December, 2021

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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. The link to this conversation is here , it is just over 15 minutes long. as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. You might believe this is a no-brainer but you would be really surprised that this ‘tight’ linkage is often lacking.

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Design Thinking Rooted in Empathy Enables Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Empathy is one of the best virtues to have as a leader of an organization or a group of people dedicated to achieving any cause, but it’s not exclusively valuable just to leaders.

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7 Ways Mind Maps Fuel Innovation

IdeaScale

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Mind maps create an intuitive structure of thought that enables your team to map out their scenarios in a very digestible and sequential format. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation.

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Most Creative TV Ads of 2021

Destination Innovation

Advertising is creativity in action. How can you make beer or ketchup or vaccination topical, relevant and fascinating? The clever people at advertising agencies do some lateral thinking and keep coming up with creative ideas. Here are my top six favourites from 2021 on Youtube. 6. BLK – Vax That Thang Up – How do you encourage young black people to get vaccinated?

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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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Why Patients Deserve Cannabis-Educated Healthcare Professionals

Business and Tech

Cannabis consumption has become mainstream. Now is the time for clinicians to be educated on the endocannabinoid system and the therapeutic use of cannabis. Meredith Fisher-Corn, M.D. Editor-in-Chief, TheAnswerPage.com. Nearly 35 million U.S. adults consume cannabis on a regular basis, according to a 2017 survey , and the population of recreational cannabis consumers has skyrocketed since then, as more and more states have enacted adult-use cannabis legislation. .

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Podcast S6E144: Rosemary Rein – Innovation Secrets from Silicon Valley

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Dr Rosemary Rein, current SVP of Innovation Minds and former Head of Learning at Wikipedia and the United Way. She is also the author of “ Go Wild! Survival Skills for Business & Life ” and has lived through volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides. We learn about some of the primary learnings which corporations can take from innovation at startups, and getting the most out of hybrid work.

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The 2021 Digital Tonto Reading List

Digital Tonto

Many hoped that this year would be a return to normalcy and in some ways it has been. The trend toward popular authoritarianism seems to have ebbed and, for the most part, economies are back on. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Innovators are Working to Build Food Systems for the Future

IdeaScale

Overview: New agricultural, processing, and manufacturing technologies are changing what we eat, how long it keeps, and how we store it. What each of these innovations has in common is a thoughtful and different approach to common questions. The Challenge. While there remains some dispute about how many people the planet will need to support by the end of the 21st century, there’s no argument that there will be challenges.

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Exploring the Executive Innovation Workmat with Video discussions

Jeffrey Phillips

Over the last few weeks, Paul Hobcraft and I have developed a series of short videos. The purpose of these videos is to explore a tool that Paul and I created, which we call the Executive Innovation Workmat. The Workmat is meant to help executives understand their role in innovation activities, and to identify the key attributes of a business that must be aligned and in synch for innovation to flourish.

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Reimagining the Future of International Events

Business and Tech

Face-to-face events are essential for so many organizations globally, from meeting planners organizing events, to services providers and the entire hospitality industry. With the pandemic literally putting a stop to in-person gatherings, everyone needed to rethink what the future of events will look like. . Senthil Gopinath CEO, International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA).

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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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Podcast S6E142: Robyn Bolton – Building innovation capabilities

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Robyn M Bolton. She is the founder of Mile Zero, as well as having extensive innovation experience in large companies like P&G, as well as working with Prof Clayton Christensen at Innosight. We speak about what it takes for ideas to flourish in a company, and what innovation capabilities are required to execute ideas.

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Getting back to the Future about Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. Here is the link to the recording. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation.

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Why History Converges And Cascades

Digital Tonto

In my book Cascades, I explained how small groups, loosely connected but united by a shared purpose drive transformational change. It happens gradually, almost imperceptibly, at first. Connections. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Five Innovations That Are Addressing Supply Chain Troubles

IdeaScale

Overview: The COVID-19 pandemic has squeezed supply chains around the globe. Companies involved in the supply chain have needed to develop new methods up and down the supply chain, from AI managing the entire system to new vehicles for delivery and pickup. What Happened To The Supply Chain? One innovation revolutionized how we buy things in the 1990s – “just-in-time” management.

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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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This free OGSM (Objectives Goals Strategies & Measures) model template helps teams grow

Leapfrogging

The OGSM model (Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) can help teams get on the same page and moving in the right direction. For the past 25 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of groups across dozens of big companies and startups. One thing’s consistent: everyone works in teams, and the ultimate success of any organization relies on the overall effectiveness of the teams within it.

