Tim Kastelle
DECEMBER 27, 2016
An innovation paradox Here’s a central problem with trying to get any new idea to spread – often, those that get it don’t need it, while those that need it don’t get it. It’s a paradox. This leads to problems for people that have new ideas. Problem 1a: you end up talking to the wrong people. It is easiest to talk to the people that get it – even though they don’t need your idea.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 28, 2016
For my final post of the year, I went back to some of my thinking through around the building blocks needed in the core competencies for innovation we need to have in place. For me, the bedrock of innovation is built upon competencies, capabilities, and capacities and all these involve people as well as technology. They go hand in hand in our connected world.
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IdeaScale
DECEMBER 27, 2016
As the customer advocate, you work closely with employees to keep customers at the forefront of innovation. You want your employees to innovate with the customer in mind. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers. They need to understand which problems, if solved, would have the greatest positive impact.
Idea to Value
DECEMBER 30, 2016
One of the most misunderstood concepts in innovation management is why some companies can bring their ideas to life and continue innovating, while in other companies good ideas get no traction and die. Apple has long been seen as one of the world’s most innovative companies, but since the passing away of Steve Jobs in 2011 it has found it much more difficult to continue innovating.
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.
Tim Kastelle
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Solvitur ambulando – it is solved by walking. That’s the slogan for Keri Smith’s wonderful book The Wander Society (and here ). Her book is a manifesto for getting out and directly experiencing life through unplanned, mindful wandering. It’s a great idea. We need slack in order to have great ideas. Wandering creates slack – unstructured time in our day.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 27, 2016
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Faisal Hoque
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Look at things with a beginner's mind. A beginner's mind allows us to embrace the highest emotional qualities — such as enthusiasm, zeal, and optimism — to creatively move ourselves forward. The post Make A Fresh Start With These Powerful Habits appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 24, 2016
An odd dynamic is taking place among the C-suite of many companies. They demand more innovation from the organization without really knowing what that means and the implications it has for the organization. Innovation requires a change in the organization, but leaders are too often unwilling to do what is required to make the changes.
100%Open
DECEMBER 29, 2016
As we approach New Year it’s a time to prioritise what we do and don’t want to do next year. 2016 has been pretty eventful and it looks like we’ve got our work cut out in 2017 so we all want to know what is going to be the next big thing? When it comes to open innovation, there are no shortage of good ideas to pursue or interesting partners to collaborate with.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. And because we got so many great submissions, for the first time ever, we have also selected runner ups for each category! City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civ
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.
IdeaConnection
DECEMBER 29, 2016
An open innovation project from Germany is helping energy researchers with numerous endeavors and enterprises. OpenGridMap is crowdsourcing data related to the world’s power grid and making it freely available to others. The aim is to produce realistic input data for simulation studies in several fields, such as simulating the feeding of renewable energy into the grid and modeling its effects.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 30, 2016
I've been commissioned to write a new book for Routledge with the working title "Brain Based Enterprises" for 2017 following my 7th piece of work, "Leading, Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise" for Bloomsbury. I'm looking for businesses and organisations who wish to participate via case studies or mini cameos with attendant PR benefits for those enterprises and individuals that contribute.
Mike Shipulski
DECEMBER 28, 2016
In business, the only direct lever to pull is resource allocation. The people are already on the books, just change what they work on. But pulling that off is difficult. No need to wait for new hires, just move resources from one project to another. Stop project A and start project B. Simple, right? Not so much. Emotional attachment causes project A to defend their resources and project B to complain the resources haven’t moved.
Improvides
DECEMBER 30, 2016
One of the most misunderstood concepts in innovation management is why some companies can bring their ideas to life and continue innovating, while in other companies good ideas get no traction and die. Apple has long been seen as one of the world’s most innovative companies, but since the passing away of Steve Jobs in […]. Originally published at How Steve Jobs predicted what would cause Apple to lose its innovative edge.
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.
Betterific
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Congrats on 2016. We all need a pat on the back. Our mission is to connect design thinking enthusiasts (aka Betterific members) with brands to help make better products better. And this year was a giant leap of progress. To celebrate all that the Betterific community has accomplished this year… we created an infographic! Products were named, created and will hit store shelves in 2017.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 27, 2016
In David and Goliath, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell explains how small upstarts often have surprising advantages over larger, more powerful opponents. “Giants are not what we think they are,” he writes, “and that often makes us fail to appreciate less conventional strategies that may be superior.” That’s certainly true in business. Large enterprises must serve the present.
Rmukesh Gupta
DECEMBER 29, 2016
If you take care of the little things, the bigger things take care of themselves. Click To Tweet. I realised this yet again, when I was invited to the Hexa Experience Centre recently in Bangalore. . This was an event run by Tata Motors to promote their new SUV Tata Hexa. I was invited as a member of the blogging community – IndiBlogger. I also happen to be on the verge of looking for a new car for myself.
Innovation Leader
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Coca-Cola shut down its Founders program, which worked with entrepreneurs and invested in startups. One possible cause: a back-to-basics focus on the core business.
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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
Innovation in Practice
DECEMBER 25, 2016
Christmas morning in Naples, Florida! . I wish the best for all of you in 2017. Drew. .
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.
Idea Champions
DECEMBER 28, 2016
In 1999, I conceived and co-founded (with Paul Kwicienski ) the world's first interactive business blues band, Face the Music. The concept was a simple one: help organizations increase teamwork and decrease complaint by getting employees to write and perform original blues songs. The concept resonated with a lot of industries, especially Big Pharma.
Michael Roberto
DECEMBER 30, 2016
A team of scholars has published an interesting new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology regarding the impact that foreign experiences have on our behavior (Jackson Lu, Jordi Quoidbach, Francesca Gino, Alek Chakroff, William Maddux, and Adam Galinksy). They built upon prior research that has demonstrated that foreign experiences bring certain important benefits to individuals.
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
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 25, 2016
If only. As a global innovation community we have discovered and solved. Trialed and triumphed in the humblest and largest of ways. This we know, and this we will continue to do. From near and far, we’ve come together to learn and to do better. Better is needed throughout each decade, and better is deeply.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 28, 2016
How to Create a Culture Where You Can Capitalize on Innovation A 2015 BEI presentation by Jay Morgan, VP Global Innovation Bayer Consumer Care Jay Morgan shared his story of how Merck Consumer Care (now Bayer Consumer Care) began its innovation journey. The story takes place in Memphis, TN. It begins in 2011. It began.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 29, 2016
With the right type of innovation, desktop manufacturing will enjoy the same fate as the computer. All it will take is a little bit of time, and a lot of 3D-printed innovation.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor takes on the question of why there are still so many jobs -- and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer.
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Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Do you have a clear innovation strategy that directly links your innovation investment decisions to expected results? Many companies don't. Here's how to get started and close the gap quickly with Portfolio Management.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 27, 2016
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Winston Churchill Change can be difficult. Organizations, like people, are creatures of habit. We tend to stick to paths, plans, and processes that are familiar to us. Portfolio & Pipeline Management (P&PM) involves driving change throughout an organization. You enable your business with.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 26, 2016
François Lambotte, PhD in Management Science, professor, and deputy dean of ESPO (University in economical, scoial, political, and communication sciences) is heading the UCL Social Media Lab. UCL means Catholic University of Louvain, a great city near Brussels in Belgium. But what does Social Media Lab encompass? François tells us more about it.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 28, 2016
As innovation conversations move from Crowdsourcing to Crowdsolving, here's a look at its future, and a refresher on its social innovative roots.
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