Fri.May 19, 2017

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Playfulness: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

The world’s greatest innovators exhibit 27 creative attitudes, and playfulness is one of the most critical attitudes (Kim, 2016). Playfulness is approaching situations in an exploratory manner and seeing the lighter side of a challenge with a sense of humor, which enables flexible thinking. While innovators are focused and passionate about their pursuits, they do not take themselves too seriously.

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What’s Next – The Disruptive Innovation Toolkit™

Braden Kelley

… and a new Innovation Intervention service. People have been asking me recently – What’s next?

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Reboot a Sluggish Brand

Idea to Value

Once market shares dwindles and revenue targets are missed year after year (despite category growth), it may be time to reboot a once-beloved brand. First off, you need to decide if you genuinely want to reboot a brand. Some people get so tethered to old ideas about the brand that there is resistance to rethink its meaning and potential. If you are serious about growth and see rebooting as the only path of salvation, read on.

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How to Become a Content Strategist and Avoid Becoming Extinct

BrainZooming

Following up the post about why so many mid-career marketers have missed out on becoming outstanding content strategists , Emma Alvarez Gibson, from our West Coast (or Best Coast) Brainzooming HQ , is here discussing the steps to become a content strategist and avoid marketing career extinction. How to Become a Content Strategist and Avoid Becoming Extinct by Emma Alvarez Gibson.

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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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Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk By Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt

Svava

Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk In this series of blog posts, we’ve been talking about the shift from consumers to prosumer, and how you can bring them into your innovation process, without opening yourself up to risk. At the end of the last post, we began taking a […].

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Innovation at the YouthSpeak Forum 2017

Be-novative

(Video) Social, organization and innovation leaders gathered at the YouthSpeak Forum in Budapest, Hungary to empower young people from across the globe to take part in the sustainability conversation and create actionable steps on important issues in our world today. Watch our video that covered the day-long event.

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How Big Radical is Reclaiming Design

InnovationManagement

Nobody doubts that design can be powerful. But while words and phrases like ‘design thinking,’ ‘agile’ and ‘lean’ may be officially welcome in the boardrooms of Deloitte, Accenture, PWc, McKinsey and similar firms, I believe that the full potential of design has been neglected and these terms misappropriated.

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User-centered design: how to merge it with a design thinking program

Innovation Excellence

Sometimes underrated and later-introduced in the process, user-centered design is a fundamental tool for innovation. The design thinking approach most of the time offers a great deal of product structure for the team to deal with. If well conducted you can come out from a program like that with elements such as the main issue.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

When published, in November 1859, “On the Origin of Species” stunned a bewildered and reluctant public with its audacious claim: Life was not created in its present form but is a result of gradual evolution. In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers.

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Bubble PPM | G Cloud 9 (G9) Approved Project Portfolio Management supplier | PPM software

Bubblegroup

Bubble PPM – G Cloud 9 approved Project Portfolio Management software The UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service selects Bubble Innovator Ltd as a G Cloud 9 supplier on the 2017-18 Digital Marketplace, opening up further opportunities for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) services to the public sector. Bubble Innovator Ltd, a leading provider of cloud based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced it has been accepted as a G Cloud 9 (G9) supplier in the latest iteration of

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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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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

When published, in November 1859, “On the Origin of Species” stunned a bewildered and reluctant public with its audacious claim: Life was not created in its present form but is a result of gradual evolution. In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers.

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Trust Me I’m a Corporate

100%Open

100%Open had its annual awayday last week and feedback was positive – we let our hair down, went fishing, co-created our new strategy – that sort of thing. I did learn one unexpectedly profound thing – all about trust. Our Non Exec Chair Kevin Duncan mentioned a book I now want to read – The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni – in preparation for a session on leadership at 100%Open.

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MinuteHack Interview – Wazoku CEO, Simon Hill

Wazoku

‘It’s Important To Celebrate The Small Wins’ Wazoku is growing 60% a year with its solution helping businesses organise bright ideas. Simon Hill, founder of Wazoku, tells MH how a lucky encounter launched the business in the broadsheet press, why it’s growing 60% a year and why he fears a Brexit tech brain drain. Tell us about your business.

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After the Shark Tank: BNY Mellon on Broadening Innovation Impact

Innovation Leader

Adetola Abiade of BNY Mellon, explains the nuts-and-bolts of how the oldest bank in the US runs its internal "Shark Tank" and broadens the event's impact.

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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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Empowering Your Prosumers

Svava

Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk with Idea Hunt.

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Podcast #014 Tendayi Viki – What is Lean Innovation?

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Tendayi Viki on what exactly “Lean Innovation” is. Tendayi is a popular innovation and strategy consultant and is one of the authors behind the recently released book “The Corporate Startup”, which helps large companies understand all of the underlying mechanisms behind lean innovation to bring down the costs and risks of running innovation projects.

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Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk By Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt

Svava

Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

On the backdrop of the boundless creativity of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs (often one and the same) a cottage industry of management theories has emerged. Each theory introducing its own catalogue of acronyms, graphs and tools to explain successes and failures. Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers.

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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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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

On the backdrop of the boundless creativity of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs (often one and the same) a cottage industry of management theories has emerged. Each theory introducing its own catalogue of acronyms, graphs and tools to explain successes and failures. Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers.