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Creating an innotropic company

Jeffrey Phillips

I grew up on a farm, so to some extent it's no surprise that I have always been fascinated by plants. When I hike in the woods, or work in my garden, I can see how the trees, flowers and other plants position themselves for the sun. Even in the densest forest, where you would think the undergrowth has no chance of direct sunlight, you will find plants that find small patches of sunlight.

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Five Reasons Why You Should Think Like a Criminal

Destination Innovation

Image by Ryan McGuire on Pixabay. Have you seen the movie, The Day of the Jackal? In this 1973 film directed by Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox plays a professional assassin, the “Jackal”, who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. It is a compelling thriller in which it is hard not to admire the cunning and guile of the ruthless killer.

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How to use KANBAN: An effective productivity method for innovative ideas

Idea to Value

How do you manage projects where the requirements are likely to change frequently. Or where teams might be independently working on multiple aspects separately but simultaneously. One management method which might be of interest is KANBAN. It originated as part of the Toyota Production System as part of their Lean Manufacturing Method, and is a method for scheduling in which sequence work should be done to achieve a desired outcome.

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The value of three horizon mapping for a Sustainability Journey.

Paul Hobcraft

Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable future that mobilizes action in searching for new economic thinking incorporates a more circular model of management that builds a more purposeful recycling approach that reduces the pressures on our use of precious minerals and resources.

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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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Customers Demand Contactless Payment Options — Here’s How to Make It Happen

Business and Tech

Contactless payments aren’t just a COVID trend. What started as a way to limit the spread of germs has gained traction because of its speed and convenience. Blake Morgan Author, “ The Customer Of The Future ”. Cash is out, contactless payments are in. It’s yet another change catalyzed by COVID. Over the past year, many stores stopped accepting cash payments and made the switch to contactless out of necessity to limit customer and employee touchpoints.

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It’s Time To Admit We Were Wrong About What Was Supposed To Drive The 21st Century

Digital Tonto

Technology is a process that involves both revealing and building. Yes, we revealed the power of market forces and the bankruptcy of the Soviet system, but failed to build a more prosperous and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The value of three horizon mapping for a Sustainability Journey.

Paul Hobcraft

Sustainability is one of the hottest topics in the business world at present. There is a hunt to find a new growth engine for a business and fundamentally show the pathway to a sustainable future. A sustainable future that mobilizes action in searching for new economic thinking. One which incorporates a more circular model of management that builds a more purposeful recycling approach that has the objective to reduce the pressures on our use of precious minerals and resources and current consump

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Why VPNs Don’t Keep Companies Safe Anymore

Business and Tech

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were once the hallmarks of corporate security to connect remote workers and partners. Today they are an open invitation for hackers to trespass on a corporate network, leaving an organization’s critical data exposed. It is well known that hackers are always looking for opportunity. And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the c

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How the 2021 Olympic Games Are Some of the Most Innovative Yet

IdeaScale

Overview: The Tokyo Olympics are using innovation to overcome a range of challenges in a Games facing formidable obstacles, including 5G, robotics, and e-waste recycling. Each helps the Games flow smoothly during a difficult event. The Challenge. The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled for 2020 but were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost immediately, work began to hold the games safely and so athletes could compete, even if fans could only watch remotely.

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Podcast S6E126: Rob Weiner – The fascinating history of Creativity

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Dr Rob Weiner about the fascinating history of creativity. Dr Weiner is a former Professor teaching creativity (as well as “Lying 101”) and author of Creativity and Beyond: Cultures, Values, and Change , which discusses how different cultures have defined and valued the key concept of creativity and how this has changed over time.

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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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Whitepaper: Stimulating and Measuring Open and Cross Innovation 

InnovationManagement

As two intermediaries from Hamburg that foster open and cross innovation processes, Science Scout (an initiative of Hamburg Innovation) and Cross Innovation Hub (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft) joined forces to start a discussion around the stimulation and measurement of open and cross innovation processes. The post Whitepaper: Stimulating and Measuring Open and Cross Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Why VPNs Don’t Keep Companies Safe Anymore

Business and Tech

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were once the hallmarks of corporate security to connect remote workers and partners. Today they are an open invitation for hackers to trespass on a corporate network, leaving an organization’s critical data exposed. It is well known that hackers are always looking for opportunity. And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the c

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Webinar: How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators

IdeaScale

Overview: Join us Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT on Zoom for a webinar with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) innovation team. We’ll discuss how they used innovation management technology to diversify their approach to innovation, combined organic innovation with innovation challenges, how leadership drove innovation, their unique rewards and recognition program, and the challenges the current moment presents.

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Functional fixedness bias, and how to overcome it

Idea to Value

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. One of the primary biases affecting innovation teams is called functional fixedness. This bias limits a person’s ability to only see an objects only in the way it is traditionally used. So for example, if a person has always worked with a hammer in order to hammer nails, and then needs a paperweight, some people would not think of using the hammer as the paperweight because “ that is not what it is used for “ In a

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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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Focus on Evidence, Not Opinions.

