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Why Innovation Takes More Than Genius

Digital Tonto

The truth is that genius can be exceptionally fragile. Making a breakthrough takes more than talent. It requires a mixture of talent, luck and an ecosystem of support to make an idea into something. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Five Ways Procrastination Spurs Innovation

IdeaScale

It’s odd that we act like everything has to be done at top speed, no stops, no hesitation, and no drifting of focus. Imagine if we cooked everything at the highest heat possible, drove with our foot to the floor, or said everything as loudly as we could, all the time. You have to vary … Continued. The post Five Ways Procrastination Spurs Innovation appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Why its Important to Give Innovators a Stake in Innovation Success

Strategyzer Innovation

To build a portfolio of innovation projects, companies need people that have an entrepreneurial mindset. This is different from the managerial mindset that is needed from people working on your portfolio of existing businesses. Now, imagine an innovator who repeatedly creates new multi-million dollar businesses for an organization but has no real stake in that success.

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Leading and managing human transitions through adversity

Innovation Excellence

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. It reaffirms the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic, and resilient not only with themselves, and also with others, by strategic

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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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Can Creativity Be Learned? 5 Best Practices to Fuel Innovation

IdeaScale

Do you possess a creative and innovative mindset? Some people think these traits are innate while others are convinced they can be learned. Evidence shows these are teachable behaviors. Innovation research reveals only 25-40% of innovation comes from genes. Are you looking for more ways to fuel innovation? These five skills will help you and your team … Continued.

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Can Online Meetings Ever Surpass Face-to-Face?

Innovation Leader

“Hey, you’re on mute!” “Can you see my screen?” Jean-Marc Frangos, a former innovation SVP at British Telecom, assesses the world of today’s online meetings — and what may come next.

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Podcast S4E70: Pete Newell – How to manage an innovation pipeline

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Pete Newell, Founder of BMNT. We speak about how to align innovation strategy with operations in large organisations. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – How Pete’s history in the military with the US Army’s Skunkworks influenced his journey to innovation. 00:03:00 – The military is always in a certain state of chaos at the head of the battlefield, moving towards structure as you move up

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Diversity Matters: Why Genuine Inclusion Is Essential to True Innovation

IdeaScale

Diversity is a crucial component of a successful innovation strategy. It drives market growth and helps everyone in the workplace embrace different ideas. According to research on how diversity can drive innovation, there are two types of diversity: inherent and acquired. Inherent diversity includes traits people are born with such as ethnicity and gender.

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Building trust and personal connections in the Low Touch Economy

Board of Innovation

The last few months were not easy for any professional who, in normal times, relies on being close with their customer. E.g. Sales representatives, fundraisers, recruiters. and still are, reinventing how to do business. We collected plenty of feedback from different industries. The following list can give some inspiration on how to create more valuable interactions.

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Life as an innovation manager at WhatAVenture

whataventure

Life as an innovation manager at WhatAVenture. “Hi, I am Johanna, Innovation Manager at WhatAVenture. I have been with WhatAVenture since 2018, and I am excited to give you a little insight into the job of an Innovation Manager.“. Ever wondered what it means to work at WhatAVenture? Check out our interview with Johanna Zauner, Head of Innovation Lab and discover her journey and main opportunities, learnings and challenges of working as an innovation manager.

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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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Pulse of Innovation: Innovating through a Crisis

Wellspring

Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and catching up with clients and colleagues.

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Ripi Singh Introduces the July 2020 Materials Evaluation

Inspiring Next

What do robotics, big data, artificial intelligence, integrated systems, augmented reality, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and smart factories mean to the future of nondestructive testing and evaluation? Find out in Materials Evaluation’s special issue on NDE 4.0 ! The issue, guest edited by Ripi Singh of Inspiring Next, will feature the latest… Read More » Ripi Singh Introduces the July 2020 Materials Evaluation.

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Focus Through Crisis: Find out how different organizations are responding to COVID-19

Cascade Strategy

We recently sent a survey to our readers, asking them to share some experiences of how their organizations have responded to the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, we will share some of their insights!

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How to Effectively Manage Change as a Team

Tullio Siragusa

How to Effectively Manage Change as a Team. Change is a constant phenomenon. Small changes occur every day. In the workplace changes are efficiently catered to by an active leadership environment. From time to time organizations have to adapt to major changes. A leadership change, a reorganization, a merger or acquisition, and or a pandemic can have catastrophic impact on people’s lives when managed poorly.

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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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5 Best Microsoft PowerApps Use Cases With Examples

Acuvate

5 Best Microsoft PowerApps Use Cases With Examples The average cost to develop an application is 74% less with PowerApps – Forrester Consulting Speaks volumes about the efficiency of PowerApps, doesn’t it? But before digging deeper into its nuances, it is imperative to understand, “What is Microsoft PowerApps?”. Microsoft PowerApps is a Low-Code Application Platform […].

