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Open Innovation Quest to Protect NFL Players from Concussion

IdeaConnection

Impact absorbing products attached to helmets to protect footballers and other sportspeople from concussion.

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How IBM, Google And Amazon Innovate Differently

Digital Tonto

It isn't any one practice or process, but how they are deeply embedded in an organization's culture that makes the difference Related posts: How Amazon Innovates. The Growing Rivalry Between Google. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. There is this consistent need or pressure to grow, yet that specific needle stays stubbornly stuck in low growth numbers, even with all this innovation talk and desire.

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Why Your Organization Needs to Invest in Innovation Capital

HYPE Innovation

Innovation capital is one of the primary catalysts to value creation. And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building innovation capital lacks the focus it deserves. In fact, it isn’t even on most people's radar. If you Google “innovation capital” for instance, you tend to get venture capital companies as search results offering financial capital and hijacking this term.

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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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Encourage Action with the Get Out of Jail Free Card

Destination Innovation

Is your organization a little too comfortable? Are your people risk averse? Is there a blame culture? How can you encourage innovation by getting men and women to be more adventurous and entrepreneurial? How can you get them to take more risks? Here is an idea that is borrowed from the game of Monopoly – the Get out of Jail Free (GOJF) card.

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Why Measuring Innovation Sentiment is Essential

IdeaScale

Metrics tell you if you’re working. Building a great platform and designing a positive innovation strategy that reflects both company culture and vision is a good beginning for any organization looking to become or remain a leader in their industry. But there’s a third component to this: Your employees have to be engaged with the idea of innovating.

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Why do so many digital transformations fail?

Innovation Excellence

According to a McKinsey and Company article cited in CIO magazine more than 70% of corporate digital transformations fail. On paper it’s an equal playing field. The failing entities have the same technology as everyone else, certainly are drowning in very big data sets, and assuredly have a large number of very bright professionals eager.

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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The answer is a resounding yes. A nonprofit is essentially a multisided model made up of users (beneficiaries) and customers (donors). The main difference, from a modeling perspective, between a non-profit and a for-profit is that the former reinvests all its profit towards impact.

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Innovation Fear

IdeaScale

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and the conversation pulled up short for a moment when the interviewer (after hearing us talk about the possibilities afforded by an innovation management system) asked us why people are sometimes afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program. So we wanted to take a moment to talk about some common innovation fear that we see from first time innovators.

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Why Workshops Aren't Working

Svava

Traditional workshops are the go to for a myriad of businesses and their different objectives. Large companies with legacy products use them to explore new business initiatives or methods for improvement, while startups use them build their business model canvases, and value propositions. You might be thinking, if people are continuing to host these workshops, they must be gaining something from them; IE, they must be working.

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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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Four Things Every Leader Should Know About Applying Artificial Intelligence To Business

Innovation Excellence

IPsoft is, in many ways, an unusual entrant into the crowded, but burgeoning, artificial intelligence industry. First of all, it is not a startup, but a 20-year-old company and its leader isn’t some millennial savant, but a fashionable former NYU professor named Chetan Dube. It bills its cognitive agent, Amelia, as the “world’s most human.

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Price Drives the Perception of Value

Stephen Shapiro

Price drives the perception of value, and unfortunately most customers don’t understand value… Do you know what your customers really value? When I first started my business as a professional speaker, I realized that I didn’t have a clue. In order to find out, I did an experiment called PW3 – “Pay What We’re Worth. ” Instead of using the traditional model to determine speaking fees (where the speaker sets the rate before the work is done), with PW3, as a

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Large Scale Health Research that Impacts… All Of Us

IdeaScale

In case you hadn’t heard, All of Us is a national research effort to gather data from one million or more U.S. participants to accelerate research and improve health by taking individuals’ differences in lifestyle, environment, biology and other factors into account. With the richness of data collection out there and the variety of influencers when it comes to our health, this constitutes an immense research effort on the part of HHS.

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How To Ignite Passion In Your Employees

helloFUTURE

Employee engagement is at crisis levels in some companies – sure, maybe your people show up physically (or perhaps not, depending on your telecommute policies) but do they show up mentally? Are they willing to give their maximum effort to your company for what you are paying them, or are they just going through the… The post How To Ignite Passion In Your Employees appeared first on hellofuture.

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

Innovation Excellence

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.

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How New Technologies Are Innovating the Legal Industry

InnovationManagement

Don't expect practice of the law to be exempt from any of the ongoing digital transformations. There's actually an abundance of new technology that stands a good chance at revolutionizing how we study, practice and interpret the law — in the U.S. and beyond. Here's a look at some of the frontrunners.

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How Smart Are Your Documents?

