Tue.Dec 18, 2018

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Organizational Agility Requires Psychologically Safe Teams

Innovation Excellence

Psychological safety is the absence of fear of exclusion or loss of status for being one’s self and openly expressing one’s thoughts and opinions. You can tell a team, operational group, or organizational environment is psychologically safe when its members are comfortable with open discussion of their most significant shortcomings Such environments do not focus on.

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How to Build Careers with Innovation

IdeaScale

There are a number of ways that participating in or administrating an innovation program can help build your career. If you’re wondering how to build careers with innovation, look to these three IdeaScale examples. Your Great Idea is Recognized ! Marketer, Brian Stearns, suggested a new product idea that generated millions of dollars in sales during its first year.

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How can Lean and Innovation make your business evolve to 4.0?

Exago

Once the go-to strategy for ensuring business efficiency and growth, in the context of the current reality, Lean Management has been branded by some as being outdated. But, in a more evolved form, this business approach has in fact shown that it can complement Innovation Management when it comes to company operations, and could be the answer for businesses to remain competitive in today’s world.

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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers.

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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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5 ways Chief Product Officers can Foster Innovation

InnovationManagement

A chief product officer’s (CPO) job description often contains two tall tasks: Drive innovation, and create a compelling product roadmap that delivers business value.

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How do you do innovation?

Innovation Excellence

If you had an idea for a medical device, would you know where to go at work to get help commercializing or deploying it in your organization? Most of the time, based on my experience, the answer is no. Giffford Pinchot, who originated the term “intrapreneur”, has suggested that you rate your organization in several.

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4 Resources for Growing and Transforming Your Enterprise

Moves the Needle

Holiday Must-Reads for Executives of Forward-Thinking Organizations The temperature has dropped for those of us situated in the Northern Hemisphere, and the holiday season is already upon us. Many have launched into strategizing, planning, and budgeting for the new quarter. But, there is still time between now and then to catch up with family, friends, and the latest articles, videos, and books about enterprise innovation.

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Designing for Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers.

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Planning Your Transformation Journey

MSSBTI

Two summers ago, my family and I went on a backpacking trip in the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. The trip started as a potential idea, then we did a large amount of research to determine the most interesting trails to hike, and we mapped out a path. We created a packing list and determined what backpacking and camping gear we already owned and what we needed to buy or rent.

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Innovation in the Automotive Industry

Yet2

The automotive industry is undergoing massive technological and social change. Automotive manufacturers, companies in the automotive supply chain, and technology startups eyeing the automotive market need to understand the innovations that are taking place today – and those that will take place tomorrow. By having an accurate picture of the state of innovation, these companies can better assess and incorporate new technologies into the long-term business and product strategy.

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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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Inside the Atlanta Ecosystem: NCR, Honeywell, and More

Innovation Leader

Our 2018 Atlanta Field Study brought over 50 executives together to discuss strategies for cultivating talent and building competitive advantage. Photos inside.

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#1,415 – Comixify

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Believe it or not I was never into comic books as a kid. Collecting baseball cards was more my thing. And even though I’ve seen every Marvel movie and TV show I’m still not someone who would self-identify as a comic book fan. But all that may about to change thanks to a new innovation that turns videos into comics! As Engadge t puts it, “ Tons of comic books have come to life as movies, but researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have developed a system for turning live-actio

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The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Engage with Accelerators

Innovation Leader

Pano Anthos, managing partner of New York-based retail accelerator XRC Labs, shares best practices for working with accelerators.

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Happiness is when we care – Happy Holidays 2018

ITONICS

Annual school visit in Nepal. by Pinky S itikhu. Last Sunday, December 16, was not a regular day for our colleagues in Nepal and especially students of Jana Prabhat Secondary School. Sijan Shrestha, General Manager of ITONICS Nepal and 14 other teammates visited school children for the pre-Christmas event, which has been annually organized by ITONICS Nepal.

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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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Slow Business? Here’s How to Speed Things Up

The Human Factor

Contributed post. As business owners, we’ve all experienced those annoyingly slow afternoons at the office. Nobody’s phone is ringing, the clients have canceled the meeting last minute, and everyone’s project seems to be taking forever. While it’s alright for your employees to slough around for a while, you’d probably rather see a busy office where contacts are made and sales going through the roof – so why isn’t it like this?

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Happiness is when we care – Happy Holidays 2018

ITONICS

Annual school visit in Nepal. by Pinky S itikhu. Last Sunday, December 16, was not a regular day for our colleagues in Nepal and especially students of Jana Prabhat Secondary School. Sijan Shrestha, General Manager of ITONICS Nepal and 14 other teammates visited school children for the pre-Christmas event, which has been annually organized by ITONICS Nepal.

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Optimizing Your Workflow In A Highly Professional Environment

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. image source. There are many highly-intelligent processes and comprehensions that go along with working in a highly professional environment. You need to be skilled, smart, have emotional and social intelligence, be able to predict outcomes, stay vigilant and disciplined, and to play the corporate or business game well. You also need to build a reputation for yourself, and stay true to your word.

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New Website! (Blog Continues Here)

Michael Roberto

I've published a new personal website. Check it out at www.professormichaelroberto.com You can find more information about my books, simulations, and Great Courses lectures there. The blog will remain at this URL, and I'll continue to post regularly. Thanks for being a loyal reader!

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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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Global Tech Hubs & the Digital Nomad

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. ‘Silicon Valley’ is the nickname that is given to a part of the San Francisco Bay Area that is home to some of the biggest high-tech corporations in the world as well as thousands of start-up companies. It is the number one tech hub across the globe at present, and it is likely to remain this way for a long time. However, there are a lot of other tech hubs that have emerged in recent years, and they are doing so quickly.

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Seasons Greetings from Qmarkets – Celebrating the 12 Innovations of Christmas

Qmarkets

Christmas is the time of year for good food, good times, and good will to all. However, it’s easy to forget that many of the beloved traditions of the season began as incremental ideas for overcoming yuletide challenges. That’s why this year, we at Qmarkets are paying homage to 12 of the most outstanding (and unusual) innovations of Christmas, as well as shedding a light on some of their origins.