January, 2015

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You Can’t Win With Average

Tim Kastelle

Research has shown that the average corporate acquisition destroys value. And yet… …the firms that are outstanding at Mergers and Acquisitions use this skill as a significant point of strategic difference. Research has shown that the average job interview yields no usable data on whether or not you should hire someone. And yet… …there are people and firms that are outstanding at interviewing and use this skill as a significant point of strategic difference.

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What is liminal thinking?

Xplaner

'A preview of some of the ideas from my upcoming book, Liminal Thinking. Liminal thinking is the art of finding, creating and unlocking potential.

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Grow Your Career without Leaving Your Company

Boxes and Arrows

'When I wanted to make a career shift to information architecture, I was reluctant because I loved the team I worked with. So instead of leaving to find the right work, I tried to start doing it where I was. What follows are my recommendations on how to make similar moves. It’s not rocket science, but it’s always nice to get some reminders. The least rocket science-y part is the first: Set a goal.

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How can You Move the Needle?

Innovation Leader

We worked with a group of innovation executives to develop this list of “Innovation Approaches.” It endeavors to capture what innovation leaders are doing when they set strategy.

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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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10 Survival Rules for Workshop Facilitators

100%Open

For some years now I’ve been seeing my role of designer gain a new dimension: I’m facilitating workshops more and more where we co-design brands, products and services. Bringing workshop facilitation into my design practice results in a number of changes. It changed how I design (tools and methods), what I design, and even who designs. I didn’t have specific training for this new role, but trying, failing and improving has given me self-knowledge and awareness, that I complemented with improv cl

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Microsoft’s new HoloLens is revolutionary, disruptive, and actually useful

Improvides

Virtual Reality is a gimmick that will never catch on in mainstream society. But Microsoft just announced a new Augmented Reality headset that could actually bring a change in the way we interact with technology. In the world of innovation, you can never rest on the idea that your products and research are ahead of […]. Originally published at Microsoft’s new HoloLens is revolutionary, disruptive, and actually useful.

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What is Liminal Thinking?

Xplaner

A preview of some of the ideas from my upcoming book, Liminal Thinking. Liminal thinking is the art of finding, creating and unlocking potential.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

'In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process. Optimization process. Establishing a well-formed, formal optimization process is beneficial for the following reasons.

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Consumer adoption of Bitcoin | A jobs-to-be-done analysis

Hutch Carpenter

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently did one of his tweetstorms on the topic of Bitcoin, a technology he avidly supports. In 25 tweets , he talked about criticisms people have of Bitcoin. Including this one (#18) about “use cases”: 18/The third critique I call the “innocent” one — “Are there enough sufficiently compelling uses cases for Bitcoin to succeed at scale?

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The Transparency Trap

100%Open

Most people tend to present the best possible versions of themselves publicly on social media, and elsewhere. And most organisations try to present the best possible version of themselves through their brand and communications. However by avoiding sharing your flaws – both as a person or an organisation – you can appear unreal and unapproachable.

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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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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

'Death or Kryptonite? From Superman Wiki. I have a vinyl record with one of those strategic skips that has it repeating — it drives me nuts — but I still play the record because I love the song so much. The song is Jimmy Olsen’s Blues by the Spin Doctors. It’s a hard rocker about the lament of Superman’s pal who has a crush on Superman’s gal.

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How can we get women innovating more?

Improvides

As Intel announced that they will be investing $300million to help address the diversity gap in Technology and Gaming, Improvides considers the gap’s impact on your innovation ability. Here’s a quick challenge for you: Think of any three people who since the year 2000 have developed something truly innovative and successful. It could be anyone, […].

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The Internet of YOU

Technology Created

“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” — Lewis Carroll. The Internet. It’s an amazing “place” An amazing tool.

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Enhancing the Mind-Meld

Boxes and Arrows

'Which version of the ‘suspended account’ dashboard page do you prefer? Version A. Version B. Perhaps you don’t really care. Each one gets the job done in a clear and obvious way. However, as the UX architect of the ‘overview’ page for a huge telecom leader, it was my job to tell the team which treatment we’d be using.

