Wed.Apr 14, 2021

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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Whether you’re new to innovation or have years under your belt, this simple guide that explains the different types might help.

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Write Your Future News Report

Destination Innovation

Image by Neven Divkovic from Pixabay. If you are planning a major change, a big initiative, a new product launch or something really innovative then try writing a future news story. Imagine that the project has been a surprisingly big success. A reporter in a major newspaper or on TV files a glowing report. Write it up. It should include. How unexpectedly successful it has been.

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People never think of improving something by removing parts of it

Idea to Value

When looking to improve something, it seems like people always want to add more. At least, this is what an interesting new piece of research by Adams et al suggests, just published in the journal Nature. This has major implications for innovators in all types of companies, trying to find ways to make their products and services “ better “ The study aimed to study how people approach solving challenges, and whether they would prefer doing this by “adding more” (additive tr

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Launch of healthcare innovations – the tactics and validations you need

Board of Innovation

We guide you on how you can launch your healthcare innovations with campaigns and validation tactics. The successful launch of a healthcare innovation is founded on evidence-based launch tactics enabled by quicker validation and learnings. So how do you validate launch tactics when the healthcare ecosystem is dynamic, stakeholders are changing, and speed of learning […].

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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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Gap Analysis: What Is It & How To Conduct One

Cascade Strategy

Most of us have at least a rough vision of where we'd like to take our organization. But sometimes, knowing where and how to begin can be challenging. This is where the process of gap analysis comes into play. Gap analysis is a great strategic analysis tool that gives us a broad framework for defining not just where we are today , but more importantly where we want to be and how we're going to get there.

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From Trend Watching to Idea Wrangling: How To Turn Cycles Into Action Plans

Daniel Burrus

We’ve seen cycles come and go—everything from music trends that emulate days gone by to past decades of fashion making a comeback. It is evident that cycles are all around us. As a business leader, how do you turn cycles into your advantage, and better yet, what industries will benefit from cycles in the coming years? Trends Are Cycles. Within my Anticipatory Organization Model , I emphasize the importance of identifying both Hard Trends, future certainties that will happen, and Soft Trends, fut

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Why Shelf Space is One of the Most Important Metrics at Rust-Oleum

Innovation Leader

Bedri Erdem, VP of R&D and Corporate Quality at Rust-Oleum, shares insights on why shelf space is such an important metric in his company, why it sometimes causes challenges within the organization, and why it makes a good rule of thumb for killing projects.

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Business Model of the Month: Valve Software

Strategyzer Innovation

Valve Software - one of the top video game makers in the world - is a fascinating example of culture and business modeling that highlights the difference between R&D innovation and business model innovation.

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Are you curious? Is your organization?

The Human Factor

source. Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something; a willingness to explore and seek new opportunities and solutions. Just ask a question. How much of a child’s time is spent asking questions? About 70 to 80% of the time they’re talking, according to the authors Tom Pohlmann and Neethi Mary Thomas in their Harvard Business Review article, “Relearning the Art of Asking Questions.

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Key Objectives and Activities for Each Step of DMAIC

Kainexus

DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) is a data-driven, structured, customer-centric problem-solving methodology. Each phase builds on the last to arrive at practical solutions for challenging problems. Define tells you what to measure. Measure tells you what to analyze. Analyze tells you what to improve. And Improve tells you what to control.

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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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Process Jolt #19 - Refresh your energy, not your to-do list

Values Centered Innovation

Welcome to our 3-Minute Conscious Innovator ® process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicits your unique, innovative potential in life and work? Jolts wake us up. They spur new self-awareness, new capabilities and values, and new actions. Paradoxically, we don’t learn from each Jolt – rather, each Jolt “learns us” !

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Play Bold: Best of Season 2

Innovation 360 Group

Episode 2 is now at the end, and we summarize the best moments from all our fantastic guests sharing their wisdom in this last episode. It has been a privilege to have you all. The post Play Bold: Best of Season 2 appeared first on Innovation360.

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Certainty or novelty – it’s your choice.

Mike Shipulski

When you follow the best practice, by definition your work is not new. New work is never done the same way twice. That’s why it’s called new. Best practices are for old work. Usually, it’s work that was successful last time. But just as you can never step into the same stream twice, when you repeat a successful recipe it’s not the same recipe.

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Business Model of the Month: Valves Software

Strategyzer Innovation

Valve Software - one of the top video game makers in the world - is a fascinating example of culture and business modeling that highlights the difference between R&D innovation and business model innovation.

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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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How the Internet of Things (IoT) is Helping our Environment

Collectivecamp

When it comes to the issue of technology and its impact on our environment, people tend to have different standpoints on its effects and mostly, the tradeoff of its benefits.

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What Is the Real Value of "THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY"

Idea Champions

There are two kinds of benefits you will receive from participating in The Year of Living Creatively. First, you'll make major progress on a passionate project of yours that needs a major jolt. And second, you'll develop the kind of skills, mindset, and mojo you'll need to succeed with any creative project of yours in the future. What follows are the ten qualities you will develop during your two-month participation in The Year of Living Creatively. 1.

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5 Ways To Up Your Customer Interaction Game

The Human Factor

source. In today’s world of high-performance teams, giving the best possible interactions at all times to your customers is absolutely vital. There is a myriad of ways that your customers can use to get in touch with your business now, and it is important that your business is on every platform that makes sense, but spreading yourself too thinly may cause issues and could cause your customer service to take a dip.

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#2: Setting the Preconditions

7innovation

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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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3 Tips For Speaking At Virtual Events

The Human Factor

source. A study published in the Virtual Event Tech Guide revealed that 31% of event organizers cite maintaining audience engagement as the biggest challenge of pivoting to virtual events, according to Event Manager Blog. In the last few years, hosting virtual events has become one of the genius ways to get your brand noticed in your target market.

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3 Ways To Improve Your Branding In Your Business

The Human Factor

source. Having good branding can be a great way to get your business out there. Using various items to do this can help you to stand out from the crowd by having your logo noticed everyday. Whether someone is opening up your products after buying them or carrying round an item that has your logo on, will have the opportunity of being seen massively.

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How To Make Your Brand Stand Out

The Human Factor

Now that digital marketing has changed the entire marketing landscape for small businesses and startup enterprises, it’s easy to hang everything on your marketing. It’s easy to assume that, just because you have a good campaign targeted towards the right people, you’re going to do well. The fact is, however, that although this is certainly a good start, there are so many different businesses that are starting every single day that it is becoming increasingly difficult to break through and show y

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