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Innovation in China with Fabernovel

Rapid Innovation in digital time

How innovation in China differentiates from the US, and Europe? Brilliant Project Director Katherine Wang from Fabernovel helps us to understand what is at stake.

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Broadcast industry lessons in the time of coronavirus

Board of Innovation

When the Coronavirus pandemic forced many entertainment and broadcasting agencies to suspend operations and they were forced to innovate on the fly. We spoke with Stijn Lehaen, CTO of VRT, to find out the challenges his team overcame, the limits of current technology, and the long-term impact this will have on the industry. The post Broadcast industry lessons in the time of coronavirus appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Knowledge Management in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis

InnovationManagement

Executives should look at three-step processes of knowledge accumulation, integration, and reconfiguration. This model for managing knowledge reflects a more strategic and practical perspective, as it is process-oriented and most applicable for leading organizations. The post Knowledge Management in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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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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How Supply Chain Leaders Can Ensure Product Availability Amid The New Normal

Acuvate

How Supply Chain Leaders Can Ensure Product Availability Amid The New Normal The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced governments to institute stay-at-home and social distancing rules and order complete lockdowns and store closures. These have not only disrupted businesses but have also halted many of them for months. Consequently, the resulting revenue drop and […].

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Atelier Louis Zéro: Spot, Play, Go,… Zero!

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Louis Zero is a strategic design workshop, and not a digital agency. Strategic design stands for shaping impactful products, services and business models. As a workshop, it's open to all, from debates and meetings to playground for companies.

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How Can Banks Transform?

helloFUTURE

What does digital transformation mean to banks and financial institutions? Right now, it means using digital technologies to accelerate change within the organization, mostly applying digital technologies to current processes and products. Maybe it means a new app that modernizes the banking experience. Perhaps it’s a new credit card which is mostly virtual but also… The post How Can Banks Transform?

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Seeing Opportunity in Crisis

Innovators Alliance

Business leaders have been thrust into a crisis that has forced them to deal with unforeseen challenges at an accelerated timeline outside of their control. Their need to understand and embrace transformations that will reshape society and workplace culture in the wake of COVID-19 has never been more acute. Whether it’s a new perspective on remote work and work-life balance, or a heightened awareness of social inequalities and desire to take action, business owners not only have an important rol

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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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Virtual Vs In-Person Meetings

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: The current pandemic has definitely changed the way we organize ourselves and our meetings. This large scale experiment has also shown that work from anywhere is a going to be a distinct reality in most of our lives (unless it cant be). This definitely means that we need to rethink the way we function – work, play and meet with our colleagues, customers and partners.

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Trailblazing CEOs from Apple, Tesla, Starbucks & More Talk Innovation

Innovation Leader

These are 10 of our favorite videos that feature CEOs, founders, and trailblazing innovators sharing insights on how new things get created in their organizations.

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Ways We Innovate: 60 Uses In Two Minutes

helloFUTURE

They say that good artists borrow, but great artists steal, so consider this taken from the great dancer, Twyla Tharp. In her book, The Creative Habit, she outlined a creativity exercise which she asked her students to go through to help them break through their barriers of conformity. She would scrounge around the university before… The post Ways We Innovate: 60 Uses In Two Minutes appeared first on hellofuture.

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#1,818 – Podcast Alarm Clock

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Waking up is hard to do. One minute you’re sleeping peacefully, minding your own business, chasing butterflies in your dream. The next you’re jolted back into reality, staring down the barrel of another day filled with doomscrolling, crippling isolation, and existential dread. But there may be a reprieve in the offing because now you can wake up to your favorite podcast instead of annoying beeps or random music thanks to Next Up.

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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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Change Management Tips for Leaders

Kainexus

People react very positively to the concept of continuous improvement. They are a little less enthusiastic when it is framed as constant change. But, of course, improvement requires change. Our clients who’ve done it successfully have shared their best ideas for how to get there. Acknowledge that Most People Don’t Like Change. People balk at trying new things for several reasons, including risk adversity.

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The Evolution of Online & On-Campus Education

Innovation Leader

Sian Beilock of Barnard College and Adam Medros of edX discuss how their organizations have pivoted to address the challenges that COVID-19 has created for higher education.

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Leading and managing human transitions through adversity

Innovation Excellence

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective. It reaffirms the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic, and resilient not only with themselves, and also with others, by strategic

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#1,819 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: 6 in 1 Tent: Here’s something that is an immediate must have for outdoor enthusiasts: a 6 in 1 tent/hammock combination that will absolutely blow your mind. New Atlas sums it up best: “We’ve seen ground tents that jump up and hang out in trees , inflatable tents that double as rafts , and hammock shelters that drape over your shoulders and work as rain gear.

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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.