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ASO Company holds innovation and intrapreneurship conference in Istanbul

Exago

Exago’s partner ASO Company brought together over 100 innovation and human resources managers and some of Turkey’s leading firms – such as Siemens, LinkedIn and Vodafone – for its Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Conference, this month in Istanbul. At the. Read More. The post ASO Company holds innovation and intrapreneurship conference in Istanbul appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Should a car be able to decide who to kill and who to spare?

Idea to Value

Inevitably, and unfortunately, sometimes when there are big innovations which work with both humans and machinery, there will be fatalities. This week, the first known fatality happened with something that will be affecting millions of us in a few years time: Automated driving by cars. Yesterday, the driver of a Tesla S (which are known as having the best safety rating in the world ) was killed while the car was using its Autopilot setting.

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The role Human Resources can play in Innovation and its needed Design

Paul Hobcraft

The management of human resource (HRM) needs to be replaced with the management of human creativity and ingenuity, as this is the triggering point to innovation success and delivering longer-term sustaining success. The critical role of innovation is without question needed for the future growth, wealth creation and organisations potential survival.

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Managing With A Soul

Digital Tonto

The truth is that an organization doesn't find its soul by looking inside itself, but by finding its place in the world. Related posts: The Efficiency Paradox. 6 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Me, We!

100%Open

The shortest poem in the english language, by the late, great Muhammad Ali, is simply “Me, We” By which I think he meant we are nothing without our connection to other people. This week the British people chose, against all of the odds, to go in the opposite direction. Namely to go from “we” back to “me” again. To disconnect from our European neighbours.

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This is the new blackest material in the world, absorbing over 99.965% of light

Idea to Value

You know that little black dress you’ve had your eye on, because black hides imperfections? Well, it’s about to get significantly blacker. Surrey Nanosystems has just released details on their newest product, called Vantablack. It is a carbon nanotube-based system (where each tube is just one atom thick), and the special way that these nanotubes are arranged causes much more light to be absorbed into the surface rather than reflected back.

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The Data Delusion

Digital Tonto

The notion that you can transform a failing media company—or any company in any industry for that matter— by infusing it with data and algorithms is terribly misguided. Related posts: The Problem. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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14 Event Marketing Strategy Questions You NEED to Ask Early

BrainZooming

I mentioned in an earlier article how the Gas Can event on June 24, 2016 was “half empty” at best. After the event, I posted on Facebook about how difficult it is, once you’ve produced events, to sit in the audience and not re-produce an event with major production problems. While writing an article poking holes in the Gas Can program would be easy, however, it wouldn’t have much value for you.

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LinkedIn + Microsoft = Opportunity

Daniel Burrus

Microsoft recently hit the headlines after revealing a $26 billion agreement to buy LinkedIn. In a digital age when most people obtain their social updates and look for work using a social network, Microsoft had been noticeably lacking in this area for some time. When a large corporation has no expertise in a rapidly growing area such as social media that represents a Hard Trend (a future certainty) going forward, it typically buys what it needs.

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Responsible and shared leadership

Norbert Bol

Leadership can be found at any level of an organization. This means that you don’t have to be a manager to be a leader. To make this work it must be possible in an organization to lead one another. Recent research shows that this can take place when there is enough diversity and commonality. Diverse teams are more successful and innovative than homogeneous teams, as diverse team are better at managing opportunities and threats to create more success in a sustainable way.

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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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Second-hand UX

Boxes and Arrows

Something that I feel is overlooked by a lot of product designers is the second-hand experience of their product. That is to say, above and beyond the target user, who is affected by the product—and most importantly—what is their experience? If the UX team has satisfied all the needs and desires of the target user, minimized their pain-points, and maximized their ability to enjoy the most common process flows, that is truly awesome—but how does the experience they design affect that person’s soc

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

BrainZooming

Following our post on the tenth anniversary of the Brainzooming strategic planning methodology , the guys at Armada Corporate Intelligence , who were an important part of developing and testing the process, wrote a companion article. They highlighted 5 keys to streamlining strategic planning based on how we implemented the Brainzooming process as a contrast to traditional (and slow) strategic planning techniques.

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State of Global Innovation Report

Innovation Excellence

We hope this study serves as a useful tool for your organization to gather the insights it needs to be more innovative, and especially to help surmount the obstacles that typically hamper organization-wide innovation competence.

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Nestlé’s New Open Innovation Platform for Entrepreneurs

IdeaConnection

Within the next few days, Nestlé, the Swiss multinational food and beverage company will launch its new open innovation platform. It will offer start-ups opportunities to “bid” for business challenges that its various brands are looking to solve. In an interview with The Drum , Pete Blackshaw, global head of digital and social media at Nestlé, said: “…the way that will work is we will take businesses challenges from within Nestlé.

