Mon.Apr 13, 2020

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How Remote Working Jumped the Queue in the Future of Work

InnovationManagement

The COVID-19 situation isn’t just affecting the way businesses work, it’s shaping discussions about how they will in future, too. Recent global events have affected businesses in unimaginable ways, testing them in a manner not seen in several generations. However, present circumstances have also fast-forwarded several conversations surrounding the future of work.

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Ex-DreamWorks Animation CTO: How the C-Suite Can Foster Innovation

Innovation Leader

”In my experience, the most powerful motivator to encourage innovation was peer recognition,” says Ed Leonard, Co-Founder of Bred Ventures and former CTO at DreamWorks Animation.

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How to Identify Synergies between Corporates, Startups and Spin-offs

Collectivecamp

It’s been well documented by the likes of Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen that if you want explore disruptive innovation in a large company, you have to either redesign or create parallel processes, systems and values internally in order up to support behaviours critical to innovation

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Leadership During Times of Uncertainty

Kainexus

The coronavirus pandemic that is currently gripping the globe is unlike any other crisis that we have seen. It will directly impact the lives of those who are exposed and their families. It will indirectly change the lives of everyone else as events are canceled, schools and businesses close, and everyone is responsible for social distancing. Although it won't be very easy amid concerns for the wellbeing of yourself and your loved ones, how you handle this situation is of profound significance t

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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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Hacking a Corporate Culture to Support Innovation

Collectivecamp

In my most recent podcast interview with Steve Blank, credited with developing the customer development methodology which birthed the lean startup, we touched on the topic of how the corporate culture inhibits innovation.

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#1,629 – Oura Ring

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

By now most people are pretty familiar with wearable devices, at least the more popular ones like smartwatches and fitness trackers. But there are plenty of other kinds of wearable devices that have never caught on. Devices that track our sleep patterns or hydration levels for instance. Or devices embedded into smart clothing. There are plenty of reasons why wearables haven’t fully been accepted by society yet.

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What is Conceptboard?

InnovationTraining.org

This visual collaboration workspace is being used for innovation and design thinking workshops and projects. As a continuation of our initiative to highlight some of the top online collaboration tools and resources for innovation and top design thinking software tools , this post will focus on another software tool designed for collaboration: Conceptboard.

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KPIs and Employee Incentives to Encourage Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Managers are incentivised to deliver on an existing, repeatable business model, not to help discover new ones. So how do we incentivise them to innovate without sacrificing the core business model which is, after all, where we make money today?

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Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline

Tullio Siragusa

Achieving Happiness Through Self-Discipline. Self-discipline and happiness seem to be two contradicting concepts, and using them in the same sentence is unacceptable. Self-discipline brings to mind the idea of “work and effort”, while happiness is usually associated with “pleasure” and the absence work. For most, self-discipline can never be the source of what makes them happy because the relationship with what it means to be happy is misplaced. .

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Why Big Companies Choose Not To Innovate

Collectivecamp

More and more companies that were once small and built their reputation on disruptive innovations, are now big, and have other priorities.

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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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The Importance and Ease of Inclusivity

The Human Factor

source. Much has been made of creating an inclusive working environment, and as a business owner, leader, or manager, the onus is on you to make that possible. However, if you’ve never faced such a task before, it might feel a little overwhelming. You may not know where to begin or how to focus on the right aspects. The good news is that inclusivity is as easy to create as it is vital to have.

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Forget ROI - Innovation Requires a Different Set of Metrics

Collectivecamp

Large organisations apply the same metrics and evaluation criteria on potentially disruptive, risky, ‘out of the box’ innovation as they do for incremental improvements and business as usual investment decisions. Clearly this makes no sense.

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Tapping Into Your Employees' Creativity in a Time of Need

Michael Roberto

Bryant University just released this short article that I've written, titled "Tapping Into Your Employees' Creativity in a Time of Need." During this tumultuous time, organizations face a variety of perplexing problems and challenges. Some of these issues may seem intractable to the senior management teams at many firms. Executives will need to think creatively to develop solutions that meet the pressing needs of their customers and other constituents.

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How to Sell your Idea to Management

Collectivecamp

Struggling to get sell your innovation idea to management? Developing a pitch is an effective way to communicate your idea and all the details underpinning it.

