Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. I have written about the new innovation era in 2017 made up of higher levels of needed collaboration, where platforms, ecosystems and customer experience understanding beco

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Idea to Value

MAY 5, 2017

You can’t outsource the important things. After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most critical factors in the success of an innovation project: if you outsource all of the work on your innovation projects, they will fail. It doesn’t matter if you use our humble Studio or a 7-figure firm from Palo Alto or London. Many good innovation firms can generate consumer insights and craft a winning portfolio of concepts that have the nature to change your top-line growth.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 3, 2017

As digital connectivity begins to transform physical machines, it’s likely that we’re now in the early days of a new productivity boom. Related posts: The 5 Powerhouse Industries of the 21st Century. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Exago

MAY 4, 2017

Now that you have identified your key innovation challenges and built them properly, remember to set the timings. Not only does the commitment to a deadline make participants focus, but this also helps you when defining goals with realistic deadlines. The post Set the timing right for your innovation challenges 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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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2017

I frequently hear from some clients the desire or need to hold “general” or “blue sky” campaigns. “We don’t want to limit them.” “Anything goes.” “Just submit the idea and we will decide if we can make it happen.”. In two blog entries, I provide guidelines to help you go broad, avoid pitfalls, and collect ideas that are valuable and relevant to your organization.

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Idea to Value

MAY 5, 2017

As part of our curiosity series, Idea to Value highlights interesting pieces of knowledge to give you a new perspective and keep you creative. In today’s video highlight (above), you see how this simple island north of Scotland produces some of the world’s softest and highest quality clothing. It’s a fascinating insight of how some very old, artisanal skills work in tandem with new manufacturing technology, before finally being finished again by a skilled craftsman (or woman).

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Exago

MAY 4, 2017

Now that you have identified your key innovation challenges and built them properly, remember to set the timings. Not only does the commitment to a deadline make participants focus, but this also helps you when defining goals with realistic deadlines. The post Set the timing right for your innovation challenges appeared first on Exago.

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BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

Emma Gibson forwarded an article from Harvard Business Review addressing four factors that distinguish top chief executive performers in creating strategic impact. In “What Sets Successful CEOs Apart,” authors Elena Lytkina Botelho, Kim Rosenkoetter Powell, Stephen Kincaid, and Dina Wang reported their analysis of several thousand CEOs. A database of individual career profiles, behavior traits, and performance results provided the data set for their review.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

Based in USA (Chicago IL, New Orleans LA, Boston MA). Background. Erin (Pink) Mosley’s proven programs help people (and organizations) get the results they want by honing deep innovation and influence skills. She has worked within and alongside hundreds of organizations: all levels of government from small towns to federal agencies and departments, private companies, educational institutions, and non-profits of many kinds.

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hackerearth

MAY 4, 2017

“Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management.”- Eric Ries, Lean Startup. Doesn’t it surprise you that while most managers think of productivity being managed, quality being perfected, and human resources being tamed by adopting time-honed management principles, creativity and innovation, somehow, refuses to fall within the bracket?

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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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Gregg Fraley

MAY 5, 2017

What’s Really Needed is an Innovation MoshPit. Reinventing Combinations, Concept Blends, and Mash-Ups. I’ve been touting concept blends in innovation for some time. My reason is simple, it’s a fast path to new and different ideas. From the Printing Press to the iPhone, big new market-creating innovation happens when concepts from two different domains are combined.

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BrainZooming

MAY 4, 2017

I’ll admit it upfront: I’m not a huge fan of highly-involved, fun strategic planning icebreaker activities that don’t provide direct value to the strategic thinking we need to do. Granted, the contribution doesn’t have to be something that will go into the final strategic plan. But if we’re going to invest any amount of time for fun strategic planning icebreaker activities, they need to directly contribute to a fun environment or help the group to network and collaborate more effectively during

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Innovation 360

APRIL 30, 2017

Based in Dubai, UAE. Background. Rashid is a senior telecom expert with more than 12 years of experience in the field of Information and Communication Technology. He accumulated wide range of experience in network engineering, team leadership, process development and future strategies from being part of major initiatives in the UAE and World Wide. His visionary and future looking characteristic demonstrated in the different projects that he lead within his organization, working with Internationa

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Gijs Van Wulfen

MAY 5, 2017

WoW. I am so happy and honoured that my book ‘ The Innovation Maze ‘ ( in Dutch ) has been awarded as ‘Management Book of The Year 2017’ by Managementboek.nl. That’s why I am sharing with you the following highlights of The Innovation Maze. 15 obstacles are hindering innovation at its start. As speaker on innovation I have been traveling around the world meeting innovators, managers and CEOs in different cultures: from Canada to Cape Town; and from Turkey to Tokyo

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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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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 4, 2017

Interesting stuff, but some punctuation and spell checking would be helpful too! “On-Demand Video – This is a board category…” e.g. board or broad?