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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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Innovating to Drive Customer Lifetime Value

Innovation in Practice

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you’re forced to make a choice between innovating for Customer A or Customer B. Which one would you choose? Well, it depends on how much they buy from you. If Customer A spends more money on your products than Customer B, you’d select that one. But wait a minute. What if Customer A costs you more in terms of selling and customer service.

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MCA Groupe Solver Spotlight

Innocentive

Our network of problem solvers is increasingly global and diverse , made up of both individuals and companies. But who are the companies involved in solving InnoCentive Challenges and why do they do it? What advice might they have for other companies wanting to become Solvers? To find out, we spoke to Camille Pinard, Structured Projects Manager at the MCA GROUPE – a global engineering and high-tech consulting company and two-time winners of InnoCentive Challenges ( 9933751 and 9933755 ).

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Building Capability, Capacity and Competency in the Innovation Core

Innovation Excellence

For innovation to grow and be sustained, we need to consistently build our innovating resources, they give delivery of the healthy living cells to promote and sustain us in new value potential.

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Former Gap Exec: Is Innovation Really Everyone’s Job?

Innovation Leader

Michael Perman formerly of Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. writes, “Yes, everyone needs to have EMPATHY, but in reality, innovation requires talent, passion, and tenacity.

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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 next three years will be more decisive for the success of businesses than the last 50 years – speed becomes the most critical factor for success

etventure

The next three years will be significantly more important and decisive for companies than the previous 50 years – this was the conclusion reached by a study that surveyed 1,500 CEOs. This striking conclusion shows the high level of importance that business leaders around the world are now attaching to digitization and the associated technological advances.

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CapSure Brings Disruptive Self-Insurance Model to Mid-Market Companies

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

CapSure, a leader in alternative wealth creation and risk mitigation strategies, is a disruptive force for change in the tradition-bound and highly profitable property and casualty insurance industry for mid-market companies.& CapSure is helping companies create their own purpose-built, self-insurance subsidiaries, called “captive insurance” companies, in order to achieve major.

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What’s Your Innovativeness Index? Shifting the odds of innovation success

Innovation Excellence

Good advice and sound innovation practices are at the core of what innovation leaders are striving to do: make innovation work better. However, I’d like to refocus the conversation onto something that I’m convinced is more powerful than any of these strategies (based on hard data.

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Making Lean Startup Work

Innovation Leader

Our 83-page downloadable report is filled with advice, case studies, articles, interviews, and results from our recent survey of Innovation Leader members on lean startup deployment.

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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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Innovating brand strategy

Strategos

A lot of people are looking for “brand strategy”. Why? One reason is because brand power and influence are much more difficult to obtain in this era of empowered consumerism. Empowerment comes from increased access to information and through a shift in trust from experts to peers. This shift isn’t simply a change in the way buying decisions are made.

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What Open Innovation Can Mean for Small Companies

Yet2

“From small to large businesses Open Innovation principles have been and will be used as a relevant innovative strategic and performance tool for companies.”. “Open Innovation” is the common term for a process that promotes product development and strategic growth in which a company looks outside its own boundaries for technical ideas or solutions to add into its product development plans.

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Is Your Platform Burning?

Innovation Excellence

In 1892, George Eastman formed the Eastman Kodak Company to “make the camera as convenient as a pencil.” The idea took off and by the early 20th century, Kodak had become one of America’s largest companies and Eastman one of its most successful entrepreneurs. What made Kodak so successful was not just its products, but.

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Inside Our Connected Products Strategy Off-Site

Innovation Leader

Take a look at photos from our June 2016 Connected Products Strategy Off-Site. Thanks to everyone who participated and for our hosts who made this event possible.

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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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Customer Engagement Is More Important than Ever

The Human Factor

Every CEO or business owner knows the importance of attracting new customers. That’s why most companies spend a significant part of their budgets on marketing and advertising to develop customer engagement among repeat and new customers. But a recent Gallup survey suggests that developing customer engagement – which the company describes as “a customer’s emotional or psychological attachment to a brand, product, or company” – may offer a more effective growth strategy.

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FASCINATION: The DNA of Innovation

Idea Champions

I own a huge library of books on innovation. Mostly hardcover. The $27.95 variety with big indexes and forwards by people who make more money than I do. Some of these books are actually good. Most of them bore me. (I must confess I have a secret desire, whenever I enter a bookstore, to put glue between pages 187 & 188 in all of the new releases just to see if the publishers get any complaints).

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Six Innovative Ways to Grow Your Digital Start-up

Innovation Excellence

HerHere are six innovative approaches that you probably haven’t considered, which can help make a big difference to the growth your start-up acHere are six innovative approaches that you probably haven’t considered, which can help make a big difference to the growth your start-up achieves in the early stages – and which will support you over the longer-term too.

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Roundtables & Other Events

Innovation Leader

Innovation Leader organizes a variety of other events that bring together corporate leaders, including our roundtable series and our one-day Deep Dive events.

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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.