Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To be agile” is often a badge of honor. It conveys your flexibility, nimbleness and your ability to be adaptive. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. Yet this often seems the very opposite within many of our organizations and the very people employed within them.

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HYPE Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Disruptive innovations are defined as those new products and services that are so unique and powerful that they literally disrupt the entire industry. The cloud, for instance, was disruptive because it changed the way that people store and use information and applications. Mobile technology was also disruptive because it revolutionized the way that we communicate and live our lives.

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Braden Kelley

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Changing Outcomes, Changing Behavior When engaging in a change effort it is important to focus not on outputs but on outcomes.

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Exago

DECEMBER 23, 2015

At any moment during 2016, an idea can transform your business, an idea can change the world. Merry Christmas and our best wishes for a shiny new year! The Exago team. The post Spread the spirit! appeared first on www.exago.com.

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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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Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 20, 2015

My list of great books that inform, entertain and inspire! Related posts: The 2011 Digital Tonto Reading List. A Digital Tonto Reading List for 2009. The 2014 Digital Tonto Reading List. The 2013. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 20, 2015

During the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris earlier this month, nearly 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1,5C above pre-industrial levels and getting to net zero emissions between 2050 and 2100. The agreement on these goals are a great result of difficult negotiations. Achieving these goals are probably even more difficult if we do not change our behaviour.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Look at things with a beginner's mind. The post 9 Powerful Habits To Develop In 2016 appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Mike Shipulski

DECEMBER 23, 2015

At every meeting you have a chance to move things forward or hold them back. When a new idea is first introduced it’s bare-naked. In its prenatal state, it’s wobbly and can’t stand on its own and is vulnerable to attack. But since it’s not yet developed, it’s impressionable and willing to evolve into what it could be. With the right help it can go either way – die a swift death or sprout into something magical.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2015

ISPIM Grand Prize 2016 is looking for cases that significantly advance the practice of innovation management in proven application, not theory. The advance should be in how innovation is managed, we are not seeking proposals that describe the actual end output, the what. The deadline for entries is 8th April 2016.

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Innovation in Practice

DECEMBER 21, 2015

This month marks the eight year anniversary of Innovation in Practice. As always, I want to thank my many readers and supporters who follow it. When you start blogging, you're never quite sure who will read it and continue reading it. A fellow innovation blogger told me not to worry about. "Blog it, and they will come," is what he said. In essence, readers self-select based on their interest in the topic.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 2015

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.” ― Francis Bacon. Companies today are eagerly seeking the answer to one essential question. How do we innovate? Today, 75% of companies say they’re committed to innovation as one of their top priorities [1]. But most struggle to innovate. To many corporations, it’s like grabbing the wind in their hands.

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Planview

DECEMBER 24, 2015

It’s time once again for Spigit’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are 10 new discoveries from this week. 1. Making Agility Compatible for You. Who it’s from: Paul Hobcraft. The skinny: Paul Hobcraft, leading innovation expert, discusses how companies can balance the need for stability with more agile, dynamic capabilities.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2015

In a just released “The State of Innovation Management in 2015” that I have authored and kindly provided by HYPE for free, I believe you will find something of interest that you might have missed during a busy year, that is coming to a close.

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100%Open

DECEMBER 22, 2015

It’s been an intense and exciting second half to 2015 for the whole 100%Open team. Working very closely and collaboratively with UBS, we launched The UBS Future of Finance Challenge on 12th August 2015, an open competition for entrepreneurs and technology startups around the world. UBS was looking for innovative and potentially disruptive technological ideas and solutions that will support the transformation of the banking industry.

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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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Strategos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Taking our own medicine. We at Strategos have taken a dose of our own innovation medicine recently as we have built out a major improvement to one of our offerings – management innovation. Over the past 20 years, most of our work with clients has focused on helping them to create and realize innovative strategies and new offering concepts. But what about the entire management infrastructure that an organization uses to deliver value to its customers?

