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The 3 Forms of Open Innovation

Svava

And how to gradually utilize them to implement a full scale open innovation program.

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9 Diversity Dimensions That Increase Innovation, and One Reason They May Not

Innovation Excellence

Human resource departments tout diversity, because a diverse company will better represent all of its customers. But how does diversity help creativity? What are the important factors we typically forget? When we use the word “diversity” in the context of companies, we typically refer to the following definition: “the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin,color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc.” In fact, the dictionar

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Ten Tips for A Successful Pitch

Destination Innovation

Henry de Zoete and Will Hodson, co-founders of Look After My Bills, secured the best ever deal on the BBC show Dragons Den (equivalent to the US TV show Shark Tank). They received offers from all five investors on the show. They ended up selling just 3% of their business for £120,000 ($160,000 US). The pair met at Bristol University. Look after my Bills , the firm they founded, will find the best gas and electricity deals and switches people automatically when their deal runs out.

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Hallo Innovator! Exago Smart innovation management software is now in German

Exago

Exago Smart collaborative innovation software can now be used by German speakers in their own language. With the new version, the Exago enterprise-grade solution becomes available in nine language options, enabling over a million people worldwide to share ideas and insights and contribute to their company’s innovation and business goals. The post Hallo Innovator!

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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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Nonprofit Solutions for Innovation

IdeaScale

In the last post from this series, we talked about the nonprofit situation and how the nature of nonprofits leads to inherent problems. At the end of the post there were some solutions bullet-pointed, and today the first two of them will be visited and explained in more depth to offer more valuable insight. Harness the shared interest among all participants. .

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What The Best Innovators Do Differently

Digital Tonto

What makes the difference is not brilliance or even hard work. It is the passion to contribute something, to add not only knowledge but to the collective well being, that sets great innovators. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How To Staff Your Innovation Group

helloFUTURE

Fill It Full Of Doits, And You’ll Never Be Short Of Ideas A while back, I wrote a blog post about the two kinds of people in the world, the ShouldWes and the DoIts. You can go back here to read the full post, but in short, the DoIts are the action takers, the ones… The post How To Staff Your Innovation Group appeared first on hellofuture.

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10 Inspiring Innovation Podcasts

IdeaScale

If you’re like us, you love podcasts! You look to them for information on trends, emerging technologies, psychology studies, and more. How I Built This. What It Is: Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. Favorite Episode: Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger. Why We Like It: You really get a sense of how many different ways there are for an idea to grow.

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4 Things To Know Before You Move Your Business To The Cloud

Digital Tonto

Moving to the cloud isn't just about adapting new technology, it's about transforming your business Related posts: Why The Cloud Will Be Like The PC All Over Again. Cloud Computing Just Entered. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Entrepreneurs Can Be Better Leaders

Innovators Alliance

*Originally published on SpyderWorks: click here to access. Entrepreneurs aren’t always known for their people skills. And frankly, neither are engineers. So I felt somewhat challenged recently when I was invited to speak to students at the W Booth School of Engineering at McMaster University, which focuses on creating not just builders, but leaders.

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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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Eight Things Winning Innovation Teams Do Differently

Innovation Excellence

It’s no secret that innovation is tough to pull off. Even the “world’s most innovative” companies sometimes stumble. Just ask General Electric, which was recently delisted from the Dow Jones Index. Whirlpool’s tariff relief may give a boost to the beleaguered company, but American consumers appear to favor Korean brands and European styling.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Yes, you read it right. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. They described 11 out of 1,435 companies that had shown the highest level of success over the decades.

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The Type of Game That Kills Creativity and Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

There are two types of games. One kills creativity and the other is for kids… Business is serious. Right? But what if we could game playing to enhance our businesses? Games can be a useful tool for enhancing creativity. They make work more fun, they reduce stress, and they get people in action. However, not all games are created equal. There are adult games and kid games.

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Successful Companies Innovate Faster

Sopheon

It’s no longer good enough to sit in an ivory tower and dictate a 5 year strategy without fully understanding consumers and the highly fluid state of technological change. The post Successful Companies Innovate Faster appeared first on Sopheon.

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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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What’s New in Social Media Marketing

InnovationManagement

Social media marketing has become increasingly popular over the past few years. No wonder this is so when approximately 2.5 billion people use social networks on a daily basis. Facebook is still the most popular social media platform, despite its recent Cambridge Analytica Scandal , with more than 1.45 billion unique daily visitors.

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Why Your Creative Idea Isn’t All That Original (And That’s A Good Thing)

Innovation Excellence

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Your amazing, original idea—the one you swear is going to transform the world—is not all that original. At least not in the way that you think. And that doesn’t mean it’s not going to transform the world. We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth.

