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Here’s How You Build Transformative Teams

Digital Tonto

The truth is that there is no effective answer for the question, “how do we find innovative people?” Talent isn’t something you hire or win in a war, it’s something you empower. It depends less on. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader

Tullio Siragusa

How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader. There is a significant difference between leadership and management. Leaders inspire and work in an upside-down pyramid fashion, while managers are often seeking to be on the top of the pyramid with everyone else beneath. Leaders create and move things forward; managers handle things. Leaders lead people, managers manage stuff.

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Why Innovation Operations Are Critical

Wellspring

This article was originally published on Chemical Engineering.

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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

Applying the Three Horizon Methodology is an Evolutionary Perspective. Innovation is the key enabler to turning our world from a fossil-led one into one based on renewables. For this to happen, our focus today should be fully on low-carbon technologies and their technical realization. We should be looking at applying the three horizon methodology here to determine a pathway from today through to 2050 to achieve our goals of having a world free of man-made carbon emissions.

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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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What’s the Real Difference between Creativity and Innovation?

IdeaScale

Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. However, while they overlap, they’re different in key ways. Here’s how to understand the differences and apply them in your innovation strategy. Creativity Vs. Innovation. Creativity is the act of conceiving something new, while. Innovation is the act of putting something into practice. Creativity is thinking up the idea of flying into space, while innovation is building the rocket.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Every year, the development industry spends around $150 billion fighting poverty in order to prevent situations like the aforementioned. Last year, it spent approximately $161 billion. . Progress is not only slow but whatever “progress” is made is also shallow. Development indicators, such as children in school, life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality, and so on, may go up, but they mostly mask the shaky foundation upon which these positive indicators are built.

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How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

Planview

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth. The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to inspire our employees to commemorate the day and support local black communities.

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Innovation Trends in Life Sciences

Yet2

Life science scouting projects are some of the more popular topics amongst the project team at yet2. With the pace of scientific innovation accelerating so quickly, the topics always focus on cutting-edge technologies and devices, and never fail to provide ample opportunity for jaw-dropping reactions to cool, new science. Scouting for life science technologies is also a popular ask across our clients, and why we have so many project leaders with backgrounds and PhDs in chemistry, biochemistry, a

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What Can Leaders Do to Have More Innovative Teams?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Talent is one of the main drivers of innovation and its scarcity and high value makes it a frequent cause for concern for leaders from all over the world. And for good reason.

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7 Ways to Create Confidence, Power and Power Momentum

Entrepreneur - Innovation

It takes guts to stand up for what you believe in, especially when nobody else does. How to be unafraid of navigating new possibilities.

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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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Five Tech Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry

Daniel Burrus

Global, national, and local healthcare systems have gone through more change in the past few years than almost any other industry. Technologies that were available but not widely used before the pandemic have been brought to the forefront, accelerating a transformation that will impact the entire health ecosystem. Virtual office visits, mobile telemedicine, health wearables, remote diagnostics, remote disease management, mRNA drugs, genetic screening, and personalized medicine are just a few of

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Sustainability Is a Must: Time for More Meaningful Innovation

PlanBox Innovation

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger. That’s appropriate given the short-term and long-term pressures facing humanity. We are going to need the speed, strength, and bravery these big cats are renowned for. To balance immediate quarterly objectives with developing a sustainable strategy for the long haul, organizational leaders will have to be both agile and courageous.

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Leading a Culture of Innovation from Any Seat

Innovation Excellence

3 Ways to Leverage Human-Centered Design at Your Organization GUEST POST from Patricia Salamone In a world where business challenges are increasingly complex, identifying your objective and framing your problem correctly is an integral way to demonstrate leadership and ensure … Continue reading →

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3. Asking for Ideas is a Bad Idea

Stephen Shapiro

This is tip 3 from Best Practices are Stupid. I love this one. It’s core to so much of my innovation work. The concept of the SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO is overlooked yet critical. Here’s a short snippet of the content: A large European retail bank that was suffering from eroding market share thought they had a great idea to solve this emerging problem.

