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Design Thinking Rooted in Empathy Enables Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Empathy is one of the best virtues to have as a leader of an organization or a group of people dedicated to achieving any cause, but it’s not exclusively valuable just to leaders.

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7 Ways Mind Maps Fuel Innovation

IdeaScale

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Mind maps create an intuitive structure of thought that enables your team to map out their scenarios in a very digestible and sequential format. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation.

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How to Create a High-Performance Organizational Culture

Kainexus

An organization's culture is the foundation upon which success, stagnation, or failure is built. It is imperative during times of growth or disruption. The problem is that often well-intentioned leaders don't make culture a priority during challenging times. Instead, they put their energy into protecting assets and maximizing efficiency. Of course, those strategies are essential, but leaders need to practice both defense and offense by creating a solid and resilient culture.

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The Modern Rental Market According to the Experts

Business and Tech

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly. Kulveer Taggar Co-Founder and CEO, Zeus Living. Elizabeth Francisco President, Resman. Barbara Corcoran Shark on ABC’s “ Shark Tank ,” Founder, The Corcoran Group.

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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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Podcast S6E142: Robyn Bolton – Building innovation capabilities

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Robyn M Bolton. She is the founder of Mile Zero, as well as having extensive innovation experience in large companies like P&G, as well as working with Prof Clayton Christensen at Innosight. We speak about what it takes for ideas to flourish in a company, and what innovation capabilities are required to execute ideas.

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Getting back to the Future about Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. Here is the link to the recording. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation.

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A New View of Risk in Real Estate

Business and Tech

Hoping for a return to “normal” in the real estate markets is a losing strategy. Instead, understand your risk and how to mitigate it. Just about every aspect of modern life has been affected by our tumultuous recent history, from how we socialize to how we go to work in the morning. The world of real estate is no exception — pandemic-driven shifts in evictions and renewals, damage from natural disasters (Hurricane Ida is predicted to cost more than $25 billion), the risk of civil unrest, and th

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A baby can play soccer, but not volleyball

Idea to Value

Could you make a sport simple enough for a baby to play? Once a baby can walk, it can begin to “play” sports in a simplified form of what grown ups do. For example, running is a simplified version of the marathon. Paddling in a pool is a simplified version of swimming in an Olympic pool. And even soccer is possible. [I would call it football, but that might confuse any American readers here…].

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How a Texas City Used LEGOS To Communicate to Its Citizens

IdeaScale

Overview: A serendipitous meeting between a city official’s hobby and a freelancer’s brainstorm led to the city of Arlington, TX, creating a stop-motion LEGO movie to explain the city’s budget. The video has been a huge viral hit, helping the city better communicate how its budget works and its priorities. The Challenge. The city of Arlington, TX, has over 400,000 residents, making it the seventh-largest city in Texas and one of the top fifty largest cities in the US.

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Go-to-market: what healthcare could learn from how consumer goods are launched

Board of Innovation

Taking a product to market is a more complex process in the healthcare world than it is in the consumer goods field. But it doesn’t mean there’s nothing to learn from the latter. The healthcare industry could leverage cross-sector methods of getting their products to the right consumers, at the right time. The post Go-to-market: what healthcare could learn from how consumer goods are launched appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Property Management During this Time: What’s Changed?

Business and Tech

If you’re an aspiring property manager, know that the rental market has continued to evolve in major ways since the COVID-19 pandemic began. . Take it from Byrdy Kelley — CEO and founder of Melan Property Management as well as REAME, a real estate tech company — who has broken through challenging barriers in the male-dominated industry. Kelley, who’s based in Plano, Texas, says that vacancy at the start of the crisis was high while rent was low, but those factors are currently reversed. .

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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. If you’ve gotten approval from leadership to embark on an Agile transformation, you may be gaining momentum from Agile teams embracing new ways of working and benefits like faster delivery, better quality, and improved morale.

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How Climate Change in Canada Will Impact Your Business

Innovators Alliance

The recent closure of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has us all considering our environmental footprint. Speaking to global leaders at the conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled his government’s intentions to increase the price on carbon, cap Canadian oil and gas emissions, reduce methane emissions and reach net-zero emissions by 2035.

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The Seven Secrets To Genius By Leonardo Da Vinci

Michael Michalko

Leonardo Da Vinci is regarded as one of the greatest intellects of all time. Some estimate his IQ to be at least 220, given the awesome mental gravitas, skill and creativity he showed. But what are his secrets? And are these realistic enough to give us a unique insight into what creates genius intelligence? Below, you will find the 7 key qualities towards genius, as proposed by Da Vinci himself: 1.

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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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The Reason Why Tenant Credit Scores Are Higher Than Ever

Business and Tech

It may surprise you to find out consumer credit scores increased throughout the pandemic, a time of record high unemployment and eviction moratoria. Alexandra Alvarado Director of Marketing and Education, American Apartment Owners Association. FICO reports that the average credit score now stands at 716, eight points higher than 2020, with consumers in lower score ranges seeing the biggest improvement.