Strategyzer Innovation

In 2011, entrepreneur Peter Reinhardt was working with his team within the framework of the Y combinator. After 2 failed ideas and with only 6 months of funding left, he felt a real pressure to figure out what direction they should pursue.

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It’s Time for True Innovation in Payments

Business and Tech

Under the status quo, banks and card networks take a percentage of each card payment, and during the pandemic, almost all retail payments were made by card. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated everything digital, from how we shop to how we pay. Use of contactless cards and mobile payments by consumers worried about surfaces they touch has exploded.

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How Can Enterprises Think and Execute Like a Startup?

InnovationManagement

Around the world and across industries, enterprises are facing tremendous market upheaval. Transformation and disruption were the new normal well before the pandemic, but the coronavirus crisis accelerated certain trends toward innovation and digitization and led to the fundamental rewiring of old business models. The post How Can Enterprises Think and Execute Like a Startup?

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Use A3 Process Mapping for Root Cause Problem-Solving

Kainexus

Most companies today work to improve their performance continuously. The basis of this improvement is practical problem-solving. Unfortunately, many organizations are not very adept at solving the day-to-day, year-to-year problems that they face. Most are very good at emergency firefighting but not as effective at solving the root causes and ensuring that problems don't recur.

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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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Why Encourage Excellence instead of Perfection

Tullio Siragusa

Why Encourage Excellence instead of Perfection. Are you a perfectionist? Or do you strive for excellence? I’m afraid you’re mistaken if you assume these are the same thing. Although they are connected, they are the opposites of the same coin. They are so opposed to one another that the only way to accomplish excellence is to not want perfection. So, let’s look at the major distinctions between the two.

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Safeguarding our Digital Transformation Together

Business and Tech

Cloud environments and the security, privacy, and governance controls required to safeguard them are now arguably the top priorities for most chief information security officers (CISOs) and other executive-level stakeholders. . Illena Armstrong President, Cloud Security Alliance. No matter their current stages in the race to cloud, both private and public entities quickly pivoted to leveraging these services to support robust and often far-reaching remote workforces during the pandemic.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Innovation Software

PlanBox Innovation

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe. Understanding the importance of collaboration really is a no-brainer: people and business units alike need to share information and work together.

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When to Build vs. Buy Software for Quality Improvement

Kainexus

Organizations of all types and sizes have realized that continuous quality improvement is easiest to spread and sustain if a software platform is used to support it. If you are ready to take your organization's approach to positive change to the next level by doing so, congratulations! Our customers have found that the benefits of using technology to support improvement are vast.

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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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The 4 Best Ways for Measuring Coaching Success

CMOE

While businesses believe coaching is one of the top-rated leadership skills , not enough of them are measuring their coaching success. As a result, many organizations do not even know whether their coaching investments are paying off. Monitoring and measuring your coaching programs is critical to making smarter business decisions. Employees are the linchpin that holds organizational strategies together, so investing in the employee experience is critical to your team’s success.

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Why Fintech Needs the Right Regulation to Help Drive Innovation

Business and Tech

Contactless payment and digital currencies are promising technologies that are expanding both in the United States and internationally. Tom Quaadman Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness , U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You probably use cash a lot less than you did 10 years ago, and writing personal checks is a less frequently used form of payment as well.

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The Key to Surviving a Digital Native Assault

Innovation Excellence

Digital transformation has become an overused buzzword, much like innovation, because consulting and technology companies see it as an opportunity to create FOMO (fear of missing out) in their clients.

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The Biggest Adaptations We Need to Make to Accommodate Climate Change

InnovationManagement

In 2020, for the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation. In 2021, the US alone committed to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2030. And as of Earth Day this year, more than 30% of the Fortune 500 have made commitments to a carbon-free future. The post The Biggest Adaptations We Need to Make to Accommodate Climate Change appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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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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The Diversification of Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Attendance

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5 Principles That Govern High-Functioning Teams

CMOE

High-functioning teams consist of individuals who achieve positive outcomes for their team and organization. These groups outperform other teams, going above and beyond to reach high-quality results. Team members demonstrate leadership and earn the trust of their colleagues. Low-functioning teams, on the other hand, are unstable, disorganized, and do the bare minimum.

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Developing Innovation Growth Boards: Insights From Practice

ITONICS

Danielle Ferry was a guest in our Innovation Rockstars Podcast , where she shared interesting insights about the Why, What, and How of Innovation Growth Boards at Moody's Analytics.

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is your brain afraid to accept reality today?

helloFUTURE

I love science fiction – it’s amazing how prescient some authors actually are – I just completed reading a short story written in 1970 about a future society where the physical presence of other people is so despised that if any two people ever met each other face to face, they would physically assault each… The post is your brain afraid to accept reality today?

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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.