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There is a clear winner theme in ideas’ implementation

Exago

After ideation and crowd discussion, followed by improvement and approval, management and leadership embrace innovations more easily, as the higher rates of implementation show. The post There is a clear winner theme in ideas’ implementation appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Strategic Planning Tools – 600 Powerful Strategic Thinking Questions eBook

BrainZooming

One of the most popular Brainzooming blog posts the past few years is rich in strategic thinking tools. It features more than 200 strategic thinking questions we’ve gathered, envisioned, and created going back to The Brainzooming Group origins as a corporate strategic planning department. The Brainzooming Group has created and published many more questions since then as part of our portfolio of strategic planning tools.

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2016

Innovation Excellence

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2016 was our fifth full year of operations. To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2016 from our archive of over 7,500 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors.

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100+ sources that every innovation professional should know

Board of Innovation

Running innovation projects is hard. By definition you’re doing new things so you can’t rely on old habits and routines. If you and your innovation team don’t feel uncomfortable, you’re simply not innovating. That doesn’t mean you’ll need to fly blind. At every moment in your innovation process you can use toinnools, references, checklists and other innovation methods.

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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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Learning what to stop doing in the new year

Innovation Excellence

The start of any new year is often a time for reflection, both from an individual and organizational perspective. We examine our lives and try and figure out things we want to do better. We aspire and strive, set ourselves challenges and goals that will make us better. Usually these are additive. We strive to.

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100+ sources that every innovation professional should know

Board of Innovation

Running innovation projects is hard. By definition you’re doing new things so you can’t rely on old habits and routines. If you and your innovation team don’t feel uncomfortable, you’re simply not innovating. That doesn’t mean you’ll need to fly blind. At every moment in your innovation process you can use toinnools, references, checklists and other innovation methods.

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Rebuild Personas According to Your Next Product Innovation

InnovationManagement

Using personas in your design thinking framework is important, but are the results satisfying and clear? In this article, Product Innovation Manager Alex Igor Sanghikian discusses the Adjacent Possibilities framework for product management. By exclusively focusing on your persona’s one main need and trying hard to fulfill that need with your product, you can build the next feature with a more focused vision.

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Reinnovation of the Major Automotive Players Through Eco Systems, Openness and Platform Design

Innovation 360 Group

When industries seek to totally redefine themselves, as many are doing today or are going to do, three of the most important aspects to consider in this innovation-driven change are developing greater linkages, openness and platform thinking – simply because it is impossible to solve many of today’s big problems alone and as a response to the new entrants that have entered the marketplace with new technology and shaken it up with a new way of operating that is challenging the status quo in way t

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Digital transformation: Good ideas implemented badly or bad ideas implemented well?

etventure

Almost all companies are occupied with the issue of digital transformation. New studies appear almost daily that aim to demonstrate the importance CEOs and managers from all sectors attach to digital transformation. So far, so good. The solution appears to be attractively simple to some business leaders. You just set up a working group, launch some digital projects under the auspices of the IT department and off you go.

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Tech innovation trends for 2017

Wazoku

With 2016 behind us, it’s time to look forward and embrace the new, positive things 2017 will bring. Technology is constantly evolving and changing the way we see, think and react to the world. 2017 will be no exception, considering the tech trends that emerged in 2016 and will continue to develop in the new year. Some of the trends we can expect to change the world in 2017 include: Internet of Things (IoT).

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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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Best Among What I Read Today – The Innovation Edition, Jan 5th 2017

Rmukesh Gupta

In this edition of Best Among what I read, I would like to share some of the best content that I came across this week, on the topic of Innovation. Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea. In this blog post, Roger Martin shares how the concepts of design thinking can be used not just to create new products or services but can be used for a much more important activity – to build commitments to the ideas that the design thinking team is working on.

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Tech innovation trends for 2017

Wazoku

With 2016 behind us, it’s time to look forward and embrace the new, positive things 2017 will bring. Technology is constantly evolving and changing the way we see, think and react to the world. 2017 will be no exception, considering the tech trends that emerged in 2016 and will continue to develop in the new year. Some of the trends we can expect to change the world in 2017 include: Internet of Things (IoT).

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Do Technical Experts Make Better Leaders? Part 2

Michael Roberto

Someone read yesterday's blog post about technical experts as leaders , and they asked me if I had done a similar analysis for NFL coaches. In yesterday's blog post, I showed that most NBA championships have been won either by non-players or players who never made an All-Star team. That finding stood in contrast to a scholarly study that showed former All-Stars achieving a higher winning percentage than non-stars or non-players.

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6 Innovation Tool Kits to Drive Business Growth

Leapfrogging

Promoting a culture of innovation focused on business growth starts with providing practical tools that give anyone the opportunity to innovate in whatever they do. (Article based on the upcoming book, The Invisible Advantage ). It’s one thing to say you want a culture of innovation. It’s another to actually get everyone truly innovating. We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure.

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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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IdeaScale Accelerates and Enhances the Web’s Capacity for Real-World Problem Solving

IdeaScale

We are at the vanguard of the web’s capacity for problem-solving and improving the human condition, but many barriers still remain converting ideas into real-world solutions. IdeaScale removes those barriers, catalyzing and democratizing the forces of the web to help people identify and develop solutions to issues in their communities. You may remember hearing a funny story a few years ago about a viral video showing people tripping over the same step at a New York City subway station.

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6 Innovation Tool Kits to Drive Business Growth

Leapfrogging

Promoting a culture of innovation focused on business growth starts with providing practical tools that give anyone the opportunity to innovate in whatever they do. (Article based on the book, The Invisible Advantage ). It’s one thing to say you want a culture of innovation. It’s another to actually get everyone truly innovating. We hear it all the time from the executive suite – take more risks, embrace uncertainty, learn from failure.

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