Tim Kastelle

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

You Need Both Execution and Innovation to Succeed What are Polarities? When it comes to breathing, if you had to pick one would you prefer to only inhale or only exhale? The question is, of course, absurd. To live, we must do both. Inhaling and exhaling are opposites, but they work together as part of a system. This is the metaphor that Barry Johnson uses in his book Polarity Management to illustrate what polarities are: Polarities are interdependent pairs that support a common purpose and one

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Exago

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The entire Carrefour Romania staff have received a call to action. Anyone, including those working closely to the public on a daily basis, can now access a platform to share ideas and voice opinions about how to serve clients better. Read More. The post Carrefour Romania strengthens its resolve to innovate appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Nobody knows what the future will bring or what specific skills we will need to thrive. We need to build skills that will help us to adapt. Related posts: The Efficiency Paradox. If You’re Serious. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

We hear from many innovation professionals that they struggle with their program, often, because the company does not really adopt it. The employees won't share ideas, middle managers are consumed by meeting the quarterly goals, top management sees innovation management as a nice-to-have. I believe that marketing can help here.

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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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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We live in a society where people are quick to take offense so our natural reaction is to be polite and inoffensive. But sometimes the best way to gain attention for your creative idea is to be outrageously provocative. The Reverend Jonathan Swift was an eminent Irish author and satirist. He is best known for writing Gulliver’s Travels. In 1729 he published a short book entitled A Modest Proposal in which he suggested that poor people should sell their children to be eaten by rich people.

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Braden Kelley

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Many of you may have heard of the Crawl Walk Run project methodology.

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Board of Innovation

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I decided to write a post to give you some insights on how we designed our latest accelerator program and what we learned from it. We recently finished an exciting dragons’ den of an innovation accelerator program for Owens-Illinois (O-I). O-I is the global market leader in the production of glass bottles (listed in the fortune 500). Fun-fact: Approximately one of every.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). Originating from an Edward De Bono technique we learned from Chuck Dymer , the PMIRQ asks five open-ended questions on what worked (Plus), didn’t work (Minus), was surprising (Interesting), should be done next time (Recommendation), and didn’t get fully addressed (Question).

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Stephen Shapiro

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

[…] Stephen Shapiro designed a personality game that helps you uncover your natural strengths called Personality Poker. You can play the online version here, but I’d strongly recommend ordering the book and the deck […].

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In 1998 Teresa Amabile published the article How to kill Creativity at the Harvard Business Review. Believe it or not--it was an inspiring article for me. It inspired me not to find more way to kill creativity, but rather to understand how can established companies un-kill creativity and out-innovate startups.

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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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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

How do cross-industry founders such as Elon Musk and Richard Branson manage to launch multi-billion-dollar companies one after the other in totally different industries? They are gifted with the talent to copy and remix between businesses: 1. Recognizing the successful stories in one business. 2. Shaping these success stories into abstract business patterns. 3.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Late at night while reading the daily mass readings for the next day and thinking about how one can better understand oneself, I started writing. This list of strategic thinking questions emerged. Strategic thinking questions aren’t only for businesses and organizations. Individuals can also strategic thinking questions to more thoroughly explore what’s important, where they are headed, and how consistently their actions support their goals. 26 Strategic Thinking Questions to Truly Understand Yo

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

People are busy. Organizations are busy. There simply isn’t time for activities that waste time. Everything that a company focuses on must have a purpose, and innovation initiatives are no different — they have to drive value or they’re nothing but pleasant distractions. And these days, most pleasant distractions are very hard for organizations to justify and support.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Seedstars World Theran winner is Smartbeen, which is making smart assets for greenhouse (IoT) and analyzes greenhouse health (temperature, humidity, etc). Edwin Baboomian, CEO and Founder of Smartbeen, kindly lets us discover Smartbeen more in-depth.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Crows are everywhere. There is no denying it. What is fascinating is that unlike many animal species, crows live in harmony with humans (along with rats and cockroaches), and in fact choose to live with humans instead of away from them, continuing to evolve in order to thrive in areas where humans dominate the landscape.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Last week was diverse in the Brainzooming world, as we were engaged in serving clients across many different aspects of what we do. The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Planview

