September, 2014

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Five Things They Didn’t Teach Me in School About Being a User Researcher

Boxes and Arrows

'Graduate school taught me the basics of conducting user research, but it taught me little about what it’s like working as a user researcher in the wild. I don’t blame my school for this. There’s little publicly-available career information for user researchers, in large part because companies are still experimenting with how to best make use of our talents.

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TEDx Talk: The science of improving your brain’s creativity

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TED has just uploaded the video of my recent speech at TEDx Durham University In it, I go through evidence from recent academic studies which shows how everyone has the ability to improve their creativity over time, and what sort of things can help achieve that aim. For those of you who want to know […]. Originally published at TEDx Talk: The science of improving your brain’s creativity.

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10 Great Tips to be an Effective Innovator

Gijs Van Wulfen

Innovation is one big struggle. Not being able to change habits within the organization. Being creative at the wrong moment. Frustrated by budget cuts. Confronted with a lack of entrepreuneurship. Putting pressure on people in operations who resist change. Taking the credits as team leader myself instead of praising the team. Yes, I made a lot of mistakes as marketer, strategy consultant and innovation facilitator.

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Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale

Hutch Carpenter

Previously, I’ve described Why Crowdsourcing Works. Crowdsourcing is a case where you get many people who don’t one another collaborating toward a defined outcome. To reiterate the principle points about the value of crowdsourcing: Diverse inputs drive superior solutions. Cognitive diversity requires spanning gaps in social networks. Simple enough, yet actually a rich field for work and analysis.

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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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Driven to Death by the Rate of Innovation

InnovationLabs

We recently had a fascinating meeting with a prominent venture capitalist based in Palo Alto, and during the course of our conversation about the pressures that his portfolio companies are under he used a fascinating phrase to describe the tech industry as a whole. He said that the lagging companies, many of which are not […].

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Making Disruption Personal

Bill Fischer

By Abhijit Bhaduri & Bill Fischer In the nineteen-eighties, Michael Porter argued that more thoughtful approaches to strategies could help make organizations succeed. Two decades later, Porter’s Five Forces was disrupted by Clayton Christensen’s argument that what makes companies fail is often a reluctance to give-up the choices made in [.

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Getting idea management to work: Interview with Wazoku CEO Simon Hill

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In my latest exclusive interview, I speak to Simon Hill, voted Guardian Small Business Leader of the Year and CEO of Wazoku on what it takes to get idea management systems to actually deliver results. Over the past 5 years, there has been a lot of buzz about software tools which can help companies become more […]. Originally published at Getting idea management to work: Interview with Wazoku CEO Simon Hill.

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10 Great Tips to be an Effective Innovator

Gijs Van Wulfen

Innovation is one big struggle. Not being able to change habits within the organization. Being creative at the wrong moment. Frustrated by budget cuts. Confronted with a lack of entrepreuneurship. Putting pressure on people in operations who resist change. Taking the credits as team leader myself instead of praising the team. Yes, I made a lot of mistakes as marketer, strategy consultant and innovation facilitator.

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Sharing economy is still in early adopter phase

Hutch Carpenter

Airbnb. Lyft. Kickstarter. Quirky. Kiva. TaskRabbit. The sharing economy is increasingly in the news. Those six companies are receiving a lot of chatter, as shown by Google News results for September 12, 2014: Certainly, the sharing economy is a “thing” But it’s not yet as mainstream as may come across in the media. For most of us, it’s still sort of a “toy” if you will.

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Why Wells Fargo Says Diversity of Thought is Essential to Innovation

Innovation Leader

Without the rights kinds of people on a project team, says Mike Duke, the Chief Innovation Architect at Wells Fargo, progress can stall. "Diversity of thought is critical," Duke says.

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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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Making Disruption Personal

Bill Fischer

By Abhijit Bhaduri & Bill Fischer In the nineteen-eighties, Michael Porter argued that more thoughtful approaches to strategies could help make organizations succeed. Two decades later, Porter’s Five Forces was disrupted by Clayton Christensen’s argument that what makes companies fail is often a reluctance to give-up the choices made in [.

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You’re Either a Technology Business or You’re Out of BusinessDISRUPT | INNOVATE | LEAD

Linda Bernardi

This article is brought to you by Linda and Braden Kelley. Collectively, we have over 30 years of experience working with large, global multi-disciplinary enterprises. We write this with care and passion as we want your enterprises to succeed. We would love to hear your thoughts. Even in 2014, there are business sectors who feel […].

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Scientists just sent a brain-to-brain message over 5,000 miles

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File this one under: Impending telepathic Cyborg takeover According to a new study released by PLoS, a group of scientists have successfully sent a message between two brains, without actually implanting anything in either person. Yes, this was all achieved across a normal skull without any wires being inserted. Simply put, one person was shown an […].

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UX Researcher: A User’s Manual

Boxes and Arrows

'This article is a guide on what to expect, and how to get the most from your UX researcher–a user manual, if you will. You will invest a lot in your researcher and you deserve the greatest return. You should have high expectations for this critical component of your UX team, and following the recommendations presented in this article will help maximize your return.

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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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Radio Show Interview: Collaborative Innovation at Scale

Hutch Carpenter

The area of collaborative innovation is a natural extension of the social business movement. It’s the extension of social into purposeful collaboration , a term Alan Lepofsky uses to describe the evolution of the social business market. In the innovation-focused radio show, Women Who Innovate , host LeAnna Carey, innovation expert John Lewis and I talk about collaborative innovation at scale.

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GameStop’s Technology Institute Explores Future of Retail

Innovation Leader

In March, the $9 billion videogame retailer created the GameStop Technology Institute to help it develop new experiences and offerings for the "empowered consumer.

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Dear Apple: Your designers are killing your business

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It's official! Apple has taken its focus off the only thing that matters: its customers In many ways, Apple is having an incredible year. Last week it announced not only it's long awaited new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (which have broken sales records by selling more than 10 million units in 3 days), as […]. Originally published at Dear Apple: Your designers are killing your business.

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Why UnitedHealth & the Mayo Clinic Created Optum Labs

Innovation Leader

Optum Labs' Paul Bleicher explains why a new open innovation center was created, the key to getting everyone to play nicely , and how they'll measure success.

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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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What are You Focused on This Fall?

Innovation Leader

We asked about the issues, challenges and opportunities you’re focused on this fall. Here are the ten most interesting — and representative — answers we got.

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How Sargento Created a Product with $50M in First Year Revenue

Innovation Leader

Rod Hogan of privately-held Sargento Foods, explains how a dialogue with consumers helped the company create a product that produced $50 million in revenue.

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Humana Exec on Consultants, Mix of Projects, Reporting to CEO

Innovation Leader

Nate Bellinger of Humana talks about the 15-year history of Humana’s innovation initiatives and some of the lessons they’ve learned as it has evolved.

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