Tue.Sep 06, 2016

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Creating the Physical Space for Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Building spaces for innovation is a hot topic these days. Whether you call them innovation hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs, accelerators or hotspots you can hardly turn a street corner or a magazine page before you bump into another example. The names may vary but the underlying idea is the same – a place where people can meet to get inspired and supported by each other, to articulate and co-create.

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Innovation Fertility

Imaginatik

What is Your Company’s Innovation Fertility? Collecting new ideas is table stakes in the innovation management domain. Without a fertile climate for innovation, more ideas simply lead to more wasted opportunities. It is the creative use of the collected data, not just the ideas themselves, which raises the game – which we refer to as ‘innovation fertility’.

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Can you take Criticism? And was the Reformation really necessary?

Destination Innovation

‘Someone told me that I am poor at taking on board criticism so I quickly pointed out they were wrong.’ This little witticism is at the core of many a corporate disaster. Martin Luther. The Catholic magazine, The Tablet, recently ran an editorial with the intriguing headline ‘Was the Reformation really necessary?’ It points out that Martin Luther and the early Protestants wanted to reform the Church rather than break with it.

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A Beginner’s Guide to MVP

etventure

What is an MVP? Why is it important for your business? In our beginner’s guide to MVPs our Head of Product, Gregor Ilg, explains what a minimum viable product is, how it is developed and how it can help companies to enhance innovation. Introduction. When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story.

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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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Your Personal Backstory – Feel Free to Revise and Edit It

BrainZooming

This shouldn’t be a newsflash, but it needs to be said: You are completely free to edit your personal backstory. Each of us has a backstory. A personal backstory is what we say about ourselves (along with our behaviors, physical cues, and beliefs that may speak louder than our words) about how we reached where we are right now. A backstory provides others an important input toward beginning to form perceptions about you.

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Accenture Innovation center, creativity on starting-blocks

Rapid Innovation in digital time

What is the Paris Accenture Innovation Center ? In a nutshell, a dizzying innovation team, acting in a tremendous place for creativity! Albane Liger Belair, Accenture Paris Innovation Center Director, kindly walked me through this amazing space.

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Tips for Constructing a Data-Driven Culture

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Analytics and data-driven decision making have become something of a holy grail for modern organizations.& In December 2015, APQC conducted its annual survey to understand the common challenges and priorities of process and performance management practitioners in 2016. The survey covered a wide array of topics including data and analytics. Though most organizations have embarked on their an.

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Creating products customers want with Innovation Wars

Innovation Excellence

How can product managers help their organizations innovate in a way that will appeal to customers? Co-create with your customers. It is frequent advice, but how do you really accomplish it? To find out, I discussed the topic with the author of Innovation Wars: Driving Successful Corporate Innovation Programs. It’s an authoritative guidebook for innovators.

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Connected Futures – Jumpstart Your Corporate Creativity. Partner with Startups.

Venture2

Derek Slater interviews Mike Docherty regarding how startup partnerships are the perfect solution to corporate risk aversion. “What they used to call innovation is no longer enough. For a large company to live and grow, you’ve got to do more than reinvent the core or provide extensions. You really need to find new sources of growth. That means a lot more risk and a lot more uncertainty.” ( read here ).

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PBTO42: The Importance of Being Happy And Doing Things that Make You Happy with RJ Shraddha

Rmukesh Gupta

Whom do we host in this episode: In this episode, we host RJ Shraddha from Fever 104 FM (Bangalore) and the host of the breakfast show – Mad Mornings. Why is she on the show: Her show “Mad Mornings” is one of the most successful shows and she herself has a very interesting career. She herself being a peak performer, I think there is a lot that we can all learn from her.

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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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Forbes.com – Venture2 Inc. CEO Shares How Corporations And Startups Are Collaborating To Create New Businesses

Venture2

Blake Morgan (columnist for Forbes.com) interviews Mike Docherty in her podcast The Modern Customer regarding how Docherty and his organization work with leading companies to transform their innovation capabilities by building innovation ecosystems and accelerating the commercialization of breakthrough new products, services, and business models. ( listen here ).

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How Britain’s Metro Bank Created a ‘Lighthouse Identity’

Innovation Leader

Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor discusses his book, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.

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How to navigate complexity with liminal thinking (UX Week)

Xplaner

David Gray // How to Navigate Complexity with Liminal Thinking // UX Week 16 from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

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New Job. New Opportunity: Tips for Getting on the Same Page as Your New Boss

The Human Factor

Holly welcomes guest blogger James Mitchell-. Photo by viganhajdari. Being “the new guy” at a new job or internship can be quite overwhelming at first. Every five minutes you are meeting someone new or being taught another couple company acronyms that make you wonder, “Are they still speaking English to me?”. After you walk around the building frantically trying to grasp each detail uttered from your boss’s mouth, you arrive at your workstation.

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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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Ideas to Improve Customer Experiences

Svava

How To Improve Customer Experiences.

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10 Ways to Improve Your Company's Broken Ideation Process

Idea Champions

OK. You're busy. I get it. Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs to this blog post and will now simply cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or a joke. You know it. I know it. And 99% of the people who work with you know it -- a longstanding phenomenon that spawns nothing but frustration, wheel spinning, and resignation.

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Step Over the Imaginary Line

Idea Champions

50 quotes on risktaking. The Joe Belinsky Factor. Creating the Innovation Mindset.

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David Lynch on Creativity

Idea Champions

Idea Champions

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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