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BrainZooming

MAY 3, 2017

Here is Emma Alvarez Gibson’s report from a conference she recently attended. With a lot of suggestions and a little bit of arm-twisting, Emma implemented the ideas captured in our Introvert’s Guide: 23 Ideas to Meet New People at a Conference. She’s being very kind to share how she fared implementing the ideas to meet new people even though she was going solo at the conference!

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Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

This article was co-written with Frank Mattes from Dual Innovation and innovation-3. The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. ‘Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Almost every company shifts into overdrive to create ‘smart’ products, to turn a product business into a service business, to create new business models or to reach out beyond their traditional industry boundary.

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Mike Shipulski

MAY 3, 2017

There are many definitions for creativity and innovation, but none add meaningfully to how the work is done. Though it’s clear why the work is important – creativity and innovation underpin corporate prosperity and longevity – it’s especially helpful to know how to do it. At the most basic level, creativity and innovation are about problem solving.

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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

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 2, 2017

This easy to understand infographic was created to visualize the Lean Startup methodology from Eric Ries to explain it to others. The methodology helps start-ups and existing companies to be more innovative, efficient, and successful.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

Does your organization excel at its strategy implementation process ? Do you execute new strategies quickly, effectively, and successfully? A few clients we talk with mention a strong strategy execution process. Most discuss some big challenge (or multiple challenges) with implementation. We address their experiences in our collaborative strategy implementation approach.

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Collective Innovation

MAY 5, 2017

Ask anyone what the highest rated phone is and they will likely say the iPhone, when in fact many review sites have a different winner: the Samsung Galaxy Edge. Samsung isn’t just a company, it’s the size of a country and made up of an assortment of companies and partnerships. The scope of products and services they provide is mind boggling.

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Idea Drop

MAY 5, 2017

Type the word ‘disruptive’ into Google and suggested synonyms include ‘troublemaking’, ‘unruly’, ‘riotous’, ‘undisciplined’ and ‘turbulent’. Subsequent synonyms then include the words ‘inventive’, ‘ingenious’, ‘new’, ‘novel’ and ‘fresh’. Disruptive innovation is a divisive topic. It excites some and terrifies others. Some view it as a necessity for growth, others as a risk too great.

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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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IdeaConnection

MAY 5, 2017

The innovation team at the Jerusalem Municipality in Jerusalem has come up with a crowdsourcing app designed to help entrepreneurs decide where to open up new businesses. It is called Coming Soon and will rely on the input of the city’s residents and business owners. The city-wide business app is intending to help inject some vigor into Jerusalem’s economy.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 3, 2017

Company culture is an extremely important component of a healthy business. Culture serves as the personality of the organization and has a huge impact on the company's reputation with both internal employees and externally with customers and clients. In addition, workplace culture can influence an employee's productivity and results. Companies who focus on building a positive culture will reap the benefits of a motivated and high-achieving workforce as employees will feel much more contented and

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 30, 2017

When I moved on from being a high powered corporate retail executive almost thirty years ago, I took the entrepreneurial leap and initiated a design management consultancy to serve the Australian fashion and lifestyle industries. Interestingly, in those days, the focus was on stabilising innovation entrepreneurial businesses through conventional business management practices.

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Mills-Scofield

MAY 1, 2017

May - when spring really starts for many of us in the 'north'. So, just a short blog - more of a request. This week, instead of looking at what's not working all the time, try 2 times, just 2 , to find what's working, why it's working and how you can make that happen more. Try this at work, at home, wherever you want - but please, try it - just twice, that's not asking a lot. “ Find what’s working & why!

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Innocentive

MAY 2, 2017

Pharmaceutical companies have to constantly develop new drugs to stay ahead of the competition. Whilst the drugs created every year are innovative, the processes for developing them are often not. The result is that drug development frequently ends up being time-consuming, costly and unproductive. Can an approach such as “crowdsourcing” remedy these drawbacks?

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InnovationManagement

MAY 1, 2017

Over recent years we have been tracking how companies identified as leading innovators subsequently perform in terms of growth in shareholder value. Linking innovation efficiency to out-performance against all major indices has proven the relationship that many across industry believe in and hope for: innovation pays. The latest round of analysis has just been completed and shows even greater performance than before.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 3, 2017

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. I.

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The Human Factor

MAY 4, 2017

One of my favorite quotes from Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, is, “When the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” Which means if businesses don’t stay ahead of the change curve, they will soon find themselves in trouble. When Welch made this pronouncement many years ago, he was referring mainly to individual organizations.

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