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Mills-Scofield

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The best gifts are each other - our relationships, our conversations, our smiles, our listening. Thank you all for the gifts of yourselves to me. I wish you a joyful holi-day season and a very blessed 2016! (thank you Jessica Esch , as usual, for your incredible artistic talent ).

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 24, 2015

François Jullien is a brilliant French philosopher, professor at Paris Diderot University, and heading the chair for Alterity: he likes to take one step back, immersing himself in a different culture, and then come back to his initial matter. That’s what he did with China, adopting Chinese point of view before coming back to Europe, identifying gaps, and questioning back European way of thinking, raising the ‘unconsidered’, what is not currently being thought over.

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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 21, 2015

There are only three things that can kill a startup: Running out of cash: This is the biggest reason why most startups and even some of the large organisations fail. They run out of cash. Startup founders would give themselves a much better chance of success if they are able to figure out a consistent cash flow. Profitability can come later in the life of a startup, cash flow must come first.

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 22, 2015

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Was Steve Harvey just a terrible host for the Miss Universe contest, or is there more to the story? By now, most of you have seen the awful and embarrassing gaffe at the end of the competition. Host Steve Harvey mistakenly announces Miss Columbia as the winner, when in fact, she was the runner-up. After the crown is placed on her head, Harvey must deliver the bad news.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 19, 2015

We’ve all been there. It’s a weekday night, dinner needs to be cooked, your son is yelling for your help from another room, and you’re stuck on hold with your internet service provider because your modem took a dump on you. While you’re on hold, that elevator jam muzak is periodically interrupted by a recording of a woman who has told you several times that the internet company’s website provides several troubleshooting guides on the most basic systems.

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Outside Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Paris from November 30 to December 12th, 2015, just a week after major terrorist attacks across the city. France's President, François Hollande, had declared a state of emergency and blocked public protests. Yet hundreds of thousands of activists still descended on the city, along with the delegates from 195 countries.

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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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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Since 1987, I have been working as an innovation provocateur for a wide variety of forward thinking organizations. Bottom line, I help people wake up, get out of the box, and originate bold, new ideas to meet their ambitious business goals. Along the way, I've discovered quite a few methods to spark the innovation mindset -- even in the most conventional of thinkers.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Companies don’t need more ideas, they need ideas that are more meaningful. Companies have plenty ideas because they measure and track the number of new ideas generated. Meaningful ideas are, by definition, understood by a few and misunderstood by the rest. It’s lonely to advance an idea that most don’t understand.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When engaging in a change effort it is important to focus not on outputs but on outcomes. The difference is sometimes subtle for people, but the biggest difference is that outputs are usually activity-based where outcomes are behavior-based. There are several good behavior modification frameworks out there including the Six Boxes framework from Carl Binder, the Six Sources of Influence framework from.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Two weeks ago I joined several hundred others at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel for this year’s edition of the Chief Innovation Officer Summit, New York. The agenda showcased a host of diverse and compelling speakers including, among many other notables, GE’s Chief Scientist, NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officer, WalmartLabs Innovation Lead, Gap’s Dean of Innovation, and Samsung’s Chief Innovation Officer.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Just a quick reminder that you've only got three (3) days left to nominate your favorites for the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015. We are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the time to create and share great innovation articles, presentations, and videos and to make a list of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers available each year. Our previous lists have been tremendously popular and now it's time to open nominations for 2015!

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Practice your presentation and deliver it with confidence and enthusiasm. Get your message across. You will enjoy it. More importantly, so will your audience.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2015

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Idea Champions

DECEMBER 19, 2015

In the past few weeks, quite a few people have asked me for the "elevator speech" about my book. I get it. These days, if you can't deliver your message in 60 seconds or less you're screwed. So here goes. Consider this my elevator speech (though the building you are riding in is a hundred stories high). I wrote Storytelling at Work because I wanted to do everything in my power to unleash what I have come to realize is one of the biggest untapped resources on planet Earth -- and that is the colle

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