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How do you Create an Annual Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. Either way, there are some core guidelines that will help you develop a thoughtful and successful innovation strategy.

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The Innovation Matrix newsletter is out

Exago

The Innovation Matrix newsletter is out, and innovation author and expert Paul Sloane is in the Spotlight in this first edition. The post The Innovation Matrix newsletter is out appeared first on www.exago.com.

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How do you Create an Annual Innovation Strategy?

IdeaScale

It’s a brand new year, which means it’s time for a brand new annual innovation strategy for your organization. Perhaps you’ve been working on your annual strategy since before we entered this new year, or perhaps you just now have the bandwidth to really confront it. Either way, there are some core guidelines that will help you develop a thoughtful and successful innovation strategy.

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How The Cloud Is Helping Small Businesses Compete With The Big Guys

Digital Tonto

Technology disrupts, but it also empowers and the cloud may be the best example of that. Related posts: Cloud Computing Just Entered Totally New Territory. 2015: The Year The Cloud Bursts. The Cloud. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2016

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2016: Robert F Brands Robert Brands was the founder of InnovationCoach.com, and the author of Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Who Can You Trust?

BrainZooming

I listened to a radio show featuring Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak called More2Life. The topic was trust, and how people that grew up in negative home environments with crappy parents can learn to trust and not trust the right people. They shared a four-question test for determining someone’s trustworthiness. I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise.

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Everyone’s an Innovator

Strategos

We are all Innovators. Who’s doing the innovating in your company? A central innovation group? R&D? marketing? Or, is everyone expected to be an innovator ? For many companies, the Holy Grail is to have the entire company innovating; and especially the front line employees. The front line employees, those closest to the work and the customers, usually have the best insights to improve performance, reduce cost, or develop new products and services.

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How to Protect Breakthrough Innovation

Innovation Excellence

A company’s portfolio can generally be segmented into three types of innovation: incremental, adjacent, and breakthrough. Incremental innovations are minor improvements to existing products or small steps in to a new market. Adjacent innovations are more novel than incremental innovations and often involve applying an existing core competency in a new area.

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Unlocking the One Trillion-Dollar Sustainable Innovation Opportunity

InnovationManagement

Last week Unilever announced research showing that one-third of consumers now purchase its brands based on their good social and environmental performance, but went on to suggest that brands are missing an opportunity from not promoting sustainability effectively. Getting this right could unlock a further $1trn market opportunity for sustainability innovators.

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What I Tell My Team

Innovation Excellence

Ask the hard questions. As a thriving consultancy, our primary vocation is providing insight that adds value to our clients. To meet this objective we have to play enlightened court jester, asking the unaskable questions those inside the company cannot ask. We also have to set the stage, carefully constructing an atmosphere of trust where.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Adventist Health: Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Spirit to Drive Healthcare Innovation

Planview

In a recent issue of Healthcare IT News , Adventist Health – whose innovation program is powered by Spigit – was profiled for its ability to unleash their employee’s entrepreneurial spirit to drive innovation. Here’s the big takeaway from the story. Small improvements make a big impact. Innovation isn’t always about the breakthrough ideas that revolutionize industries, or the entire world.

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How Aon Health Invites Leaders to Help Set the Innovation Agenda

Innovation Leader

Jim Winkler of Aon Health explains the process that his team uses to set the innovation agenda, and determine priorities, in collaboration with line of business executives.

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Why Persuading People with Facts Doesn't Work At Times

Michael Roberto

The British Psychological Society's Research Digest reports on a new study by Gregory Trevors and his colleagues. They examined why we fail at times to persuade people with factual evidence. Why don't fact-based arguments change minds? In the past, researchers have posited that a "backfire" effect can occur when you confront someone with information that challenges their pre-existing views.

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Intelligent Failure

Rmukesh Gupta

I just came across this video where Rita McGrath shares her views on how to fail intelligently. First, do take some time and watch the short video below. She talks about the 4 different activities that constitute intelligent failure. How does success look like? I think she makes a great point here. One of the biggest challenge that I have seen in innovation projects is they have a big goal and know what success at the highest level looks like – successful product launch, getting the next r

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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