Innovation Excellence
MARCH 19, 2023
GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore I recently read an article in ZDnet by Sherin Shibu discussing disruptive innovation, primarily through the lens of Clay Christensen’s work at the Harvard Business School. The article itself is very sound, and yet I found myself disagreeing with it on a number of points.
BrainZooming
MARCH 20, 2023
What’s one big red flag indicating that a cross-functional strategy will struggle? When the organization delays choosing a leader for the cross-functional team to oversee the initiative’s development and implementation.
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Sopheon
MARCH 22, 2023
We’ve talked recently about InnovationOp s in this space: a flexible yet structured approach to innovation that guides an organization through its unique innovation journey. InnovationOps brings together the people and processes related to discovery, product management, project management and portfolio management, governance and strategy execution, treating each as unified parts of a broader innovation picture.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 21, 2023
Completing transitions through innovation, ecosystems and sustainability thinking Today, our innovation activity needs to transition through collaborating and co-creating, applying ecosystem thinking and platform designs for business. We increasingly recognize the future value and impact for businesses to grow, is through combining innovation, and external collaborations and ensuring solutions are more sustainable.
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.
Daniel Burrus
MARCH 22, 2023
Business is uncertain, as the future is an uncertain place to be in no matter what industry your business or organization is part of. Because uncertain times are a commonality, how do small to medium-sized businesses or startup companies find their way through the many uncertain times we all face? Through many of my writings, I explore my Hard Trend Methodology where a business leader or organization as a whole realigns their focus on Hard Trend future certainties to determine what they know is
Wazoku
MARCH 22, 2023
The strengths of the innovations you develop largely depend on the quality of the questions you ask. Considering that 85% of organizations confess to being bad at problem diagnosis , there’s a lot riding on getting your Challenge design ‘just right’. In this blog, we’ll share some key tips on three elements of Challenge design, and how to ensure you find the sweet spot for each.
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ITONICS
MARCH 21, 2023
In this article, we look at the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools and unpack the five capabilities we recommend you look for when choosing an innovation management software as well as the driving forces influencing the adoption of innovation tools in global organizations.
BrainZooming
MARCH 18, 2023
I use techniques to manage group density and dynamics during Brainzooming collaborations that remain unnamed. Then, out of the blue one day, I happen to call them something. Once named, they turn into analogies. That leads to imagining new ways to employ them since applying analogies always takes me to new ideas.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2023
Let's take a high-level overview of how generative AI might transform your fledgling business. The benefits of this technology innovation remain crucial for any entrepreneur to grasp.
Business and Tech
MARCH 21, 2023
Dr. Kall Loper is vice president of Digital Forensics & Incident Response at Cyderes. He has been a partner-level practice lead at a global consulting firm, the U.S. Department of Justice, and has founded a forensics firm. He has also served as chair of an academic department and has been a professor for over twenty years. Dr. Kall Loper Vice President of Digital Forensics & Incident Response, Cyderes What are IT students being taught that they were not 10 years ago?
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.
IdeaScale
MARCH 22, 2023
Introduction to our SECRET project - native chatGPT Integration for Ideation We at IdeaScale are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation – the integration of ChatGPT into our ideation software. This has been a TOP SECRET project that a small team of our best innovators came up with, refined, iterated perfected [.
HYPE Innovation
MARCH 22, 2023
Becoming a great director of strategic partnerships is no easy feat. Becoming a director of any kind is a challenge in itself but directing strategic partnerships is a unique role that requires a particular combination of skills, experience, and personality traits that set you apart from the rest. However, with the right mindset and dedication, anyone can achieve greatness in this field.
CorporateIntel
MARCH 22, 2023
Dear Financial Community: The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is enormously troubling. Call it an isolated circumstance all you want, but it has further stressed our nation’s dialogue. An echo of other bank failures has followed SVB down the drain. Long lines of anxious customers waiting outside banks are never something we want to see. This was unnecessary.
Business and Tech
MARCH 22, 2023
In business for more than a century, Paper Mart has become an industry leader in sustainable paper products. Allison McGuire Vice President of Marketing, Paper Mart Running a small business requires hard work and vision. Increasingly, that vision includes issues of sustainability: 95% of small business owners believe sustainability is crucial , according to a survey by QuickBooks, and most already have plans in place to reduce their environmental impact.
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.
IdeaScale
MARCH 22, 2023
Introduction to our SECRET project - native chatGPT Integration for Ideation As the CEO of IdeaScale, I am thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation – the integration of ChatGPT into our ideation software. This has been a SECRET project that I personally led, with a small team of handpicked engineers and designers. [.
