Mon.Dec 03, 2018

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The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating.

Paul Hobcraft

The problem of scaling can confuse those innovating and can this be changed? I have been often returning to scaling struggling with finding the best answers. Many organizations struggle with scaling. This can be scaling their organization, their capabilities or more often, taking an idea into a fully scaled delivery. Maybe I have been looking at it wrongly?

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But We’ve Always…

CorporateIntel

It’s December. For those of us who make our living in any form of consumer business, that usually means two things: We have made it through Black Friday and Cyber Monday , with our projections now being evaluated against actuals. In less than a month it will be a new year, where we can either make the same mistakes again or invent new ones. That leads to two takeaways I would like you to consider before the year ends: Customer behavior tells us almost everything we need to know to be succe

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The Design Thinking Playbook

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Michael Lewrick, author of The Design Thinking Playbook. The book has been released recently in English and has become the preferred book for many Universities which aim to teach students about Design Thinking in Europe, Asia and the US. Many organizations use the playbook as reference to kick-start.

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Does Your Team’s Creative Leadership Need a Boost? Here’s the Answer!

BrainZooming

It’s near year’s end. Many organizations are wrapping up planning. If your organization is like most, your new plan calls for some combination of major innovation, significantly improved processes, strong cost reductions, and dramatic growth in the year ahead. What is the common denominator behind accomplishing ALL of these expectations in next year’s plan?

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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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How serious are you about innovation?

IdeaSpies

IdeaSpies Enterprise, a platform for ideas that will improve business performance, has released the results of an Employee Innovation Survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed. Innovation was defined simply in the survey as “implementation of ideas that add value”. It’s good to see that 84% of leaders are talking about the need for innovation, but only 69% of employees believe the culture of their organisation actually wel

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Lean Innovation Leadership in the Enterprise

Moves the Needle

Video Interview with Aaron Eden Bringing an entrepreneurial spirit to large enterprise companies is something that we are passionate about here at Moves the Needle. We do this by educating organizations on how to bring a startup mindset to the table and how to enable their employees to work in this new way of thinking. It is important for these companies to develop the systems and processes inside the company to support the entrepreneurial mindset, with the ultimate goal of empowering employees

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The Gig Economy and Workers’ Rights

InnovationManagement

The gig economy is no longer simply a phrase that individuals existing as professional outliers use to describe themselves. Instead, the gig economy describes a substantial, rapidly growing part of modern society. If you aren’t a part of it, the odds are you know someone who is.

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Begin with the Change You Want to Create.

Focused Momentum

Strategic planning efforts ideally create a long-term “road map” leading to future success. However, maintaining momentum while moving down that road can be a challenge. This blog series offers five tweaks to how you lead through strategy implementation to strengthen strategic results. In this post, I share with you how you can begin limited implementation immediately and unleash new momentum needed to push hard on the more complex strategic goals.

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10 Commandments of Corporate (Open) Innovation

CREATORS

At CREATORS, we work with wonderful corporations who are market leaders in their markets. They have amazing teams and talented individuals, endless resources and extensive market knowledge. Yet, they are failing at corporate innovation. They fear competition and disruption, they are afraid of the future, but at the same time they are afraid to take bold decisions and change their businesses overnight?

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Enel and InnoCentive are Pursuing Responsible Consumption & Production through SDG # 12

Innocentive

Many resources may be finite, but there are enough to supply the people of the world with what they need to survive. What stops us from reaching this point is waste and mismanagement. There is enough food to feed the world, research shows , yet close to a billion people go hungry every day. Despite this, countless resources are wasted on a daily basis.

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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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Space Apps Challenge: An Open Innovation Incubator to Help Nasa Solve Problems

IdeaConnection

A visualization tool that improves the accuracy of landslide prediction allowing experts to issue alerts sooner.

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#1,408 – Bionic Mushrooms, Cyborg Plants, and the Future of Everything

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Just like Battlestar Galactica’s cybernetic Cylon Raiders that were made from both biological and inorganic matter we too may one day be able to create hybrids that are a mix of nanomaterials and microorganisms. In fact, early research suggests that we may one day have bionic mushrooms capable of generating and storing energy. As Futurism explains, “Researchers looking for new forms of renewable energy have long been interested in cyanobacteria, which are tiny microorganisms that naturally tr

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Why Healthcare Is All About People

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. You can’t become a doctor if you don’t like to work with people. As it happens, the healthcare system needs doctors, surgeons, nurses, and other health specialists to be the modern jack of all trades. On the one hand, there is no denying that their medical expertise and experience plays a significant role in the medical management and health maintenance of patients.

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SNL Parody: Netflix Originals

Michael Roberto

Check out this funny Saturday Night Live parody video, which takes aim at Netflix's strategy for creating tons of original content. It's a great way to start Monday morning!

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Creating The Best Online Presence For Your Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When it comes to your business, having an online presence is key. We live in a world where everything is available online, and your clients will undoubtedly browse the internet for what it is that they’re looking for before they splash out. So it’s important to ask yourself: is my company’s online presence as good as it can be? The first thing that you can do to measure this, is to Google your company’s name.

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Master The Virtual Handshake In Recruitment

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. At the heart of business growth, finding the talent you need to sustain and cultivate your expansion is primordial. However, recruiting has become a challenge in a modern society where individual needs are in constant movement. The days of professional relocation are dying out. Nowadays, more and more employees expect their employer to value their work/life balance and provide a solution that suits their individual needs.