Thu.Mar 14, 2019

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Four Ways to Refine Your Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. So how do you refine it? Look For Feedback. Your innovation process will likely touch an enormous range of stakeholders, from internal departments to your biggest clients.

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Centralizing vs. Decentralizing Innovation

Integrative Innovation

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I'm running for the presidency of Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I thought - why not? Everyone else is running, so why be left out in the cold? If the governor of Washington State can run on the single plank of climate change, if senators who have barely introduced themselves to their colleagues can run, if a west Texas Irishman named Beto can consider running, then so can I. Of course my candidacy will be strictly tongue in cheek, and really meant to frame a more interesting question - where does innovation stand in all of this?

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Lesson 10 from true innovation managers: implementation makes it all worth it

Exago

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together pieces of wisdom from our clients, innovation managers, to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 10. The post Lesson 10 from true innovation managers: implementation makes it all worth it appeared first on Exago.

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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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How Amazon Innovates

Innovation Excellence

In 2014, Stephenie Landry was finishing up her one-year stint as Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, who oversees Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, which is a mentor program that allows high potential executives to shadow a senior leader and learn first-hand. Her next assignment would define her career. At most companies, an up-and-comer like Stephenie might.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. The bigger context You don’t get a gold star for following process, but achieving results?—?specifically, business model results. What is a business model? A business model describes 3 things: value creation, value delivery, and value capture.

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Predicting Future Temperatures and Precipitation Just Became Easier

Innocentive

Everyone can understand the effects of having inclement weather ruin their day. They also know the feeling of having a local TV station’s meteorologist steer them wrong on a weather prediction. This is because predicting weather patterns is an incredibly nuanced and tricky business. For farmers and water reclamation specialists, predicting precipitation is all the more important.

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Be Brave To Innovate

Phil McKinney

Did you know the opposite of bravery is not cowardice? The opposite of bravery is conformity. Doing everything the same way that everybody else does it, being like everybody else, thinking the same way everybody else does. Conformity is the “safe” approach which actually puts us at more risk. It takes bravery to step out […].

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Webinar Preview | How to Use Process Behavior Charts to Improve: Case Studies

Kainexus

We recently had the honor of hosting a webinar with our Senior Adviser, Mark Graban, author of " Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More " as the presenting guest. Mark’s new book focuses on managing variation, understanding data, and leading improvement. Mark has been a part of KaiNexus in various capacities since 2013. In Addition to Measures of Success, he is also the author of Lean Hospitals , Healthcare Kaizen , and Practicing Lean.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. The bigger context You don’t get a gold star for following process, but achieving results?—?specifically, business model results. What is a business model? A business model describes 3 things: value creation, value delivery, and value capture.

LEAN 40
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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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Black Belt Grading – New York

Innovation 360 Group

Black Belt. Purpose. Mastering Innovation Management. Ready for a lifelong learning journey. Content. Insights and learnings. Elements of Innovation – Mastering the Theory. Creating Echo Systems and Eco System Innovation. Regional Development: Triple Helix and Innovation. Competence/People Management – Linking Innovation to HR. Digitalization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Linking to technology.

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Overcoming the Challenges of Business Model Innovation

Innovation Leader

Alex Osterwalder, inventor of the Business Model Canvas, shares how testing new business models can help companies prepare for the future.

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Green Belt Grading – Stockholm

Innovation 360 Group

In the Green Belt Licensed Practitioners will learn more on strategy, organizational development and especially change. And access to our new strategy tool for analysis: PESTLED360.com. Green belt. Day 1: 8.00-18.00 including lunch and dinner. Day 2: 8.00-14.30 including lunch. Purpose. 1.Develop your strategic skills linking innovation and strategy. 2.Mastering advanced innovation analysis. 3.Accredited to sell the Innovation Playbook to your clients. 4.Learn how to use InnovationIQ.

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Open Innovation Solution Creates Water Out of Thin Air

IdeaConnection

An innovative machine that creates water out of the thin air at low cost and by using renewable resources.

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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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Black Belt Grading – Stockholm

Innovation 360 Group

Black Belt. Purpose. Mastering Innovation Management. Ready for a lifelong learning journey. Content. Insights and learnings. Elements of Innovation – Mastering the Theory. Creating Echo Systems and Eco System Innovation. Regional Development: Triple Helix and Innovation. Competence/People Management – Linking Innovation to HR. Digitalization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Linking to technology.

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Relationship Marketing For Financial Businesses

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Relationship marketing is a long-term marketing strategy, which builds personalized relationships with customers, creating an improved financial service experience, based on customer loyalty and two-way dialogue. A relationship exists when your service meets customers’ expectations and customers perceive a mutual way of thinking.

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DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS MODELS

Ankush Chopra

The post DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS MODELS appeared first on Ankush Chopra.

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A Step-by-Step Guide To Marketing Your Business For Great Success

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you have a small business and want to grow it, it can be a good idea to think of it as going on an amazing vacation that has been planned for a long time. When you’re going away on vacation you know where you’re going to, who you will be going with, how you’ll be traveling, and how you are going to afford it all. Now when you think about your business in the same way, can you answer the questions?

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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

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Is React Native Right for my App?

Taivara

Is React Native Right for my App? The pros and cons of developing your app in React Native. The mobile app development game is constantly changing. At Taivara, we want to make sure we’re following the latest industry best practices when developing applications and giving advice to clients. We wanted to create a resource to point our clients to when deciding if React Native , one of our favorite mobile development frameworks, is right for their app and company.