Tue.Aug 02, 2016

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Charting Change – eBook Now Available

Braden Kelley

I’m super excited to announce that my new book Charting Change is now available in English as both a hardcover and as a Kindle eBook at various Amazon sites around the world (USA, UK, CA, AU, DE, FR, JP) and … Continue reading →

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3 yards and a cloud of dust

Jeffrey Phillips

In the spirit of the upcoming football season, I thought it would be interesting to look at the game of football and consider how innovation has dramatically changed the game over the last 20-30 years. In the old days, before the American Football League, many sportswriters and commentators felt that a lot of football could be described by the title of this post: 3 yards and a cloud of dust.

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Business Innovation – 7 Strategies to Conquer Innovation Fears

BrainZooming

Have you ever taken a moment to consider what gets in the way of your company fully embracing business innovation ? Do you suppose it is fear of change? We were leading a creative thinking workshop for a subsidiary of a German-owned, privately-held company. One of the executives (who was a fantastic participant and brought a double dose of creativity to any group in which he was in) said at one point, “All I can hear are the ‘rules’ and the ‘nos’ with every new idea!”.

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Organizational Agility Entails Complementary Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Recently, I’ve come across a couple of posts and articles debating on the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures – such as Innovation or digital labs – being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities?

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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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Brainstorming with an expert, Richard Ahern

Betterific

Welcome to the second part of our new “Brainstorming with…” series, where we interview two sets of people – the innovation challenge winners and the product developers and innovation experts that sponsor the challenges. From the winners, we learn brainstorming tips, how they arrived at their winning ideas, and the inspiration they use.

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How many companies have a strategy?

Eddielogic

Some years ago I spent half of my weekends with my studies of Real Estate Investment Banking. I clearly remember one lecture about Exit Strategies (for real estate investors). The excellent tutor managed to keep us awake during this wonderful summery Saturday afternoon when he asked the question. “Who of you works in a company that does have a strategy?”.

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The Art of The Shift

Innovation Excellence

In an age of disruption the only viable strategy is to adapt. Today things move too quickly to stick with old paradigms once their time has passed. Once outdated platforms fail to solve new problems, they will be overtaken with blazing speed and we must either make a shift or get left behind. Yet that’s easier.

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Innovation Comes in Many Forms

Svava

And is influenced by many different factors.

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Phase Gate and Portfolio Management: Two Processes, One Goal

Innovation Excellence

Last month on a short flight home I was asked by my seatmate what I did for work. I told him that I worked for Kalypso, a consulting firm exclusively focused on innovation. He explained that he worked at a large food and beverage manufacturer and that for his company, like many others at the moment, innovation had become an increasingly popular topic of discussion.

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Innovation Comes in Many Forms

Svava

Innovation Comes in Many Forms.

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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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Disruptive innovation

Innovation Fixer

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Does Your Firm Conduct "Declined Offer" Interviews?

Michael Roberto

In a blog post for Harvard Business Review , executive coach Ben Dattner makes the case for conducting "declined offer" interviews at your organization. He argues that organizations should interview job candidates who are made an offer, but who choose to work somewhere else. Why did they take another offer? What made your firm less attractive than another organization?

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