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How Successful Crowdsourcing Depends on Asking Interesting Questions

100%Open

The 100%Open roadshow has made its first stop in Washington DC at the lively Global Crowdsourcing Week Conference. We were lucky enough to be asked to speak. I thought I’d share the slides here so everyone can start asking more Interesting Questions ! I love this quote that I heard on the radio recently: To cut a long story short, crowdsourcing at its best and most effective depends on getting the question right.

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Five Questions that Spur Innovation in the Workplace

IdeaScale

A smart look at hard data can yield brilliant innovation. Any type of innovation can be traced back to a simple question of some sort. More often than not, that question boils down to “Why?” But just like “coffee” describes a host of different flavors, colors, and styles, it’s how, precisely, you ask “why?” that matters to innovation strategy.

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How do we measure success in our digital transformation? A journey of discovery

Paul Hobcraft

How do we find answers to knowing what measures give us for success in any digital transformation? Are today’s measures relevant to tomorrow, are they still based on our legacy system of measurement, when a business was operating in a stable, predictable environment? Today I think we certainly have a beginning point but all of us lack a clarity of the end point of where digital transformation will take us.

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Four Questions that every Entrepreneur must Answer

Destination Innovation

If you are planning a new product or a new business then you will probably need to get some approvals. You might need to raise some finance. In either case you have to convince some sceptical decision makers. Here are four key questions that they will want you to answer: Problem. What is the problem that your idea will solve? If real people do not have a pain point which is worth alleviating then your new business idea is a non-starter.

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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 Prepare Your Kids For a Post-Digital Age

Digital Tonto

The jobs of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines and value will shift from cognitive to social skills Related posts: How We Should Prepare Our. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to look beyond product innovation in medium enterprises

Exago

One of the most common myths when leading idea management in medium enterprises is that you should strongly focus efforts on product innovation, as the ultimate goal is to have the next big thing. Though the reasoning is understandable, if you want to improve your odds of success, try not to miss the bigger picture. The post How to look beyond product innovation in medium enterprises appeared first on Exago.

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Innovation Isn’t About What You Know, But What You Don’t

Innovation Excellence

When Steve Jobs first came up with the idea for the iPod, it wasn’t actually a machine he had in mind, but “a thousand songs in my pocket.” It was, at the time, an impossible idea, because hard drives of that capacity and size just didn’t exist. In fairly short order though, the technology caught.

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Pundits Say You Should Find Your Tribe. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Listen To Them

Digital Tonto

Just as we need to invest in building strong, trustful relationships, we also need to go beyond our comfort zone and seek out new connections Related posts: How To Create A Movement Within Your. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Content recommendations and the creation of emotions

Boxes and Arrows

This article investigates content recommender systems. Because Netflix is probably the best known recommendation system and numerous articles have been published about their system, I will concentrate on their content recommendation mechanism as representative of the type. I will show that the Netflix mechanism contains characteristics of updated theories of emotion—mainly constructed emotions theory—but it still lacks several essential components.

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How Gamification Can Alter Our Behavior

Daniel Burrus

During this unique period of technology-driven transformation, the education sector has so far been slow to embrace the power of digital tools that can be used to accelerate learning. Spending time, energy and money protecting and defending conventional teaching methods only postpones the inevitable and keeps the transformative power of digital disruption, when used wisely, from taking training and education to a new level of success.

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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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Leadership Development: What Skills Should an Innovation Leader Possess?

Moves the Needle

A leader is someone who holds a high degree of influence within an organization. These individuals become leaders after proving that they can create a vision and lead a team to it’s realization. In large enterprises, this requires a strong executional mindset. Companies don’t grow to become large enterprises without systems and processes working at scale, backed by the executional prowess provided by strong leadership.

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Lean Start-Up’s Newest Tool is a Game Changer for All Innovators

Innovation Excellence

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on. But a recent study of 1200 executives by PwC found that 54% of leaders struggle to.

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Weak Signals

Beyond the Obvious

“Weak signals” are the equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. They are the unspoken needs and wants of your customers, and they are also the arrows pointing to what your customers are going to need and want in the future, even if they themselves don’t know it yet. If you pay attention to […].

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AI Recruiting: Not Ready for Prime Time, or Just Inscrutable to Puny Human Brains?

helloFUTURE

Artificial Intelligence is great, but can it help you pick your next star candidate? Recently, Reuters reported that Amazon quit using a secret AI-based talent recruitment tool due to apparent gender bias – when it was trained by the recruiters to hire the best candidates, it ended up rating men higher than women. Based on… The post AI Recruiting: Not Ready for Prime Time, or Just Inscrutable to Puny Human Brains?

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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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#CyberAware for Small to Medium Sized Business: Cybersecurity is More Than Compliance

MSSBTI

Cyber warfare is real, is here, and America is losing. Military personnel, law enforcement, and private security use bulletproof vests to protect themselves in hostile zones. These vests minimize injury and provide a means of security and safety of life. Additionally, they use intensive training, mindfulness, and combat skills to defend successfully against an enemy.

