Tue.Nov 16, 2021

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How To Build a Corporate Innovation Program

Viima

In this day and age, when things move so fast and uncertainty and changes are inevitable, organizations of all sizes acknowledge the need to increase their investments in innovation. In fact, an Accenture research reports that investments in innovation are expected to increase 1.8X in the next five years. However, just increasing budgets for innovation doesn’t necessarily lead to better results.

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Mediocrity

Idea to Value

Do you understand what it means to be mediocre? For most creative people today, the thought of being mediocre is a major fear. They think it means producing terrible work, which people would judge to be be worthless. However, mediocrity actually means something completely different. It relates to being about halfway to your end goal. As summarised by Todd Henry (who we have previously had on the podcast ) in his book Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day: Mediocrity comes from the Latin wo

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How to Evaluate Employee Ideas Using IdeaScale’s Unique Tools

IdeaScale

Overview: In any innovation program, ideas need to be examined through three lenses: How practical they are, the likelihood the idea will succeed, and whether the idea reaches your ultimate goals. There are multiple techniques for doing so, which can be mixed and matched as needed. IdeaScale’s tools draw on employee feedback and behind-the-scenes metrics to ensure you have a fuller and more transparent picture of each idea.

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Mandatory Vaccine in Canada? We Cover Off Vaccination Mandates with Law Firm Sherrard Kuzz: A Must Read

Innovators Alliance

The idea of a mandatory vaccine in Canada, including a vaccine policy and mandating that employees be vaccinated, continues to be an issue that is top of mind for Canadian employers. Companies have been forced to make difficult choices. In September of 2021, we held a chat on the topic of vaccine policy. The talk was led by employment and labour lawyers Matthew Badrov and Natasha Zervoudakis of Sherrard Kuzz, a well-known Canadian law firm that specializes in Employment and Labour Law.

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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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This Founder Just Launched a Company That's Giving Tea a Much-Needed Makeover for the 21st Century: 'Tea Is for Entrepreneurs. Coffee Is Corporate America's Drink.'

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Co-founders David Segal and Harley Finkelstein launched their company Firebelly Tea today. The curated line of teas aims to bring the beverage into the 21st century -- and end Americans' exclusive relationship with coffee for good.

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Can You Be TOO Strategic?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky While the lack of a clear strategy can create problems in any business, there is another end of that spectrum.

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #5 Srinivasa Chakravarthy

Rmukesh Gupta

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory.

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A Common Framework & Post Launch Metrics

IM Insights

About the Episode. Elijah Eilert speaks to Jael Kong who until recently was working with a leading FMCG company. She is jam-packed with insights and will speak with us about the systemic problems large organisations have when making (kill, pivot, persevere) decisions specifically after launching new products. . Jael also gives us a glimpse into an early post-launch tracking approach that leverages the Pirate Metrics Framework ((A)AARRR).

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Start off on the right foot with your virtual workshops

Flying Fish Lab

How to make virtual workshops work for you How to make virtual workshops work is still a challenge for some organisations, especially if they haven’t adapted their preparation procedures and techniques to suit the virtual space. Nearly two years into the pandemic, holding workshops virtually can no longer be something to put off, especially any company seeking to innovate their processes or product and service offerings.

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Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #6 Srinivasa Chakravarthy

Rmukesh Gupta

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory.

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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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Start off on the right foot with your virtual workshops

Flying Fish Lab

How to make virtual workshops work for you How to make virtual workshops work is still a challenge for some organisations, especially if they haven’t adapted their preparation procedures and techniques to suit the virtual space. Nearly two years into the pandemic, holding workshops virtually can no longer be something to put off, especially any company seeking to innovate their processes or product and service offerings.

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Why and How to Get Your Brand into the Metaverse

Collectivecamp

So you’ve probably been hearing a lot about the metaverse lately, especially since Facebook changed the name of its parent company to Meta, pre-empting a move into a brave new virtual world.

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Why Online IP Marketplaces Fail

Yet2

yet2 has a long history of facilitating technology transfer deals for our clients, including both technology acquisition and technology out-licensing. yet2 launched in 1999 as an online Intellectual Property (IP) marketplace where buyers and sellers of IP came together online in 1999 with 30 competitors. We’re fortunate to be the only one remaining due to an early pivot to a more sustainable business model for technology transfer.

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4 Brands Using NFTs to Unlock New Revenue Streams

Collectivecamp

You’ve no doubt heard a lot about NFTs or non-fungible tokens by now. If for whatever curious reason you haven’t, they’re essentially a form of digital goods that can be purchased and traded online, much like art is traded in the real world. A number of brands are now realizing the brand and revenue-building potential of NFTs.

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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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Invisible Solutions® Mastermind

Stephen Shapiro

It is finally here – my Invisible Solutions® Mastermind. It has been a decade in the making. This peer-to-peer program is designed to help organizations take their innovation and strategy efforts to the next level. The specifics will be posted here in the near future. However, given the cohort is limited to 15 non-competitive companies, we are first offering this to our past clients.

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6 Ways to Advertise Your Brand in the Metaverse

Collectivecamp

So you’ve got a big marketing budget, and are wondering whether it’s worth dabbling in the metaverse. Given that Travis Scott’s concert on Fortnite drew over 12 million views, I get it. But what are your options in this still embryonic phase in the evolution of the metaverse? While the following is by no means an exhaustive list, they represent some of your first ports of call.

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How to Motivate Your Team as a Project Manager

CMOE

Managing multiple projects, budgets, and tasks is essential for a manager to be effective, but these responsibilities shouldn’t overshadow the importance of team morale and engagement. Research notes only 15 percent of workforce members feel motivated—and that’s a problem. If you’re having trouble creating a team culture of productivity and engagement, CMOE has you covered.

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There is an Opportunity hidden in every Challenge

Rmukesh Gupta

I am a tennis fan and love watching the game and play it whenever I can. Here is a point that caught my fancy and I cant not share this with you. Watch the point first. The player who eventually wins the point is struggling to keep himself within the point and when he approaches the net, he gets a ball that catches the net and catches him in an awkward position.

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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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Professor Shafi Ahmed on Turning Hype into Innovation

Carla Johnson

November 16, 2021 Our health is our wealth. Without it, we can’t live up to our full potential or achieve all of the feats we have in our brilliant minds. So when something goes wrong, and we need to take a trip to the hospital or doctor’s office, we want to have the best possible conditions. Innovation is important in. Read More. The post Professor Shafi Ahmed on Turning Hype into Innovation appeared first on Carla Johnson.