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7 Ways to Boost Employee Morale in Your Workplace

Idea to Value

Office morale can directly impact job satisfaction ratings as well as productivity and even talent retention. Unfortunately, some managers and business owners only think about the importance of morale when it sinks to a very low level. The ideal work environment will foster high morale on a regular basis, and this will feed high employee satisfaction ratings and motivate your team to be as productive as possible on a regular basis.

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50 Common Mistakes Corporate Innovation Teams Should Avoid | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

There are a number of all too common mistakes that teams make when it comes to corporate innovation programs.

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The Ideas Problem

Innovation Excellence

Ideas are the problem. I suspect many of you have heard this statement as often as I have. It’s usually translated as “we don’t have enough ideas”. Yet when you dig beneath the surface, you find that the bald statement isn’t always as it first appears. In this post, I’d like to offer some different translations of “Ideas are the problem”.

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Peer Group “Scaling-Up”: Initial Survey Results

Integrative Innovation

This article was co-written with Frank Mattes. As published in a recent post , we have initiated a Peer Group of leading European companies which share our view that Best Practices with respect to scaling up validated concepts (successfully emerging from the “Fuzzy Front End”) to business impact need to be in place to sustainably increase overall corporate innovation performance.

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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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50 Lessons on Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship from 50 Episodes of Future² | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Our podcast has just turned 50! To celebrate, we've listed out 50 of the most important and memorable lessons about innovation.

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Seven Ways Even Smart Companies Kill Great Ideas

Innovation Excellence

These seven behaviors threaten to stop innovation dead in its tracks… You can’t live without innovation. It’s why you’re in business. But as you grow, innovation also becomes a threat. It threatens to disrupt your existing business model, products, and services. It threatens to upset your customers, who have become accustomed to a certain way.

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11 Questions to Ask Before Starting an Innovation Project | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Ask good questions and you get good answers. Ask the wrong questions, or worse still, don't ask questions at all, and you're essentially driving blind with no sense of direction.

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Day 1 – Strategy Sprint – A DIY Guide

Innovation Excellence

This is the third in a series of five DIY posts on holding a strategy sprint. You now know how to prepare for a strategy sprint, and you’ve gathered the right people. You’re ready for the first full day of sprinting. Take a deep breath, you’ll need it! Day 1 is all about grasping the.

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How to Optimise your Return on Failure (RoF) | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

If you’re not willing to fail, then you will only ever embark upon safe, incremental improvements, where you have all the answers and therefore can’t fail.

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How Idea Implementation is Like Legislating

InnovationManagement

In a recent audit of site content on InnovationManagement.se, site publishers noticed that although there is a great deal of information about how to architect and run idea management programs, there isn’t a whole lot of information about how to implement ideas.

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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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Kamel M. Kamel

Innovation 360 Group

Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Background. Highly accomplished visionary Executive, service-driven EM/ELV Manager and commercial technology evangelist with extensive business and technical acumen gained on an international stage successfully delivering innovative technology projects within time and budgetary constraints. Accustomed to project/program delivery; utilizes various methodologies and calls upon the ability to quickly grasp new ideas and concepts while identifying innovative solutions

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Lucky You're With. a Case Study in Terrible Insurance Customer Experience | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

A case study in what not to do when it comes to customer experience and why the door is wide open for insurance startups looking to disrupt the space by offering significantly better customer service.

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Turn Bad Habits Into Good Habits | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

If you've been listening to my podcast or reading my blogs you'll know that I like to sprinkle elements of philosophy, mindfulness and self improvement throughout - no, this is not for reasons of self indulgence, but has to do with the fact that when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, one can not effectively perform unless the mind, body and spirit are attuned to the task at hand.

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Why Engaging Startups can Drive Corporate Innovation Initiatives | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

I recently caught up with Kmart Australia’s innovation program manager, Fabio Oliveira, on my podcast for a discussion on innovation in retail and what the ‘store of the future’ might look like.

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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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The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The theory on psychological health is now almost 70 years purpose rather than just profit, in stark contrast to prior generations, a testament to having already met their other needs.

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What is Innovation Software?

eZassi

What is Innovation Software. Innovation Software Helps Businesses Cultivate and Implement Innovation — Faster. Innovation software is a fairly recent development that was made possible by the rise in popularity of both cloud computing and social sharing platforms. The main goal of this software is to help enterprise level businesses generate and evaluate ideas so that innovation can be cultivated and implemented.

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5 Innovation Metrics You Need to Know | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

When it comes to early stage innovation, we can’t rely on metrics such as ROI or NPV to determine success, particularly given that such metrics favour short term returns whereas disruptive innovation can take years to deliver the kind of returns that large companies are seeking.

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Technology Scouting Excellence 2017 Speaker Lineup

eZassi

Announcing Technology Scouting Excellence Speakers. Today we are excited to announce the speaker lineup for the Technology Scouting 2017 conference. The conference date is October 18 – 19, 2017 and will be held in Boston, MA. The speaker lineup includes: Denise Fletcher , Chief Innovation Officer. Ezassi (former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox).

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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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Hacking a Corporate Culture to Support Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In my most recent podcast interview with Steve Blank, credited with developing the customer development methodology which birthed the lean startup, we touched on the topic of how the corporate culture inhibits innovation.

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5 Reasons Why Companies Should Outsource Prototyping | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Could a company outsource prototyping for a new idea completely and let a third-party organisation do all the testing and market validation?

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Success Cannot Exist Without Passion | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

I was inspired to write this thought piece by a tifo, or banner to the football layman, which put forward the idea that 'success cannot exist without passion', something which is just as relevant for the team's coach Tony Popovic, who was immortalised on the banner, as it is for innovation and entrepreneurship.

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How GE Saved 80% in Development Costs | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

General Electric, with $493B in assets and 200,000 employees is applying lean startup.

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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 Bluedot Cut Costs and Moved Faster After Learning Agile | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Collective Campus walked the team through an intensive 2-day SCRUM bootcamp in which they learned agile principles in addition to techniques related to as Scrum practices, requirements, project initiation, estimation and prioritisation, sprint planning, executing sprints, re-planning, closing a scrum sprint and closing a project.

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Rick Rubin on Creativity and Innovation Blockers | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

So many things get in the way of the artistic process, whether writing music, painting or creating new products and business models.

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How to Develop a Culture of Innovation Without Compromising The Status Quo | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Established companies have been built to deliver, not to discover. So how do we build a culture that supports ideation and experimentation?

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Free Download: The Innovation Manager's Handbook | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Introducing The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a comprehensive guide to innovating in the enterprise.

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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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How we helped Sportsbet employees learn Lean Startup | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Check out the video to hear how it went when we taught one of Australia's largest bookmakers how to use the lean startup methodology.

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Do you have an Artificial IntellIgence Strategy – or are you JUST pretending TO?

Innovation 360

Not long ago one of my clients told me he badly needed “ Artificial Intelligence for Dummies. ” It was an interesting comment, coming from a highly skilled former senior consultant and current industry leader. I was reminded of the internet hype in the 90s, when firms made fortunes via fundraising and spectacular non-working projects for the new economy.

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9 Ways to Change Your Company Culture through Self Awareness | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Did you hear about the manager who always shot the messenger whenever they brought bad news? He eventually stopped hearing bad news.

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Don’t Break Down Silos, Connect Them

Digital Tonto

Stop obsessing over silos and start thinking about how your organization can transcend them. Related posts: 4 Things You Should Know About Networked Organizations. Building Creative Collaboration. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.