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Mobilizing People’s Creative Energy

Innovation Excellence

What if there is a way to create coherence, align people’s hearts & minds as well as build an environment that generates learning & results in organizational re-organisation & transformation? At ImagineNation™ we know that this can be done by transforming people’s cognitive dissonance into the vibrant & creative energy that makes innovation happen.

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Why Good Ideas Don’t Fly and What To Do About It?

Rmukesh Gupta

Every leader talks about the importance of innovation to their business. In public, every leader talks about how they and their teams are at the fore front of innovation. In private, the very same leaders confess that they are nowhere near the level of innovation that they would like to be at. . On one hand, they confess that they are struggling to get the innovation process work as effectively as any of their other functions.

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Collective Campus Launches Legal Academy to Help Law Firms Innovate | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

A recent survey of 154 companies found that more than one in four company lawyers cannot name a law firm they regard as innovative.

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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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Important Questions for Innovation

Mike Shipulski

Here are some important questions for innovation. What’s the Distinctive Value Proposition? The new offering must help the customer make progress. How does the customer benefit? How is their life made easier? How does this compare to the existing offerings? Summarize the difference on one page. If the innovation doesn’t help the customer make progress, it’s not an innovation.

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Innovation in K-12 Education

Innovation Excellence

There are many changes taking place in education. As an outward sign of this change, schools are striving to make their environments more like the “the real world,” which is to say like adult workplaces. You can see the rise of whiteboards and bean bags instead of desks, maker spaces, flex areas, collaboration zones, as.

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My TEDx Talk: Do you have Impostor Syndrome … too?

Phil McKinney

What happens when you share the secret that has been feeding your impostor syndrome for more than 25 years? In this TEDx talk, I share a secret that I kept hidden for 25 years and the result of that secret being revealed on the front page of a national newspaper. Through this journey, I was forced […].

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Corporate meets Startup – Join the European Data Incubator with your Data Challenge

etventure

What is a Startup Accelerator? A startup accelerator support startups’ economic growth. These programs usually help young companies by offering funding, business and tech support over a short period of time. Several programs focus additionally on corporate and startup collaboration. 3 reasons why you should participate. etventure runs the European Data Incubator (EDI) together with 20 international Partners from 10 different countries.

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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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How to prepare for strategy discussions?

Focused Momentum

Strategic planning participants often express the desire to be well prepared before the first group meeting. It is understandable that a dedicated and diligent new executive or up and coming leader might experience anxiety as they think about their first strategy discussion. After all, their boss will be in the room, all their peers and possibly a colleague or two with whom they don't see eye to eye.

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How to Destroy Your Innovation Silos

Innovation Excellence

Sick care badly needs innovation if it is to become healthcare. Yet, it’s questionable whether it can be fixed from inside. Despite the popularity of open innovation and community based, participatory innovation networks, healthcare organizations and doctors seem to shun outside ideas and collaboration and are perceived as arrogant know-it-alls, stuck in the ivory.

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So, do you really understand innovation?

Cris Beswick

So, if I walked into your office tomorrow, stopped the first person I came across and asked them what they understood your organisation’s innovation strategy to be, what sort of answer would I get? Would there be a blank look, a reference to one department or another, or a raised eyebrow followed by a negative … Continued. The post So, do you really understand innovation?

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What Contributes to Nonprofit Innovation

InnovationManagement

In an article by the Stanford Social Innovation Review , the authors addressed a recent study from the Bridgespan Group that identified an innovation in the nonprofit sector. Although 80% of nonprofit leaders consider innovation an imperative, only 40% of those leaders consider their organization ready for innovation. SSIR went on to discuss the six characteristics that empower nonprofit innovation.

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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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Crafting an Effective Elevator Pitch

Rmukesh Gupta

I am sure that at some point in time, you would have had the need to come up with an elevator pitch for an idea that you wanted to share with others to either inspire them to action or elicit a commitment. There are a lot of ways one can go about designing an elevator pitch but I came across Randy Olson ‘s TEDMED speech where he shares this simple framework for crafting an elevator pitch. . “{Premise} and {premise} but {problem} therefore {Solution}” .

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Innovation in Digital and Virtual Immersion Will Change The Way We Live

Innovation Excellence

In 1999, the Wachowski siblings released a monument to modern film-making: The Matrix. Stylistically, the world really had never seen anything like it. However, the movie’s impact wasn’t confined to its entertainment value; the movie centered around metaphysical themes popularly attributed to Western philosophers Plato and Descartes, and reframed them in modern, digital fashion.

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Attribute Dependency in Bifocal Glasses

Innovation in Practice

Bifocal users must no longer battle their strange, new lenses, thanks to the technology of Mitsui Chemicals of Japan. This spring, Mitsui launched their TouchFocus line, one touch e-focus glasses that make both near and far viewing possible. TouchFocus glasses are a perfect example of the Attribute Dependency technique at work. Attribute Dependency is one of the five innovation methods of Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT).

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Peloton, Goldman Sachs, and Designing a Digital Strategy

Innovation Leader

In a recent interview, Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta talks about going beyond the buzzword “digital transformation” to design a digital strategy that works.

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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.