December, 2020

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Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

Destination Innovation

Here is a question for leaders and managers. Would you like your people to try out their ideas for better ways to meet the needs of customers or better ways to run the business? Most leaders I ask give a positive response – often guarded with a ‘within reason’ They would like to see people trying to find new and better ways to do things on their own initiative.

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No thinking time left- help

Paul Hobcraft

Today most executives seem to be time-starved. They are constantly reacting to daily events, to fix focusing and fixing short-term performance. This applies to the top executive down to the most junior. The sheer difficulty of having most if not all of your colleagues working remotely is making it so much harder. How can you keep the engagement, how can you find an environment that is creative, stimulating and allows for innovation?

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The 4 Key Attributes Of Transformational Leaders

Digital Tonto

Change isn’t what it used to be. While history shows that revolutionary change is possible, today's transformational efforts seem to be rudderless, getting mired down and eventually fading away. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Podcast S4E92: Adrian Mills – Bringing creativity into consulting

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Adrian Mills, Partner for Creative, Brand & Advertising at Deloitte Digital in Australia. We speak about why a consultancy would bring in advertising people, and his experience in building creative capabilities within a large company. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – His experience joining a consultancy from advertising. 00:04:00 – Why consultancies are bringing in creative talent from other industries. 00:06:3

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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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6 Innovation Leaders Share What Inspired Them in 2020

HYPE Innovation

This year has been tough. We've experienced some highs and some profound lows. Some of us were able to find silver-linings throughout the last nine months as our commutes vanished, and we all got a lot more use of our homes. Maybe you realized you had more time to read. Maybe you started a new hobby, like baking. Or maybe you spent time working on new ways to connect with your team (as well as loved ones) virtually.

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Exago commits to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Exago

As we celebrate Human Rights Day 2020, we at Exago officially join public and private organizations worldwide acting to promote the UN 2030 Agenda and meet the Sustainable Development Goals. The post Exago commits to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development appeared first on Exago.

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Building our understanding of the factory of the future

Paul Hobcraft

Siemens Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog Results. Last week, Siemens had a really valuable virtual event called their “ Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog “ Those that missed it you can watch previous sessions on-demand at any time via “Recordings”. They provided an outstanding virtual showroom packed full of innovations, product presentations and use cases are exhibited in an exciting real 3D environment.

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Here Are Five Examples of Creativity in the Workplace

IdeaScale

Creativity can be difficult to cultivate in the workplace. Some teams gain inspiration from seeing creative innovations from other companies. Creativity is more than painting a work of art or writing a best selling book. Thoughts, words, and actions are all forms of creativity. Creativity ranks number one in terms of business success. One study revealed … Continued.

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Podcast S4E91: Dave Birss – How to bring creativity into remote working

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value, we speak with Dave Birss. Dave is a musician, educator, author and facilitator with a focus on improving creativity. We speak about how to keep up creativity in the times of remote working, and how to think laterally to live consciously again. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – How Dave’s Scottish background sparked his interest in invention and innovation. 00:04:45 – How he found the power of education in creativity. 00:08:30 ̵

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4 Innovative Business Pivots In The Age Of The Pandemic

Strategyzer Innovation

2020 has been an incredibly challenging year on a multitude of fronts and, like many of us, businesses all over the world have struggled to stay afloat. The covid-19 pandemic has accelerated and magnified shifts in the business world, creating a radically different setting for businesses to operate in. While these challenges have proved to be too great for many businesses, the pandemic related constraints have also spurred a great deal of innovation, with many businesses using these constraints

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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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Exago wins 2020 BIB MVP Awards Innovation in Action category

Exago

These awards recognize the Most Valuable Posts shared by Business Innovation Brief as judged by readers, award committee, the machine intelligence and social media. Business Innovation Brief recognises the posts that provide the highest value to the innovation industry professionals, “useful and actionable information, that is tactical or strategic in nature, providing either long-term or short-term value”.

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) was born in 1973 in Illinois. His parents were immigrants from Taiwan who met at graduate school. Hsieh studied computer science at Harvard University where he was a member of a prize-winning programming contest team. While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. One of his customers was Alfred Lin, who became his friend and later became CFO and COO at Zappos.

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The Pandemic Pivot: The Need for Product, Service and Business Model Innovation

InnovationManagement

The pandemic and economic depression the world faces is a dark period for all businesses, but there are also opportunities. The companies that see the opportunities, and pivot to exploit them, will succeed, while those that fail to innovate will fade away. The post The Pandemic Pivot: The Need for Product, Service and Business Model Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Why Project Teams Frequently Fail at Brainstorming

IdeaScale

Introduction: How often have we heard executives and project managers say, “We need to come up with some new ideas” or “We need to find some elegant solutions to this project problem”? The project manager then sends out e-mails to all the team members with the hope of filling every available seat in a conference … Continued. The post Why Project Teams Frequently Fail at Brainstorming appeared first on IdeaScale.

