Thu.May 23, 2019

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them. Corporate innovation is hard. There are loads of challenges and pitfalls when trying to explore new opportunities inside of an existing organization. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts.

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Digital Transformation Is Human Transformation

Innovation Excellence

A decade ago, many still questioned the relevance of digital technology. While Internet penetration was already significant, e-commerce made up less than 4% of retail sales. Mobile and cloud computing were just getting started and artificial intelligence was still more science fiction than reality.

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Willing to Innovate? Start with Improving on Culture!

InnovationManagement

It is neither the business models nor the products that are innovative, but rather the minds behind them. Hence, nurturing a culture where people are willing to generate and execute on creative ideas is an essential skill for every innovation leader. The post Willing to Innovate? Start with Improving on Culture! appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Corporate Innovation: How to Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. There are loads of challenges and pitfalls when trying to explore new opportunities inside of an existing organization. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts.

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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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Open Innovation at Bouygues: each of our BU has an open innovation team

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Vincent Maret corporate director Open Innovation at Bouygues Corp. explains how to drive competitiveness through innovation!

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Emerging Collaborative Tribes, Networks and Collectives 

Innovation Excellence

It is becoming widely accepted that collaborative organisations adopt more fluid and loose structures, where individuals are given greater responsibility to take smart risks, make decisions appropriate to their role and the task concerned: Without hierarchy, status, power plays and the conventional “red tape” implicit rules, where people have a hunger to learn, are willing.

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StratChat Replay: Innovation Readiness Assessment with Tendayi Viki & Alexander Osterwalder

Strategyzer Innovation

Visual live-drawn by Holger Nils Pohl. As the pace of change in our world has increased, competitive advantages have become temporary. Companies now need to be able to support and nurture innovation - not as one-off projects, but as a repeatable process. Innovation proficiency is no longer optional. The questions for leaders and intrapreneurs are: How ready is your company to nurture and support innovation?

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Innovation Communities

Phil McKinney

I’m not sure who said it first but I’ll give credit to Tony Robbins for the now famous quote — “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” With a slight tweak, you can apply this quote to networks, communities, tribes, and friends you socialize with. If you changed […].

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Blockchain: A Real-World Example of the Power of Innovation

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Learning the Process for Delivering Impact

Yet2

Outside of my work at yet2 , I have another very interesting “project” I’ve been working on: I’m an advisor to a local high school senior’s capstone project. Throughout the past year I’ve worked with Megan Hanks, helping her define the scope of her senior project. Megan, who is soon to graduate from Souhegan High School, worked with a panel that consisted of three teachers and myself.

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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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6 Tips for Crowdsourcing Innovation Ideas

Kainexus

When we ask people about innovation, they usually leap to radical breakthroughs like self-driving cars, alternative energy sources, or space colonies. While these things are innovative, the term innovation simply means a change to an established method or idea. Storing your forks closer to the dishwasher is innovation. In companies, incremental changes like optimizing a process, or solving a long-standing problem can be as necessary for success as introducing a new product or selling to a new ma

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Why new product development fails and how innovation management can help

Exago

Product and brand failures occur on an ongoing basis, to varying degrees. They are part of the process of learning and growing. Innovation management can help organisations coordinate amongst themselves to eliminate challenges and maintain a transparent, company-wide innovation system. The post Why new product development fails and how innovation management can help appeared first on Exago.

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Kobe Bryant on Storytelling

Idea Champions

Why create a culture of storytelling? How to tell a good story. Excerpt from Storytelling at Work. The slam dunk of storytelling books. A story not by Kobe Bryant and not in my book.

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Blockchain: A Real-World Example of the Power of Innovation

IdeaScale

Some examples of innovation change the world or create industries that never existed before. Blockchain is one of them. The first white paper about blockchain technology was released in 2008. The paper provided details of how blockchain could bring digital trust into an entirely new dimension, where verification is distributed rather than being in the hands of individual people or organizations.

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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.