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How Can You Run An Idea Creation Competition?

IdeaScale

Idea generation is the heart of innovation. Creating this culture in your organization increases employee engagement and promotes collaboration. Innovation increases brand loyalty. Research shows 77% of consumers have been loyal to certain brands for more than a decade. One way to inspire the innovation process is to hold an idea generation competition.

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How to Create Trust by Setting People Free

Tullio Siragusa

How to Create Trust by Setting People Free. While several nations are celebrating their independence from foreign rule every year, the same cannot be said for the superimposition of various factors on people in workplaces. Employees also deserve freedom and independence from the command-and-control structures that are still very pervasive in corporate culture today.

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Validate your idea or innovation, not yourself

Idea to Value

An important part of the innovation process is validating ideas. When done correctly, it is a powerful way of getting feedback from the market on what it would take to make the innovation a success. However, many people fall into a trap when looking for feedback. While they think they are asking people for unbiased, honest feedback to validate the idea or innovation, in reality what they are looking for is validation of themselves.

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We Need To Get Off The Silicon Valley Doomsday Machine

Digital Tonto

At this point, the government, the media, big business, small business, Silicon Valley, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have all been somewhat discredited. There is no real enemy left besides. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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Games that Boost the Creative Brain

Destination Innovation

I love playing games. I believe that there are great benefits in playing games and in adopting a playful approach to life in general. Games help develop a range of vital skills in children and they love playing them. Games can also develop the same skills in adults but many grown-ups consider games to be childish and not worthy of their time. This is a pity and a missed opportunity.

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Building Capability and Capacity to Expand Capabilities for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

For innovation to be successful, the bottom line is the commitment and focus made for the building the capabilities and competencies in innovation as people make us the real value and ARE the innovation success equation in my opinion, so simply invest in them by focusing on the 3 C’s of developing their Capability, Competency and Capability. As we set about to build and expand capabilities we need to consider: How we can accelerate uptake of innovation activity around the conditions provid

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What Does Innovation Mean?

IdeaScale

Innovation is a common term in business today. Companies must embrace change to move forward and reach goals. Knowing when and how to innovate is crucial to success. Here are some ways to identify innovation and put it to work in your organization. Definition: What Does Innovation Mean? Society is constantly evolving. Regular technological advances … Continued.

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Business Model Disruption: MrBeast vs McDonalds

Strategyzer Innovation

2020 has been an incredibly disruptive year for the restaurant industry with losses of over $240B in the US market alone. Supply chains have been cut, the way people consume and order food has been turned upside down by the pandemic. These constraints also represent an opportunity for businesses to rethink how customers engage, how to mobilize people and resources to achieve faster results and how to leverage new technologies to their advantage.

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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. When I am approached about reading and reviewing a book, I always ask myself a couple of questions: Does the book seem to advance interesting ideas or methods to improve innovation Does it have anything new or novel to add to a plethora of books on innovation topics Will I learn something from the book - is it worth my time or my reader's time Based on this quick anal

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Podcast S5E102: Nick Bulwin – Bringing consciousness to business

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with tech investor and consciousness crusader Nick Bulwin. We speak about how companies and brands need to prepare for the future. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – How data is the basis for a new level of understanding consciousness. 00:05:00 – How quantum computers will change the future. 00:08:00 – How people’s access to technology is changing their interactions. 00:12:00 – How brands need to evolve

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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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The Key to Success In 2021: Building a Creative and Innovative Culture

InnovationManagement

In this article by Jeff DeGraff, he presents the four types of innovative cultures and four best practices for building a culture of innovation. The post The Key to Success In 2021: Building a Creative and Innovative Culture appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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What is a Kaizen Event? Your Complete Guide Rapid Improvement

Kainexus

Kaizen events, also called rapid improvement sprints or blitzes, are an impactful way to implement improvement quickly, but they require planning and preparation to make them useful. We've heard many stories about Kaizen events that went wrong. That's not surprising because there are many ways that improvement events can go off the rails. The best way to avoid that outcome is to put in the effort ahead of time to ensure your event is a huge success.

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Bioplastics: ready for prime-time?

Wellspring

Starting with the development of a commercial polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) product in the 1980s , bioplastics have received off-and-on attention given their potential for widespread application in industry. In particular, it has long been thought that biosynthesized polymers – plastics produced through natural processes, ideally using renewable resources as feedstocks – could be an eventual replacement for traditional petrochemical-based plastics.

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Durchlüftung

Idea to Value

In Germany, people are obsessed with Durchlüftung. It is one of those wonderful German words which means “ to let air go through “ In practice, it means that instead of just opening a window in a room to let fresh air in, Germans (and many other Europeans) will open windows on opposite sides of a flat / house to allow fresh air to pump out all of the existing stale air.

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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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How Are Agile and Innovation Related?

