Sat.Apr 16, 2016 - Fri.Apr 22, 2016

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10 surprising ways to develop your imagination

Idea to Value

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan. People with imagination are often dismissed as someone that has his or her head in the clouds, and deeply impractical. That is not true at all. Some of the great minds in human history were people with buckets load of imagination that could envision what other people have no concept at all.

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Shining a powerful innovation light into the Corporate Boardrooms

Paul Hobcraft

So after a fairly ‘dark’ period for me, of absorbing and reflecting on a series of reports, each indicating that innovation and its management understanding is not as deeply understood in the boardroom as it should be, you need to respond. This seems an appropriate time to begin to rethink and explain innovation, partly in this need to fight these “immune systems” in fresh ways and partly to redrawn, re-frame and renew the value of innovation; in how it can help organizations going forward in ve

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Exago featured in Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Innovation Management’

Exago

Gartner’s 2016 ‘Market Guide for Innovation Management’ features Exago as one of the companies with more traction and visibility in the innovation management industry. The post Exago featured in Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Innovation Management’ appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Innovation Starts—And Ends—With Mindset

Digital Tonto

We love to talk about disrupting markets and industries, but rarely put forth the effort to disrupt ourselves. That requires and change in mindset and, for most of us, it’s just too hard. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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This guy made a fun video while renovating his garage

Idea to Value

This video might start off looking like just another DIY project, but partway through it shows the fun and creativity that the author put into it. Technically speaking, it’s nothing special. Youtuber Hampton Rutland explains how he’s finishing a construction project with wood he reclaimed from a derelict demolished house. But once it starts (at around 2:10), you see that he’s decided to have some fun with the construction project, adding a bit of stop motion animation to not o

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Strategic Thinking – Job Descriptions Don’t Define Innovation Potential

BrainZooming

We were working with a team responsible for a highly focused internal process that includes a customer-facing aspect. It’s a high volume, high expectation, and deadline-focused role critical to the company’s success. I noticed several references during our time together about how narrow and targeted the team’s job is. VERY NARROW AND VERY TARGETED.

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The 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over The Next Decade—Genomics, Nanotechnology and Robotics

Digital Tonto

While smartphone apps are cool and add convenience to our lives, the real impact of digital technology lies in front of us, when second order technologies are applied to completely new. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation and The Art of Implementation: Dealing with Creatives

Idea to Value

Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a fundamental framework of 10 Key Imperatives to help businesses create a structured, repeatable innovation process. Building upon this fundamental framework, the recently published Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation delves deeper into how to implement a culture of innovation in one’s work environment.

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IoT Brings Innovation Opportunity to HR

Innovation Excellence

HR has to enable the workforce to drive innovation. Don’t look at IoT, like it’s magic. It’s science that you can use to improve the way you work. And you will generate a competitive edge while doing it.

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Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit

Gregg Fraley

I am sometimes asked what a Facilitator should have in their kit bag. Here’s my answer — the Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit list. The items are below in bold. Many have links to where you can source the materials. I’m assuming the facilitator is a hands-on project leader who facilitates meetings, such as idea generation or strategy sessions.

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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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Beware Of Simple Rules And Slogans—They Can Kill Your Business

Digital Tonto

The truth is that the real world is a confusing place. We have little choice but to walk the earth, pick things up along the way and make the best judgments we can. The decisions we make are highly. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Infographic: What is innovation?

Idea to Value

I was recently asked by Inc.com to begin writing a regular column for them, which will be called “Making Ideas Work” and focused on creativity and innovation. For my first article, I went deeper into the analysis of what defines innovation, based on the recent insights from 15 innovation experts. I then also turned this into an infographic, which you can find above or on the full article at Inc.com.

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Why Travel Makes You A Better Entrepreneur

Innovation Excellence

Being a passionate about traveling I found that this activity may stimulate your entrepreneurial thoughts, spontaneously give you an absolutely brilliant idea, provide with the sudden solution you’ve been looking for so long, calm your inner tornado etc. There is something similar between unrestrained traveler and entrepreneur. Both are risk-takers anyway, both are on the search of the uncharted territories, both are adventurous enough to follow their inner compasses.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking. One attendee stuck around after the “Results” presentation to ask about a situation his son is facing.

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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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Is Facebook becoming the innovation network platform?

Norbert Bol

Last week Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc, presented his 10 year plan for the company. With more that 1,55 billion active users, Facebook is by far the largest social media network and also the most far advanced network with different functionalities. The 10 year plan lays out the future of Facebook how to become the world’s dominant network by providing free access to the Internet around the globe and how facebook evolves to a fully developed ecosyste

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Dissent Without Reprisal – a key to company longevity

Mike Shipulski

In strategic planning there’s a strong forcing function that causes the organization to converge on a singular, company-wide approach. While this convergence can be helpful, when it’s force is absolute it stifles new ideas. The result is an operating plan that incrementally improves on last year’s work at the expense of work that creates new businesses, sells to new customers and guards against the dark forces of disruptive competition.