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What You Need to Know About Growing Your Own Cannabis

Business and Tech

In more and more states, it’s becoming legal to not only use marijuana both medically and recreationally, but to grow your own as well. The changing laws mean more people are growing cannabis than ever before, but what does it take to create a successful home grow? “If you don’t create the right environment, you are destined to fail down the road,” said Jeremy Corrao, vice president of GrowGen Management Corp. for GrowGeneration, a leading supplier of products, services, and solutions for commer

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

What are you hoping to achieve next year? No, I am not talking about what you and your company’s high level goals are: … Increase market share … … Improve profit margins … … Be innovative … I am asking what specific ambitions you and your company have for next year. Especially when it comes to what you want the creativity of your people to achieve.

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Why we should focus on Innovation Governance

Paul Hobcraft

I am working with Jeffrey Phillips , a long-term collaborator on “all things concerning innovation.” We have just had our third short conversation of a five-part series on Innovation Governance. This specific conversation is all about the fit of innovation governance within our Executive Innovation Work Mat. This is the link on Innovation Governance to the conversation, just under 14 minutes to listen to.

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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’ll eat in 2022: 10 food innovations that will shape how we eat

Board of Innovation

Do you wonder what the food industry will look like in the near future? Here are 10 food innovations that will shape how we eat in 2022 - from lab grown meat and printed meals, to upcycled coffee drinks. The post How we’ll eat in 2022: 10 food innovations that will shape how we eat appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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A New Era: A New Green Economy

IdeaScale

The climate crisis is escalating faster than most people imagined, and we must act now to change critical dimensions of the tasks, structures and day-to-day practices of our companies. Just as human civilization moved from the Agricultural Era to the Industrial Era, and from the Industrial Era into the Digital Era, we are now simultaneously moving into two eras at once: while every day we are getting deeper into the Digital Era, we are also taking first steps into the emerging Regenerative Era.

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3 Ways Real-Time Financial Data Drives Business Intelligence

InnovationManagement

Finance is no stranger to using data in predictive analysis, forecasting, and more, but what can real-time data bring to the table? The post 3 Ways Real-Time Financial Data Drives Business Intelligence appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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3 Tips for Better Cybersecurity in Your Home Office

Business and Tech

Digital safety has never been more important in our increasingly technology-driven world, as the pandemic forces professionals and students to adapt to working and learning from home. . Heather Mahalik Faculty Fellow, SANS Institute ; Senior Director of Digital Intelligence, Cellebrite. People have more connected devices than ever, from tablets, smartphones, laptops, and computers, and with many organizations adopting a work-from-home approach , professionals are spending more time on these devi

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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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During REM dreams, the same part of your brain slows down as when you are improvising

Idea to Value

While going through some scientific literature, I recently made a startling discovery. One which I have not seen anywhere in other summaries of how creativity works or how it can be improved. It is about what happens in your brain when you are sleeping. There are several stages which your brain goes through when you are asleep, but one of the most important is called the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

In the fourth conversation between Jeffrey Phillips and myself around parts of the Executive Innovation Work Mat, we took on several different issues around the design, function, structure and process needs for innovation. The conversation lasted nineteen minutes, and for some reason, I lost sound briefly at my end a few times, which was a pity. So I hope I can help fill those gaps and explore the what, why and how of having a dynamic functioning design and structured process to meet today’

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Business and concept validation through qualitative and quantitative data

Board of Innovation

Validation is the process of gathering evidence and learning around business ideas through experimentation and user testing, in order to make faster, informed, de-risked decisions. Validation techniques are usually divided into two main categories, relating to the type of information being collected - either qualitative or quantitative. Here's how you can use them.

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Webinar: New Techniques for Workplace Challenges

IdeaScale

Overview: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the workplace forever, scattering employees across metro areas and even the country. In our free Zoom webinar on Thursday, January 20th at 9 am PST, we’ll discuss how to be inclusive when building the new hybrid, virtual, or in-person workplace. Necessity As The Mother Of Workplace Innovation. In March 2020, more than half of the US workforce began working from home.

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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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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. If you’ve gotten approval from leadership to embark on an Agile transformation, you may be gaining momentum from Agile teams embracing new ways of working and benefits like faster delivery, better quality, and improved morale.

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The Modern Rental Market According to the Experts

Business and Tech

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly. Kulveer Taggar Co-Founder and CEO, Zeus Living. Elizabeth Francisco President, Resman. Barbara Corcoran Shark on ABC’s “ Shark Tank ,” Founder, The Corcoran Group.

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Podcast S6E141: Kapil Kane – Building Innovation capabilities at Intel

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Kapil Kane, director of innovation at Intel in China, and founder of Growth X. We speak about what it takes for innovation to surface from new parts of the ecosystem, the challenges of innovating in China and building innovation capabilities at a research-driven company. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:00 – Kapil’s history at Apple and Intel, and how this brought. 00:03:00 – The pace and style of innovat

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How Climate Change in Canada Will Impact Your Business

Innovators Alliance

The recent closure of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has us all considering our environmental footprint. Speaking to global leaders at the conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled his government’s intentions to increase the price on carbon, cap Canadian oil and gas emissions, reduce methane emissions and reach net-zero emissions by 2035.

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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