Mon.Jun 03, 2019

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Valuing digitization alongside innovation

Paul Hobcraft

We all see around us increasing disruption caused by digitalization. The powerful effects of digitalization are opening up different business opportunities, the chance to design different business models and get far closer to the ultimate need, to understand the customers wishes from the products and services they are wanting to buy. We are seeing a very distinctive advantage in embracing digitalization into innovation.

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Prioritize Your Best Ideas With One Powerful Tool

Innovation Excellence

Innovation is as much about choosing what not to do as it is about deciding what you’re going to do. I’ll never forget the words of a client of mine, an executive at PepsiCo: “We can do anything, but we can’t do everything,” he said to me. So true. But most companies forget this fact. They.

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Developing continuous learning

ImagineNation

Last week, I went to a fantastically informative event, hosted by the Churchill Club, Melbourne, it was about “Developing the Tech Talent of the Future”. New technologies and shifting customer expectations shifting the business game. In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning game.

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The power of your gut- a hot topic in health!

IdeaSpies

The gut microbiome is emerging as a “hot topic” in health care right now, and scientists are amazed at the connections being made between our gut bacteria and our health and wellbeing. The bacteria and other organisms that reside in our gut have been implicated in a number of diseases ranging from colorectal cancer and ulcerative colitis, through to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, anxiety and depression, and even Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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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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Startup Ideas are NOT Inspired on the Spur of the Moment!

InnovationManagement

Based on research in the market and in many countries, I tried to figure out the exact mechanism by which startup ideas are created. Aim is to facilitate and expedite this process for would-be entrepreneurs. Is it mainly a matter of brainstorming effort or are external factors at play? The post Startup Ideas are NOT Inspired on the Spur of the Moment!

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Ways to Develop Wisdom and Apply Emotional Intelligence

Tullio Siragusa

Ways to Develop Wisdom and Apply Emotional Intelligence. Are knowledge and wisdom the same thing? Both words are nouns. One is the application of experience using good judgement (wisdom), and the other is the gathering of experience (knowledge). knowledge /?näl?j/ Noun?—? facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. wis·dom /?

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Value Never Actually Disappears, It Just Shifts From One Place To Another

Innovation Excellence

Earlier this year, I published an article about no-code software platforms, which was very well received. Before long, however, I began to get angry — and sometimes downright nasty — comments from software engineers who were horrified by the notion that you can produce software without actually understanding the code behind it. Of course, no-code platforms don’t.

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Ways to Develop Wisdom and Apply Emotional Intelligence

Tullio Siragusa

Ways to Develop Wisdom and Apply Emotional Intelligence. Are knowledge and wisdom the same thing? Both words are nouns. One is the application of experience using good judgement (wisdom), and the other is the gathering of experience (knowledge). knowledge /?näl?j/ Noun?—? facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. wis·dom /?

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Global Innovation Platform SOSA Partners with Elron

Innovation in Practice

SOSA , the leading global innovation platform that connects international organizations to innovative technology, has entered into a strategic partnership with Elron , a top Israeli early stage investment firm specializing in cyber. SOSA recently partnered with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to help launch NYC’s first-ever Cyber Center , dedicated to transforming the city into a global leader of cyber security innovation and talent.

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5G: what technologies change with increasing speed

mjvinnovation

With 5G, data transmitted over wireless broadband connections can reach rates of up to 20 Gbps in some estimates – exceeding wired network speeds – and also provide a latency of 1 millisecond or less for uses that require real-time feedback. Do you know exactly what it is and how 5G works? Have you stopped to think about how this new generation of Wi-Fi will impact your business?

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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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Improving Patient Monitoring with AI and Big Data

IdeaConnection

Artificial intelligence-enabled devices to improve in-home patient care and decrease the volume of emergency room visits.

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Book Chapter: Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning

ITONICS

Prof. Dr. Carolin Durst, Scientific Director at ITONICS, together with Fabian Wiser, Scientific Assistant at TU Braunschweig, and Philipp Maron, Analyst at LEONI Digital Solutions Group, has published a book article on “Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning” The book “Case Studies on Technology & Innovation Management” (original: „Fallstudien zum Technologie- & Innovationsmanagement“) is intended to enable students in particular, but also innovation

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5 Things That Undermine Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. It takes a lot of effort to develop a successful company, and we’d like to think that everything we do would lead towards growth and profitability. Alas, this isn’t always the case. Sometimes the health of our venture is affected by external forces, which are beyond our control, but often our success is affected by internal forces.

