June, 2015

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging June Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Innovating Parenting through Innovative Products & Services. This past month we celebrated Dads & Grads. Taking it from there I’m sharing with you some amazingly innovative dads, and dad related research, in case you wanted to know what the Dad Bod meme is about. I’m also sharing top innovation conferences, schools and internships for grads interested in moving into the field of innovation.

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Innovation: Exploiting and Exploring

Jeffrey Phillips

In every aspect of life we create simple dichotomies to simplify decision making. Something is right or wrong, black or white. We do this to simplify our lives, shorten decision making time and become more efficient. Creating these false dichotomies means we often miss excellent opportunities for much deeper consideration. Take innovation for example.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

It takes a special kind of person to be inspired by a mandate riddled with risk and having little margin for error, such as the one issued in the early 1990s by NASA to its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California: “Take risks but don’t fail.”. Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that

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5 Keys to Developing an Innovation Culture

Braden Kelley

The Interview Listen to the interview on The Everyday Innovator Podcast I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chad McAllister recently for the Everyday Innovator Podcast on the topic of how an organization can become more innovative.

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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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Apply your Creativity Everywhere – Like Dali

Destination Innovation

In January 1952 the renowned artist Salvador Dali appeared on the US TV game show, ‘What’s My Line?’ The panel members were blindfolded and had to question the guest to determine his identity. Almost every question they asked he answered in the affirmative. ‘Are you a performer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you a writer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you an artist?’ ‘Yes.’ And so on until one of panellists said in frustration, ‘There is nothing this man does not do!’.

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How to Conquer Distance with Collaboration

IdeaScale

Long distance relationships are never easy. This is especially true of large-scale organizations which are housed in multiple and varied locations. Sometimes differing locations will have differing needs but more often they have similar struggles. Like the Western Australia Police. The Western Australia Police recently began using IdeaScale as a method of conquering that distance; namely a distance that covers over 2.5 million square kilometers, including 11 districts and 197 police stations in

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Ending the UX Designer Drought

Boxes and Arrows

The first article in this series, “ A New Apprenticeship Architecture ,” laid out a high-level framework for using the ancient model of apprenticeship to solve the modern problem of the UX talent drought. In this article, I get into details. Specifically, I discuss how to make the business case for apprenticeship and what to look for in potential apprentices.

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Are Purpose-Driven Leaders The Engine Of China's New Innovation?

Bill Fischer

By Bill Fischer & Tomas Casas Thirty-five years of Reform, and no Apple to show for it! No Steve Jobs as well, for that matter. No wonder that skepticism over the ability of China’s industrial enterprises to make the transition from cost-led competitive strategies to more innovative approaches is so widespread. [.

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Drowning in a Sea of Content

Braden Kelley

In #MyIndustry, content creation (I’m an author, keynote speaker and publisher), there is already a flood of content and the flood waters will not recede anytime soon.

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The Benefits of Reverse Mentoring

Destination Innovation

A Dutch nursing home lets university students live rent-free alongside the elderly residents, as part of a project aimed at warding off the negative effects of aging. In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer , Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month acting as “good neighbors.

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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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Blog Migration

IdeaScale

Greetings IdeaScale followers, I wanted to let you know that we’ll ’ll be moving our blog to ideascale.com/blog and that your subscriptions will hopefully be going along with us. This is because, while you will continue to receive email notifications of new posts as before, WordPress.com followers will only see new posts in the Reader. You will not receive email updates unless you subscribe to receive those on your new site here: [link].

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Brussels Cargill Event

Imaginatik

I am recently back from an event that we ran and was excellently hosted by Cargill at their R&D facilities in Brussels. I want to share some observations on what made this event so personally enriching for myself, and as was confirmed by many of the other attendees. 1. Doing, not just listening. This is an Imaginatik Innovation Leaders Forum. ILF is not your typical conference.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how. —– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute.

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Are Purpose-Driven Leaders The Engine Of China's New Innovation?

Bill Fischer

By Bill Fischer & Tomas Casas Thirty-five years of Reform, and no Apple to show for it! No Steve Jobs as well, for that matter. No wonder that skepticism over the ability of China’s industrial enterprises to make the transition from cost-led competitive strategies to more innovative approaches is so widespread. [.

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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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Measuring Organizational Agility – The Triple T Metric v1.0

Braden Kelley

There is an increasing amount of chatter and confusion out there around what organizational agility is and feeling that it must be important to organizational success.

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Disney SVP on How Its Accelerator Program Led to New Partnerships

Innovation Leader

SVP of Innovation Michael Abrams discusses the upside of launching an accelerator program for media and entertainment startups, including partnerships that it has sparked so far.

