Sat.Aug 26, 2017 - Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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Be Unpredictable – Surprise your Customers and Competitors

Destination Innovation

Boy Browning. Frederick Arthur Montague Browning (1896 – 1965) was known as ‘Boy’ Browning. He served in the British Army with distinction in the First World War. He was promoted to Adjutant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. During the Sovereign’s Parade of 1926, he did something unexpected by the large audience who came to see the closely choreographed and well-rehearsed parade of cadets.

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Can you really engineer an open culture?

HYPE Innovation

The idea that an open culture can be engineered or that cultural change can be outsourced is tempting. So tempting, in fact, that many organizations – large and small, for and not for profit – will at one point find themselves (mis)spending a great deal of time, resources and emotions on trying to make it, break it or maintain it. As Michael Watkins puts it in his HBR article : “If you want to provoke a vigorous debate, start a conversation on organizational culture”.

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5 Must-Have Traits of Startup Founders

Idea to Value

Entrepreneurs often must find a successful way to differentiate their venture from the competition in a challenging marketplace. This challenge is combined with the goal of trying to make ends meet when expenses are high and income may be low, trying to determine what consumers truly want or need, and more. As the leader of your startup, your unique qualities and personality traits play a critical role in the overall success of your business.

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My Approach to Customer Onboarding & Nurturing: Hospitality

IdeaScale

Many of us have had the great pleasure of entertaining guests in our home. And we have various methods of engaging our guests during their visit. But regardless of your rituals or processes, there is one overall goal, and that is always to ensure guests feel welcome, involved, appreciated and leave with the desire to come again. And so it is, too, with the process of onboarding and hosting our clients.

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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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Sights to see in North-East Scotland

Destination Innovation

Dunrobin Castle. Most visitors to Scotland stop in Edinburgh and then head to the north-west Highlands and Skye – which are undoubtedly spectacular. The opposite coast is much less visited but still has plenty to offer. Take a car from Inverness (which is well worth a visit), have a look at Loch Ness and then travel north to take in these recommendations: John O’Groats.

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Generation Z and innovation in the workplace

Exago

Gen Zers are part of a generation that is global, social, visual and technological. They are the most connected, educated and sophisticated generation ever. The post Generation Z and innovation in the workplace appeared first on Exago.

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Walmart: How an Innovator in Arkansas Continues to Change our World

IdeaScale

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, an unlikely corporation spearheaded the relief effort. Walmart, long maligned as a junky department store, pulled off a stunning logistical feat , getting 100,000 meals, 1,500 truckloads of supplies, and jobs for every displaced worker to the site with a speed that outmatched even the government. It was a reminder of what many who had been paying attention already knew: Walmart is, in many under-appreciated ways, a powerful innovator.

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The Physics of Change

Digital Tonto

Every revolution inspires a counterrevolution Related posts: How Successful Movements Inspire Lasting Change. To Create Real Change, You Need To Do More Than Just Protest. How To Create A Culture Of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Shoe Dog: 11 Lessons from the Creator of Nike [book review]

Innovation Excellence

I’m a sneakerhead. In English, that means that I collect trainers. I love the aesthetics of the shoes, but perhaps more so the dynamics of the collectibles market which Nike effectively created. In his new book, Phil ‘Shoe Dog’ Knight, the founder, former CEO and now Executive Chairman of Nike, he tells his story of taking the business from humble origins, through an IPO in 1980 and onto its current $30 billion market capitalisation.

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Beyond Moore’s Law

Daniel Burrus

Mark Twain was once quoted as saying that the reports of his death “had been greatly exaggerated.” That, in fact, was an out-and-out misquote—an obvious mistake. The same can be said for the oft-predicted demise of Moore’s Law —in effect, a flawed expectation that runs counter to the ever-present potential of human ingenuity and innovative spirit. Stop thinking in terms of processing power and start thinking in terms of computing power.

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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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13 Ways to Sponsor Strategic Planning Process Success

BrainZooming

Chuck Dymer and I led the first step in a client’s multi-day strategic planning process this week. The client wants to envision its organizational role decades into the future. This initial visioning exercise was hugely successful and fun. And fun was an important expectation since they found us by Googling “strategic planning fun” and downloading our eBook on the topic of fun strategic planning.

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This Company Is Combining Big Data and Materials Science to Revolutionize Manufacturing

Digital Tonto

If they are successful, the business of making things will never be the same. Related posts: How Open Data for Science Will Change How Businesses Compete. How Data Will Transform Science. If Big. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why External Technology Scouting Works: A Review of a Harvard Business Review Published Study

eZassi

Harvard Business Review Technology Scouting Study. Technology Scouting Can Increase the Rate and Potential for Meaningful Innovation. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Business Review makes the case for technology scouting while also admitting that it can turn into a double-edged sword when executed poorly. The research clearly shows that connecting with a wide range of external resources, including: universities, competitors and research institutions, can increase the rate of and potentia

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Is Your Team Proficient in the 3 Cs of Innovation?