Sopheon

Explore Accolade’s powerful Smart Document integration, which allows our customers to use familiar Microsoft Office applications and save data to Accolade. The post How Smart Are Your Documents? appeared first on Sopheon.

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How to Drive Engagement with Employee Feedback

Tembosocial

The other day I came across a picture that struck me as funny but also a little sad. It was a picture of a typical Employee Suggestion Box.only it was attached directly to a paper shredder. Unfortunately this is the way people often experience employee feedback program at their workplace. Yes the leadership team asks for feedback - but who knows where it goes after it is collected?

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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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Four Things You Can Learn From the Retail Genius Behind the Apple Store

Innovation Excellence

Four immutable lessons on how to create a brand that blows away the competition and keeps customers for life. I’ll confess at the very outset that I’ve been an Apple groupie for longer than I care to admit. My first personal computer was a Mac. And through all of Apple’s ups and downs, and a.

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Gray wave and assisted living

Beyond the Obvious

So, how do you determine where you, as an individual or a business, will be in five years? You can’t say where exactly you’re going because you can’t predict what’s going to happen in the world. However, you can challenge yourself to change. In 2001 Apple’s sales figures were in decline. The company had yet […].

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Small Businesses can Overcome Financial Woes Through Innovation

InnovationManagement

Starting up a small business can be rough. Even if you possess near-infinite entrepreneurial spirit, chances are that you’ll run into some roadblocks along the way. Whether these obstacles are based in logistics of strategy and implementation of your business model, or even issues with the very products and services you offer, most of these problems can be solved with financial influx.

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Making Infinitely Better Decisions in Life and In Business

Rmukesh Gupta

These past few days, I have been contemplating about time and how the thinking in different time horizons affects the decisions that we make in the moment. I have realised that we could make infinitely better and more intentional decisions if we were more intentional and thought about every decision in terms of different time horizons. This also led me to think about the cost of making decisions and how this impacts our everyday decisions.

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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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Vape marketers combine big tobacco’s branding history with new strategies

Innovation Excellence

Since the very first vape product hit the market, something curious has happened as they managed to sneak in under the radar, using branding and advertising strategies that Big Tobacco has not been allowed to do for years. Eventually regulation may turn against them, but for now, marketing vape products is a little like the.

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Is Trade Diversification the Solution for Canada?

Innovators Alliance

I’ve just returned from Australia, and It’s a fascinating place. It shares a remarkable list of similarities with Canada – but there are also some key differences. We are both classified as small, open economies, but Australia’s population is smaller, just two-thirds of Canada’s. Likewise, GDP Down Under is smaller. Like Canada, Australia has an extensive, under-populated land mass, but that, too, is smaller than Canada’s, and the resource-base, less extensive.

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Have You Taken These 5 Necessary Steps to Increase Your Cybersecurity at Work?

InnovationManagement

Data breaches at large companies like Facebook and Delta Airlines have brought cybersecurity to the forefront of boardrooms across the world. Major corporations, the healthcare industry, and even the federal government are all monitoring network and digital infrastructures closely. However, many individuals have a hard time grasping how cybersecurity is essential to them.

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#MeToo: Where There is One, There Ought to Be More.

Rmukesh Gupta

I was reading a book by Max Bazerman “ The Power of noticing ”. He has a chapter in the book titled “Missing the obvious on a Slippery Slope”. This chapter is based on the results of a study done with Francesca Gino. The Frog, the Boiling Pot of Water & “#MeToo” This is very similar to the story of the frog in a pot of boiling water.

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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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Thought Commerce™ – 3 Ways to Recognize It; Why You Should Care

Innovation Excellence

“Thought.” Thought is epically powerful and hugely important. Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, and before them, Napoleon Hill – all motivational rock stars – consistently drill into their audiences that NOTHING becomes a reality until or after it’s first a thought. Another variation on this idea is, “If you cannot conceive it, you cannot achieve it.”.

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How Crowdsourced Innovation Bolsters Employee Engagement

Planview

Scott Raskin, CEO at Spigit, recently wrote an article for HR Daily Advisor that covered five key drivers for employee engagement, and how crowdsourced innovation can help. While crowdsourced innovation is instrumental in helping companies find new growth and improvement opportunities, organizations are also recognizing the huge impact that it can have in fostering a culture of engagement and inclusion.

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Digitizing the Process of Co-Creation

Svava

Through Interactive Workshops, Bringing Them Into the Modern Era.

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How Different Human Societies Name Colours And the Not So Surprising Fact!

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently saw this interesting video that shared some interesting facts on how names of colours evolve in different parts of the world independent of each other and how it still follows a similar pattern. . The thing that is surprising and what we can learn from it is that in some sense, all of the different cultures around the world evolved in a similar fashion. .

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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.