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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Leader from Intel

Qmarkets

“Eureka!” We’ve all heard this famous ancient Greek term for “I’ve found it”. But how did it enter common parlance? The story goes that in the third century BC, the king of Syracuse ordered that Archimedes – the famous Greek inventor – find a way to determine whether his crown was made entirely out of pure gold, or whether he had been cheated.

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An Innovation Competition is a Great Way to Influence Culture

InnovationManagement

In a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, Anna Steinhage, Dan Cable, and Duncan Wardley talk about the impact competition can have in a workplace. They described how hosting an internal challenge can generate creative results and inspire collaboration or it can create unethical behaviors and cutthroat rivalry. The post An Innovation Competition is a Great Way to Influence Culture appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Are doctors wasting their time on entrepreneurship?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers Medical students, residents and practitioners around the world are getting more and more interested in entrepreneurship for many reasons.

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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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The Importance of Accurate and Objective Tenant Screening

Business and Tech

A troubling trend is occurring in some states that impacts the abilities of tenant screeners to help keep our communities secure. Living in an apartment building is just like any other neighborhood, except your neighbors are closer. And when you’re closer together, wall-to-wall, your standards for the person next door are bound to be higher. You want people in the space that will be good residents and respectful neighbors, both as a resident and especially as a property manager.

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will you create the future of humanity?

helloFUTURE

Recently, I’ve been watching television and film versions of two classic science fiction novels, Foundation and Dune. They are both set approximately 10,000 years into the future. While the 10,000-year moniker doesn’t necessarily mean 10,000 years into our future – using the current earth-based years and the Gregorian calendar, I believe that the authors were… The post will you create the future of humanity?

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Innovator Dilemma vs. Innovator Phenomena: The Theory of the Firm’s Phenomena

InnovationManagement

Established firms’ strategies remain characterized by the inability to master some will say even comprehend the economics of choosing. It is particularly surfacing unresolved relationships between [1] technical-technological, [2] economic and [3] social combinations taking place within established firms e.g. manufactured product. The post Innovator Dilemma vs.

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Uncovering the Metaverse: Jack O'Holleran from Skale Labs

Collectivecamp

The metaverse is one of the most trending topics at the moment and brands (and influencers) all over the world are looking to get involved.

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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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Google Spotlights Black-Owned Businesses This Holiday Season

Business and Tech

Over the last year and a half, Black-owned businesses have continued to face significant challenges. At the same time, consumers are looking to shop based on their personal values. Two-thirds (66%) of consumers who actively support Black-owned businesses say they use digital tools to find them. So, for the second year in a row, Google partnered with the U.S.

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How Technology for Improvement Supports Positive Change

Kainexus

If you look around any public space today, odds are you will see more than one person with a phone in their hand or pressed up to their ear. This is because mobile technology has become an integral part of our lives. This is one example of how technological advances have enabled changes in our behaviors that we now take for granted and understand as contributing to our quality of life.

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7 Steps to Reconcile Co-Innovation and Confidentiality: How Secret Should Your Co-Innovation Transformation Be?

InnovationManagement

In an increasingly competitive, connected and globalized world, co-innovation and value co-creation have recently become the norm for all R&D projects from startups to large organizations. In fact, co-innovation is critical to the development and sustainability of organizations of all sizes and and all industries. The post 7 Steps to Reconcile Co-Innovation and Confidentiality: How Secret Should Your Co-Innovation Transformation Be?

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Discipline Has a Role in Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Jesse Nieminen Innovation is, without a doubt, a creative endeavor. However, many people still think it’s all about creativity. There’s a magical a-ha moment, and the rest is history.

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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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Is Your Property Management Platform the Growth Partner You Need It to Be?

Business and Tech

Property managers know time is money and the right property management platform can help make business easier and more efficient. So how do you know if your property management software is maximizing your potential to grow revenue and operate more efficiently? Look for one that that truly understands the industry, the people, and the tasks that need to be done. “Who touches the software day in and day out?

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Actionable Tactics for Shaping Organizational Culture

Kainexus

Most leaders recognize that organizational culture has a significant impact on success. Delivering on strategic objectives requires that the way things get done in an organization is aligned with the values and common purpose of the organization. However, knowing that and building desired cultures that work are two different things. Culture will develop whether leaders shape it with intention or not, and negativity is the norm in too many cases.

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How to Tap Into Innovation, the Most Essential Part of Your Entrepreneurial Journey

Entrepreneur - Innovation

As entrepreneurs, we have a vital role in the future of the world. Without innovation, humanity won't evolve.

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Nominations Open for the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021

Innovation Excellence

Human-Centered Change and Innovation loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will … Continue reading →

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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.