Sat.Aug 27, 2016 - Fri.Sep 02, 2016

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Balancing Exploitation & Exploration for Changing Performance

HYPE Innovation

“Being ambidextrous” in organisations is the ability to successfully combine the exploiting of all the investments that have been made to date, to constantly build on these achievements by exploring new areas and opportunities. This calls for dual thinking and organisational design to optimise the two orientations. We are striving to maximise the existing utility, usually through continuous improvements, exploiting incremental advancement, combining this with the need of exploring beyond the exi

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Last, but not the least, Idea Market 3.5 smooths managers work

Exago

Finally, to smooth platform managers’ work, Exago's 3.5 innovation management software release comes with refurbished back office status, phases and workflow pages, as well as upgrading monitoring tools. The post Last, but not the least, Idea Market 3.5 smooths managers work appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Making a compelling business case for an integrated innovation framework

Paul Hobcraft

As innovation becomes a more consistent requirement rather than an occasional exercise, it must align to strategic goals and become part of the planning and execution cycle in more aligned ways. . An increased focus on innovation as a consistent discipline requires significant reflection on what needs changing, what impact this change will have and how do we proceed to implement it.

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Innovation: management versus enablement

Jeffrey Phillips

I love innovation. I love all facets of it: the discovery of new needs, the creativity to discover new solutions, the realization of those new ideas as new products and services. What concerns me sometimes is the way in which we attempt to implement innovation, because we are likely to constraint it at just the time we need the most innovation. You'll see a lot of talk about "innovation management".

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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How tattoos (and laser tattoo removal) work in super-slow motion

Idea to Value

One of the most ancient and personal forms of art is the tattoo: getting a permanent piece of attached to your own body. But as someone who has never had a tattoo before, I was fascinated to learn exactly how you can get something permanent into your skin that doesn’t fall off as you grow new skin. It’s a completely different way of producing art than spreading colour on a canvas.

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

Imaginatik

Take a ‘hot’ business word of today: transformation. For years, I stopped using the word ‘transformation.’ It was pervasive; it was flung about in workshops and articles, books and business meetings, from Cape Town to Cairo, Seoul to Singapore, in different industries, in different sizes of firms. It struck me as a weighty word, in the sense of carrying lots of calories but without any real nutrients, a justification to charge more $ / hour if it was used.

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Shifting budgets from advertising to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

OK, I don't have a self-driving car and already I'm sick of hearing about them and their potential. Just like I don't have a virtual reality headset made out of cardboard and an iPhone, but I'm tired of hearing about virtual reality. The reason I'm tired about hearing about VR and autonomous vehicles is that they are overhyped technologies that don't yet solve important problems.

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4 Things We Need To Do To Boost Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Digital Tonto

A free enterprise system is merely a starting point. We can only truly win the future if we invest in it. Related posts: We Need To Accelerate Innovation—Here’s How: What Should We Do When The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Measuring Silos Across the Organization – the Silo Index (Si) – breaking down silos to boost innovation

Imaginatik

Do your employees collaborate across the organization? Or are they stuck in disparate silos, working only with their organizational neighbors? You may have an intuition for whether your employees are stuck in silos, but how are you measuring it? We know that a lack of collaboration can lead to misaligned priorities, lack of information flow and poorly coordinated decisions.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? Shame on me, but I’ve never put the criteria I look for from a business collaboration into the type of strategic decision making tool we develop for clients.

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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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PBTO39: The Importance of Serendipity and The Courage to Defy Conventions with Sairee Chahal

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show today. In this episode, we host Sairee Chahal. Sairee is currently the Founder & CEO of Sheroes.in. Why is she on the show. Sairee is a finalist for the Cartier Women’s Award Initiative for 2012 , a TED speaker. She was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Indian Business 2012 and has been featured on shows like Young Turks, Pioneering Spirit and What Women Want.

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How Lean Startup Techniques Can Work Even Better For Established Businesses

Digital Tonto

While small, agile firms can move fast, larger enterprises have the ability to move deliberately. They have loyal customers and an abundance of resources. Related posts: How IBM Plans To Help. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Some Innovation Leaders Last – and Others Don’t

Imaginatik

A year or two ago, Imaginatik calculated the average job tenure of the Chief Innovation Officer at less than two years. The figure was based solely on some quick-and-dirty web research. But if true, two years is a very short period of time to effect meaningful change – and a substantially shorter average tenure than many other senior corporate roles.

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Leadership Strategy – How Much Teaching and Coaching Is Enough?

BrainZooming

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Leadership Strategy – How Much Teaching and Coaching Is Enough?

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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PBTO40: Transforming Observation into Innovation with Andrea Simon

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the Show: In this episode, we are hosting Dr. Andrea Simon. She is the principal and founder of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) and the author of the upcoming book “On the Brink” Why is she on the show: She is a corporate anthropologist and helps organizations, large and small, drive change by helping them rethink their strategy, customers and the culture in your own organisation.