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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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Boston Dynamics’ robots have learned how to dance :)

Idea to Value

Boston Dynamics has taught its Robots how to dance. While the following viral video may look like CGI, it is in fact real. Boston Dynamics, the company based in Waltham, Massachusetts , makes some of the most advanced bipedal and mobile robots in the world. They act as an R&D facility, and recently their owners Softbank sold off 80% of the company to new owners Hyundai Motors for nearly $880M.

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Testing Business Ideas: 4 most common tests to get you started

Strategyzer Innovation

Great innovation teams are able to gain momentum and build up stronger evidence over time with a series of experiments. In this blog post, we share one four-step example of how to execute and analyze multiple experiments in order to increase the strength of your evidence.

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Top Posts Of 2020

Digital Tonto

2020 was a year to be endured more than to be lived. The Covid-19 pandemic arrived as a curiosity, then a panic, extended into tragedy of genuine loss and, hopefully, is emerging as a set of concrete. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The 7 Wastes of Lean in Healthcare

Kainexus

Although the Lean business improvement methodology was initially developed to improve the quality and productivity of automotive factories, it has been used with great success in industries and settings of all types, including software development, government, retail, and other service settings. Healthcare organizations , in particular, have found that the approach can be used to reduce costs and improve quality and patient satisfaction at the same time.

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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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6 Giant Companies That Nearly Flopped

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Apple, Google, Tesla, and more were not obvious winners at first. Here's what nearly took them down.

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How Can You Align Product Development with Business Strategy?

IdeaScale

When developing new products, organization leaders must ensure their efforts align with the overall business strategy. This is essential for success because it relates the new product to the company mission. According to product development research, one in seven product ideas will be successful. Those that are, tie directly into customer needs to fulfill a demand or … Continued.

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Podcast S4E90: Greg Orme – The Human Edge

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with author Greg Orme. Greg’s book The Human Edge was voted as the business book of the year. We speak about how artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work, and how people can improve their capabilities to stay relevant in the future. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:30 – Machines are coming for white collar jobs for the first time. 00:04:45 – What types of jobs are most at risk of automation. 00:06:30 R

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Elon Musk: Forget Breakthough Innovation — Just Make the Product Better

Innovation Leader

Elon Musk shared his thoughts on innovation at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council conference. ”Spend less time in meeting rooms, less time on PowerPoint presentations, less time on spreadsheets,” he said. Here are the three big takeaways from his session.

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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.

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How Machine Learning is Changing Business Communication

InnovationManagement

Machine learning is not a sci-fi concept anymore. Over the past few years, it has improved business operations in multiple ways. One of the areas that benefit from ML technologies the most is business communications. So, how does machine learning impact your internal and external communications? Let’s find out! The post How Machine Learning is Changing Business Communication appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Failure to Succeed

IdeaSpies

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, battled depression and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead th.

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National Pride: 3 Mexicans Win First Place In an Innovation Contest

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Nicolás Ángeles, Lizbeth Gutiérrez and Luis Lira, graduates of the IPN of Guanajuato, won with an environmental scientific project.

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COVID-19 and the Need for Innovation Management in IT

IdeaScale

COVID-19 is responsible for one of the biggest technology investment surges in history. People are working, attending classes, and purchasing products all from home. Innovation management helps organizations handle these new investments. Here are ways companies can deal with the pressure to innovate during constant change. Increase Digital Technology Technology investment is crucial to the survival … Continued.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Podcast S4E89: Brant Cooper – The 5E Model of Innovation

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Brant Cooper, Founder of Moves the Needle. We wrote the first book on the Lean Startup method, The Lean Entrepreneur, and we speak about Lean Innovation and dealing with Uncertainty. Topics covered in this episode: 00:04:00 – The 5E Model of Disruption Poetry. 00:06:00 – Everybody needs to balance execution work with exploration work. 00:09:00 – Teams need to be agile. 00:12:30 – How to measure and impro

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7 of the Best Tools for Bringing Serendipity Back

Innovation Leader

One thing is painfully absent from the work-from-anywhere era: serendipity. You can schedule Teams meetings and ping colleagues with instant messages, but it’s not the same. We’ve been testing out tools that support serendipity this year. These are seven of the best.

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Critical Insights from McKinsey’s “Closing the Capability Gap” 2020 Report

InnovationTraining.org

COVID-19 has changed much about how we live and work. During this post-pandemic age, companies have been forced to shift their attention to virtual working and learning environments. When it comes to employee training and development, then, it seems obvious that a successful virtual environment is also needed to help employees reach their full potential and continue to grow and improve upon their skillset.

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Four reasons why corporate startups fail (and how yours can be succesful)

whataventure

Four reasons why corporate startups fail. (and how yours can be successful). Having a great idea is the first step to startup success, but that alone won’t ensure its success. Especially in the case of corporate startups and intrapreneurship teams, there is a set of specific challenges that make the success of their idea even more difficult. ( BONUS : Download our guide on how to successfully find your first paying customers ).

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib