Tue.Mar 13, 2018

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Building an Innovation and Insights Group from Scratch

Braden Kelley

Many of you reading this have created or operated innovation or insights programs for organizations of a variety of sizes, or are curious about how to go about it.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

When it comes to innovation, businesses can often find it seemingly impossible to generate completely new ideas. In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. However, maybe we don’t need completely new ideas; simply a reinvention of an old classic. Mark Twain famously said in his autobiography ‘Chapters From The North’ that; “There is no such thing as a new idea.

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New Consulting: Showing, not telling

Dawid

credit: designthinking.co.nz In the new world of consulting (the one that includes accepting the fact that it’s impossible to know what will be successful or not (90% of startups fail), the one that accepts experimentation as testing over a business case, the one that treats each failed experiment as data, the one where action and context are king) we accept that in almost every case, doing something is better than just talking about it.

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Top 10 Innovation and Design Card Decks

Innovation Excellence

Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. IDEO’s Method Cards. Sub Rosa’s Questions & Empathy. Idea Couture’s Impact Foresight Game. I’ve long been a fan of design and innovation card decks. I love them so much I helped create one this year – LPK’s Roadblocks to Innovation – shared 600+ sets worldwide and led a couple dozen Roadblocks Workshops.

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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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What Do You Do when you are stressed

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We all live in a world where we have stressors all around us and our ability to manage stress becomes an element that determines how successful we are in whatever we do. Managing Stress: As with everything else in life, stress also has two faces. One kind of stress allows us to be alert and in the moment and leads us to be at our best. The other kind of stress takes a toll on our abilities and leads us to perform at far lower levels than we are capable of.

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Reflecting on our Innovation Practices

Innovation Excellence

Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. They have driven much of our thinking and reacting. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the.

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What Do You Do when you are stressed

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We all live in a world where we have stressors all around us and our ability to manage stress becomes an element that determines how successful we are in whatever we do. Managing Stress: As with everything else in life, stress also has two faces. One kind of stress allows us to be alert and in the moment and leads us to be at our best. The other kind of stress takes a toll on our abilities and leads us to perform at far lower levels than we are capable of.

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FEI Boston Speaking Agenda For The Annual Conference

eZassi

FEI Boston Speaking Agenda. The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. Overview of Agenda: 8:30am – Morning Welcome. 8:45am to 10:15am – Keynotes and speakers. 10:15am Morning Networking Break. 11:15am Track break (tracks 1,2 and 3). 12:30pm Lunch. 1:45pm Track break continuation. 3:15pm Afternoon Networking Break. 4:15pm to 5:30pm Key

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Basic Accreditation – Stockholm

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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FEI Boston Speaking Topics For The Annual Conference

eZassi

FEI Boston Speaking Topics. The FEI Boston Conference 2018 is designed to help you stop talking about innovation and to leave with a blueprint to immediately begin to take action and build your own culture of innovation. Below are a few of the FEI Boston speaking topics: Topics. Why Do Most Large Companies Wither and Die? Ed Catmull, a Keynote speaker at FEI Boston will be outlining techniques and ideas on leading creative organizations.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Basic Accreditation – Stockholm

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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The State of Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Co-founder magazine just interviewed me about the current state of entrepreneurship – in startups and large companies – and how we got here. I thought they did a good job of capturing my thoughts. Take a read here. click here to read the rest of the article.

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Basic Accreditation – Dubai

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Why Building a Culture of Innovation is Your Competitive Advantage

Wazoku

The post Why Building a Culture of Innovation is Your Competitive Advantage appeared first on Wazoku.

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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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#1,275 – Nexus Lexis

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Did you know that JK Rowling came up with the idea for Harry Potter while riding a train? Or that Mark Twain of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer fame was using a pseudonym? If you didn’t, perhaps you would have liked to discover those facts while perusing a literary museum, an institution dedicated to honoring and promoting great writers and their works.

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Data Value Friction Removal

Information Playground

I used the graphic above in a Data Value presentation at Dell's Field Readiness Summit several weeks ago. The presentation focused on  using data to fuel business transformation. I like this picture because it highlights the flow of bits to business processes that impact the bottom line: increasing revenue, reducing costs, and minimizing risks.

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Connect to Your Community!

Idea Champions

On a scale of 1-10, how connected are YOU to your community? And if your reply is "8" or less, take a moment and ask yourself how you can become more connected. Speaking of which, here is a cool online creative thinking tool about the power of making connections. Illustration: GapingVoid. Idea Champions. MitchDitkoff.com.

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Data Value Friction Removal

Information Playground

I used the graphic above in a Data Value presentation at Dell's Field Readiness Summit several weeks ago. The presentation focused on  using data to fuel business transformation. I like this picture because it highlights the flow of bits to business processes that impact the bottom line: increasing revenue, reducing costs, and minimizing risks.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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MICRO-LEARNING FOR INNOVATORS: A Testimonial

Idea Champions

THIS JUST IN FROM from one of our forward-thinking clients who recently licensed our Micro-Learning for Innovators service. "Idea Champions' Micro-Learning for Innovators service provides us with an the ideal mix of easy to digest, thought provoking content. We have engineering and marketing team members participating in monthly meetings to share insights.

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A Constructive Activity on a Snow Day

Michael Roberto

Another nor'easter rages today in the northeast. Weather forecasters predict 15-20 inches of snow in my region. Many people are not working today. What can and should you with your time if you have some free time? Besides shoveling the driveway, catching up on email, or taking a nap, you might consider learning something new. Researchers have demonstrated that novelty stimulates the brain.

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The End of the Meeting Blues

Idea Champions

Yesterday, I attended a meeting and witnessed a very curious phenomenon just when it was about to end -- a phenomenon that is very common and a big reason why many meetings leave people's heads spinning. At the end of the meeting, when it was time for closure, a few inspired participants took center stage and began pitching a bunch of new ideas. Their enthusiasm was wonderful to see, but it was the wrong time to be entertaining a new wave of possibilities.

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Book in Brief: Meeting Design for Managers, Makers, and Everyone

Boxes and Arrows

Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from Kevin Hoffman’s Meeting Design for Managers, Makers, and Everyone. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize one book a month; first come, first serve. Other rules will certainly occur to us over time. Hit us up at idea at boxesandarrows.com.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.