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Book Chapter: Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning

ITONICS

Prof. Dr. Carolin Durst, Scientific Director at ITONICS, together with Fabian Wiser, Scientific Assistant at TU Braunschweig, and Philipp Maron, Analyst at a technology company, has published a book article on “ Activities and Challenges in Environmental Scanning “ The book “Case Studies on Technology & Innovation Management” (original: „Fallstudien zum Technologie- & Innovationsmanagement“) is intended to enable students in particular, but also innovation manager

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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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6 Ways To Protect Your Employees To Boost Business Productivity

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Employees are a vital part of your organization, and without them, your business would struggle to become a successful enterprise. In some locations, it can be challenging to get the right staff for the job, however, in other industries, employees come and go, as work is plentiful. Getting the right balance in your company often comes down to offering a decent salary alongside an excellent working environment.

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Journal Article: Big Data in Innovation Management

ITONICS

How machine learning is revolutionizing the search for trends and technologies. In April 2019, Carolin Durst and Christian Mühlroth, ITONICS GmbH, together with Laura Kölbl & Michael Grottke, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Fabian Wiser, TU Braunschweig, published the article “ Big Data in Innovation Management: How Machine Learning revolutionizes the search for trends and technologies ” in the magazine “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” The article is part of the res

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How To Master Your Business’ Accounting

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Clearly, if you want any business to do well, you need to make sure that you are focused on keeping the finances in tact as much as is possible. There are a lot of things to do here, and much that you will need to consider, but as long as you are working on it you will find that it is much easier than you might have assumed possible.

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Journal Article: Big Data in Innovation Management

ITONICS

How machine learning is revolutionizing the search for trends and technologies. In April 2019 Carolin Durst and Christian Mühlroth, ITONICS GmbH, together with Laura Kölbl & Michael Grottke, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Fabian Wiser, TU Braunschweig, published the article “ Big Data in Innovation Management: How Machine Learning revolutionizes the search for trends and technologies ” in the magazine “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” The article is part of the rese

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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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Mobile Device Management Tips

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. image source. If you are looking for some simple ways to make your life easier as a business owner this year you have come to the right place. Technology is a big part of what makes a business great and it is also something which can be confusing at times to manage. Mobile devices in particular are something which we use every day in our lives but they can take some time to truly understand and get into.

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Unlocking Creativity Ranked by BookAuthority as a Top Creativity Book

Michael Roberto

Unlocking Creativity made it to the Best New Creativity Books list as ranked by BookAuthority! I'm happy to announce that my book, "Unlocking Creativity: How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions" , made it to BookAuthority's list of Best New Creativity Books (#7). BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and it is a great honor to get this kind of recognition.

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Data Management Matters More Than Ownership

The Human Factor

contributed post –. There can be no business without data. The data-centric approach to the decision-making process has long demonstrated the importance of owning the right data. The days of guessing what your audience wants have been safely left in the past for the benefit of tools and business processes that enable businesses to collect their own data.

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Testing New Business Ideas: Learnings From Owlet [Part 2]

Strategyzer Innovation

In our first post on key learnings from Owlet we saw how the first few weeks of their entrepreneurial journey illustrate two critical principles: i) Trusting the testing process, not your initial vision ii) Testing desirability first Let’s come back to Owlet to see how they exemplify three more of our convictions when it comes to de-risking new business ideas.

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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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How To Enjoy Your Office Job

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Whether you own an office based business or are simply employed by one, it’s likely you’ll admit that the line of work you have chosen is not the most exciting of pursuits. Each day sitting at your desk inside the same drab walls, tapping on your keyboard and (im)patiently waiting for lunch to come around so you can escape into the real world, if only for half an hour.

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The Ultimate Guide To Enhancing The Customer Experience That Your Business Provides

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Your business plan is probably full of facts and figures about your new startup and how this proves that your entity is a proposition worth investing in. While finances and funding are hugely important to the success of your business, you should never underestimate the power of the customer experience that your business provides.

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5 Ways Productivity Makes Your Business More Efficient

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Businesses are always trying to reduce costs, streamline processes and maximize their resources in order to increase revenue. By minimizing costs, companies can successfully reduce their overall outgoings, meaning more of their turnover will be classed as profit. Of course, minimizing costs is only effective if the changes do not have a negative effect on your productivity levels.

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5 Easy Steps that Blogging Pros Follow

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Do you have a skill, talent, or special characteristic that you want others to know? Blog about it. Do you own a business, and you want to attract potential customers to a product or a service offering? Blog about it. Are you an artist, an expert, or an all-round professional who wants more exposure? Definitely blog about it.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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The Tenets Of Any Science-Based Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. There are a lot of different kinds of science-based businesses , any of which you might be about to run as your own next entrepreneurial exercise. The kinds of industries that such businesses might be a part of are diverse too, ranging from medicine to food and sports. Whatever it is that your business is specifically going to be about or study, you need to make sure that you are always keeping the scientific part of it as close to perfect as possible.

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