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Innovation Leaders Need Peers

Innovation in Practice

There’s an old saying in business. Don’t make enemies of your peers. If you do, you won’t need any more enemies. They’ll be able to do you in.just fine. So what’s my point? Your peers are an essential resource and support network. By peers, I mean those at the same level in other departments: finance, sales, human resources, marketing, R&D, and operations.

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Why Augmented Reality Is Much Bigger Than Pokémon Go

Daniel Burrus

The increasing use of virtual reality (VR) is a Hard Trend that will continue to grow, and with the release of several high-profile VR systems, 2016 was supposed to be the year that VR finally went mainstream. However, users around the world queuing up to immerse themselves in a virtual world have yet to materialize. The less fancied augmented reality (AR) consists of using your smartphone camera or smart glasses to overlay virtual elements to the physical world.

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What makes a country innovative?

Innovation Excellence

Each year INSEAD team up with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and Cornell University to produce an innovation league table for the countries of the world. It’s designed to rank the infrastructure and support environment for innovation around the world. The 2016 rankings have just been published, and given the desire of the EU.

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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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If you believe…

Mike Shipulski

If you believe the work is meaningful, best effort flows from every pore. If you believe in yourself, positivity carries the day. If you believe the work will take twelve weeks, you won’t get it done in a day-and-a-half. If you believe in yourself, when big problems find you, you run them to ground. If you believe people have good intensions, there are no arguments, there is only progress.

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Projects Are How Innovation Happens

Gregg Fraley

Projects, Projects, Projects. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not. What’s quite simple about innovation is that projects are what make innovation real. The following concepts, frameworks, approaches, etc. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Thinking about things is not innovation.

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12 Reasons Why Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration

BrainZooming

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. That’s why I find myself so frequently trying to manipulate hotel meeting rooms in ways that hotel proprietors never imagined. Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration.

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Innovation Needs Different Thinking Horizons

Innovation Excellence

Paul Hobcraft makes the case that different types of innovation operate and evolve over different time horizons and explains the three emerging horizons that need different treatment for innovation.

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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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Data Value: Decisions, Data, and Models

Information Playground

One of the more interesting characters at EMC is the Dean of Big Data, Bill Schmarzo. When Dr. Jim Short and I kicked off the Architecting for Value research in 2015, Bill was one of the first people we spoke to. Bill has his finger on the pulse of data valuation due to continual contact with customers, many of whom are trying to extract value out of their data.

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Make Your Innovation Theatre ‘Hamilton’ and Not ‘Carrie’

Innovation Leader

This week, Innovation Leader editor Scott Kirsner provides a contrarian view on “innovation theater,” the label that some put on just about any efforts at corporate innovation.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

According to statistics divulged by the profession’s regulator, the number of practising solicitors in England continues to grow. Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. This was an increase of about 20% and in less than 10 years.

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The Skills Gap is a Myth Stifling Innovation in Business

Innovation Excellence

If there’s one thing that I’m getting sick of hearing about, it’s the skills gap. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a very real situation happening here: as of the last business day of June 2016, there were 5.6 million jobs available in the U.S. according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for.

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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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Open Innovation Search for a Military Super Suit

IdeaConnection

The United States military needs the crowd’s help to come up with a new chemical and biological agent-resistant suit. It has therefore launched a new open innovation challenge, the Chembio Suit Challenge and is welcoming ideas and contributions from everybody. Up for grabs for the winners is a share of $250,000 prize pot. The problem with current bio-hazard suits is that they are heavy and bulky which restricts a person’s maneuverability and range of motions when they are performing

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10 Characteristics of Great Project Brief’s

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the first things that we need to start a project is a project proposal or a brief. Most projects don’t achieve anything close to their potential because either their brief’s are too prescriptive or the people working on the project are not fully immersed in the project. I recently watched a video created by Bassett & Partners where they interviewed some stellar creatives from the advertising industry to understand what they thought about brief’s that they get as crea

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Fostering innovation at L&T Technology Services

Values Centered Innovation

Innovation is no longer an option for organizations today. In fact, an innovative mind-set has become the deciding factor between greatness and mediocrity, success and failure of corporations today. William and Debra Miller are the co-founders of Values Centered Innovation, which is working with L&T Technology Services to fuel creativity and innovation - new ideas and new achievements.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Consulting Industry

Innovation Excellence

The same technologies that have led to the growth of consulting companies over the last couple of decades, will begin to lead to a shrinking of those same consulting firms. The increasing diversification of the large global consultancies into other specialties is the first step to what is an inevitable shrinkage forced upon the industry by three factors.

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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.