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What Are The Rules And Assumptions Under Which You Organization And Industry Operates?

Beyond the Obvious

To uncover the assumptions that could be blocking you from seeing the challenges and opportunities, here are two questions that are designed to help you discover the rules and assumptions under which your organization and industry operates. I want you to use them to start unraveling the assumptions you have about your business, your industry, and your […].

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Enthusiasm: A Vital Element in Strategic Thinking.

Focused Momentum

Strategy development is the most creative work leadership teams get to do together; rather it should be. All too often poorly facilitated planning efforts become chaotic or worse, boring. Strategic thinking should be the most fun a leadership team has together, but without the right guidance, it can be viewed as mundane. Learn three ways to create real enthusiasm for your next planning effort.

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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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Ready to Drive Global Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Everyone is mesmerized by the mystery and magic of innovation and new technologies through AI, Blockchain, IoT, AR/VR, Digital Ecosystems and more. Conversations center around the latest products and services as well as the future impact of a digital life. Yet there is one question that is surprisingly overlooked in many circles - how will leaders and teams innovate and collaborate in a changing business world?

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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Bet Your Business On A Platform

Innovation Excellence

Hertz is a nearly 100 year-old business valued at about $2 billion. Uber is an 8 year-old business valued at $50 billion. Marriott is a 90 year-old business, with hotels all over the world, and is valued at $39 billion, while AirBnB achieved a similar value in just 11 years and doesn’t own any rooms.

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Artificial Intelligence Forecasts Earthquake Aftershocks

IdeaConnection

Earthquakes can be devastating and so too can the aftershocks. These are defined as earthquakes that follow the main shock and sometimes they can cause even greater destruction. Currently, seismologists can predict when aftershocks will strike and how strong they will be but there is less certainty about where. Until now that is. A group of researchers from Harvard University and Google have trained a type of artificial intelligence known as a ‘deep learning’ programme with data abou

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David Ogilvy on Big Ideas, Creativity And Selling

Rmukesh Gupta

Here is a video where one of the best minds when it comes to running some of the most prolific marketing campaigns shares his thoughts about how he approached his work. This is a must watch video (~ 5 Mins) if you are in the field of sales or marketing or in any other profession that requires you to persuade others. .

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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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Man and Nature:  Perspectives on Sustainability from East Asian Philosophy

InnovationManagement

This article provides a conceptual rationale for environmental sustainability derived from Taoist and Buddhist philosophies. Our goal as a society should be to jointly enhance the quality of human lifestyles and the natural environment, not just one or the other. Innovations in this area can have a nonlinear or exponential impact.

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Entrepreneurial Psychopathologies

Innovation Excellence

The US Armed Forces has a problem with soldier suicide and depression. In early 2013, the official website of the United States Department of Defense announced the startling statistic that the number of military suicides in 2012 had far exceeded the total of those killed in battle—an average of nearly one a day. A month later.

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Building an Innovative Company Culture

Taivara

Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Building an Innovative Company Culture. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first.

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Leadership Effectiveness – Questions to Ask of Ourselves

Rmukesh Gupta

As leaders, the way we behave when we are alone or amongst a group is always noticed by everyone around and has an impact whether we like it or not and whether it is intentional or not. So, it is better to be intentional about the kind of impact that we want to have rather than leave that to chance. So, in order to learn how to go about being intentional about the impact my emotions have on people around me, I registered and attended a session on Emotional Intelligence and how we can use the con

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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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The Rise of Innovative Entrepreneurs

InnovationManagement

Watch Live Debates on Sept.7 th 2018. As the global mindshare shifts towards grassroots and sustainability, what are the top starting points of new global prosperity centric revolutions? It’s no longer important which economical model you support, which super power you endorse, or which nation you belong to.

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Flashback – Five of the Most Inspiring Quotes of 2016

Innovation Excellence

We all fall down, but often a few simple words can be enough to motivate you to get back up. Trying to create a list of the most inspiring quotes from 2016 is risky business. There are thousands of great things said that could easily qualify. And the temptation is always to go with the.

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#1,368 – The Clam Pillow

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Similar to the way we wrap our bodies in blankets for comfort, The Clam Pillow allows us to do the same for our heads, helping us to fall asleep quickly and peacefully. To find out more about this incredible new invention I chatted recently with Clam Pillow’s founder, Todd Stecker , in order to learn more about what inspired him to create this unique product. 1.

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32 lessons from this year’s Do Lectures

Rmukesh Gupta

I stumbled onto this list collated by Matt Spry about what he learnt from this year’s Do Lectures. This is great advice for anyone to lead their lives. Here is the entire list as quoted by him on his post here. 1. Do less, but better 2. Consciously choose everything you do 3. Follow your curiosity, talk to more people, try things, tell your story 4.

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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