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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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How To Figure Out the Crucial First Step to Innovation

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

When it comes to innovation, one of the biggest hindrances a company can face is actually its own mindset. While it’s immensely challenging to develop and deliver innovative products and services in today’s world, it’s impossible to do so if a company actually believes it’s not capable of delivering a breakthrough.

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Overcoming the 5 Innovation Blind Spots

100%Open

These are the five most common innovation blind spots that we have often observed in many different organisations: Neglecting the human condition – Trust, empathy, intuition, integrity, emotion are all central to innovation. However despite our best intentions these are often overlooked by new technology and gadgets, which are fun and sometimes the enabler of innovation, but never the real deal.

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Endless Encores

CorporateIntel

Endless Encores. Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. A Business Parable by Ken Goldstein. Published in 2015 by The Story Plant. As difficult as it is to have your first big success, most people find it exponentially harder to repeat success. So many of us, after “bringing the crowd to its feet,” worry that we’re going to get booed off the stage with our next venture.

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Nick Skillicorn @Improvides voted one of the best innovation bloggers of 2014

Improvides

I had a lovely surprise this morning. Just over a week ago, I found out that I had been nominated as one of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2014 by Innovation Excellence. I managed to make the list in 2013 (my first year) in the position of 38 out of 40, so was hoping […]. Originally published at Nick Skillicorn @Improvides voted one of the best innovation bloggers of 2014.

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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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One Size Doesn’t Fit All Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. Once again, I was pondering why this post has been by far the most resonating one I’ve written up to now. My conclusion: many of us are aware that innovation tools, even up-to-date ones, have a limited scope and that they can benefit from being complemented with other approaches.

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Hershey’s Exec on Using Experiments to Reduce Risk

Innovation Leader

Deborah Arcoleo, who runs the Advanced Innovation Center of Excellence at The Hershey Company, discusses investing in experiments and their role in reducing innovation risk.

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Practice Your Way to Winning in 2015

The Human Factor

Winning in business takes practice. Not just practicing any old thing, but practicing the right things. Far too often, however, I see organizations practicing the wrong things. For example: Conducting disorganized meetings where people arrive late, unprepared, and not focused on what’s really important. Making decisions based on assumptions rather than hard data.

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Urban Data Challenge Infographics

100%Open

These infographics relate to this Innovate UK competition that 100%Open helped launch.

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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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Innova-Con Innovation Conference

InnovationLabs

You’ve undoubtedly noticed that the world is changing, and quickly. We took this photo in an airport a few years ago, and now here it is 2015 and lo and behold, they were pretty close to right on. Perhaps this may stimulate you to ask yourself if you’re now prepared for 2020? Of course this […].

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Adopted

Innovation Fixer

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Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is Not a Strategy

Leapfrogging

Disruptive innovation has become business’ biggest paradigm. Harvard’s Clayton Christensen coined the term and the New Yorker’s Jill Lapore recently tore it down. While many companies scramble to create disruptive innovation strategies, the problem is that it isn’t a linear process or methodology. No single strategy or theory (even the theory of disruptive innovation itself) has captured how it really works or how to do it.

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How Pfizer Disrupted the Traditional Innovation Conference

Innovation Leader

A senior R&D leader at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer raved to us last November about the innovation gathering he'd just been to. "It was like TEDMED meets 'The Apprentice.

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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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Stop Pretending to Be Rational at Work

The Human Factor

At times, English can be an illogical, irrational and downright confusing language. Just look at all the homographs and heteronyms that crop up throughout the lexicon. A homograph is two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. A heteronym is a homograph that is also pronounced differently. For example: Is it hard for a big bear to bear a small bear?

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley

'How to Do Mash-Ups for Innovation. This is an article length, comprehensive post on Mash-Ups for Innovation. To say the least Mash-Ups hold great promise in helping people and organizations find useful and sometimes breakthrough innovations. This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned.

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Innovation Training Around the World … and in Thailand

InnovationLabs

Suppose that you are a leader in your organization, and that you would like to unleash the creative potential of all the people throughout the organization. Is that not one of your goals? Almost certainly it is. One of the most impactful actions that organizational leaders can take to do so is to examine the […].

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Safety net

Innovation Fixer

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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.