Wed.Dec 18, 2019

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Innovation FOMO and FOMAD

Jeffrey Phillips

Today, memes enter and leave the lexicon so quickly that I almost hesitate to use newly coined words or phrases, in fear that they may have already become passe. So you can imagine my trepidation in using FOMO - the "fear of missing out" - when writing about innovation. However, rather than simply expand on innovation FOMO, I'd like to introduce another, even more important issue - FOMAD.

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Combat Unpredictable Change with Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

It is often assumed that people don’t like change, when in reality humans are born to instinctively love change. It’s why we take vacations and crave travel, because we want and need change. We must get out of our usual surroundings and witness something new in order to regain focus and refresh our perspectives. In this case, change is a choice, so we like it.

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Centralized vs. Embedded Innovation: Which is Right for Your Organization?

Innovation Leader

Jennifer Kirby, a former Managing Director on the innovation team at Hyatt Hotels, lays out the advantages of centralizing innovation versus embedding it within teams.

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Podcast S3E29: Roger Firestien – Learning from the man who taught the creative process to the most people in the world

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Prof. Roger L Firestien, who is a senior faculty member for the Centre for Applied Imagination, University of SUNY, Buffalo. He is also distinguished as being the person who has trained more people to lead the creative problem solving process (CPS) than anyone else in the world. Prof Firestien has a new book coming out called Create in a Flash: A Leader’s Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation.

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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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Actions, Motivations, and Trust

Innovation Excellence

(Excerpt from my upcoming book The Book of Trust): One element of personal shared values is encompassed in the why we are taking action, and what action we choose to take. Imagine two people as in the image below. Each is driven by motivations and interests that are not necessarily made visible to the other person. These.

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From Ambivalence to Action: Leadership Lessons from Motivational Interviewing

Kainexus

One of the things we love doing most is providing the continuous improvement community with more resources and opportunities to learn. Our webinar series aims to do precisely that by bringing in experts, improvement professionals, and front-line process operators to share their experiences and knowledge. This post is a recap of one of our most popular webinars ever.

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10 Quick Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work

Collectivecamp

In a world of push notifications, email, instant messaging, and shrinking office space, we’re becoming increasingly distracted at work.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save the Lives of Firefighters

IdeaConnection

A cognitive platform to take care of firefighter safety in real time.

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Put Your Work (and Yourself) Out There!

Michael Roberto

Source: Needpix.com Last week, Renee Fleck authored a blog post titled, "The best creative advice of 2019: Words of wisdom for every designer." There are some gems in there from various design professionals. My favorite is from Lisa McCormick , a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Her advice: "Be a factory, not a warehouse." Here's the explanation: “My college professor said this and it really stuck with me.

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What To Do When You Have A New Product Idea

The Human Factor

contributed post –. source. The brain is a funny old thing. Sometimes, we need to switch it off to truly turn it on. What I mean is that we do some of our best thinking when we’re not even trying. For instance, you may be sitting on the subway or doing something at home when an idea pops into your head. It seems like a genius idea – and it could be revolutionary.

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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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Sorting through Ideas: Challenges and Opportunities

IdeaScale

Set up idea criteria to help you separate the wheat from the chaff. If innovation were easy, we wouldn’t need to create teams of talented individuals and task them with working at it. In fact, innovation is full of challenges and pitfalls. You can waste a lot of time, energy, and money going down the wrong roads. What kind of idea criteria can help you stay on track with your company’s innovation strategy?

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Let’s Start Managing Business Expense Better

The Human Factor

contributed post –. source. It does not matter what sort of company you run, it is imperative to make sure you get your finances right. This may seem straightforward. However, business owners tend to find that this is incredibly difficult once their company has been up and running for a while. This is because there are lots of different costs that must be accounted for, as well as forecasts to be drawn up and unexpected hurdles along the way.

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Building the Hype: 4 Communication Best Practices for Innovation Management

Qmarkets

The great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, “the single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Too often, leaders in the corporate sphere assume that once a new project – such as the implementation of an innovation management platform – is announced, users will naturally ‘get the message’ and adopt it as a standard business practice.