Tue.Oct 10, 2017

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Why a Job-To-Be-Done Approach Can Be Crucial for the Success of Your Innovation Program

HYPE Innovation

How often do you get caught up in the numbers game in innovation? You are encouraged to generate lots and lots of ideas, the more ideas, the better. Then you are encouraged to “fail fast” by quickly evaluating ideas to see which is the best. But innovation is not a mixture of guesswork, searching in a random fashion what might strike a chord with your customers.

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Revisiting Jill Lepore’s Debate with Clayton Christensen

Innovation Excellence

Jill Lepore's New Yorker article about how Disruptive Innovations have failed and how the theory is bogus completely underestimates the forward-thinking and world-changing power of disruptive innovation in business.

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Competitive Advantage Through Open Innovation: Insights from Absorptive Capacity Theory

Innocentive

In these fast-changing times, the established models of innovation are being challenged. Rather than innovation from within – what’s been called an ‘invent-it-ourselves model’ [1] – organizations who want to stay ahead are now looking to adopt different approaches. This article looks at how one such model – open innovation – can contribute to competitive advantage by following three vital steps.

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Setting Up the Innovation ‘Shop’: Ex-Starbucks VP Shares Her Advice

Innovation Leader

Former Darden Restaurants and Starbucks exec Rachel Antalek says getting started was the hardest part of responding to the instruction to “set up a disruptive innovation team.

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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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Chris Mawuli Hlovo

Innovation 360

Based in Accra, Ghana. Background: I am an innovation management expert, in the financial sector modelling financial products/services suitable for all level income groups. I drive to organise with exceptional follow through abilities and a comprehensive grounding in strategic management to become a leader in Bank/Non-Bank financial sector as well as any organization service and product innovation.

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Setting Up the Innovation ‘Shop’: Starbucks VP Shares Her Advice

Innovation Leader

Former Darden Restaurants and Starbucks exec Rachel Antalek says getting started was the hardest part of responding to the instruction to “set up a disruptive innovation team.

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Change Your Perspective to Win

The Human Factor

As a leader, your perspective on winning may be very different from the that of your employees. If someone offered you a trillion dollars for counting to a trillion by ones, would you accept the challenge? If so, you’d better be genetically wired to live a long time, because it’s going to take a while. Assume you count one number per second: There are 24 hours in a day, so 24 x 60(m) x 60(s) = 86,400 in one day. 86,400 x 365 days in a year = 31,536,000.

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The NBA's new MVP

Idea Champions

And that would be. drum roll please. Mike Kennedy -- the NBA's Associate Vice President of Talent and Learning. Read more about Mike's leading edge work here, as well as the NBA's renewed commitment, under Commissioner, Adam Silver, to be a robust, learning organization that is as much "on their game" off the court, as they are on. And just in case you're assuming the article in Chief Learning Officer is some kind of puff piece, it's not.

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Feedback's Impact on Innovation: A Key Tradeoff

Michael Roberto

Harvard Business School Professor Daniel Gross has a very intriguing new product development research article forthcoming in the Rand Journal of Economics. Gross studied the impact of feedback on innovation efforts. Specifically, he collected data from over 4,000 commercial logo design contests from an online platform. Gross tried to understand the impact of feedback on the quality of subsequent submissions.

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Be the Ken Burns of your Innovation Movie and Other Innovation Advice

IdeaScale

As I was trying to decide on a topic for my third submission in the IdeaScale employee blog series, I kept getting these little nuggets of ideas that could possibly be flushed out into a separate blog posts on their own. I had a decision to make: pick one topic or just try to incorporate most of these nuggets into one post and of course I went with the latter option to see how much punch I can pack in one post.

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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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Office of Naval Research (ONR) Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been one of the largest supporters of innovation in the U.S. Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. The result will be defense innovation with speed and urgency. —-. Here’s how the Office of Naval Research (ONR) was started. In World War II the U.S. set up the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to use thousands of civilian scientists in universities to build a

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