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Diversity Matters: Why Genuine Inclusion Is Essential to True Innovation

IdeaScale

Diversity is a crucial component of a successful innovation strategy. It drives market growth and helps everyone in the workplace embrace different ideas. According to research on how diversity can drive innovation, there are two types of diversity: inherent and acquired. Inherent diversity includes traits people are born with such as ethnicity and gender.

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Broadcast industry lessons in the time of coronavirus

Board of Innovation

When the Coronavirus pandemic forced many entertainment and broadcasting agencies to suspend operations and they were forced to innovate on the fly. We spoke with Stijn Lehaen, CTO of VRT, to find out the challenges his team overcame, the limits of current technology, and the long-term impact this will have on the industry. The post Broadcast industry lessons in the time of coronavirus appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Why its Important to Give Innovators a Stake in Innovation Success

Strategyzer Innovation

To build a portfolio of innovation projects, companies need people that have an entrepreneurial mindset. This is different from the managerial mindset that is needed from people working on your portfolio of existing businesses. Now, imagine an innovator who repeatedly creates new multi-million dollar businesses for an organization but has no real stake in that success.

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Podcast S4E70: Pete Newell – How to manage an innovation pipeline

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Pete Newell, Founder of BMNT. We speak about how to align innovation strategy with operations in large organisations. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – How Pete’s history in the military with the US Army’s Skunkworks influenced his journey to innovation. 00:03:00 – The military is always in a certain state of chaos at the head of the battlefield, moving towards structure as you move up

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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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Focus Through Crisis: Find out how different organizations are responding to COVID-19

Cascade Strategy

We recently sent a survey to our readers, asking them to share some experiences of how their organizations have responded to the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, we will share some of their insights!

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Leading and managing human transitions through adversity

Innovation Excellence

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. It reaffirms the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic, and resilient not only with themselves, and also with others, by strategic

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A Brief Introduction to 5 Principles of Lean Manufacturing

Kainexus

Lean Thinking , by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, covers the five principles of Lean manufacturing. “Truly remarkable. the most comprehensive, instructive, mind-stretching and provocative analysis of any major industry I have ever known," said Philip Caldwell , former Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Peter Drucker called it, “A very important book.

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Leading and managing human transitions through adversity

Innovation Excellence

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. It reaffirms the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic, and resilient not only with themselves, and also with others, by strategic

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Focus Through Crisis: Find out how different organizations are responding to COVID-19

Cascade Strategy

We recently sent a survey to our readers, asking them to share some experiences of how their organizations have responded to the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, we will share some of their insights!

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A Portfolio Manager’s Journey into Knowledge Scouting

eZassi

Dr. Robert Blizek, a former senior technologist with NAVAR, shares the lessons learned that drove his decision to use Ezassi’s Knowledge Scouting application. The Challenge. Growth of World Population and the History of Technology. Figure 1. Globalization and the Internet have dramatically accelerated technology development. There are three challenges to address if one is to keep abreast of technology development for investments, optimal partnership selection, or roadmap planning.

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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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Navigating Priority Changes: Ranking Initiatives

Innovation Leader

The second exercise from our “Navigating Priority Changes at Your Company” workshop presents a two-by-two that helps teams rank their priorities. Watch the video above for a detailed explanation from session leader Brant Cooper.

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#1,828 – COVID-19 Breathalyzer

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As we speak the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals are taking on my favorite team, the New York Yankees, to kick off MLB’s abbreviated 60 game season. But they are doing so short-handed as their best player, young star outfielder Juan “Goat-o” Soto just found out that he tested positive for COVID-19. That’s a pretty big deal in of itself but this story is much larger than that.

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Navigating Priority Changes at Your Company

Innovation Leader

Innovation teams are facing budget cuts and changes in strategy. Brant Cooper shares how teams can navigate priority changes and get inside the minds of senior leaders.

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#1,827 – Cheer at the Ballpark

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Brr it’s cold in here, there must be some Toros in the atmosphere! Oops, sorry. Wrong kind of cheering. What I meant to say was that cheering at baseball games will soon get taken to a whole new level, thanks to a new app from MLB that will let fans cheer the action virtually. According to ESPN : “When baseball launches without fans in the stands, those watching games at home will still be able to cheer, boo or clap for their favorite teams virtually…Scoreboard operators at

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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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Navigating Priority Changes: C-Suite Zoom

Innovation Leader

This exercise from our “Navigating Priority Changes at Your Company” workshop describes how to create a stronger connection to your senior leadership.

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Top 6 Branding Trends To Improve Your Appeal

The Human Factor

source. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos once said, ‘A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn a reputation by trying hard to do things well.’ You’ve probably got a solid brand strategy by now, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Branding is always evolving, and so it’s well worth educating yourself about the latest trends. 1.

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#1,830 – Universal Coronavirus Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Did you know that the common cold is also a coronavirus just like COVID-19? Since they’re closely related does that mean that we could produce a vaccine for both of them at the same time?! Perhaps. As Inverse puts it: “SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – belongs to the family of beta coronaviruses that cause everything from the common cold to Mers (which kills about one in three people infected).

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#1,829 – Virtual Fans

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Earlier today I wrote about a new app from Major League Baseball that will let fans cheer virtually, with scoreboard operators adjusting the artificial sounds that will be getting pumped into the stadium accordingly. But now comes word that Fox will be going one step further and adding virtual fans to television broadcasts so that it will look like there’s a crowd in attendance to those watching at home.

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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