Thu.Jun 13, 2019

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Making Marketing Innovation a Growth Lever for Your Business

Innovation Excellence

Many businesses fail to realize that they are not in a single business, but are actually in two. First, they’re in the business of working on products and services that will help solve their clients’ problems and help them achieve their goals today. But that’s only half of the picture. They’re also in the business.

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How Businesses Use Crowdsourcing to Disrupt and Avoid Disruption

Innocentive

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The Innovation Manager's Summer Reading List 2019

HYPE Innovation

Is it just me, or does this also happen to you? Summer after summer it's the same. Usually, at the beginning of the season, I start to think, "okay, which book should I take on vacation?" (fully aware that, in the end, I'll return home having not opened it once). Why? Probably because I tend to grab a book that's been collecting dust on my shelf -- usually a promo/giveaway about something I don't really care about or a birthday gift that missed the mark ( sorry, Grandma, I don't want to read tha

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Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time

IdeaScale

There’s an old saying that goes, “The rooster crows, but the hen delivers,” and it’s an apt metaphor for the world of invention. Most of us have little difficulty listing male inventors, but rattling off a list of female innovators is harder. It’s not because women don’t innovate, but because historically they haven’t had the educational opportunities that male innovators have had.

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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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An Innovative Complaint – United Breaks Guitars

Destination Innovation

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Questions or Full Stops

Carla Johnson - Innovation

June 13, 2019 There’s an ever-widening gap between what’s natural to us as children and what’s taught into us through the educational system and corporate culture. American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, Neil Postman says “children enter school as question marks and leave as full stops.” The same thing happens to employees as they enter the work world.

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How Ratan Tata avoided a ‘Kodak Moment’

Innovation Excellence

Imagine the scene. It’s the early hours of the morning. A young engineer lies awake, unable to sleep because of the excitement. After what seems like an hour of trying to find a comfy position to nod off, he checks the clock. Just fifteen minutes have elapsed since the last time he looked! He worries.

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Change Caused By Innovation

Phil McKinney

As a result of some digital spring cleaning I was doing, I found and was listening to old shows from 2005 – the first year of my podcast. Honestly, given what I know now, I wish could have re-written and re-recorded them. The technology and tools now available to podcasters are far superior to what […].

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How to Evaluate Visual Project Management Tools

Kainexus

We’ve received a bunch of responses to our recent posts about visual project management. Many of our readers have shared their stories about how moving to visual management has helped them get more projects completed and to better understand the results of their improvement efforts. Other readers have asked questions about what to look for when selecting tools for visual project management.

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yet2’s Thoughts on The Japan Society of Boston’s Business Forum

Yet2

Earlier in June I attended a Business Forum sponsored by the Japan Society of Boston titled: The Changing Landscape: Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Future of US/Japan Trade. The Japan Society of Boston organizes events to promote cultural and economic ties and active interchange between Japanese and Americans for mutual understanding, benefit and enjoyment.

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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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Real-Time Lessons Learned from John Toussaint at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

Kainexus

I'm here at the 2019 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in a keynote with John Toussaint, MD, the Executive Chairman of the Board at Catalysis.

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Tales from the 2019 Innovation Bootcamp

Strategyzer Innovation

We’ve just completed our 4th annual innovation bootcamp in Baden, Switzerland! The bootcamp is our signature event for training business coaches and innovation professionals to reach a world-class level of expertise in business model & value proposition design, innovation practices and coaching facilitation. A few facts and figures from this year’s participants: 34 participants 16 countries represented 5 full days (or full years, but who’s counting) of workshopping 7 guest speakers 5 Strateg

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Machine to Machine (M2M): what it is and how it works

mjvinnovation

M2M technology was first adopted in industrial environments and later found applications in health, business, insurance and more. It is also the basis of the Internet of Things. In this article, we’ve decided to show you in detail what Machine to Machine is, how this phenomenon is transforming business, and how you can make use of it in your company.

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Simple Ways to Improve Employee Morale

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you want to improve your employee morale, then this is very easy to do. The below tips should help you to get started without any difficulty at all. Communicate. One of the best and easiest ways for you to improve your team morale would be for you to communicate with them better. Ask them how they feel, if they are facing any challenges or even if there is anything that you can do to help them.

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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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Less snake oil, more thought leadership please!

Cris Beswick

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Useful Upgrades That Will Improve Your Employees’ Work Ethic

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. As a business owner there will always be something on your agenda that needs to be fixed with urgency. When you look at your employees’ work ethic you aren’t sure whether they are lacking skills or motivation, but you are ready to make a change and improve it. The truth is, your organization could benefit from a few changes, especially when it comes to your members of staff.

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Tiered Daily Huddles at Cleveland Clinic

Kainexus

I'm eagerly awaiting the start of a presentation by Cinnamon Dixon , the Director of Continuous Improvement at Cleveland Clinic , about their visual management process. I was talking with a Catalysis consultant this morning at breakfast who was telling me about the tiered huddle system at Cleveland Clinic, so I'm super excited to learn more about it.

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The Company That Created Robot Pizza Trucks Is Now Pushing to Solve the Global Issue of Plastic Pollution

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Zume is expanding past pizza and will manufacture compostable replacements for single-use plastics.

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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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#1,512 – Black Mirror Week: Translatotron, Deep Fakes, and the Future of Trust

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

President Trump is a pathological liar who denies saying most of what he said. Facts he doesn’t like get distorted. Truths get twisted. Anything he doesn’t agree with gets labeled as fake news. One minute we’re going back to the Moon. The next week it’s Mars, of which the Moon is a part. It’s literally impossible to follow the paper trail for his thought process.

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