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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities. A Chief Innovation Officer: Builds Purpose.

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Empowering Women Will Innovate Your Company

InnovationManagement

Female empowerment has been a hot topic in the business community over the years. Female entrepreneurship is rising steadily, and conversations will steer toward this theme increasingly as women entrepreneurs expand their influence in the marketplace.

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Innovation Insights from Teddy Roosevelt

Innovation Excellence

Sometimes one stumbles across insights from unexpected places. Most of the books I have read recently have fallen into the category of histories of other countries (Laos, China, Singapore, Myanmar, Colombia) or studies of how things work (buildings, bridges, rivers, archaeology). I gravitate towards these subject areas because they are of great interest to me.

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3 Social Entrepreneurs That Are Changing The World From The Bottom Up

Digital Tonto

The best way to help the world's poor is by leveraging the assets they already have Related posts: The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World. How Social. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Innovation Labs: open innovation, outside and inside the corporation (4/4)

Rapid Innovation in digital time

4 types of innovation labs: following the description of the 1) Disruptive Labs, and 2) Rapid Innovation Labs, we move now to the 3) Open Innovation Labs, and 4) Innovation Culture and Intrapreneurship Labs.

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The Big Secret of Design Thinking? Doing.

Innovationship

12.5 million. That’s roughly the number of hits you get today on Google when you search on the term “design thinking.” Design thinking has come a long way since my days at IDEO back in the early ‘90s when the mere mention of the word “design” saw most technologists and non-designers frowning their brow with skepticism. What was design thinking before it was design thinking?

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Wins & Woes of Innovation Groups: Part 2

Peer Insight

We conducted a series of interviews with innovation leaders at major companies and shared our learnings in a Corporate Innovation Playbook. We summed up some interesting insights and anecdotes here. Last week we sat down with a VP of Innovation & New Business Development at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, an Innovation Venture Manager at a top insurance company, and a Strategy Manager responsible for innovation at an international non-profit.

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Today is a Prototype for TomorroW

Innovationship

WE ARE ALL DESIGNERS! Look around you. Seriously; stop reading for a minute, and look around you. Everything you see — literally every thing — was designed by someone. The chair you’re sitting on, the clothes you are wearing, the walls and ceiling and floor, the screen and device on which you are reading these words. everything. And not only tangible things: the sites you visit, the services you use, the restaurants you frequent, notice that all of them are the result of design.

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Differentiating Yourself Part Two

Guide 4 Innovating

So my further part of how we need to set about and differentiate ourselves. How do we show the real difference that innovation can provide? I believe we have eight needs to achieve. Each of us will arrive at our own personal understanding of what this “all means” Innovation is about achieving difference so if we all arrived at the same point of understanding then we actually are defeating ourselves from the very beginning.

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Break ‘Em Up!

Innovationship

CHANGE YOUR WORK HABITS FOR A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE How can I learn to think up wild ideas? Can I become more innovative or is it just a natural gift? Where do new ideas come from? We often get asked these sorts of questions from people searching to inject new ways of thinking into their work, hoping to find a secret formula for great ideas that will give them the leading edge.

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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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Navi Radjou on How You Can Implement Frugal Innovation

Innovation Leader

Navi Radjou, whose TED talk on frugal innovation has garnered over 1.6 million views, explains some of the values driving the phenomenon, and answers questions.

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Why Do Some Brainstorming Sessions Suck?

Innovationship

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” suc

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A Better Data Visualization Tool

Taivara

Taivara Blog Post. A Better Data Visualization Tool? Testing a customized enclosure diagram approach to data visualization. D ata is a critical business asset, but the deluge of it in recent years has leaders in a variety of industries wondering how to translate it into actionable information. Data visualization tools, as a means of making sense of the huge volumes of data available, is increasingly the go-to option and was cited in two of the top five 2018 ‘big data’ trends in a recent Informat

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Stealing Prototypes

Innovationship

STIMULATE INNOVATION BY MAKING UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS “Good artists borrow, great artist steal.” — attributed to several people, but it was probably W.H. Davenport Adams If you are pushing yourself to develop new, original ideas, trying to come up with that one thing that no one has thought of before. you might be working too hard. The ultimate innovation icon, Steve Jobs, said, "Creativity is just connecting things.

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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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Great Ideas Aren’t Enough

Innovationship

HOW KODAK MISSED ITS CHANCE TO LEAD THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION As you sow, so shall you reap. You’ve heard this proverb before, and you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of realizing its simple truth: the initial conditions of a process will have a dramatic impact on the outcome. To build further on the metaphor, there are parameters that farmers must consider when sowing for next year’s crops: what to sow, when to sow, and how to spread the seeds.

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