Thu.Mar 01, 2018

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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. It highlights the importance of a new concept that every corporate innovation leader needs to internalize: the Path-to-Value for each innovation. If this notion is not already in your vernacular, it needs to be. To understand why, we’ll dig into the story from this client.

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Digitization of Human Resources: Challenges and Opportunities

Exoplatform

Digitization of Human Resources is a hot topic these days. What do companies expect out of it? The post Digitization of Human Resources: Challenges and Opportunities appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.

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Imaginatik Charts the True Path-to-Value for Breakthrough and Continuous Innovation Management

Imaginatik

New dashboard empowers enterprises to maximize their innovation outcomes and deliver business value. BOSTON – March 1, 2018 – Today Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in corporate innovation management according to Forrester Research, announced a major update to its industry-leading Innovation Central software aimed at enabling enterprises to maximize their ROI from breakthrough and continuous innovation programs.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – The New-and-Improved, Surf-to-Turf

BrainZooming

Sometimes, we get to design a creative thinking exercise that seems like so much fun during its development that it causes me to continually smile and giggle. We have a new one of those that we debuted yesterday. In its new form, it’s called Surf-to-Turf. It combines the Shrimp creative thinking exercise , the ultra-popular-at-Brainzooming mad face emoji, the extreme creativity and celebratory slogan (“Winner, winner chicken dinner”) of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives , and one of

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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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How to Keep Your Employees from Losing their Creativity

InnovationManagement

The most successful businesses and corporations in the world place employee satisfaction on the same pedestal as customer satisfaction. These corporations understand that without a loyal, creative, and cohesive team of satisfied employees, success cannot be attained.

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Message for the CEO: When is a good time to invest in innovation?

Strategos

When times are good, people underinvest in innovation because there is no sense of urgency. When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities. What is the CEO’s role in all of this and how can he/she break the impasse? download. The post Message for the CEO: When is a good time to invest in innovation?

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The Different Types of Innovation and How to Pursue Them

Innocentive

Innovation comes in multiple forms. For pursuing each form, there are certain tools that work better than others. What these different forms and associated tools are, depends on the model you follow. Here I look at three: one from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), one from Doblin Innovation, and one from Greg Satell.

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What’s More Important Than Following Your Dreams?

Innovation Excellence

The path to success may be paved with dreams but navigating it requires more than wishful thinking. Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002-2007, loved to talk about dreams. My favorite of his many quotes about them is, “Dream is not the thing you see in sleep, but is that thing that doesn’t let you.

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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

Strategos

Getting started with Innovation Metrics. It seems an oxymoron to some that, a process as spontaneous and creative as innovation can and should be measured. Here at Strategos, we firmly believe that innovation can be taught, learned and systematically implemented by establishing the right processes, systems, structures, skills and metrics. Metrics are essential to track and guide the development of your innovation system.

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The Constancy of Change and the Path to Continuous Value Creation

Innovation 360

Overly simplified models of the world lead inevitably to inadequate conclusions and unprofitable pursuits. That’s why so many businesses recently have succumbed to disruptive outsiders. They weren’t building enough interdependencies and complexities into their market projections. Cisco’s former CEO is widely quoted as forecasting that around 40 percent of the companies operating today will no longer exist within 10 years.

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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 to Prevent the Digital Dark Ages

Innovation Excellence

On January 24, 2018, during the 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, business leaders from around the world convened to launch the formation of the Global Centre for Cybersecurity. The primary reason? To “prevent a digital dark age.” According to a press release on the event: Cyberattacks could cripple economies, nation states.

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Innovation Illustrated: Measuring Innovation

Innovation Leader

Here’s Innovation Leader’s look at how you can design an effective “Mission Control” for your innovation work, along with questions to discuss with your team and senior leadership.

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Lunch Talk: How to Make Innovation a Habit

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation is becoming ever more important in the face of the rapid change most industries are facing. In a McKinsey survey 84% of executives rate innovation as important for their business. However only 6% of them are happy with the innovation efforts in their companies. How do you become one of the happy 6%? Thursday, 23rd of May, 2019. At 11:30 am.

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Achieving an Innovation Culture

Strategos

A stepwise approach to achieving an innovation culture. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” The famous quote is attributed to Peter Drucker, who pointed out that culture is a strong driver of how a company behaves and plays to win. We can safely say the same applies to the importance of culture for innovation performance. A company’s culture can both hinder or encourage innovation, regardless of whether innovation is claimed to be a top priority for the business.

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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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Corporate Innovation Metrics

Econic

In this video, Nicole Shephard from the Econic team discusses Corporate Innovation Metrics including how to avoid vanity metrics, figuring out which behaviors you want to drive, and implementing ongoing experimentation. The post Corporate Innovation Metrics appeared first on Econic.

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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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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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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Yellow Belt Grading – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

In the Yellow Belt the Licensed Practitioners get the leading Ideation Platform to resell, knowledge on how to sell and implement an ideation platform, organizational design and change. Templates and Methods included. . PURPOSE. Provide tools, methods and best practices how to implement an Innovation Management System. OBJECTIVES. Innovation Governance Models – How to align innovation with strategy.

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Getting started with Innovation Metrics

Strategos

It seems an oxymoron to some that, a process as spontaneous and creative as innovation can and should be measured. We firmly believe that innovation can be taught, learned and systematically implemented by establishing the right processes, systems, structures, skills … and metrics. How can metrics be used to track and guide the development of your innovation system?

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Basic Accreditation – Stockholm

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organization can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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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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Achieving an Innovation Culture

Strategos

If like us you believe that having the right culture is an important driver of innovation success then the big question is what culture is right for your company and what can you do to attain that. This article highlights a stepwise approach to achieving an innovation culture. download. The post Achieving an Innovation Culture appeared first on Strategos – Strategy and Innovation Consulting Firm.

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Green Belt grading – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

In the Green Belt Licensed Practitioners will learn more on strategy, organizational development and especially change. And access to our new strategy tool for analysis: PESTLED360.com. Green belt. Day 1: 8.30-18.00 including lunch and dinner. Day 2: 8.30-15.00 including lunch. Purpose. 1.Develop your strategic skills linking innovation and strategy. 2.Mastering advanced innovation analysis. 3.Accredited to sell the Innovation Playbook to your clients. 4.Learn how to use InnovationIQ.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Campbell Soup Company’s Jeff George

Planview

How does a 150 year old consumer packaged good company reinvent itself in an industry that’s seeing an influx of new disruptive startups emerging? We had the opportunity to chat with Jeff George, VP, Americas R&D at Campbell Soup Company, who leads the company’s innovation program. George, who will be speaking at Spigit’s upcoming Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd in San Francisco, and his team have been doing a stellar job of turning their culture into one that makes the practice of inno

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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Storytelling for the Revolution

Idea Champions

Here is a possible cover of my forthcoming book on storytelling to be published in May. To pre-order and/or learn more about where I'm coming from, click here. "The world is not made of atoms. It is made of stories." - Muriel Ruykeser. "A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way." - Flannery O'Connor. "The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

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Basic Accreditation – Stockholm

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organization can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Strategic innovation initiatives, when is the timing right?

Strategos

Is There Ever a Good Time to start strategic innovation initiatives from the CEO’s Perspective? When times are good, people underinvest in strategic innovation initiatives because there is no sense of urgency. When times are bad, they underinvest because of a lack of resources and more pressing priorities. Strategos performed a study among 500 senior and mid-level managers in large U.S. companies, asking them to identify the biggest barriers to funding innovation.

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Basic Accreditation – New York City

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.