InnovationManagement

Organizations everywhere are working to form agile cultures. What does it mean to be agile? . The post How Are Agile and Innovation Related? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Member Spotlight: Tony Parham, Fidelity Investments

Innovation Leader

Tony Parham is the Vice President of Innovation & Strategy for the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) at Fidelity Investments. We spoke with Tony as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.

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Risks Can and Should Be Calculated. Here’s the Formula.

Daniel Burrus

Learning to become anticipatory versus being agile and reactionary will prove to be far more effective in helping you think exponentially, skip your biggest problems with ease, and ultimately envision and bring to life amazing new ideas with the confidence that certainty provides. Risks can and should be calculated, here is the formula: Evolve with Anticipation.

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Corporate Strategy: The Four Key Components

Cascade Strategy

What is corporate strategy? Corporate strategy is arguably the most essential and broad ranging strategy level within organizational strategy. The corporate strategy level concerns itself with the entirety of the organization on a more or less abstract level, where decisions are made with regard to the overall growth and direction of a company. For context, other strategy levels include business strategy and functional strategy - more on those later!

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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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A Yin-Yang Model for Global Sustainability: Moving Towards Rural-Urban Balance

InnovationManagement

This article employs a holistic, interactive East Asian framework—the ancient yin-yang circle—for presenting both defensive and proactive carbon control strategies in urban and rural areas. Given the recent wave of deadly wildfires in the American West, attention is focused here on the future significance of oceans as a massive carbon sink for fighting global climate change.

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Member Profile: Tony Parham, Fidelity Investments

Innovation Leader

Tony Parham is the Vice President of Innovation & Strategy for the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) at Fidelity Investments. We spoke with Tony as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.

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Sharing Covid Vaccination Process Improvements - VacciNexus!

Kainexus

For the entire team at KaiNexus, the phrase "spread continuous improvement" is a driving mission statement. It's not just a business objective, it's something that we think can change the world. We truly believe that. Our customers spread continuous improvement throughout their organizations. Often, this is person to person, team to team, department to department, and site to site.

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#2,108 – Alexa Hunches

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The goal of Google and Amazon when it comes to search and voice activated personal assistants is to get to the point where these devices know us better than we know ourselves, serving up relevant information and answers to questions before we even know we want it, before we even ask for it. And Amazon just got one step closer to that goal by enabling Alexa to act on the “hunches” its been accumulating.

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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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Strategies that Promote Workplace Diversity and make your Business More Innovative

InnovationManagement

At IdeaScale, we’ve learned that diversity combined with equity and inclusion leads to more innovative thinking: businesses that are run by culturally diverse teams are more likely to develop new products, 45% more likely to grow market share, and more likely to have a 2X innovation revenue. The post Strategies that Promote Workplace Diversity and make your Business More Innovative appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Don’t Call It a Failure (Use this Word Instead)

Innovation Leader

It’s time to stop talking about failures, and start talking about “nearlings,” says the Belgian author and keynote speaker Cyriel Kortleven. He explains what a nearling is in a short video.

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DigitalBasel Launches Open Innovation Challenge on Qmarkets Platform

Qmarkets

DigitalBasel and Qmarkets have combined forces to demonstrate the power of crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation. Powered by Qmarkets, DigitalBasel have launched a platform calling for ideas on how to promote digital transformation across a wide variety of important topics and trends. The campaign was announced during a joint session hosted by DigitalBasel and Qmarkets at the 2020 Swiss Digital Days – a nationwide event supported by leading companies including Swisscom and SBB.

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#2,113 – Photo Culling

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The worst part about being a photographer is going back through all of the hundreds, if not thousands, of photos you just took to try and find the best ones to post. It’s a tedious, arduous process that is the bane of my existence especially when dealing with so many near identical photos. Thankfully, Canon has a solution. AI capable of deleting your worst photos and keeping the best. 9 to 5 Mac explains: “Photo Culling’s AI rates pictures on sharpness, noise, emotion, and whether ey

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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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Leaders need to move faster to survive

IdeaSpies

The pace of change on the outside must be at least met by the pace of change on the inside not to be going backwards. Or as fam.

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Party Lines, Clubhouse, and Reinvention as a Shortcut to Innovation

Innovation Leader

Rick Robinson, Vice President of Innovation at AARP Innovation Labs, shares why not every innovation needs to stem from novel ideas — all through the lens of Clubhouse.

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Naming Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Create and choose the right name to define your idea, company, brand, product or service with a naming workshop. What’s in a name? It turns out, a lot! But that doesn’t mean you need an expensive naming agency to create a name and choose for you. Why not consider letting your team take control? After all, they are the ones who know your business and your customers best.

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#2,110 – SpinQ

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Got $5,000 lying around? If so, you could be one of the first people on your block to own a desktop Quantum computer! A machine that would be able to complete complicated calculations that regular computers can’t handle in a fraction of the time. Discover Magazine sums it up best: “A Chinese start-up has unveiled plans to sell a desktop quantum computer costing less than $5,000.

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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