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Challenge to Advance Drug Abuse and Addiction Research

IdeaScale

The most recent statistics show that 7.9 million Americans, 12 or older, used hallucinogens or psychotherapeutic prescription drugs non-medically within the past month ( NIDA ). Of the approximately 7,898 Americans who use drugs for the first time every day, more than half (52%) are under the age of 18 at the time ( NIDA ). As of 2012 approximately 23.1 million Americans suffered from drug or alcohol abuse or dependence, while only 2.5 million actually received treatment for their dependence or

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The 3 Biggest Lessons from Our Financial Services Panel

KindlingApp

Since 1937, we’ve witnessed a rise in the average human life expectancy from 61 to 78 years. The exact opposite has happened to corporations. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has dramatically dropped from 75 years down to 15 over the same period. How can companies build and sustain a lasting organization? This was the topic our panelists addressed at an innovation event last week hosted by Kindling , Moving Interactive , and Culturevate at the Innovation Loft in New York.

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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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8 DOs & DONT's for Customer Advisory Boards

Outside Innovation

6 Things Customer Advisory Board Members Love to do: Network with their peers. What makes a Customer Advisory Group great is the value of the relationships that customers build with one another. You know you're on the right track if members call one another for advice in between meetings. Share their mental models and their plans with their peers. Don't use your CAB meetings as a venue to share your product road map with customers.

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The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. The report is based on a two year study examining over 3000 products launched in the US. It debunks conventional wisdom that new product success is random.

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Using Boredom to Help Students Learn

Braden Kelley

What do you get when you take the technology away from a group of 10 and 11 year olds and ask them to be creative with a handful of household objects?

Learning 147
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Sustainability-oriented innovation

Norbert Bol

Innovation is a vital process for long term business success, whereby new ideas are generated and successfully implemented. To generate new ideas that can be useful, these ideas will probably arise from thinking differently than we normally think. To implement these new ideas companies must dare to act differently than they normally do. In fact we mean that we are looking for new ideas that are different today but normal in the future so there is clear business case.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Introducing…CauseTech!

IdeaScale

Ever wanted to change the world from the comfort of your own home? You may have a chance to do just that. A new global innovation ecosystem will soon make its debut. Utilizing a dedicated community site CauseTech.Net , powered by IdeaScale, the “Succeed Where There’s a Need” campaign promotes social entrepreneurship and aims to aggregate the world’s best and brightest.

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Comment on Look for Purposeful Tangents by Paul Niggebrugge

Stephen Shapiro

Stephen, Thank you for sharing…I so resonate with “tangent learning”! I “live” in the baseball/sports world where I try to close the gap between training and game realities. I too have researched the Brain, movement patterns of the body, relationships, the power of questions, etc. Would love to hear your suggestions/recommendations in pursuing resources for tangent learning or magic.

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Six ways to co-create with your customers

100%Open

How can you buy from, as well as sell to your customers? This question is counterintuitive for many businesses, yet a growing group of pioneering companies are starting to learn that when engaged in the right way, your customers can in fact be your best source of innovation, new skills and resources, as well as your most direct and effective route to market.

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Benchmarking Report 2015

Innovation Leader

We surveyed nearly 200 innovation leaders, and the result is Innovation Benchmarking Report 2015, a report that gives focus to data that can help solve innovators’ challenges.

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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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Multi-Dimensional Thinking And Collaborative Mindset Key To Business Leadership In An Unpredictable And Interdependent World

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

The NEW normal for 21st Century leadership is a sophisticated combination of contextual, emotional and social intelligence, making the most of advanced communications and influencing skills. These include navigation, networking, negotiation and narrative development, not to mention learning, listening, linking and leadership skills, all dealt with in the book using evolving theories and case hi.

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I Don't Know

Mills-Scofield

Mike Cohea / Brown University. The freedom to ask questions and admit when you don't know is one we take for granted and our society tends to shun as a sign of weakness, yet it is how we learn, grow, create and have impact. Michelle Bailhe 's commencement address is one we need to read, re-read and live. Please read this and be grateful for her generation that will help make this world better.

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Strategies for Maximizing Government Employees for City Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

City governments all have the same goal: to improve their communities for their citizens in a smarter and more creative way. An issue that local government leaders run into is in creating both cost-effective and efficient solutions to issues that citizens think are important. The best source of innovation and new ideas often comes from internally. Harnessing city employees’ wisdom can prove to be the best way to begin improving a city for all members of the community.

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Comment on Magic and Creativity Video by Allison Shapira

Stephen Shapiro

Fascinating article – what a great way to look at one’s field. I particularly love the idea that just because you know the theory doesn’t mean you truly own the knowledge. Thanks for writing and thanks for sharing this video!

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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.