January, 2023

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Accelerating Sustainable Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

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What is the purpose of a manager nowadays?

Idea to Value

A few months ago, I saw a piece of research which has stuck with me.

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Time Management Tips to Maximize Innovation

IdeaScale

Although the average American works 8.8 hours per day, most employees deliver peak productivity just 3 to 4 hours a day. Knowing this, you and your team can experiment with different time management strategies to maximize your peak hours.

Tips 261
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What Will Humans Do In An Artificially Intelligent World?

Digital Tonto

In his story The Library of Babel, Borges describes a library which contains books with all potential word combinations in all possible languages.

Exercises 220
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ERM Program Fundamentals for Success in the Banking Industry

Speaker: William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services

This exclusive webinar with William Hord, Senior VP of Risk & Professional Services, will explore the foundational elements you need to start or validate your ERM program. He will also dive into topic definitions, governance structures, and framework components for success.

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ChatGPT did not write this blog

Jeffrey Phillips

There are a lot of folks thinking about the implications of ChatGPT, the new AI that has many writers worried about losing their jobs. I've seen posts online where people provided prompts to ChatGPT and found the resulting document to be comparable to a well-written, college level paper.

Training 201
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Turning Your Innovation Lab into a Center of Excellence

Moves the Needle

Innovation labs have expertise but it’s not invention. They excel at exploration work, and exploration is the solution for how companies should deal with uncertainty.

Company 52

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2023: Making The Shift From Disruption To Resilience

Digital Tonto

It’s been roughly 25 years since Clayton Christensen inaugurated the disruptive era and what he initially intended to describe as a special case has been implemented as a general rule.

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Smart Office Tools and Technology to Drive Innovation in 2023

IdeaScale

With each new year comes exciting new office tools and technology. Implementing new technology is essential for remaining competitive in the ever-evolving landscape of the modern workplace.

Tools 204
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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

You need to discover your innovation pathway. I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010.

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A.I. can now use text prompts to design new proteins which don’t exist in nature

Idea to Value

There is so much hype around Artificial Intelligence tools and what they are able to create in the fields of creativity. One of the most recent examples which is taking the world by storm is by using text prompts, either to create new text or even to create new images.

Design 247
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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Join DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist, for this idea-sparking session on how to multiply and diversify your revenue (and impact) with zero ad spend, how to create disruption in your industry, and how to reimagine and innovate the retail business model.

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How to Measure the Value of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Executing innovation at scale is a complex task and there’s plenty of advice out there on how supporting structures, whether physical or digital, should be architected, staffed, resourced, implemented, and continuously improved (see the ISO’s recommendations here ).

How To 147
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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

According to the Global Agricultural Productivity Report, the world is facing setbacks in agricultural production.

Resources 130
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4 Signs Your Industry Might Be Disrupted

Digital Tonto

In the 1920s the Teapot Dome scandal rocked Washington. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, was found to have corruptly leased Navy petroleum reserves to private companies.

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How to Team Build to Spark Innovation

IdeaScale

Teamwork is essential for brainstorming new innovations and bringing your innovations to life. But first, you must build a cohesive team. If team building isn’t a current priority, or it has fallen by the wayside—it’s never too late to bring your team together.

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Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

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The needs of Innovation Coherence

Paul Hobcraft

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. It is a known, well-discussed fact.

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Stereotype Threat: Why people perform worse at some tasks based on their identity

Idea to Value

Have you ever heard that women are bad drivers? Or that Asian students are good at math? Or that people who work in accounting are not creative?

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How to build an open innovation ecosystem

HYPE Innovation

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted and waits to be transformed. Strategy & Alignment

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Agility is the 2023 Success Factor

Leapfrogging

Agility, the ability to think fast and move quickly, is an imperative for every team this year. That’s because there’s never been more uncertainty – around technology, the economy, global-political turmoil, and just about everything else.

