February, 2022

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Podcast S6E150: Alex Pang – The Benefits of a 4 Day workweek

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Alex Pang, founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. Alex is also the author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and his new book SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS– HERE’S HOW.

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Where do Innovative Ideas Come From?

Destination Innovation

Cities around the world suffer from a common problem – a shortage of affordable, decent quality housing. Cutworks Studio, a design company based in Paris and Amsterdam has developed an approach called PolyBlocs – modularly constructed residential sites consisting of individual block rooms which can be stacked in different ways to create an array of sizes and shapes.

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The Lifecycle of a Breakthrough

Digital Tonto

The global activist Srdja Popovi? once told me that when a revolution is successful, it’s difficult to explain the previous order, because it comes to be seen as unbelievable. Just as it’s hard to. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Confronting Your Darwin Effect through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation. It is so hard to let go! It is so often harder to carry on, but determination prevails! I have been working away, call it my labour of love, with plenty of frustrating moments but have “pushed on” through sheer determination, on my thinking through the ‘harnessing’ of the dynamics within innovation.

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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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Push Thinking & Get Innovation Using this Little-Known Children’s Game

Leapfrogging

Fifty years ago, a little-known children’s book introduced the “SCAMPER” model as way to help teachers foster creativity in their classrooms. It’s an amazingly simple tool, and unbelievably powerful for pushing thinking beyond “business as usual” to help teams innovate. SCAMPER is an acronym for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Reverse.

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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Overview : These awards shows offer a unique cross-section of innovation across multiple industries for 2022. Here’s when they’re awarded, and what they honor. Innovation awards aren’t just fun to observe. They can offer valuable insight into the state of innovation and what trends, technologies, and concerns will drive broader innovation in the future.

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Bringing innovation in from the cold

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been thinking a lot about innovation and it's "place" in a corporate structure. Innovation is often so different, so unique and so unfamiliar that many companies aren't quite sure where to place it. Does it belong with product teams, since some innovation is logically focused on new products? Does it belong in a strategy organization, since innovation is often focused on growth?

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4 Myths That Are Killing Business Today

Digital Tonto

The unicorn is perhaps unique among myths in that the creature doesn’t appear in the mythology of any culture. The ancient Greeks, for all of their centaurs, hydras and medusas, never had any stories. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Paul Hobcraft

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. Jeffrey Phillips and I have collaborated over a number of years and I have always felt these have been highly productive, original in thinking and truly valuable. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. I wanted to extract part of this white paper” Critical Interplay Innovation Business Models Change 6-2 “(goes to PDF), in this post, as it offers all involved in

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Turn Overwhelming Data into New Insight to make Strategic Decisions

Leapfrogging

Focused on insight, not numbers. Planning for next year is well under way. Because of unprecedented uncertainty, there’s a strong desire to use data to deliver better decision-making. Makes sense. Yet many teams and organizations get paralyzed by overwhelming data. Spreadsheets, presentations, and industry reports, can inform, but also overwhelm. While data exists, many teams lack insight.

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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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Wolters Kluwer Podcast – How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business

IdeaScale

Overview: Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information, software solutions, and other services for professional sectors, has been running its own innovation awards for over a decade. On the IdeaScale podcast , WK chief strategy officer Atul Dubey discusses how the company built its Global Innovation Awards as part of its innovation strategy. A Need For Innovation.

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The innovative ways that Airlines make money with frequent flyer points

Idea to Value

Airline loyalty programmes are fascinating. Not just because we happen to have enough frequent flyer points with one airline to fly around the world, but instead because of how they completely changed the business model of airlines. If you have any interest in understanding business model innovation , I highly recommend you watch this video (above on the blog) to see what I mean.

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The new pioneers

Jeffrey Phillips

Time was, a few hundred years ago, that a pioneer was a person who left the civilized areas and moved to new lands in search of a better opportunity or a new way of life. When we in the States think of pioneers, we think of people like Daniel Boone, who led people into Western Virginia and then on into Kentucky to find new opportunities and new lands further west.

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Learning From Mistakes Is What Separates Truly Revolutionary Leaders From Everyone Else

Digital Tonto

There’s nothing quite like the rapture of an epiphany, that initial flash of insight which is still pure and innocent, before the harsh realities of the world muck it up with a bunch of inconvenient. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Customer archetype segmentation

Board of Innovation

What if we told you that what you know about customer segmentation is outdated? Traditional segmentation doesn’t take into account the one aspect that will classify your research as either investment, or waste; behavior. The post Customer archetype segmentation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Use a Strategy Uncertainty Map to Find Clarity in Disruptive Times

Leapfrogging

All opportunities have uncertainty. Use a map to navigate it. Let’s kick-off 2022 with a useful tool. Here’s the downloadable Strategy Uncertainty Map I developed as part of my work with Praxie.com. The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. So how do you plan for the next year when the past two were so uncertain?

