Sat.Mar 26, 2022 - Fri.Apr 01, 2022

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We Need To Stop Doubling Down On Bad Ideas

Digital Tonto

Business today moves fast. So we like simple statements that speak to larger truths. It always seems that if we can find a simple rule of thumb—or maybe 3 to 5 bullet points for the really big picture stuff—managing a business would be much easier. Whenever a decision needs to be made, we could simply refer to the rule and go on with our day. Unfortunately, that often leads to cartoonish slogans rather than genuine managerial wisdom.

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Cultural Differences and Innovation

Viima

The effects of cultural differences for innovation are an interesting and extremely multifaceted topic. For most of us, it probably goes without saying that cross-cultural and multicultural capabilities are crucial in today’s globalized and hyperconnected world, and innovation is no exception. These capabilities are especially important if you’re working on it in a large international organization, as many of our customers are.

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Highly creative brains may have more “random” connections

Idea to Value

I have long talked about how the human brain aims to be as efficient as possible. One of the ways it achieves this is by linking together networks that often work together and strengthening the connections between those neurons , as well as making those networks faster at working together. However, a new series of brain imaging studies by UCLA researchers has found that the brains of highly creative Big-C people may be wired differently.

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A Connected World Brings New Security Challenges

Business and Tech

Enterprises in critical industries such as manufacturing, energy, and healthcare are unifying security management of information technology (IT), the internet of things (IoT), and operational technology (OT) under one umbrella. As a result, visibility into connected assets and critical vulnerabilities is necessary to maintain public safety, national security, and economic viability. .

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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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Society 2045’s Collectively Connected Emotional Intelligence

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Collectively Connected Emotional Intelligence. Developing a well-organized structure and collaborative approach to achieving goals is the key to creating a great company. Can the same apply to society? The effort to liberate people at work can bring out the enthusiasm, creativity and potential that is otherwise locked away in individuals.

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Attitudes That Hurt Design Thinking & How to Change Them

InnovationTraining.org

Break these negative mindsets to unlock innovation through design thinking. This article is part 2 in a series designed to explore the design thinking process. Click the link here to read through Part 1: What is Design Thinking. . Here at InnovationTraining.org, we typically refer to design thinking as a three-stage process: having a challenge/problem, developing ideas, and taking action to put those ideas into the real world.

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If humans are interdependent, why is medical training modular?

Christensen Institute

Since the mid-1800s, the clinical component of medical education has been focused on the hospital setting. As a result, we have grounded how we teach – and what people learn – around a state of life most people wish to avoid: illness. Unfortunately, the focus of the teaching and thus the learning isn’t around how to prevent that illness. The focus is on how to fix the problem once it arises.

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6 New Product Development Process Strategies for When Budgets Are Constrained

Sopheon

Innovation planning and new product development processes can’t stop even when budgets are constrained. Learn how to get creative to ensure innovation & revenue aren’t interrupted. The post 6 New Product Development Process Strategies for When Budgets Are Constrained appeared first on Sopheon.

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How to Create Innovation Confidence During the Great Resignation

InnovationManagement

Do your employees feel confident at work right now? Or are you worried that the Great Resignation may impact your company? Take these steps to make sure that your focus on innovation is the reason employees stay, and not the reason they leave. . The post How to Create Innovation Confidence During the Great Resignation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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This is what failure actually looks like

Idea to Value

I want to tell you a story about the most clear example of failure I know of. In 2019, while I was living and working in Australia, a news story went around which was so crazy it was hard to believe. A drug dealer had been caught by the police, and had therefore lost the 273kg of methamphetamine which he was transporting in his van. These drugs were worth an estimated AUD $200 million, or about US $140 million.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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3 paradigm-shifting insights on creating global prosperity

Christensen Institute

I had the opportunity to re-read the Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty authored by Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon, and the late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. This book constantly informs our global prosperity work at the Christensen Institute, with innovative frameworks based on years of research on how to educate and train personnel across various entities and government bodies in order to help make economies more prosperous for everyone.

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What is a Kanban Board and How Does it Improve Quality?

Kainexus

In the post-WW II era, Toyota realized that they could improve profitability and product quality by matching parts inventory with real-time demand to create a “just-in-time” production and provisioning process. To achieve this, they implemented a visual system to track the movement of parts from the supplier to storage locations and finally to the assembly line.

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TWO QUESTIONS I HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

What do you know about creative thinking today that you wished you knew twenty years ago? That creativity is a phenomena that results from a certain combination of relationships. This combination includes the principles of intention, belief, attitude, behavior, language, knowing how to change the way you look at things, knowing how to think in different ways and learning how to think inclusively without the prejudices of logic.

