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What Companies That Excel at Innovation Do Right

IdeaScale

Innovation can be challenging. You need a strategy with the right people and solutions in place to effectively drive the process. Companies that excel at innovation share common traits. Here are some of those characteristics that lead to success. Develop an innovation strategy You need an innovation strategy to achieve sustainability. It should align with … Continued.

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Quality Improvement in Residency Programs

Kainexus

I received an interesting call a few weeks back from Bahnsen Miller, MD. Bahnsen is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. He attended LSU School of Medicine and completed his residency training there. After residency training, he completed a quality improvement and patient safety fellowship at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge—this is where he learned about KaiNexus.

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The Courage to Belong No Place

IdeaScale

“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great,” Maya Angelou told Bill Moyers in a 1973 interview. As a leader, you may find yourself toeing the line between fear and courage. As Angelou teaches, mustering the vigor to … Continued. The post The Courage to Belong No Place appeared first on IdeaScale.

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A pathway to building more dynamic innovation capabilities

Paul Hobcraft

To build a pathway to enabling more dynamic innovation capabilities needs to go through Nine Stages. These nine stages are, in my opinion, needed for developing an understanding of your innovation capabilities, so as to make them more dynamic and, as a result, to be at the top of your innovation game. This “step process,” I believe, gets you to the point of understanding what innovation capabilities are a better ‘fit’ for the purpose, to deliver on your innovation needs on a consistent, repeatab

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Remove Roadblocks to Creativity

Idea to Value

The power of the mind is something we have only begun to grasp and understand with the help of science. However, creativity is an expansive expression of what the mind can envision, create, and conceptualize. The beauty of a fine painting. The elegance of a story that makes us think and emote. Even the email that gets everyone on board and fired up for the next meeting.

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6 Ways to Create Innovation Culture with Virtual Tools

Leapfrogging

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective.

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Good Ideas Don’t Last Forever

Bill Fischer

When was the last time that you had a good idea go bad? Professional success today is much more about the learning than the knowing.

Learning 139
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Podcast S4E82: Shama Rahman – using AI to augment human intelligence & creativity

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with artist, neuroscience researcher and startup founder Dr Shama Rahman. We speak about how we are using Artificial Intelligence and mental models to better understand and even enhance our human intelligence and spark creativity in new ways. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:03:00 – What she was researching and her findings, to see if there are certain brain activities depending on the creative process. 00:08:00 

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6 Ways to Create Innovation Culture with Virtual Tools

Leapfrogging

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective.

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The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face

Board of Innovation

Sustainability goals and Circular Economy targets are a recurring theme in large corporates’ strategic priorities. But what are the most common pain points they face in the process? Read all about it. The post The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Praktikum/Werkstudent*in DevOps bei Pixofarm

whataventure

Werde Teil des Teams! Praktikum oder Werkstudent*in DevOps bei Pixofarm. JETZT BEWERBEN. Wo. Wien. Start. Ab sofort. Anstellung. Praktikum oder Werkstudent. Anstellung. ab 20h/Woche. Über uns. Pixofarm (www.pixofarm.com) ist eines der drei Company Building Projekte von WhatAVenture. Die App Pixofarm ermöglicht es das Fruchtwachstum von Äpfeln bzw. anderen Früchten über das Handy zu überwachen und Voraussagen über die Ernte zu treffen.

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Improvement Culture: 4 Signs of Trouble

Kainexus

Modern leaders are fortunate to have a host of proven continuous improvement tools like DMAIC , Standard Work, kanban, Hoshin Kanri , and more. We owe a lot to those who pioneered Lean management and other methodologies that bake quality improvement into daily business processes. These tools are available to everyone, but not all organizations that strive for improvement achieve it.

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How One Smile Can Change the World

Tullio Siragusa

How One Smile Can Change the World. It is one thing to put on a great smile in front of everybody and say you are doing great but realize there is a deeper more genuine smile that we often miss out on. We are so busy with the ways of the world around us that we can easily forget what a genuine smile means and how it can impact the people around us. “A genuine smile is magical indeed and we all have that magic within us.”.

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A Decade of Action

IdeaSpies

The year 2020, with all its tribulations, brought forth the "Decade of Action". With just 10 years to go, an aspiring globa.

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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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Junior Innovation Manager

whataventure

Werde Teil des Teams! Junior Innovation Manager (m/w/d). JETZT BEWERBEN. Wo. Wien. Start. Ab sofort. Erfahrung. 1 Jahr. Sprachniveau. B2 Deutschniveau. Über uns. WhatAVenture hat es sich zum Ziel gemacht, Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, ihre Geschäftsideen iterativ und nahe am Kunden zu entwickeln. Wir begleiten, unterstützen und helfen etablierten Unternehmen als Facilitatoren, Sparringspartner oder auch als Teammitglieder bei der Umsetzung von Innovationsprogrammen und Innovationsstrategien

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Don't Just Disrupt How Consumers Think: Walk Your Talk

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Disrupting means nothing if you're not creating real value.

