Tue.Apr 04, 2017

article thumbnail

Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”. —Mahatma Gandhi. Innovators listen to what leaders say, but most of all, they watch what leaders do. Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. Become a living example.

Handbook 150
article thumbnail

Get Social with Your Innovation

Braden Kelley

If your organization is struggling to sustain its innovation efforts, then I hope you will do the following things. Find the purpose and passion that everyone can rally around.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Innovation Evolution

Jeffrey Phillips

I was asked recently to speak about innovation in a webinar and at a live conference. These requests left me in a somewhat reflective mood. When I'm asked to speak I want to provide the audience with valuable, useful insight, and that often requires ensuring a shared foundation before taking the audience where I think innovation is likely headed. In my thinking for these two programs, I've developed a five step evolution for innovation in most organizations.

article thumbnail

6 Reasons to NEVER Skip the Opening Keynote at a Conference

BrainZooming

Yesterday’s Brainzooming mega-post was about how an introvert can go solo and still comfortably meet new people at a conference. I’m happy to report my initial audience of one for the mega-post used it with great success yesterday. Before the event was set to start, she messaged me: amid her thanks for the post’s help, she mentioned planning to skip the opening keynote because it didn’t seem as if she’d learn anything.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Modern Dual Corporate Innovation Balances Defense with Offense

Integrative Innovation

This is an excerpt of a post of mine, recently published at Haydn Shaugnessy’s journal “Hack & Craft” . Modern Dual Corporate Innovation Management approaches encompass two complementary directions of impact : Transforming the Core (by largely changing or even disrupting the existing operating model). Creating the New (by largely changing or even disrupting the existing business model).

article thumbnail

A Look Back at Three Innovations that Have Changed Our Lives

InnovationManagement

Nowadays, the words “innovation” and “creativity” get thrown around a lot in the business and academic world. But the road to making successful innovations is filled with challenges, opportunities taken or missed, and plenty strikes of luck. Often, people invent machines to face a recurrent problem. These inventions, in turn, spawn other inventions and innovation.

Change 45

More Trending

article thumbnail

Learning to Communicate With Difficult Co-Workers

InnovationManagement

No matter where you work, there's always some difficult co-workers you're going to have to deal with. Instead of wishing the situation away, which never works, it's time to learn how to perfect your skills for dealing with them.

article thumbnail

Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Imagine you ask your management team or your employees to figure out, design and launch something that will replace your current business, and give them a deadline and a budget. Then you will immediately realize how inefficient and risky that is – paralysis may be the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario could involve your people feeling stressed and faking results.

article thumbnail

A follow-up trip to Europe

Yet2

Further to our last post on 17 th March the yet2 team has been working together with the business to plan another successful European trip, and establish further contact with key clients whilst learning more about new opportunities. Our CEO, Tim Bernstein, will be in Benelux at the beginning of May; our Vice President, Bob Miller, will be in Belgium next week, and our European Managing Director, Ed De Paz, will be in Germany & Switzerland at the end of this month.

Meeting 40
article thumbnail

Innovation Sighting: The Mahabis Slipper and the Division Technique

Innovation in Practice

We all know the endless kick-on, kick-off routine associated with that perfectly comfortable pair of house slippers. Our days are filled with quick trips to the market, impromptu lunches, and endless dog walks. And one of two scenarios are typically woven into the daily in-and-out saga of life -- either countless episodes of shoe swapping or foregoing those fabulous house shoes to spare extra minutes.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

When You Want Your Next Big Conference to Be a Breakthrough

Idea Champions

Nine months ago, I received an intriguing email from Rich Nugent, CEO of a fast-growing and forward thinking commercial roofing company, Nations Roof. "I need a breakthrough" read the subject line. The next day Rich and I talked about his desire to make sure his annual conference made a big difference in the trajectory of his organization. Rich not only wanted to establish more unified commitment among his 20+ business units, he wanted to launch a new initiative that would jump start his vision