Wed.Nov 20, 2019

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Fostering Innovation for a Distributed Workforce

IdeaScale

Distributed workforces will be more and more common. Flexible working, telecommuting, working from home, distributed working… no matter what you call it at your company, it offers a host of advantages. Teams are more focused, better able to balance life’s many demands, and generally happier. What impact does it have on innovation with a workforce attending a meeting via video chat instead of in person?

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The Innovation Mandate

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Nicholas Webb, a world-renowned Business Strategist, Bestselling Author and Futurist about his new book The Innovation Mandate: The Growth Secrets of the Best Organizations in the World. As an Inventor, Nicholas invented one of the first wearable technologies, and one of the world’s smallest medical implants.

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Focusing on Innovation for our Energy Transition we are all undertaking

Paul Hobcraft

When you are undertaking such a transformation in any system like energy, innovation becomes vital to inject new forces of dynamism and creative thinking to tackling such a change. The energy transition that the world is undertaking is one of the most critical areas where innovation needs to be at its very best, that top of the game to make the level of change necessary.

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Five Perspectives of Innovation Management Maturity

InnovationManagement

The success of innovation management is never an accident; it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum. The post Five Perspectives of Innovation Management Maturity appeared first on Innovation Management.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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University Education - A New Model for a New Era

IdeaSpies

There are more than one million students enrolled in Australian Universities. The majority of these are undergraduate students chasing the dream of a better life. They have enrolled because they believe that if they graduate from University then meaningful employment will shortly follow. They believe this because it is an ingrained cultural narrative that if you go to University you will get a better job.

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So Much Data, So Little Time. Until Now.

Daniel Burrus

In a way, the exponential growth of machine-to-machine communications with connected sensors, or what is called the Internet of Things (IoT), has become an example of too much of a good thing. IoT facilitating communication among connected machines, devices and sensors, creates data at levels never seen before, in volumes that are growing at such a rate that organizations and government agencies will have massive problems analyzing and using in an optimal way.

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Delivering innovative outcomes means becoming a dynamic organisation

Cris Beswick

So, you think you’ve got a dynamic organisation which is actively delivering change? Congratulations, that means you sit firmly with the other 84.9% of executives who recognise that innovation is very important in delivering strong outcomes [1] and you’re certainly not one of the 72% of executives who admit that they are not out innovating … Continued.

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AI and Cyber - the latest in a long line of much needed collaborations

IdeaSpies

For a few years, major R&D groups in tier-1 banking, academia, defence & intelligence (to name but a few), have cottoned o.

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Strategic Project Management is Key to Executing Strategy

Cascade Strategy

We've talked in the past about how building a strong Strategy Model is core to executing your organization's strategy. At the heart of the model are typically Objectives (what you're trying to achieve), Projects (what you're going to do to achieve it), and KPIs (how you're going to measure the success of your Objectives ). The focus of this article is on actually doing things (your Projects ) to move you towards your Objectives - that may sound like it should be obvious, but we've all been in th

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A simple measure of innovation

IdeaSpies

Innovation is a challenging term to define. One person’s innovation is another’s line extension.About the only thing that is c.

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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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Counter-Intelligence: Lessons from Whirlpool’s WLabs

Innovation Leader

Brett Dibkey knows what he shouldn’t be doing at Whirlpool’s WLabs: delivering incremental improvements to the refrigerator. Instead, his 4-year-old incubator, located in Benton Harbor, Mich., is tasked with something a whole lot harder: creating new kinds of appliances in categories that aren’t yet well-established.

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Insights from Innovation Roundtable Summit 2019

ITONICS

Innovation Roundtable Summit (IRS) wrapped a week ago, and wow – it was our best ever. We were part of the IRS in Copenhagen as a sponsor and exhibitor for the third year in a row. This year we spent 3 interactive days attending stimulating presentations, labs, roundtable discussions and introducing a client case with Cisco. More than 700 innovation executives and leaders across industries from 250 companies and research institutions, such as Cisco, Spotify, Airbus, P&G, Siemens, IKEA, Erics

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Protected: Process Development Guidelines – Implementing a Phase Gate Process for Project Management

Bubblegroup

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Process Development Guidelines – Implementing a Phase Gate Process for Project Management appeared first on Bubble PPM Software.

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#1,579 – DNANudge

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The manner and way in which we go food shopping has undergone several dramatic shifts over time thanks to the development of new technologies. From coupons and bar codes to electronic scanners and self-checkout lines, getting groceries is a high-tech operation. Even your shopping cart is full of tech, capable of shutting down if you try to take it home with you.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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How To Make A Concept Map (With Examples And Templates)

xMind

Concept Map of Chemistry. How to make a concept map? If you haven’t got a clear answer to it, then this guide is for you! This article is loaded with templates and best practices on each step of mapping. In short, to make a concept map, you need to go through: preparation, brainstorming, structuring, linking, and finalizing. How to make a concept map – background.

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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

Commercialising and communicating academic research leads to more relevant research that improves lives and provides solutions to.

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LGPD: How the Brazilian General Law of Data Protection can impact Your Business

mjvinnovation

According to experts, this distrust comes, among other things, from a lack of knowledge about the subject. It is this topic that this article will help you reflect on. Read on to understand what LGPD is and what impacts it could have on your business! What is LGPD? The General Data Protection Act (LGPD) can be summed up as a new law that requires public and private organizations to comply with security standards to prevent theft, leaks and illegal sales of digital and electronic information.

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#1,578 – Holograms That You Can Hear and Feel

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Researchers from the University of Sussex have developed some of the coolest technology I have ever encountered: holograms that you can see, hear, and even feel! As Gizmodo explains: “The technology isn’t limited to just creating a neat effect for the eyes. In addition to zipping the foam bead around to create the outlines of shapes, the transducers can also make it vibrate at frequencies that create sound waves, particularly those that fall within the range of human hearing.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Insights from Innovation Roundtable Summit 2019

ITONICS

Innovation Roundtable Summit (IRS) wrapped a week ago, and wow – it was our best ever. We were part of the IRS in Copenhagen as a sponsor and exhibitor for the third year in a row. This year we spent 3 interactive days attending stimulating presentations, labs, roundtable discussions and introducing a client case with Cisco. More than 700 innovation executives and leaders across industries from 250 companies and research institutions, such as Cisco, Spotify, Airbus, P&G, Siemens, IKEA, Erics

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