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Book Excerpt: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well

Innovation Leader

The new book Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out. is about “Catalysts,” a subset of innovators with “a deep-rooted need to create positive change.

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#1,968 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: Virgin Hyperloop. Sir Richard Branson is getting into the Hyperloop game, building a new test track and research center in Virginia that could one day make the dream of high speed travel that connects far flung cities in a manner of minutes a reality. As Futurism puts it: “The center will be the first of its kind in the US, Reuters reports , and will serve as a regulatory proving ground for future hyperloop systems.

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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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Play Bold: Bring African Ubuntu to the table

Innovation 360 Group

Isaiah C. Engelbrecht, member of the South African National Advisory Council of Innovation and the executive. The post Play Bold: Bring African Ubuntu to the table appeared first on Innovation360.

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2 Guys From Utah Co-Founded a Healthcare-Solutions Company. Within a Year, They Were Managing Covid Testing for 3 States

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Joshua Walker and Mark Newman thought they were going to revolutionize healthcare administration. Then the coronavirus revolutionized their business.

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RPA Vs BPM: Differences Every Enterprise Leader Should Know

Acuvate

RPA Vs BPM: Differences Every Enterprise Leader Should Know Business Process Management (BPM) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have been an integral part of organizations’ digital transformation strategies as companies are continuously pushing the envelope to gain competitive advantage and optimize their business processes. BPM, often known as Business Process Automation (BPA), is an approach […].

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#1,967 – Slow Blinking

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Lots of people believe that their cats are highly intelligent, capable of understanding them. We usually call those people crazy cat ladies and move about our business but now there’s scientific evidence that proves their point as cats may be able to use “slow blinking” as a form of communication. The Huffington Post explains: “Slow-blinking means making eye contact with a cat and then slowly closing and opening your eyes.

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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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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

The Enexis Group finds itself in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. Yet the company has managed to generate hundreds of new ideas each year since 2014, resulting in millions in cost-saving and improved employee safety.

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Automating Complex Marketing Models for Insight That is Deep and Frequent

Brunner

Speed versus depth of insight is a fundamental trade-off marketing strategists often face when working with analyst teammates. Both sides contribute to this reality. Strategists often ask nuanced or difficult questions (what is the ROI of a sports sponsorship?), and analysts or data scientists, reacting to a wide variety of these questions, tend to approach each new project from scratch.

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills-Scofield

As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling. While he was an equal-opportunity yeller, when he shouted at me in my first department meeting, I got up, told him when he wanted to talk, not yell, I’d b

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#1,972 – Sponge Scrapers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Skyscrapers are modern marvels. Feats of ingenuity that allow us to reach for the sky while living and working closely together inside of diverse, densely packed cities. Without them we would quickly run out of room, our talent and best ideas spread out among vast urban sprawl. A reality that would quickly stifle our ability to innovate. As important as they are, usual skyscraper innovation is reserved for unique designs or attempts to break the record for world’s tallest building.

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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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Tidying Up - The Greening of Cleaning

Wellspring

As concerns for personal and environmental health continue to build, a growing proportion of consumers have chosen to replace traditional cleaning products with green, eco-friendly products. Despite early skepticism that consumers would actually change their purchasing habits, this shift in purchasing behaviors is hardly unexpected. Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to buyers, especially in household cleaning products and personal care products.

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Epilogue: The Post–COVID-19 World

Innovation 360 Group

The year is 2050, and we are blooming in a new Renaissance. The pandemic back in 2020 took its toll—with lockdowns not only delivering a devastating economic impact but also a huge social impact that none could foresee. The virus mutated several times, and it is still around in various guises. But we have learned to live with it, and in its wake: social adoption and a deeper understanding of the interaction between the different systems that form the global ecosystem.

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Enexis Interview: Navigating Operational Innovation in an Environment Ripe for Innovation Stagnation

Qmarkets

The Enexis Group find themselves in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost saving since 2014.

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#1,971 – Genetic Brain Editing

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

CRISPR-CAS-9 is so revolutionary that is just won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But it’s not the only game-changing, gene-editing technique in the works. In fact, there’s another method under development that may be capable of conducting gene edits in specific organs and even inside the brain. Futurism explains: “A team of scientists have developed a new gene-editing tool that, for the first time, can target the specific cells or organs that doctors want edited — including

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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.