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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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Design Thinking Exercises and Activities

InnovationTraining.org

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. Here at Innovation Training, we’ve spent over a decade studying and applying design thinking techniques to help organizations and individuals create real, innovative change. Design thinking can help you figure out new solutions to grow and improve old processes and practices by doing things in better ways.

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4 Ways to Improve Project Management to Waste Less Time and Make More Money

Entrepreneur - Innovation

How project management practices based on well-defined goals and clear communication can transform your company.

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Four Reasons the Big Quit Exists

Innovation Excellence

Turns out the pandemic prompted mass numbers of employees finally say, “take this job and shove it” to employers and careers they don’t like. Life is too short to be miserable at work.

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Ask WHY?

IdeaSpies

Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. He has devoted his life to sharing his thinking, and leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.Simon may be best known for popularising the concept of WHY in his first Ted Talk in 2009. It has since become one of the most watched talks of all time.

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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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5. Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Today we move to tip 5 from the book. People who know me, know I am a fan of open innovation and crowdsourcing – when it is done correctly. Today’s post shares why I am such a strong proponent… Expertise can be the enemy of breakthrough thinking. The more you know about a particular topic, the more difficult it is for you to think about it in a different way.

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The Luxury of Invention

100%Open

Hands up who likes to be creative? I know I do. As someone who very firmly identifies as a Co-lab ‘Explorer’ I really enjoy taking things – physical, virtual or conceptual – and letting my imagination loose on what these could become. You might think that some of this is at odds with someone who has had a very structured, logical, scientific background and I wouldn’t disagree.

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4 Ways to Adapt Your Business as Your Industry Evolves

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Elevate your business to keep up with the latest advancements.

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The Lost Tribe of Medicine

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. I can remember opening my medical school acceptance letter.

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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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4. Don’t Think Outside the Box; Find a Better Box

Stephen Shapiro

This is tip 4 from Best Practices are Stupid and is the basis of my Invisible Solutions® book. It is fundamental to all of my work with innovation: Start with a well-framed opportunity. Here is a snippet of the text for this chapter… Leaders of organizations often use the expression, “think outside the box” while urging their employees to innovate.

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Digital Transformation in Biotech: The Competitive Advantage

Cascade Strategy

The biotechnology industry has experienced incredible growth over the last few years. While other industries faltered during the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and markets across the globe turned to the biotech industry to help with the research and development of vital vaccines and innovative treatments.

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Episode 096: Is Virtual Idea Generation Less Effective Than In-Person? It Depends on the Technique!

Innovation in Practice

Are you as creative in the virtual world as you are in person? This is an important question to ask right now. The virtual world is taking over. More and more companies are going remote. You may even work fully remote! We need to know if our creative output can remain the same online. An article recently came out that says it can’t. It asserts that your innovation abilities and creative skills decrease when you’re virtual.

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There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups

helloFUTURE

We certainly live in a fantastic time, don’t we? Even as recently as five years ago, we did not have nearly as many tools, frameworks, and platforms available to us as we do today to construct a firm that could do virtually anything. Do you know what aspect of the on-demand economy, known as the… The post There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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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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6. The Difference Between a Pipeline and a Sewer is What Flows Through It

Stephen Shapiro

One day, I was having lunch with a pharmaceutical client who said, “The problem with our innovation pipeline is it is really a sewer.” Ouch. But it was the inspiration for this tip from Best Practices are Stupid. Here’s a short snippet from that chapter: We hear the expression “innovation pipeline” tossed around a lot. But if you aren’t careful, your pipeline may get clogged.

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KPI Software Guide: The Best Platforms for Strategy Execution

Cascade Strategy

8 Best KPI Software Tools To Hit Your Strategic Goals. Today, there are two types of businesses: those that use key performance indicators (KPIs) to track business performance and those that fall behind and choke on their competitor's dust. If you want to tap into the power of data-informed decisions to get ahead, you need reliable KPI software.

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How will humans change in the next 10,000 years?

Innovation Excellence

Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality Nicholas R.

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Aligning Innovation Activities with Strategy Using Innovation Roadmaps

ITONICS

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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.