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Is Communication Sabotaging Your Ability to Innovate? 

InnovationManagement

Avoid these four communications landmines as you navigate the stages of innovation. The post Is Communication Sabotaging Your Ability to Innovate? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 3 of 5)

Idea to Value

So for the past two weeks I have been telling you about my big upcoming plans. And that you could get a sneak preview of what was coming up by registering here for free. Today I want to begin telling you about ‘ True Creativity ‘ As I mentioned last week, I have made it my mission to help a billion people transform their ideas into reality.

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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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Society 2045’s Vision for a Human Centric Future

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Vision for a Human Centric Future. The world we live in is home to several species that coexist on a planet that supplies all that we need to thrive. However, the human species has not been so kind to our planet in the recent century, which begs the questions: How can we have a promising future, considering the mess we are currently in?

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Don’t Confuse A Moment With A Movement

Digital Tonto

It’s easy to confuse a moment with a movement. A movement involves linking together small, but often disparate groups in the context of shared purpose and shared values. A moment occurs when an event. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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You Do Not See Things As They Are; You See Them As You Are

Michael Michalko

Some scientists visited a New Guinea tribe that believed their world ended at the nearby river. After several months one of the scientists had to cross the river to leave. When the scientist was safely across he waved, but the tribesmen did not respond. They said they didn’t see him as nothing existed beyond the end of the world. Their entrenched patterns of belief about where the world ended distorted their perception of reality.

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Work Backward to Drive Innovation Forward

Leapfrogging

Here’s how Amazon defines the ideal customer experience and then works backward to create it. Everyone wants to uncover the secret to the perfect business model that will unlock their true potential. The best business strategies focus on meeting and exceeding customer needs and expectations. This means envisioning customer problems as well as ideal solutions to those problems before actually developing a product or service.

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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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How Does the Chief Information Officer Role Relate to Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Nearly 40% of IdeaScale’s customer base is run from a dedicated innovation department helmed by a Chief Innovation Officer, an innovation leader, an innovation manager or someone else. However, there is another emerging owner for innovation at a large organization. At IdeaScale, we often find that CIOs and their organization are driving innovation strategy for a company.

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Headlights

Idea to Value

‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ This quote is often attributed to award-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow, but was popularised when it appeared in Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird (which also gave us some great tips on shitty first drafts ).

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Society 2045’s Better Relationships with Conscious Contracts®

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Better Relationships with Conscious Contracts®. To successfully build better relationships in our communities is to make them safer. Listening, understanding, making efforts to connect, and having a sense of trust are crucial aspects of community relationships and engagement. Business can lead by example with contracts designed to reduce conflicts and make a positive impact in the community.

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Are You Unconventional Enough in Your Thinking?

Phil McKinney

Unconventional thinking from unconventional individuals is the lifeblood of innovation. They are the people who see things in a new way, and because of this, they often come up with truly unconventional ideas. Ideas that conventional thinkers would never think of. And while it's true that many unconventional individuals do not have formal training in […].

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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How to Organize Innovation

Viima

I recently read a couple of excellent articles by Nick Skillicorn , and Prof. Rita McGrath where both discuss the challenges and intricacies involved in structuring and governing innovation within a large organization. This is a classic topic that every corporate innovator has without a doubt come across, and it’s also one where “the right approach” is often quite elusive.

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The next big thing entrepreneurs and corporate innovators need to consider

Strategyzer Innovation

You have one job as an entrepreneur or corporate innovator. That’s to find a successful new value proposition and business model.

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Innovators Worth Watching: Hinge Health

Christensen Institute

Our “Innovators Worth Watching” series spotlights interesting and potentially disruptive players across a spectrum of industries. One in five US adults reported living with chronic pain in 2016, with 8% of US adults reporting that it limited at least one major life activity. Chronic pain is linked to several other health problems, such as depression, anxiety, reduced mobility, and opioid dependency.

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Status Quo bias: Why people are resistant to change

Idea to Value

In innovation projects, we often hear about companies resisting a change to the status quo. In this case, the status quo being how things are currently done. As a result, many innovation projects fail at the final hurdle, when they are asked to actually implement the change they were designed for. But is this preference for the status quo real? Yes it is.

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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