Fri.Nov 10, 2017

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A Guidance on Keeping Your Innovation Processes in Check

HYPE Innovation

As an innovation manager/leader you likely deal with processes (and process improvements) every day. You know, prioritizing and tweaking those actions your firm engages in to accomplish a pre-established business purpose or objective (Michel Porter is a great reference on this topic – he introduced the process view of organizations ). From creating the physical space for innovation and adjusting your incentive scheme, to more abstract goals like becoming a learning organization or being customer

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Participate in Public Open Innovation Challenges

IdeaConnection

A fantastic way for organizations to give their innovation endeavours a rocket-sized boost and for innovators to get their teeth stuck into fascinating challenges is with IdeaConnection’s public challenges platform. Through this, our problem solvers and crowdsourced participants work to develop world-beating solutions. One of our current public open innovation challenges is being hosted on behalf of the University of Iowa and it’s asking solvers to develop an analytical model that wi

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Innovation Insights with Mike Polson from Ashurst

Idea Drop

In this video interview, Mike Polson highlights the importance of how any change in a law firm should be driven by what their clients want and not just because ‘innovation’ is a buzzword in the legal sector at the moment. However, the biggest challenge is how law firms actually make that change happen. Law firms are risk-averse and quite traditional in how they operate.

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Why Context Matters in Successful Innovation

Innovation Excellence

In order to accelerate the pace of innovation and increase the amount of innovation that's done, we need to simplify it, or at least remove some of the uncertainty.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Future Squared Episode #183: Cy Wakeman on Silencing Your Ego and Why Employee Accountability Should Come Before Engagement | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Cy Wakeman is a dynamic international keynote speaker, business consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and global thought leader with over 25 years experience cultivating a revolutionary new approach to leadership.

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Invent IT: Lufthansa Intrapreneurs Program

Innovation Excellence

Lufthansa Systems, IT services provider in the airline industry with over 300 airline customers, initiated an Intrapreneurs program named Invent IT in 2007-2008. New Business and Innovation manager at Lufthansa Systems, and key executive of the program, Carina Leue-Bensch takes us step by step through this extensive journey, and draws some leassons learned out of this 10 years experience.

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Ali Kamyab

Innovation 360

Founder of Swedish Professional Development Institute (Swedish PDI), and Intellectus PM Consultants (IPMC) Based in Stockholm, Sweden. Background. With a background in consultancy in oil and gas industry, Ali has changed his carrier path to industrial management for a couple of years. His intense interest in technology change, change management, ideation and innovation, and entrepreneurship and startups has given him a fresh outlook on life.

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Future Squared Episode #180 - The Peril of Social Media Algorithms | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Today, an important observation I’ve made this week. Regular listeners will know that I’m a prolific blogger, if I can use that term, of sorts, having published over 200 blogs in the past couple of years.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

The financial services ecosystem is going through its most profound transformation since the invention of ATMs some fifty years ago. Small, fast-moving start-ups are revolutionizing the global landscape with creative market-responsive solutions that are becoming increasingly accepted and utilized. Given the highly fluid nature of the digital marketplace, and the accessibility and timeliness of these offerings, pundits predict that the megatrend will only accelerate.

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Future Squared Episode #173: Best Of: Rituals and Routines of Future² Guests | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

If you’re a long-time listener you’d be very familiar with the three lightning round questions I ask my guests at the end of each show - one of which is on the daily rituals and routines they maintain to stay on top of their games.

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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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Who Should be on Your Innovation Team?

Innovation Leader

We asked our community: How do you think about who should be on your innovation team? Here's a summary of the top answers.

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Future Squared Episode #177: Gretchen Rubin on The Four Tendencies | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better Than Before, and her newest book, The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better Too), which comes out this September.

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Kobe Steel, Middle Managers, and Unethical Behavior

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal reports today about the results of an interim investigation into the product quality scandal at Japan's Kobe Steel. According to the newspaper, "Kobe Steel Ltd. released a report Friday that blamed lax management and overworked employees for a product-quality scandal, saying the company has to restore trust to survive." The report reminded me of research by Linda Treviño of Penn State University.

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Future Squared Episode #172: The 4 Ps of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

When it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, a number of core qualities or attributes are fundamental to success, which are best encapsulated by the four Ps unpacked in this episode of Fast Fix Friday!

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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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Why do innovation programs fail

hackerearth

How do you go from $11 billion in revenue and 76,000+ patents to filing for Chapter 11? Sadly, this was the case of The Eastman Kodak Company. As painful as it is to watch a much-loved brand vanish, this example is a testament to the fact that there is no safe play when it comes to business. What would cause such a colossal failure and make an industry giant disappear off the radar?

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Future Squared Episode #176: KPIs and Incentivise to encourage Corporate Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

I left the corporate world years ago not only because I managed to raise funding to pursue my own startup ideabut mostly because there was little to no incentive for managers to encourage new ideas or change.

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WANT TO LEAD A GOOD MEETING? Begin with Facilitative Presence!

Idea Champions

Since 1987, I have been facilitating a wide variety of high octave business meetings for just about every industry on planet earth. These meetings have been variably referred to as leadership development programs, creative thinking trainings, innovation workshops, team building off sites, brainstorming sessions, strategic planning pow wows, senior team retreats, annual conferences, and business simulations.

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Future Squared Episode #171: Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Steve Glaveski | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In this episode of Future Squared, I answer a number of questions that have been posed to me, either from workshop participants or from emails and tweets I’ve received from listeners.

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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 role of hackathon in the process of innovation

hackerearth

Hackathons have become increasingly popular over the years. On a superficial level, a hackathon is still seen as a one-off annual event or a PR stunt. According to the 2017 Global hackathon report , more than 50% of hackathons conducted worldwide are recurring. Companies such as Facebook and Cognizant use hackathons as tools for sustained innovation.

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Future Squared Episode #189: Find Your Why with David Mead | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

David Mead is an author and igniter for Simon Sinek, author of three best-selling books: Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last and Together is Better.

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Future Squared Episode #181: $100K to $100M with Jason Calacanis | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Jason Calacanis is a tech entrepreneur, wildly successful angel investor, and the host of the popular weekly podcast This Week in Startups.

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Future Squared Episode #188: Smell Don't Tell: How to Get Buy-In | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Winning buy-in from senior and middle management for corporate innovation initiatives is one of the biggest challenges intrapreneurs face.

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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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Future Squared Episode #174: Why Honesty and Transparency underpins the Sharing Economy | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Recently staying in a hotel I had a less than perfect experience, being moved rooms at my inconvenience and a few power outages.

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Future Squared Episode #170: It's not just about what you do when you feel like it. | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In this episode, I talk how I'm feeling right now and a big choice I had to make when waking up, post holiday this morning.

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Future Squared Episode #190: Learning How to Learn | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

The world is changing faster than ever and up to 60% of today’s jobs are likely to be automated in the next 10-15 years.

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Future Squared Episode #182: 3 Cognitive Biases that Inhibit Innovation | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

While we - human beings - like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, the truth is we are anything but.

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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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Future Squared Episode #179: The Business Case Alternative - How to Support Disruptive Innovation at a Large Company | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Disruptive ideas usually don’t see light of day at large companies. And when they do, it’s not for long.

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Future Squared Episode #185: Tim Harford Returns to talk 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Tim Hardford is an economist, author, TED speaker, journalist and broadcaster.

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Future Squared Episode #178: How to Incentivise People to Give You Product Feedback | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Get out of the building from day one they say. It will be fun they say.

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Future Squared Episode #175: Peak Performance with Brad Stulberg | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Brad Stulberg writes about health and the science of human performance.

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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.