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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

Imaginatik

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. By Jaimie O’Byrne. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

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Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett

Tim Kastelle

What year do you think this quote is from? There are three ways of dealing with difference : domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. How about this one? It has often been thought in the past… that I need be concerned only with doing my part well.

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Is Your Innovation Program Successful?

InnovationManagement

In an Innovation Point article , Founder Soren Kaplan notes that only one third of Fortune 1000 companies have defined innovation metrics. And yet 77% of business leaders see innovation as a priority. How is it possible that something that is so important to business leaders doesn’t have a defined set of KPIs?

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Culture Eats Strategy Eats Culture for Breakfast | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Peter Drucker’s famous musings that culture eats strategy for breakfast rings as true today as it did then.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Evaluate Startups for Corporate Partnerships | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In the past three years, Collective Campus has been home to more than 50 startups that have gone on to raise over US$13M.

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Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett

Tim Kastelle

What year do you think this quote is from? There are three ways of dealing with difference : domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. How about this one? It has often been thought in the past… that I need be concerned only with doing my part well.

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Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Swiss Trains

Innovation in Practice

From a distance this newest railway revolution might look like a string of large barrels tied together. But the Stoos Bahn is now the world’s steepest funicular railway which just opened to the public. Taking over 14 years to build, and climbing at 110% gradient, the Stoos Bahn provides another transportation option for children traveling to school in mountainous Switzerland.

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How to Conduct a Problem Interview | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Far too many entrepreneurs and corporate innovation teams fall in love with their solution, instead of the problem they’re solving or the value they’re supposed to be creating for customers.

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Prototyping at each stage of ideation

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Prototyping at each stage of ideation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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What the Corporate Company of the Future Looks Like | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

As the lifespans of organisations get shorter, it’s more important than ever to understand how organisations can avoid the black hole of bankruptcy and economic irrelevance.

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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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The Singing Contractors

Idea Champions

Talk about innovation! The Singing Contractors nail it. Who woulda thunk it? Idea Champions. MitchDitkoff.com. Thanks to fabulous screen writer, Francisca Matos, for the heads up!

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Stop Doing the Wrong Things Right with The Five Whys | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

“There is nothing worse than doing the wrong things right” - Peter Drucker.

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Enter idea Champions Holiday Season Micro-Learning Raffle

Idea Champions

This just in! None of our clients have any time. Really. Truly. Which is way my last two sentences are only one word each. I am continually astounded at how time-crunched everyone is these days. Which is why Idea Champions is launching its MICRO-LEARNING HOLIDAY RAFFLE -- the simplest, least expensive, time-effienct way we could think of to help our clients raise the bar for innovation in 2018.

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How Expertise Can Become a Liability

Michael Roberto

Andras Tilcsik and Juan Almandoz published an interesting article in the Rotman Business School's management magazine this year titled, "When Expertise Becomes a Liability." They studied over 1,300 banks during the 1996-2012 time period. 124 of those banks failed (slightly less than 10%). In conditions of decision uncertainty, having more domain experts on the board of the bank meant a higher probability of failure.

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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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These Xiaogang farmers could have been executed for their innovation in 1978, instead they changed China forever

Idea to Value

The year was 1978. The location was the small town of Xiaogang, China. And the situation was desperate. But what came next should serve as an inspiration to any leader trying to improve the innovativeness of their teams. After years of governmental and agricultural mismanagement, people in China in the 1970s were starving to death of famine. The issue was that not enough food was being produced to feed the growing population, and the communist government tightly regulated all the work of their p

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