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The problem with Perfectionism

Idea to Value

“What is my biggest weakness? Well, I can be a bit of a perfectionist…” Would you consider yourself a perfectionist? Many people would, especially those who are high achievers and those who strive to produce world changing creative ideas and innovations. In fact, with modern society’s continued focus on working harder and hustling more , many people think you need to be seen as a perfectionist in the workplace in order to be respected.

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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 Future is Caring About the Human Experience

Entrepreneur - Innovation

With excitement buzzing about web3, how can the tech community start to explore how this and emerging technology will impact the human experience?

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Why Do People Keep Insisting On Dissenting From Me?

Phil McKinney

I just don't understand why people keep insisting on dissenting from me. It's really quite frustrating and annoying. But I suppose I'll just have to deal with it because it's not like I'm ever wrong about anything. ?? ?? Dissenting is expressing disagreement with or opposing an opinion, view, or attitude. So if someone is […].

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Three Steps to Digital and AI Transformation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers In his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank described what has become the gospel of lean startup methodologies: Customer validation, customer discovery, customer creation and company building The path to sickcare digital transformation is … Continue reading →

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Leadership In An Ecosystem Age: Secrets For Success

Bill Fischer

Ecosystems have become the hottest new idea in managerial conversations. What does this really mean, and how does it differ from traditional supply chains? What role do managerial mind-sets play in such transformation? Annika Steiber, John Hagel, Marshall Meyer and Kevin Nolan discuss these topics.

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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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Boost Your Mailroom's Efficiency With This Innovative Solution

Entrepreneur - Innovation

On-premise mailrooms are slow, error prone and require too much labor and valuable real estate - not to mention they simply cannot support today's 'new world of work.'.

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3 Stumbling Blocks that Prevent Managers from Being Strategic

CMOE

Strategic thinking has become one of the most valued skills in managers, and many organizations know that strategic thinking is integral to their success. Unfortunately, managers often run into challenges that prevent them from engaging in strategic thought and action with consistency and regularity. Let’s take a look at three stumbling blocks managers often encounter so we can better understand how to help them overcome these challenges. 1.

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The Power of the Humility Principle

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1929, just before the stock market crash, Louis Bamberger and his sister, Caroline Bamberger Fuld, sold their department store in Newark to R.H. Macy and Company for $25 million ($343 million in 2015 dollars).

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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS

ImagineNation

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Interestingly, this also completely disrupted not only our safety and comfort zones , but also disconnected our sense of security, as well as our confidence to survive and thrive in a world where so many of us felt exploited and depleted, by some of our employers.

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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.

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The Future of Disruption: 3 Ways High-Tech Careers Are Evolving for the Next Generation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Disruption is about upending market sectors with innovation. The four companies featured on Season 1 of 'Going Public' are doing just that.

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What's Happening in Climate

IdeaSpies

I start by suggesting that the climate crisis we're in and the phenomenon of global warming needs innovation, and it does, but not (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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How to Effectively Manage Remotely

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Consider five best practices for managing remotely. Remote work was once associated with poor accountability, incohesive teamwork, and confusing communication practices. Fortunately, that’s now easily preventable.

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Behavioral Design Training

InnovationTraining.org

Find training resources related to behavioral design. Popularized by Stanford University Behavior Design Lab founder Dr. BJ Fogg, behavioral design thinking is a model and theory that seeks to understand behavior and the role it plays on consumer action. Behavioral design, or behavior design, will be explored in more detail in this blog post. We’ll also highlight a few helpful resources for behavioral design training, including expert videos and books to review. ( You can also contact us f

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Work Like You Matter

Mike Shipulski

When you were wrong, the outcome was different than you thought. When the outcome was different than you thought, there was uncertainty as the work was new. When there was uncertainty, you knew there would be learning. When you were afraid of learning, you were afraid to be wrong. And when you were afraid to be wrong, you were really afraid about what people would think of you.

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Revitalize your Innovation Mission Through Compelling Conference Participation

eZassi

How do you best position your company to adopt an innovation mindset? Hiring a Chief Innovation Officer or relying on Corporate Product Intrapreneurs to champion the innovation culture is certainly an intentional first approach for many companies. Maintaining that resource’s energy and focus from year to year and project to project will continuously be a challenge though unless your innovation leaders have an opportunity to recharge their creativity, ideate, and consider innovation management pl

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Cognitive Bandwidth – Staying Innovative in ‘Interesting’ Times

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Pete Foley ‘May you live in interesting times’ is the English translation of an ancient Chinese curse. Superficially presented as a blessing, its true meaning is of course far from positive.

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Quote-to-Cash vs CPQ: Explained

Planview

When and why is it valuable for your services organization. A services company’s quote-to-cash process represents its ability to convert sales opportunities into paying and profitable customers. In order to implement the right quote-to-cash solution, services organizations must compare quote-to-cash vs cpq to determine the best tool that fits their needs.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib