Wed.Nov 01, 2017

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Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge

IdeaScale

We asked our customers what their number one priority was for the coming year and the leading priority was: culture. We were a bit surprised by this answer. We thought that maybe our customers would be focused on generating new ideas, implementing new ideas, understanding the value of new ideas, but in the end it came down to the environment those ideas lived in – an organization’s culture.

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4 Thing Leaders Need To Close The Gap Between Aspiration And Innovation

Digital Tonto

We need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations Related posts: Apple’s Innovation Problem. 4 Types of Innovation (and how to approach them). Here’s Why Your Innovation Strategy. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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3 Things Innovators Can Learn From Elon Musk

Innovation Excellence

We aren’t all child geniuses turned mega entrepreneurs, but there are 3 things that as fellow innovators, we can learn from Elon Musk. He epitomises thinking big.

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The one good way to change behavior.

Mike Shipulski

There’s one good way to change behavior. But don’t take my word for it, take Daniel Kahneman’s, psychologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In Freakonomics Radio’s podcast How to Launch a Behavioral Change Revolution , Kahneman explains how to achieve change in behavior. His explanation is short [30:35 – 35:21] and good.

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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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Looking at Closed versus Open Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Is there any word more fundamental to the modern business lexicon than ‘innovation’? To say that it forms an important part of enterprise is probably an understatement. If we take renowned researcher John Seeley Brown’s definition, the very nature of doing business is an act of innovation: that is, innovation is invention — of any.

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Innovation Sighting: Yet Another Multiplication in Cameras

Innovation in Practice

Thanks to Light’s newest camera innovation, serious photographers may make it through their upcoming shot lists with a welcomed spring to their step. In attempt to lessen the load of the average DSLR camera, Light created the streamlined L16. Not surprisingly, the innovation of this camera reflects one of the five innovation templates in Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), the Multiplication Technique.

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A War for the Ages (Millennials to Boomers)

Daniel Burrus

The headline for this blog may be a bit misleading. Granted, there are many military conflicts around the world that should be ended, but this war is more immediate and, in many ways, far more personal—not to mention silent! This refers to ending the war between young and old; a peace that will undoubtedly be of the utmost benefit to you, your other-aged colleagues and your organization.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances.

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Innovation Circle Night with Magnus Penker in Singapore

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation Circle in Singapore. MAGNUS PENKER, Founder & CEO of Innovation360. Innovation Strategy for Sustainable Profits and Growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Innovation 360 Group and Heluo Institute Singapore proudly invite you to attend our insightful event on how to succeed at innovation with global experts in the field. Magnus Penker, CEO of Innovation360, has helped countless business leaders and organizations think differently and co-create a better future.

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Conversational Applications and The Future of Work

Leveraging Networks

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has long been offering consumers advantages in many areas of life, from how they shop, eat, and generally tick daily tasks off the to-do list, to where they get advice. AI resides in pockets, purses, living rooms, and kitchens as voice assistants are familiar and trustworthy to a rising number of the population. Now, we have arrived to a point in time where it’s apparent that companies will begin seeing increases in productivity, pay scale, and the overall effici

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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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Innovation Circle Night with Magnus Penker in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation Circle in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MAGNUS PENKER, Founder & CEO of Innovation360. Innovation Strategy for Sustainable Profits and Growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Innovation 360 Group along with MIHRM proudly invite you to attend our insightful event on how to succeed at innovation with global experts in the field. Magnus Penker, CEO of Innovation360, has helped countless business leaders and organizations think differently and co-create a better future.

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The Need for Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry

Innocentive

Acclaimed Czech author Milan Kundera once commented that, “Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.” Whilst it may seem a brutally simplistic view, it’s a fair comment when one strips most businesses to their bare fundamentals, i.e. to develop and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage and to sell their product to as many of their target market as possible.

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Innovation Circle with Magnus Penker in Penang, Malaysia

Innovation 360 Group

Innovation Circle in Penang, Malaysia. MAGNUS PENKER, Founder & CEO of Innovation360. Innovation Strategy for Sustainable Profits and Growth in the 4th Industrial Revolution. Innovation 360 Group along with Dunville & CREST proudly invite you to attend our insightful event on how to succeed at innovation with global experts in the field. Magnus Penker, CEO of Innovation360, has helped countless business leaders and organizations think differently and co-create a better future.

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CEOs on Disruption, Culture & Executive Support

Innovation Leader

How should you be thinking about the impact of disruption in your industry? CEOs of Bose, TripAdvisor, and Eastern Bank weigh in.

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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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6 Prototypes in 3 Hours with 10 People from a Global FMCG | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

We hear it all the time from corporate innovation teams.

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The Best Definition of Creativity?

Idea Champions

If you google the phrase definitions of creativity , guess how many definitions show up? 135 million! That's right, 135 million. And so, if you are looking for THE definition, give up now. You won't find it. It doesn't exist. What does exist is mucho people's attempts to define creativity -- definitions, by the way, that are influenced by their particular world view, expertise, profession, assumptions, mindset, nationality, and language skills.

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Rapid Prototyping: 6 Ideas in 3 Hours with 10 People from a Global FMCG

Collectivecamp

We hear it all the time from corporate innovation teams.

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Preparing for a Better Brainstorm: Tell an Embarrassing Story?

Michael Roberto

Kellogg's Leigh Thompson writes about some fascinating new research on the Harvard Business Review blog this month. She describes an experiment in which she and her colleagues tested the impact of having group members tell an embarrassing story about themselves before beginning a brainstorming session. In the study, Elizabeth Ruth Wilson, Brian Lucas, and Leigh Thompson assigned 93 people to three-person groups.

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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