’ software, this versatile crowdsourcing platform is helping medical companies pinpoint and implement creative solutions to fight back against the pandemic.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

By Adrian Notz and Frank Pagano. Homo Pragmaticus. By Frank Pagano. The Future doesn’t exist anymore. Let’s tackle the ‘here and now’. McKinsey, in their many articles covering the Covid-19 crisis, calls for the advent of a strictly pragmatic approach to business, people management and, as a matter of fact, life. We have had crises before – lots of them, but this one looks particularly scary, due to scale and how much grey it has on it.

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