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A summer office after a pandemic – what did we do?

Board of Innovation

Every year, we gather our colleagues from around the world for a week of team bonding, workshops, strategy sessions, and unwinding - we call it ‘Summer Office’. The post A summer office after a pandemic – what did we do? appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Podcast S6E130: Esther Gons – Innovation Accounting

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Ether Gons, Founder of GroundControl and author of the Corporate Startup (with Dan Toma) and Innovation Accounting. We speak about what it takes to measure innovation progress, what companies and analysts get wrong, and how to think about metrics and KPIs in a different way. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Esther’s history with Startups in Holland, and the founding of Ground Control. 00:02:45 – What

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Kaizen: The Japanese Approach to Continuous Improvement

Kainexus

In the business management context, continuous improvement means a never-ending effort to identify and eliminate the root causes of problems that produce errors or diminish customer value. Most often, it consists of many incremental improvements rather than one drastic change. Continuous improvement is an integral part of Japanese culture, which endeavors to improve on an ongoing basis.

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Building Your Learning Culture to Retain Top Talent

CMOE

As businesses are ramping up and asking employees to return to in-person work in offices, restaurants, hotels, and manufacturing firms, millions of people are leaving their jobs in search of something different, something more. What they’re looking for varies, but there are some common factors being reported. Over the last 18 months, workers have had time to think about what they really want and have decided that life is too short to settle.

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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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Why Innovation Governance Matters

Sopheon

Be prepared for change with clear mandates and trained rules for the unexpected. The post Why Innovation Governance Matters appeared first on Sopheon.

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What Osterwalder gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

Strategyzer, the innovation services firm co-founded by Alexander Osterwalder, has popularized several innovation tools and methodologies (e.g., the business model canvas). So, we were intrigued to see what they had to say about innovation metrics in their most recent book The Invincible Company. What we found was a focus on some of the right problems—but also a fundamental flaw in their solutions.

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What Osterwalder gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

Strategyzer, the innovation services firm co-founded by Alexander Osterwalder, has popularized several innovation tools and methodologies (e.g., the business model canvas). So, we were intrigued to see what they had to say about innovation metrics in their most recent book … The post What Osterwalder gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics appeared first on Commodore Innovation.

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Equipping Ourselves For The Future

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The CMO’s Growing Focus on Innovation

Carla Johnson

August 27, 2021 “The revolving door of the marketing C-Suite has been greased.” – Ryan Barwick, Morning Brew Over the last 20 years, the shoulders of a chief marketing officer have gotten incredibly broad. Well, that is, if they want to be able to outlive the average month tenure of their office. At nearly every turn, the role of the.

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Brainstorming Rules (What are the Rules for Brainstorming Sessions?)

InnovationTraining.org

“Brainstorming” as a concept was originally devised by Alex Osborn as a group ideation activity. Today, many people just consider individual idea generating (or thinking) as brainstorming – when it was originally meant to be a group experience…a brainstorming session. Alex Osborn’s book Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving is a classic foundational text if you’d like to get into the origins.

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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