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2022: Surviving Change

Digital Tonto

Marshal McLuhan, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, described media as “extensions of man” and predicted that electronic media would eventually lead to a global village. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Problems In Need Of Solving: Where To Start?

Phil McKinney

Why do innovators focus time and energy on developing solutions before they've identified the problem? Innovation starts by spending time to understand the problem before solving the problem. What Are Problems? The dictionary defines the word problem as a state of discord or disharmony involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty. A problem is a question that […].

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? They might say things like “Don’t come to me with problems, come to me with solutions!” Or they might get aggressive if they find out performance is not what they want it to be. I once had a manager who I was working with on a money-raising program. We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on i

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Building the use of the innovation work mat as a compelling business case

Paul Hobcraft

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective. In this video conversation of around 13 minutes , we explore why the leadership of organizations needs to get deeply involved in the innovation activity.

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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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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

Overview : Sending people and objects into space was once so expensive, only a handful of governments could do it. The global push to develop a private space industry was both driven by innovation and drives innovation in both the private and public sectors in turn. The Promise of Space. Between 1960 and 1973, when NASA achieved its mission to put an American on the Moon, the agency spent $280 billion in 2020 dollars , over $9 billion for every launch in that time period.

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Designing experiments to alleviate behavioral biases in innovation

Board of Innovation

Experimentation is a key component of any innovation validation track, regardless of industry, goal, and even budgets. The goal of experimentation is to validate or (in)validate assumptions that we have about the task at hand - be it a new concept, a consumer segment, or a business model. Innovation validation helps lower the risk of our innovation processes, and allows for informed decision making as we move forward.

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Society 2045’s Wealth Creation

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Wealth Creation. Today we are living in a world with a major wealth gap among people. What if we collectively worked towards eliminating and reducing the wealth gap? Financially secure people can do a lot to enable this and contribute to humankind’s needs. A well-organized initiative in this respect can make a big difference. We can try our best to reach out and make the world a better place for all, by helping everyone achieve wealth.

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IdeaScale Launches a Successful Self-Paced Course on: Excelling at Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: IdeaScale’s Laszlo Gyorffy M.S., V.P. of Global Services, has developed a self-paced course on excelling at innovation, drawing on his decades of consulting and training expertise. The course focuses on his value-driven approach to innovation, drawing on lessons learned from the CO-STAR methodology he helped develop. What Is A Self-Paced Course?

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TRANSFERRING IDEAS FROM ONE DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

Michael Michalko

Like a spark that jumps across a gap, an idea from one world is used to create a new idea or creative solution to a problem in another world. Bell’s engineers modeled their telephone network after the human being’s self-healing circulation system. If there is a problem with the human being’s circulatory system, the circulation will go around it.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

Where should innovation resources actually exist in an organisation? It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. After all, if innovation is so important, should it not get its own department? While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company.

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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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Interdisciplinary Innovation: Being Innovative is a Way of Imagining, Perceiving, Expressing, Inventing & Inspiring

InnovationManagement

Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. They are passionate to connect, to learn, and to explore by understanding commonalities and appreciating uniqueness. Being innovative is a growth mindset and a proactive attitude. You cannot wait for something to happen keep curious, always think profoundly, learn fresh knowledge, and acquire new capabilities.

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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021: Janet Sernack Janet Sernack is … Continue reading →

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B2B Idea Management Starts With Customer Challenges, Not Light Bulb Moments

Sopheon

Keeping customer needs at the center of product development is the key to consistent, repeatable innovation. The post B2B Idea Management Starts With Customer Challenges, Not Light Bulb Moments appeared first on Sopheon.

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Neuroplasticity, and how your brain is able to continue developing as you grow older

Idea to Value

A lot of people are scared by the information that creativity appears to decrease as we get older. This often combines with their own experience as to how much harder it appears to be to learn new things compared to when you were a child, whether it be a language, academic skills or even new physical skills. Recent research has even shown us that the adolescent brain does not finish developing until we are about 25 years old.