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The world has a lot of problems. But thankfully, the people that live here also have a lot of wonderful, amazing ideas to solve those problems — whether they’re to literally bring light to the developing world with soda bottles , or improve access to information and services for refugees. Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Sophie Cohendet is passionate about management innovation. She is partner of LearnAssembly, a start-up who help companies to develop their entrepreneurial and digital culture. What parallels can we really do between a start-up and a free inc. ? is the point she develops here.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

People, businesses, and societies are interacting in ways previously unimagined, reinventing business models and forever altering how the world economy operates. To adapt, thrive and innovate in this new Digital Economy, it is imperative that organizations understand the opportunities and threats that will impact the future of business.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I closed Bob Fine’s Real Time Marketing Lab stop in Kansas City last week with a new talk on “Helping the C-Suite Understand Social and Content Marketing.” The presentation, which I will expand as the closing keynote at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Boston on October 21, 2015, revolved around multiple analogies related to social media strategy and content marketing.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

In the recent blog Innovation through collaboration some important conditions were presented how people with different expertise can work together to develop innovative ideas, such as being open to innovative work, respecting others and willing to learn. It is also important to understand how to create such an environment. Leavy (2015) shows that it is most important for innovation leaders to create an environment where people are willing and are able to collaborate.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The Task Unification Technique is great because it generates novel ideas that tend to be novel and resourceful. It's one of five techniques in the SIT Innovation Method. Task Unification is defined as: assigning an additional task to an existing resource. That resource should be in the immediate vicinity of the problem, or what we call The Closed World.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In this article for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Brand, I explore the encouragement of intrapreneurs within an innovative climate. Leaders are responsible for creating cultures and climates where innovation can thrive.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I am focusing on LinkedIn inspirations for creative clicks; I get inspiration there every day. I have been a LinkedIn fan from the beginning. Here are articles, postings, and people that inspire me from the largest online professional networking platform. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. – Marianne Carr. As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article.

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Eddielogic

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I like to share with you the story of a workshop I was supposed to lead. It was a true workshop from hell. In terms of results, it was a complete waste of time. (In my defense I’d like to state that I was fairly inexperienced at that time). I am sure you’ve been to your own workshops from hell. Anyway, read my story, smile about my mistakes, and take away some lessons: The initial situation.

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Mike Shipulski

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

What you think of yourself colors everything you do. When someone challenges your ideas, your response makes it clear how you see yourself. Regardless of your response, you tip your hand. Regardless of your response, everyone can see your cards. When you have a terrible poker hand like, say, a king high, you can respond three ways. You can fold and let the challenger go unchallenged.

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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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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Drum roll please. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The word “Innovation” gets thrown around way too often, whether in commercials with patents flying off new cars because they’re “oh so innovative”, on billboards or in inspirational CEO speeches. Despite the hype and buzz, innovation is indeed something very real, yet often misconstrued. For companies that want to succeed in the long game, understanding how to innovate is vital.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In today’s world of technology-driven transformation, leaders need to embrace a new leadership principle if they want their organization to be relevant today and in the future. In recent years, leaders have added agility — being able to change quickly based on external circumstances — as an organizational competency. But digital disruption from the outside-in has been coming at an ever-increasing speed, and it’s only getting faster.

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Eddielogic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I read a lot about strategy making in today’s dynamic environment and about innovation – two areas that are closely interrelated. The business environment has changed dramatically over the last couple of years; it is now described as a VUCA-world. This requires new approaches to both – strategy and innovation. Despite the rising awareness for this fact, many businesses are still struggling to adapt their approaches, processes, and – most importantly – their thinking to these new challenges

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