Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 16, 2016
The simplest way to categorize innovation is into two types – incremental and radical. Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. product, process or service). Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of.
Planview
AUGUST 16, 2016
Several years ago I was working with the technology team supporting a very large player in the consumer packaged goods industry. This group was focused internally on how they might pursue collaborative innovation in order to serve their brand clients with more compelling insights. Our engagement was at the time when companies began taking big data seriously.
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Boxes and Arrows
AUGUST 16, 2016
User experience (UX) researchers tasked with improving customer-facing products face many challenges on a daily basis—perhaps none more daunting than translating their research insights into positive change. This article presents 10 tips I have learned over the course of my career to help UX researchers increase the impact of their research insights in applied settings.
Innovation Excellence
AUGUST 16, 2016
Emilie Ruiz is a researcher at IREGE, University Savoie Mont Blanc, France. Hereafter she shares some key lessons on how corporations can set-up a crowdinnovation platform, and maximize its benefits, streamlining the adoption of the platform externally and internally through key success factors. Moreover she identifies when the adoption factors matter along the process.
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.
The Human Factor
AUGUST 16, 2016
Accountability – an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. Accountability is a word that gets tossed around a lot in the business world these days. Unfortunately, most of what I hear revolves around the lack of accountability rather than how companies are winning by holding each other accountable. At the organizational level, accountability is all about creating a culture where the right things get done, on time, consistently.
Information Playground
AUGUST 16, 2016
Yesterday I introduced a topic on the EMC Reflections blog called How Much Is Your Data Worth ? Today I'd like to spend a bit more time diving into the interview that Gartner's Doug Laney and I had on The Cube. The interview took place last month at the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium. I participated in several Cube interviews on the topic of Data Value.
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Michael Roberto
AUGUST 16, 2016
Adam Bryant interviewed Christa Quarles, CEO of Open Table , in this week's New York Times Corner Office column. Quarles describes one important leadership lesson she learned when she became CEO of the firm: The other surprise was that people were afraid to share things early on. Teams were trying to perfect something before they would show it to me, and they’d waste a ton of time trying to get it to be perfect to show to the C.E.O.
Gregg Fraley
AUGUST 16, 2016
Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. Here we go again. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. This happens about every six months. This time it’s Fast Company.
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