Sat.Sep 30, 2017

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The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time | Collective Campus

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While there’s much talk emanating out of Silicon Valley nowadays that “pivot is the new fail”, when the term first gained popularity off the back of the lean startup movement in the early 2010s it effectively meant making a fundamental shift in your business model, based on customer learnings, towards one that is designed to bring you closer to product market fit.

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Get Out Of The Building for Corporate Innovation Efforts | Collective Campus

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Large corporations can have what seems to startup founders to be vast amounts of resources - more than they know what to do with (this can often be the case where companies elect to pay out huge dividends instead of investing in R&D). So why don’t large companies with millions and sometimes billions of dollars in capital reserves come out with the next big thing, the next UBER or the next Xero?

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Don’t Look For A Great Idea, Look For A Good Problem

Innovation Excellence

At the center of every significant innovation is always an idea. Clarence Birdseye’s idea about freezing fish revolutionized the food industry and American diets. Charles Schwab’s idea about flat commissions changed investing forever. Steve Jobs idea about creating a device that could hold 1000 songs in your pocket turned around Apple’s fortunes. Yet we shouldn’t.

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27 Tools to Accelerate your Corporate Innovation efforts | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

There are countless tools we use with clients to build fast, learn fast and measure fast in order to determine what will ‘wow’ customers enough to extend or generate new lines of revenue and remain a competitive force well into the future.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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The Hard Truth about Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

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One of Australia’s long running broadcast networks, TEN, went into voluntary administration recently after reporting a $232 million loss. This is yet another sobering reminder that the once mighty will fall unless they begin to challenge their existing business models, despite the fact that it’s where they make all of their money today.

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Why I left a Successful Consulting Career | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

About six months ago I made the decision to leave a successful management consulting career to follow my startup dreams.

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Success Metrics for Corporate Innovation Programs and Teams | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

"If you come back here in a year how will you determine whether or not we’ve been successful?

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Do you have an Artificial IntellIgence Strategy – or are you JUST pretending TO?

Innovation 360 Group

Not long ago one of my clients told me he badly needed “ Artificial Intelligence for Dummies. ” It was an interesting comment, coming from a highly skilled former senior consultant and current industry leader. I was reminded of the internet hype in the 90s, when firms made fortunes via fundraising and spectacular non-working projects for the new economy.

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13 Must Haves Before You Run a Corporate Hackathon | Collective Campus

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In order to get the most out of a corporate hackathon and generate some quick wins that organisers and innovation champions will be able to use to build a case for subsequent initiatives and further development of ideas, taking the time to consider and prepare the following 12 things can make a world of difference.

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4 Ways to Win at Open Innovation | Collective Campus

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Open Innovation is about creating inflows of knowledge from the external environment and outflows of knowledge to the ecosystem through collaboration. Here are four ways that your organisation can leverage OI to boost your success rate.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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5 Lies Big Firms Tell Themselves About Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

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Busting the biggest corporate innovation myths and some tips to counter these common lies

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How Legal Teams Can Enable Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

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Corporate legal and compliance (L&C) teams can enable corporate innovation.

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The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects | Collective Campus

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In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future.

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14 Apps to support Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

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14 tools to support your team's corporate innovation efforts.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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5 Metrics to Measure and Test Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

The disruptive innovation theory, penned in 1997 by Clayton Christensen in his seminal work The Innovator’s Dilemma, describes a process by which a product takes root in simple applications at the bottom of a small market and moves upmarket, eventually displacing industry incumbents.

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Enter Our Online Brainstorm Training Raffle Before 10/10

Idea Champions

Does your company need a fresh wave of big, bold ideas? Are you looking for a simple, inexpensive way to radically raise the bar for brainstorming and out of the box thinking? If so, all you need to do is enter Idea Champions quarterly BIG IDEA raffle before October 10th and win a 4-session, online Brainstorm Facilitation training at a 70% discount.

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Why You Should Disrupt Yourself - and How I Did | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.

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Corporates are from Venus, Startups are from Mars | Collective Campus

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Corporate startup partnerships represent a massive clash of cultures. There are countless platforms that corporates can leverage to connect with startups such as Crunchbase, Angelist, Startup List and Gust. Add to this meet-ups, pitch nights, conferences, blogs and social media all making it easier than ever to identify and connect with startups doing compelling things in your industry or adjacent industries.

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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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Stop Digitising Broken Processes and Start with Why | Collective Campus

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Many large organisations are guilty of taking old, oftentimes broken, processes born out of 20th Century necessity and digitising them. Such pursuits are internally heralded asshiningexample of innovation and digital transformation. However, this usually amounts to little more than expensive and at best incremental improvements.

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The 4 Ps of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

When it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, a number of core qualities or attributes are fundamental to success, which are best encapsulated by the following four Ps.

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3 Personal Growth Hacks that you can Action Today | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Over the last six months I have identified three personal growth hacks that everyone should be aware of. The great thing is you can action these straight away!

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LaunchVic Gives the Nod to Lemonade Stand and Victorian Childpreneurs! | Collective Campus

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The team at Lemonade Stand are proud to announce that we have successfully secured $100,000 as part of LaunchVic's $6.5m first round of funding allocations.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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URWork Partners with Collective Campus to Build a Bridge of Entrepreneurship Between Australia, Singapore and China | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

URWork, one of Asia's largest co-working space operators with a valuation of more than US$1B, is set to open its first operation out of China in Singapore.

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Design Thinking Is Never Enough | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Design Thinking is just one piece of the corporate innovation puzzle and it alone is never enough.

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Innovation, So Where the Bloody Hell Are You? | Collective Campus

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The Australian Government could be doing more for innovation.

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4 Companies Leading the Way in Customer Experience | Collective Campus

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It is no coincidence that the most innovative brands in the world are also leading the way in customer experience.

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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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Movie Rental Giant Confident Online Streaming a Passing Fad | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

VideoRentalz fearlessly faces the future, secure in its ability to keep families together.

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Legal Services Disruption in Australia | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Legal services are delivered is changing due to technology and business model innovation.

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Creativity isn't a Skill, it is a State of Mind. | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Flow Genome Project's Jamie Wheal discusses why creativity is more than a skill.

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The Mills Oakley Accelerator Pitch Night | Collective Campus

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The Mills Oakley Accelerator has been established to commercialise legaltech.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.