Christensen Institute
MARCH 23, 2023
This is an interesting time to be involved in K–12 education. It’s a challenging time, for sure, given the learning loss, mental health crisis, and educator burnout that have come in the aftermath of COVID-19. But this is also a time full of new possibilities. The expansion of micro-schools, community schools, hybrid homeschooling, learning ecosystems, and tutoring models—all of which gained unexpected momentum through the pandemic—point to striking new possibilities for the future of education.
Brunner
MARCH 21, 2023
Brunner’s own Vicie Simpson is the 2023 recipient of the Black Excellence Award, given by the Public Relations Society of America’s Pittsburgh chapter. PRSA Pittsburgh established the award in 2020 to recognize and encourage young, talented Black men and women who are building careers in communications, public relations, and marketing. We had the chance to catch up with Vicie and hear what the Black Excellence Award means to her.
Business and Tech
MARCH 21, 2023
Salary transparency isn’t a given. In recent years, though, that information is becoming easier to access, thanks in large part to TikTok. On this social media app, where an estimated 1 billion videos are watched each day , person-on-the-street videos with hosts querying passersby about what they earn have become a dime a dozen. One influencer, Hannah Williams, has garnered a following of 1.2 million on TikTok by doing just that.
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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
InnovationTraining.org
MARCH 23, 2023
Here is a simple assessment you can take to assess for a culture of innovation in your organization or group. We used AI to help us generate and also categorize the questions across four important categories: Mindset, Leadership, Process, and Culture. For each of these questions, participants can rate themselves on a scale of 1-5 (1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree) to assess their mindset and behaviors or practices that contribute to a culture of innovation in their organizati
Christensen Institute
MARCH 23, 2023
This piece is by Esther Clark, author and outstanding contributor to Forbes, the Global Peter Drucker Forum, and the World Economic Forum. She is the Executive Director of Marketing at Inspired Education and writes about innovation, strategy, and international education. Follow @ClarkEsther. Growing up on sailboats and off the grid, I learned that doing things differently leads to some of life’s most valuable experiences.
Brunner
MARCH 24, 2023
At the most recent ANA Master’s of Marketing conference , Marc Pritchard, the chief brand officer at Procter & Gamble Co., presented the seven habits marketers need to adopt to drive business growth — in particular, multicultural market growth. “We believe it is the most significant opportunity for the industry, for companies like P&G, for our brands, and for our consumers we serve,” he told the audience.
Business and Tech
MARCH 21, 2023
About 20 years ago, three market forces converged that radically changed information technology forever. Dr. Frank Granito Chief Scientist and Lead Fellow, Institute for Digital Transformation IT went from being a back-office function that supported the business to being an integral part of every business function. One of my partners talked about having a stack of forms for people to use when the system went down.
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
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 24, 2023
Seven potential applications — from better recommendations to fraud detection.
Christensen Institute
MARCH 21, 2023
To make progress on reducing gun deaths, we need to reframe the problem. In May 2022, after the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, The Atlantic ’s Katherine Wu published an article highlighting her conversation with Dr. Megan Ranney, an ER doctor and now incoming dean of Yale’s School of Public Health. In their conversation, Ranney proposed the need to reframe the gun crisis as a public health issue.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 21, 2023
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our recent blog, we explored how our focus and attention have been stolen, and how our ability to pay attention is collapsing and described why we need to be intentional in reclaiming it.
Business and Tech
MARCH 21, 2023
The gender gap in tech is persistent, but it can be addressed by offering resources, fostering inclusive workplaces, and implementing policies that promote equity. The gender gap in tech remains due to a number of factors including lack of job security, gender bias, and work-life balance issues. However, there are potential solutions that can be put into place to increase access and opportunities for women in tech.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2023
The potential benefits are clear — but to realize them, service robots must be designed and implemented the right way.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
MARCH 21, 2023
Shopify's new capabilities mean the landscape of retail is set to change — and other businesses could learn a few things from the company.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 24, 2023
by Braden Kelley What Customer Experience Really Is Customer experience (CX) is an essential part of any organization’s success. CX is much more than the level of customer service a company provides. CX is the totality of a customer’s interactions with an organization over the course of their shared relationship.
Business and Tech
MARCH 21, 2023
Award-winning cyber and non-profit executive Mari Galloway shared her thoughts on the current state of the tech industry, the pros and cons of government and private sector jobs, and what aspiring tech professionals need to know. What made you want to pursue a career in technology? I actually wanted to be an architect growing up. Building cities and structures was always something I enjoyed and during my learning; we used technology to render drawings and things like that.
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