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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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#1,628 – Bill Gates to the Rescue

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Since retiring in 2006 Bill Gates has poured millions of dollars into techno-philanthropic endeavors through the Gates Foundation in bids to eradicate polio and malaria among other global health initiatives. A very impressive second act for someone who already made a major impact on the world when he founded Microsoft. The Netflix documentary Inside Bill’s Brain further highlighted Gates’ accomplishments shining a light on the fact that he is also pursuing revolutionary clean energ

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Get Out Of The Building for Corporate Innovation Efforts

Collectivecamp

Large corporations can have what seems to startup founders to be vast amounts of resources - more than they know what to do with (this can often be the case where companies elect to pay out huge dividends instead of investing in R&D). So why don’t large companies with millions and sometimes billions of dollars in capital reserves come out with the next big thing, the next UBER or the next Xero?

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Bring your culture and remote workforce into a single conversation

Tembosocial

Storytelling has a crucial role to play is this new moment of work from anywhere in connecting people to the mission and vision of the organization, but also to each other.

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The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

Collectivecamp

In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory. Yet, when it comes to deciding which projects to invest in at most large organisations, we often rely on projections and estimates based on assumptions about the same uncertain future.

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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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If Geeks are the New Cool, Will We Lose Less of Them?

Collectivecamp

Like me, his parents had migrated to Australia in the 70s from the then socialist Yugoslavia, in search of a better life. As such, his parents had instilled beliefs around the value of education and hard work in young Tommy.

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5 Reasons Corporates Find It Challenging To Innovate

Collectivecamp

Leaders are realising the importance of culture in enabling innovation but at the same time innovation blockers are still prevalent within organisations. Here are five key factors blocking corporates from innovating.

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5 Innovation Metrics You Need to Know

Collectivecamp

When it comes to early stage innovation, we can’t rely on metrics such as ROI or NPV to determine success, particularly given that such metrics favour short term returns whereas disruptive innovation can take years to deliver the kind of returns that large companies are seeking.

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Why Traditional Metrics like NPV, IRR and RONA Kill Innovation (+ Metrics To Focus On Instead)

Collectivecamp

“That which can be measured can be managed.” As such, 20th Century management science gave us a number of metrics to monitor the performance of a business venture, including return on investment (ROI), net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR).

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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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The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory on psychological health is now almost 70 years purpose rather than just profit, in stark contrast to prior generations, a testament to having already met their other needs.

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3 Tools to Foster Employee Driven Innovation

Collectivecamp

One of the biggest mistakes is for companies to believe enterprise innovation is a top-down phenomenon, where managers (or a small team) come up with solutions, and push changes down the organisation. While managers have a significant role in innovation and change within an organisation, employees should be the primary drivers of change.

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Corporate Spin-Off War Stories

Collectivecamp

When it comes to corporate innovation, organisations can embark upon a number of different programs, based on their objectives, their current capacities and whether they want to innovate internally, externally or take a hybrid approach. Organisation are spinning off companies for a number of reasons. Find some high profile examples inside.

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3 Techniques to Help you Really Understand your Customers

Collectivecamp

The highest quality solutions come from valuable insights into human behaviour. However, learning to recognise those insights is harder than you think. Here are three techniques, that when applied correctly, can uncover customer insights that you would never have thought existed.

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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.

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How To Run An Effective Idea Submission Program

Collectivecamp

Leaders of large companies are coming under more intense scrutiny and pressure to drive innovation within their organizations, in order to avoid being disrupted by smaller, more nimble competitors. This article covers the how to create a idea submission form & template and facilitate idea submission contests.

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How to Innovate in a Regulated Industry (Pt. 1)

Collectivecamp

Regulation is often used as a scapegoat for a company’s decision not to truly embrace an innovation agenda and the practices that support it. But how does one experiment when a corporate watchdog is breathing down your neck and watching your every move?

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How Bluedot Cut Costs and Moved Faster After Undergoing Agile Training

Collectivecamp

Collective Campus walked the team through an intensive 2-day SCRUM bootcamp in which they learned agile principles in addition to techniques related to as Scrum practices, requirements, project initiation, estimation and prioritisation, sprint planning, executing sprints, re-planning, closing a scrum sprint and closing a project.

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10 Habits that Kill Innovation

Collectivecamp

Many organisations stifle the very innovation that they seek through ingrained habits that block creativity and risk-taking. Here are 10 habits that choke disruption and kill innovation.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.