Agile 130
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The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Join this exclusive webinar with Dr. Karen Hardy, where she will explore the power of storytelling in risk communication as a core component of a resilient organization's management framework!

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Be In The Room

CorporateIntel

Over the past weeks, several major companies have announced various return-to-office policies. That means a requirement to be in an office some number of days each week.

Policies 122
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How can you map out your Innovation Mix by Category and Level?

IdeaScale

Innovation can be optimized by taking a strategic approach to your innovation mix. Creating an innovation strategy leaves room for organic innovation, but ensures your approach is proactive and built with sustainability in mind.

Marketing 147
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Where will Innovation Management Software go?

Paul Hobcraft

Where will Innovation Management Software go? This morning I decided to have a chat on ChatGPT on the future of Innovation Management Software, I asked a number of questions in a short series and can well-relate to the answers provided incredibly quickly. What do you think?

Software 159
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“As long as my failing project keeps going, I won’t be a failure”

Idea to Value

Is it better to have grit , or know when to quit? A few weeks ago I was listen to an excellent episode of the Innovation Show podcast , with guest Annie Duke.

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Everything You Need to Know About Crypto

Speaker: Ryan McInerny, CAMS, FRM, MSBA - Principal, Product Strategy

This exclusive webinar with Ryan McInerny will teach you all about cryptocurrency and NFTs! Register to learn more about identifying crypto transactions, crypto asset market trends, managing risk and compliance, and supporting customers and partners using crypto-based payments.

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The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas

HYPE Innovation

Nature or nurture ? The question is as old as the world. A re we born the way we are or are we raised t o become t he people we are today ? The same goes for the traits and skills we use at work.

Study 147
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The Top 20 Ideas Shared by IdeaSpies 2022

IdeaSpies

About 1,000 ideas were shared by IdeaSpies in 2022 and these are the most popular. All the ideas are explained simply and can be (Feed generated with FetchRSS

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Magnetize Your Team: How CEOs Can Attract the Right Leadership by Being the Right Leader

Tullio Siragusa

Magnetize Your Team: How CEOs Can Attract the Right Leadership by Being the Right Leader It’s been often said that a CEO’s success depends on hiring the right team, but this blog isn’t about that.

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How to Keep Innovation Alive When Sales Are Down

IdeaScale

Whether it’s a bad quarter, your market or demographic is rapidly shrinking, or we are in the midst of a recession—you may be tempted to halt your innovation program. However, innovation is precisely what you need when your sales decline.

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Exploring the Overlap: Cost Optimization and Digital Transformation

Speaker: Alex Jiménez, Managing Principal, Financial Service Consulting for EPAM

The largest banks have increased reserves for protection against deteriorating economic conditions. Should banks delay their digital transformation investments and focus on cost reductions? In this webinar, Alex Jiménez will walk us through that question and examine the prudent course of action.

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Innovation comes in different forms and problems, all requiring financial support.

Paul Hobcraft

Developing countries need innovation and financial support. Innovation has a very tough job of attracting the necessary money to take a concept or idea all the way through to commercialization. There is always that constant asking about the economic return and the associated risks.

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Why creativity is the future of your teams

Idea to Value

The world is changing faster than ever. Established companies are being overtaken by more innovative upstarts, entire industries which previously dominated the economy are being disrupted. And looking at the future of work, artificial intelligence has already begun replacing low-skilled jobs.

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4 Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Innovation culture is one of those terms that’s hard to define – poll 10 people on the street and we’d likely get 10 different interpretations. Yet we tend to know it when we see it.

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Why campfires are the perfect analogy for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I grew up in Scouting and really enjoyed my time as a scout. What I think most of us enjoyed the most were the weekend campouts, where we could sleep in tents, roam in the local forest and, best of all, build fires. I've never fully understood why boys are so attracted to fire.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this session, Elizabeth “Paige” Baumann will cover the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act. She'll take a deep dive into the catalysts that brought on the act, the current implications of the act, and what impacts the act has on the future of banking and finance.