Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In a recent post over on a dedicated website for discussing ecosystems and platforms, I was discussing the differences between Amazon and Alibaba. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “ asset heavy ” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”. They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different market maturity positions but it is the asset management that is becoming critical for delivering the profit or dragging performance.

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Exago

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How exactly can you establish and structure your innovation challenges? We give you a hand with our Idea System Launch. The post A step-by-step guide to defining your innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

I've written before, both on this blog and on the blog I share with Paul Hobcraft about platforms and ecosystems about the need for seamless experiences. Innovators often create technologies or products, which have interesting capabilities or features, but rarely do they think through the actual use of the products and understand how they fit in with other products, services, infrastructure, channels and data that exist in a customer's life.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Management 144

HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Open Innovation is a challenging task for any company. Yet it yields great opportunities, and in this new world of digital transformation and rapid change in traditional markets, it's an approach CINOs have to consider. But how do you get started, and what do you have to consider to make it a sustainable part of your transformation strategy?

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Open Innovation Innovation Programs Innovation Strategy 140

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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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Freedom of action has a lot to do with it. Related posts: How IBM Innovates. There Is No One True Path To Innovation. The Open Economy. Great Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare. Apple Is Not. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Suppose your organization is not going in the right direction. You and others on your senior management team are beginning to see that strategic reality. Still, you avoid the difficult conversation where you have to start reimagining the organization as something dramatically different. How, if you are facing this situation, can you initiate a conversation with strategic thinking questions safe enough to raise the issue?

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Mike Shipulski

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s not enough to sell things to customers, because selling things is transactional and, over time, transactional selling deteriorates into selling on price. And selling on price is a race to the bottom. Sales must move from transactional to relational, where people in the sales organization become trusted advisers and then something altogether deeper.

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Technical Review Innovation Design Policies 55

InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

To amplify your company's presence and scale your influence, innovation teams need to harness informal networks and not simply rely on formal structures to create a thriving innovation eco-system. Enter Innovation Catalysts: natural champions who are believers, idea generators, problem solvers, mentors and sponsors in your organization.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Long-term thinking is a vital element of effective change leadership. For change to pay off, a leader must have grit and a desire to see change through to the end. However, it can be tempting to focus your attention on the current quarter’s results, and put key change initiatives off. The forces pulling you to.

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InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, recalls how HP’s turnaround back in 2011 began with a return to the company’s founding corporate values and business objectives. She also discusses how leaders can take advantage of certain opportunities to carry out actions that can convey a symbolic message throughout an organization and get people’s attention.

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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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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A fallacy about organizational management prevents many firms from getting the best out of their best people: the notion that everyone who excels in their jobs will eventually become managers, directors, etc. True, some may have a talent for management, while others flourish in active roles that have nothing to do with managing. Yet, the “up or.

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Management Innovation Management Creativity Culture 40

Yet2

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

On a recent California Bay Area technology tour , yet2 arranged face-to-face meetings for a client with companies representing the cutting edge of technology in the client’s interest areas. Starting from a curated list of over 60 leads , yet2 worked with our client to prioritize, schedule and prepare for meetings with the companies that most closely met their partnership and technology goals.

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Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

[…] of innovations that will grow your business. As bestselling author and business innovation expert Stephen Shapiro explains it, diversity is a catalyst for new ideas. “Diversity can create incredible value […].

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Svava

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

What is Lean Philosophy.

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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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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

More Einstein quotes. Unlock the imagination of your workforce. Idea Champions.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Simple Things by Mukesh Gupta. Do we still need policies. I do a lot of travel as part of my work and one of the side-effects of this kind of travel is for us to submit our expenses to get the expenses reimbursed. One of these expense request got rejected with the reason that this is not according to policy and if I need to get the same approved, I need an approval from my CFO as an exception approval.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

IdeaScale cares a great deal about helping people build sustainable business practices. Certainly we believe in sustainable businesses, because they work to minimize any negative impact on their environment when it comes to community, society, the economy, or planet. However, there is another reason that IdeaScale invests in organizations that build sustainable practices… In short, it is because they are more likely to be successful at innovation.

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