InnovationManagement

When leaders foster a culture of innovation, they enable their teams to be creative, flexible problem-solvers who thrive in the face of change. But what is a culture of innovation? And how does a leader begin to foster one? Building a culture of innovation originates with embracing The 3 Cs: critical thinking, curiosity, and customer-centric design.

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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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Customer Experience Strategy – 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Processes

BrainZooming

Talking with another organization’s leaders, I started probing about their work processes. My suspicion (which proved correct) was they didn’t have formal processes to dependably produce their best work every time. Their processes turned out to be lax and inconsistent, which resulted in their customer experience strategy being the same. They asked what they could do to better document strong processes. 3 Steps to Developing Consistent Customer Experience Strategy Processes.

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How the Best Companies in the World Run All-Hands Meetings

Getspeakup

By: Ray Gillenwater (originally appeared at Entrepreneur.com ). Taking time to get the entire company into a live session is an expensive and risky proposition. It says quite a bit about leadership’s attitude. Namely, we value people in this organization enough to invest in: Keeping everyone informed of major company updates. Ensuring everyone is emotionally connected to the company’s goals.

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

Facing especially wicked problems, social sector organizations are searching for powerful new methods to understand and address them. Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world.

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How to Run Successful Corporate Hackathons with Ideation Software

Planview

“Every human being has a great idea.”. This quote by Lale Kesebi, Chief Communications Officer and Head of Strategic Engagement at Li & Fung, perfectly sums up an opportunity that’s right in front of every company’s face. Whether your organization has 100 or 100,000 employees, each individual has ideas for new products or improvements, drawn from their day-to-day experiences and knowledge.

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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 Strategic Thinking Exercises to Envision Future Strategy

BrainZooming

How can you develop strategic thinking exercises to envision the future when it’s so easy to let previous experience cloud your imagination? In an a mid-August 2017 article in The Wall Street Journal , Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint, Inc., discusses the future of electric cars and why the charging station model will break from the gas station model.

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Customer Co-Creation: How Producers Can Benefit From Their Customers’ Creativity

Innocentive

The model of production most established companies will be familiar with involves a series of basic steps. Beginning with market research – to identify gaps and test ideas – new products and services then move through phases that include research and development, creation and manufacture, and launch. The drivers are external and each element of the process is protected.

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29 Innovation Activities for Your Next Ideation

Innovation Excellence

I often get asked what activities a team should do in ideation to get better results and keep it fun. While there's a limitless list of possibilities that need to be tailored to each innovation challenge, I do have some favorites. Here are 29 that work and are adaptable to a variety of businesses and challenges.

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Towards Superhumanity

100%Open

There is a consensus building amongst scientists , technologists , economists and politicians that we are on the verge of entering the next phase of the evolution of our species. Yet there is profound disagreement as to whether this is actually a good thing and there are significant differences in opinion about how this could and should be managed, supported and regulated.

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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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Innovation SOP: Driving Corporate Innovation by Bettering Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Qmarkets' Innovation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): In this series, we will present different guidelines on how to bring innovation theory to practice. This week, we take a look at Employee Engagement - the benefits of employee engagement and how to successfully create employee engagement in your organization. An organization’s employees are vital components in a successful corporate innovation delivery plan.

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The Three Rs of Innovation – Risk, Reward, and Resources

Mike Shipulski

Is it innovation or continuous improvement or is it innovation? Is it regular innovation or disruptive innovation? Is it new enough or too new? These questions are worse than meaningless as they suck emotional energy from the organization and divert emotional energy from the business objective. With every initiative, there are risks, rewards, and resources.

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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

Innovation Excellence

In the late 1960’s, Gary Starkweather had a serious spat with his boss. As an engineer in Xerox’s long-range xerography unit, he saw that laser printing could be a huge business opportunity. His manager, however, was focused on improving the efficiency of the current product line, not looking to start another one. The argument got.

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Steve Blank on the Difference Between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook

Innovation Leader

“Innovative leaders are curious and see things others don’t—and they see further than others do,” says professor and author Steve Blank. “An execution-[oriented] CEO operates in the present or the next quarter, but very rarely sees further.

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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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Crowdsourcing Hurricane Relief and Rescue Efforts in Houston

IdeaConnection

While the world looked on in shock at the pictures coming out of Houston, Texas, some people swung into action, developing crowdsourcing initiatives to help rescue victims and coordinate relief efforts to flood-hit areas. Their actions have helped to save countless lives. Relief and Rescue. Among the crowdsourcing undertakings is Harvey Relief , a people-powered project involving more than 500 individuals.

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How Writing Makes You More Successful

Faisal Hoque

Writing allows you to explore who you are. It's a way to revisit the past, connect with the present, and draw a map for the future.

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Seven Valuable Lessons from a New Amazonian

Innovation Excellence

It has been just over 100 days since I began my new role at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I have received hundreds of LinkedIn questions, Facebook comments, and even DMs on Twitter asking what it is really like on the “inside” of one of the world’s most innovative companies. Here are 7 of the most.

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Vertex CEO on Innovation: The Challenge is Avoiding Complacency

Innovation Leader

Vertex’s CEO talks about the importance of investing in R&D — and the three pitfalls for companies that have attained success in the marketplace, including complacency.

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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