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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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Seven Lessons From Squid Game For Your Innovation Program

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Chances are you’ve been swept up by the Squid Game craze that’s taken the streaming world by storm. As someone who’s plugged into innovation, I just couldn’t help but wonder: What if you could “squid game” your innovation program? An innovation program is an organizational discipline that drives more predictable and sustainable results from your innovation investments.

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Sickcare Digital Transformation Playbook

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers First there was the Great Recession. Then came the Great Resignation. Now we are facing the Great Digital Transformation, i.e. how do businesses win the 4th industrial revolution?

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What is Lean Process Management and How is it Applied?

Kainexus

Lean process management is a method for building a company culture that supports continuous improvement. It involves a long-term approach to daily work that encourages small, incremental changes in process operations to improve quality and efficiency. The primary objective of Lean process improvement is to create value for the customer by optimizing resources and creating an uninterrupted workflow based on near real-time customer demands.

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Podcast S6E145: Michael Lee – Innovation is all around us

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Michael Lee, SVP of Strategy at Innovation Minds and the only internationally certified Creativity and Innovation Coach in the world. We speak about his views on what innovation is, how it is all around us, and how to unlock it in your teams. Topics covered in this episode: 00:04:30 – Michael’s history teaching Creativity from The Artist’s Way , through Flow and finding his own system. 00:08:00 – How

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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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5 Trends That Will Help Your EdTech Startup Thrive in 2022

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Shorten, customize and gamify if you want to survive in the future of education and self-development.

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Developing 21st-Century Leader and Team Superpowers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders.

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What is a Business Process Improvement Methodology?

Kainexus

Business process improvement is a management practice that helps leaders leverage several tools and techniques to analyze their processes and uncover areas where improvement in accuracy, quality, and efficiency can be achieved. The leaders then work with process operators to redesign those processes to improve productivity and gain the expected improvements.

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Is Innovation the Secret to Adapting to the Regenerative Future?

InnovationManagement

The inevitable changes ahead for our industries and for our way of life are just as profound as they were in previous shifts in eras. The Climate Action Sweepstakes is committed to supporting efforts that help companies step into the early days of the Regenerative Era with clarity, courage and maximum positive impact by leveraging the power of their employee network.

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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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How to Build Sustainable Communications as a Startup

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Want to build a sustainable communications program that drives long-term growth? Look no further than this article!

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Technology Not Always the Key to Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Humans love technology and often we make the mistake of thinking that technology is the only path to innovation. But there are many examples that prove this is often folly… The wine industry offers a couple of great examples.

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A Truly Extraordinary Leader Takes a Profit and Leaves a Mark

Daniel Burrus

What defines an extraordinary individual? To you, is that someone who saves lives, like a doctor or first responder? How about an entrepreneur who completely transforms our lives for the better, like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk? Maybe it is something much simpler than that, such as a friend or neighbor coming through for you and clearing off your driveway when your snowblower won’t start.

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#5: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Validate and Test the Idea

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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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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4 Ways to Drive Internal Innovation and Unleash Employees' Entrepreneurial Side

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Organizations that adopt a culture of restless innovation among staff members inspire passion, and inevitably operate at an advantage.

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We Were Wrong About What Drove the 21st Century

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every era contains a prism of multitudes. World War I gave way to the “Roaring 20s” and a 50-year boom in productivity.

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Sustainability: Now IS the time

Innovators Alliance

Don’t miss our event this upcoming January 18 th | Sustainability: Now IS the time. Angie Hall, Head of Sustainable Finance, Commercial Banking at HSBC Bank Canada will discuss how your financing can help you advance your sustainability ambitions and stay competitive in today’s economy. This is a complimentary digital event – RSVP to reserve your space.

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#6: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Involve the Powers

Flying Fish Lab

In the final part of our implementation series, we’ll take a look at why some great ideas never reach it to the finishing line and, more importantly, what you can do to make sure more of them actually do. This way, you’ll know how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop, turn them into great proposals, and end up with a viable concept for a successful product.

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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.