Thu.Nov 16, 2017

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Yoda’s Best Advice for Innovation

IdeaScale

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda’s famous advice is absolute. Yoda doesn’t leave much room for failure. But what Yoda is really talking about is commitment. Innovation happens only when we put all our effort into it, which is something demonstrated throughout the history of innovation. Do It Again, And Again, Until It’s Done Right.

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1 Way to Spice Up Strategy with Surprising Strategic Planning Questions

BrainZooming

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Here is where we are coming from: when someone with romantic interest in you gives you a gift, it’s usually attractively, even lavishly, wrapped.

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What are Circular Business Models (CBM)?

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Shortly, the demands and needs of approximately nine billion people will be about three times the current resources. At this time challenges will accelerate for the deficiencies of resources and enormous production of waste. Circular Business Models (CBM) is the solution for not only improving resource management and decreasing waste production but also reducing costs and expanding firm performance.

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The Biggest Impediment to Developing and Deploying Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Command-and-control, top-down organizations have the most trouble innovating. In particular, the fearful mindsets that review, align, and sign off on “decks” to be presented to Vice President-level colleagues often edit out the insights and recommendations that have the power to grow the business in new ways.

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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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Crowdsourcing for Good: How Adventist Health Gets Employees Into the “Giving” Spirit

Planview

It’s that time of year. Leaves are changing color. Temperatures are dropping (errr, should be). People are ditching Pumpkin Spice lattes in favor of filling their Starbucks holiday cups with Gingerbread and Peppermint Mocha. Maybe you’ve even taken the festivus pole out of storage. You get the idea, it’s the holidays. With so much going on, we often hear from Spigit clients that engaging employees in innovation challenges gets to be difficult at this time of year, specifically mid-November throu

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15 Practices of Innovation Leaders for Creating Cultures of Innovation

InnovationManagement

Darin Eich at Innovation Training has just posted an excellent new article about creating a culture of innovation within one’s company - check it out here!

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Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process: The Most Commonly Used Stages

eZassi

What are the most commonly used innovation software stage-gate process stages? When deciding upon your stages of innovation, it’s important to understand what those stages should be and how to best manage an idea at each stage. To clarify the process , we want to break down the most common stages within an innovation software stage-gate process. Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process Stages Identified.

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6 Cybersecurity Businesses that Present Opportunity

Daniel Burrus

If you’re on the lookout for a breakout growth opportunity, it’s important to look where others aren’t. And, in that case, it’s hard to argue against the exploding potential of preventing cybercrime. Although estimates differ, cybercrime is an undeniably lucrative field. An article in Forbes reported that the overall cost of cybercrime can range from $100 billion to upwards of $400 billion a year.

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What’s Keeping CInO’s Awake at Night: The Latest Corporate Innovation Trends From a Range Of Recent Conferences

InnovationManagement

Over the past couple of weeks, I have participated in several conferences / events, to better understand key trends in corporate innovation. Each event was excellent, but also very different in scope, audience and approach.

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Future Squared Episode #196: Innovation in Water with Sean Hanrahan | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Sean is the Senior Environmental Strategist at City West Water where he works across a range of areas including climate change, renewable energy, resource recovery and sustainability.

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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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What C-Suiters and Corporate Innovation Teams Can Learn from Jeff Immelt's ousting at General Electric

Collectivecamp

It’s no secret that large, publicly listed organisations struggle to successfully explore innovation due to the short-term interests of their investors.

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On Being a Better Listener

Idea Champions

Good article from Fast Company on the emotional intelligence required to be a better listener. If you want to innovate, listen more. 24 quotes on good communication. Non-judgmental listening.

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Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

Michael Roberto

Several weeks ago, I had the privilege (for the second time) of hearing former Baxter CEO and current Kellogg Professor Harry Kraemer discuss values-based leadership. Kraemer offers four principles for leaders to consider, as they try to lead with purpose, conviction, and integrity. This short video introduces you to the four principles. For a more in-depth discussion by Kraemer, you can click here.

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Why is collaboration vital for innovation?

hackerearth

In today’s highly advanced and competing world, a company can endure only if it is performing something distinct. Innovation turns into a very significant factor in this rapid moving contemporary world. The current market is anticipating something revolutionary and exclusive from anyone. You can only do well if you can come with a new strategy which can rule in the industry.

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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.