Thu.Oct 12, 2017

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Incremental or Radical Innovation?

IdeaScale

Are you inside or outside the box? Why not both at once? Is incremental or disruptive innovation better? That’s a tough question to answer. It depends on where your business is and what you want to archive. In your approach to innovation, you should weigh them both. What Is Disruptive Innovation? “Disruptive” boils down to a drastic shift in how your business or your entire industry changes.

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Now Available – Charting Change™ Facilitated Change and Project Kickoffs

Braden Kelley

Help Yourself to Successful Projects and Change Initiatives Too often change management is seen as a subset of project management, causing the people side of change to be an afterthought. Stop it!

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12 Types of Prototypes to Test Your Idea | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Fail fast and often is a rhetoric we are no doubt used to hearing, and perhaps have come slightly sick of - like anything that is repeated too often. And perhaps that has to do with the fact that such narrative isn’t actionable.

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You Can Be a Spectator or You Can Be in the Arena

Innovation Excellence

The difference defines what it means to be an entrepreneur. Last week, I was reminded of what it means to be an entrepreneur when a good friend shared with me the pain of watching his business fail after years of hard work. He wasn’t bitter about it but he was thinking hard about the risks.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Learning How to Learn | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

The world is changing faster than ever and up to 60% of today’s jobs are likely to be automated in the next 10-15 years, yet most of what children learn in school is still geared towards traditional roles, and still forces them to become adept at reading, remembering and regurgitating as opposed to more transferable and relevant skills such as resilience, embracing and thriving in ambiguity, critical thinking and problem solving.

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Future-proof Your Innovation Management: Dual Innovation

Integrative Innovation

This article was co-written with Frank Mattes. Being among the pioneers (see e.g. here or here ) in making the case that dual approaches to modern corporate innovation are mandatory for innovation impact, we have recently been delighted about two things: First, more and more companies are appreciating our arguments as the following data suggest (sources can be provided upon request): Second, two concepts that we’ve been advocating for quite some time, are being increasingly used by innovation th

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Understanding business models through BMI patterns

The BMI Lab Blog

Understanding how businesses work is the first step to initiate any business model innovation process. If we can’t grasp the essentials of what makes a proper business model it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to change the way our company works. For that purpose, we need some tools that help us to focus on what really matters and avoid cognitive traits and misunderstandings.

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Smell, Don't Tell - How to Win Buy-In for Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Winning buy-in from senior and middle management for corporate innovation initiatives is one of the biggest challenges intrapreneurs face. Oftentimes, intrapreneurs resort to presentations and meetings with executives in an effort to convince them why they should explore new initiatives. Sometimes this works. Most times it doesn’t. Such pursuits fall flat because the recipients have an inherent lack of incentive to explore innovation, a preconceived notion that innovation is risky and expensive

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Seven Ways to Prepare for Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

Want an Innovation Breakthrough? Prepare, Then Brainstorm. Most brainstorming doesn’t work. The literature bashing brainstorming is extensive. Sessions often fail, and there are many reasons. Ideas are still needed to fill pipelines! I’m going to focus on one problem with brainstorming in this post: lack of preparation. The Boy Scouts have it right.

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Smell, Don't Tell - How to Win Buy-In for Corporate Innovation

Collectivecamp

Winning buy-in from senior and middle management for corporate innovation initiatives is one of the biggest challenges intrapreneurs face. Oftentimes, intrapreneurs resort to presentations and meetings with executives in an effort to convince them why they should explore new initiatives. Sometimes this works. Most times it doesn’t. Such pursuits fall flat because the recipients have an inherent lack of incentive to explore innovation, a preconceived notion that innovation is risky and expensive

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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A Recipe for Healthy Startup + Corporate Partnerships

Econic

Selected clips from Paul Jarrett’s “Win, Win, Win: How Bulu Box Pivoted to Embrace Partnership”. Paul Jarrett is a co-founder of Bulu Box. The Bulu Box team has delivered over 8 million healthy discoveries to customers across the US. In his talk, Paul shares how a new company philosophy enabled his team to eliminate distractions from the true Bulu Box mission, embrace dynamic partnerships and embark on a truly banner year for Bulu Box, including being named Silicon Prairie’s Startup of the Year.

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Generating and Evaluating Innovative Ideas Using Innovation Software

eZassi

Generating and evaluating innovative ideas using innovation software can sometime be quite difficult as there are multiple phases an idea must go through before fully being accepted and pushed forward to reality. A more organized method for capturing, managing and advancing innovative ideas is required, but is very simple to implement. External or Internal Innovation Software?

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How to Prioritise Corporate Innovation Initiatives | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

When it comes to corporate innovation, there are indeed no silver bullets. The best way to figure what works for your organisation is to take small bets across a number of initiatives, as one would when building a new product using the lean startup philosophy.

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Generating and Evaluating Innovative Ideas Using Software

eZassi

Generating and evaluating innovative ideas can sometime be quite difficult as there are multiple phases an idea must go through before fully being accepted and pushed forward to reality. A more organized method for capturing, managing and advancing innovative ideas is required, but is very simple to implement. External or Internal? There are two ways for capturing ideas: internal and external.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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What It Really Means to Be a Chief Innovation Officer

Idea Champions

Some sound advice here , from the Harvard Business Review, on what it takes to be a successful Chief Innovation Officer. Idea Champions. A workshop for innovation leaders.

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Generating and Evaluating Ideas Using Innovation Software

eZassi

Generating and evaluating innovative ideas can sometime be quite difficult as there are multiple phases an idea must go through before fully being accepted and pushed forward to reality. A more organized method for capturing, managing and advancing innovative ideas is required, but is very simple to implement. External or Internal? There are two ways for capturing ideas: internal and external.

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Scarcity of CEO Talent? Are Board Members Right?

Michael Roberto

Joann Lublin of the Wall Street Journal reports today on directors' beliefs about the CEO talent pool. She writes: The pool of executives qualified to take over the top job at the biggest U.S. companies is incredibly shallow, especially in the technology industry, a recent survey of directors finds. On average, directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people inside and outside their company have the management expertise and industry-specific knowledge to step into the CEO

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene