Wed.Aug 31, 2016

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Balancing Exploitation & Exploration for Changing Performance

HYPE Innovation

“Being ambidextrous” in organisations is the ability to successfully combine the exploiting of all the investments that have been made to date, to constantly build on these achievements by exploring new areas and opportunities. This calls for dual thinking and organisational design to optimise the two orientations. We are striving to maximise the existing utility, usually through continuous improvements, exploiting incremental advancement, combining this with the need of exploring beyond the exi

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How Lean Startup Techniques Can Work Even Better For Established Businesses

Digital Tonto

While small, agile firms can move fast, larger enterprises have the ability to move deliberately. They have loyal customers and an abundance of resources. Related posts: How IBM Plans To Help. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Augmented Reality Is Much Bigger Than Pokémon Go

Daniel Burrus

The increasing use of virtual reality (VR) is a Hard Trend that will continue to grow, and with the release of several high-profile VR systems, 2016 was supposed to be the year that VR finally went mainstream. However, users around the world queuing up to immerse themselves in a virtual world have yet to materialize. The less fancied augmented reality (AR) consists of using your smartphone camera or smart glasses to overlay virtual elements to the physical world.

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If you believe…

Mike Shipulski

If you believe the work is meaningful, best effort flows from every pore. If you believe in yourself, positivity carries the day. If you believe the work will take twelve weeks, you won’t get it done in a day-and-a-half. If you believe in yourself, when big problems find you, you run them to ground. If you believe people have good intensions, there are no arguments, there is only progress.

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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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Innovation Needs Different Thinking Horizons

Innovation Excellence

Paul Hobcraft makes the case that different types of innovation operate and evolve over different time horizons and explains the three emerging horizons that need different treatment for innovation.

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Make Your Innovation Theatre ‘Hamilton’ and Not ‘Carrie’

Innovation Leader

This week, Innovation Leader editor Scott Kirsner provides a contrarian view on “innovation theater,” the label that some put on just about any efforts at corporate innovation.

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Fostering innovation at L&T Technology Services

Values Centered Innovation

Innovation is no longer an option for organizations today. In fact, an innovative mind-set has become the deciding factor between greatness and mediocrity, success and failure of corporations today. William and Debra Miller are the co-founders of Values Centered Innovation, which is working with L&T Technology Services to fuel creativity and innovation - new ideas and new achievements.

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Welcome To #BIF2016

It's Saul Connected

#BIF2016 on September 14–15 in Providence, Rhode Island marks our 12th annual Collaborate Innovation Summit. I’ve been looking forward to it all year. The BIF Summit still gives me that first-day-of-school feeling complete with butterflies in my stomach and giddy anticipation for the unexpected ideas, possibilities and connections it always delivers.

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The Future of Banking –  Promises and Threats

Rmukesh Gupta

The past decade has already seen a lot of industry structures being redefined with leaders going bust and new age companies taking their place. One of the industries that seems to be on the cusp of going through a similar upheaval seems to be the banking industry. If you look at what a bank does at its core, it is only two things: Collect money from parties (individuals, businesses and governments) and keep them safe and pay them whenever they need the same back.

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Really Governor Christie, Vetoing a Minimum Wage Hike the Week Before Labor Day?

Adam Hartung

Tuesday New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed legislation which would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $15/hour over 5 years. The current rate is $8.38, and he felt it was too big an increase, too fast. Of course the governor makes quite a bit more than the minimum wage. And although he vetoed the legislation because he is “pro-business” he has never run a business and really has no idea what the economic impact of a higher minimum wage would be on New Jersey.

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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.