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Working Like a Startup is Not Equal to Working With a Startup

Innovation Excellence

Startup mentality is very powerful tool in developing more radical innovations serving hidden needs of the customer, there is also vast amount of added value in improving the perceived user value with incremental innovations for existing assets.

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9 Strategic Ideas to Keep Moving without Important Input

BrainZooming

A client raised a question the other day in a Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop about what you can do when you are waiting on someone busy AND important to provide input on an initiative so you can continue making progress. That is a question I have had to consider and address frequently. 9 Strategic Ideas to Keep Moving without Important Input.

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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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Will Chat Bots Become Your New Best Friend?

Daniel Burrus

Here in 2016, great content alone is simply not enough. The combination of an authentic, relatable voice and conversations with your audience are possibly the most powerful currency in our quest to connect with each other in a meaningful way. As viewers, we are bombarded with a smorgasbord of content, and if we are greeted with an annoying pop-up ad that covers the screen or information hidden behind a paywall, we simply look elsewhere.

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Lifee: A brand new style for kids

Svava

Lifee is a wristband for kids that motivates physical activity while being entertaining and easy to use. Wear Lifee and your everyday life becomes a game. - Patrik Jutterström.

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How Automation and Artificial Intelligence Work Together to Spur Innovation

Innovation Excellence

According to the experts, 2016 may finally be the year that artificial intelligence comes into its own. Here is how AI stands to aid us in the future.

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Mammoth Crowdsourcing Exercise to Compile Viking Database

IdeaConnection

Research into Viking culture has been given a huge boost thanks to the World-Tree Project, a new crowdsourcing initiative that is attempting to compile the world’s largest online Viking database. University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland is behind the project , which is enlisting the public’s help from all over the world. “Everyone knows that the Vikings travelled huge distances, colonizing Greenland, exploring North America and leaving a legacy across Europe,” said researcher, Dr Rod

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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.

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Unilever: Making Sustainable Living a Reality Through Global Collaboration

Planview

How would you make sustainable living a reality? If you’re a company like Unilever, you collaborate with a community that’s spread across the world – from employees to entrepreneurs. Just to jog your memory, Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home, and personal care products, reaching two billion consumers a day in over 190 countries.

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What is the secret sauce that goes into a smashing Idea Hunt?

Svava

Designing a smashing Idea Hunt consists of many different ingredients. We’re going to share what we have learned so far. Creating a hunt is free. All you need to do is login, and hit the create campaign button. When you’re happy with your hunt, and would like to be featured simply apply. The best hunts are featured on our site, social media and newsletter.

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Innovation Force = Innovation Mass x Acceleration

Innovation Excellence

We all want our innovations to change the world. This requires Innovation Force. In turn, Innovation Force is the product of Innovation Mass (Product-Market Fit) and Acceleration (building growth with customers). To maximise Innovation Force, we need both Mass and Acceleration to be big, and this is true for startups, established firms, and regions.

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So Many Corporate Innovation Labs, So Little Innovation

It's Saul Connected

It’s the innovator’s day. CEOs everywhere know that keeping their companies relevant in a rapidly changing world is imperative and that innovation is the solution. Corporate leaders also know their legacies depend on their organization’s ability to reinvent itself. It’s not going well. The CEOs I talk with admit privately that they’re getting tired of hearing Uber, Airbnb and Netflix disruption stories.

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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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Unilever: Making Sustainable Living a Reality Through Global Collaboration

Planview

How would you make sustainable living a reality? If you’re a company like Unilever, you collaborate with a community that’s spread across the world – from employees to entrepreneurs. Just to jog your memory, Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home, and personal care products, reaching two billion consumers a day in over 190 countries.

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The 4th wave: From the flat world to the Digital Nomads

Svava

The sentence “any small business needs a website” has become a kind of idiosyncrasy in a world increasingly reduced to numbers translated into world maps where the top social networking have occupied the common sense of public relations to transform the web into a marketing sales place full of information pollution.

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Three Lessons in Innovation from Jeff Bezos

Innovation Excellence

Disrupt your own business before someone else does. Offering second hand books at low margin threatened Amazon’s higher value new book sales but this did not bother Bezos. He wanted to own that segment of the market too and to prevent a competitor from seizing it.

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Do You Have the Right Implementation Team?

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

So, you’ve got a great idea, the funding is in the bag, and your business model has been well crafted. Success is guaranteed, right? Wrong! According to research by serial entrepreneur Bill Gross, which he discussed in a recent TED talk, the two most important factors for success for start-ups are “timing” and “team.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib