Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2017

In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017. This is a follow-up to what I consider to be one of the most important pieces of creativity research from the past decade. Children are born to be creative, like eagles are born to soar, see the world, and find food, not scratch and fight for scraps in a coop.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 22, 2017

In his 2017 letter to shareholders Jeff Bezos shares some powerful insights into decision making at Amazon. Jeff Bezos. “To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions. Easy for start-ups and very challenging for large organizations. The senior team at Amazon is determined to keep our decision-making velocity high.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding. We continually learn, at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times.

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Exago

APRIL 24, 2017

Having identified your key innovation challenges – aligned with your company’s higher purpose and strategic goals and made attainable, useful and targeted – it’s time to focus on describing them plainly and completely, to guarantee you’ll get meaningful content. The post Are you building your innovation challenges right? 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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Braden Kelley

APRIL 26, 2017

Introduction When it comes to innovation, no two companies are likely to be pursuing innovation in the same way, and they are also likely to be at different stages of innovation maturity.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 26, 2017

Let’s say you are faced with a tough problem. You have wrestled with it for a while and now you have to make a decision. One approach is to use what I call the three by three method. You start by considering many options. You narrow this down to three choices. Your current best option, the CBO. A sound realistic alternative. An outlandish idea that might just work.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 27, 2017

Everyone's talking about innovation, which could be a good thing. Except that while they are talking about it, they are often talking about the wrong things, or defining innovation too narrowly, or are too focused on tools rather than outcomes. Sometimes, rather than doing something they are simply talking. Talking about innovation is exciting, I'll grant you, because most corporate types don't get to do innovation, let alone talk about innovation.

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Braden Kelley

APRIL 25, 2017

I am excited to announce on behalf of Innovation Excellence friend Tiffany Shlain that 50/50 Day is less than a month away and we can’t wait for this global conversation about gender equality!

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2017

Creative wave makers display both the creative thinking skills and the boldness to improve ideas and situations in dramatic, unexpected ways. Some people are born as creative wave makers. For the rest of us, there are structures and extreme creativity questions you can use to surround yourself and boost your creative thinking skills. Here is a list of nineteen of our most popular articles to develop and employ your own extreme creative thinking skills and those of everyone around you!

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 26, 2017

The work of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines Related posts: How We Should Prepare Our Kids For The Future. Are You Using Data To Analyze The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 24, 2017

Sorry I've been a bit lax about keeping up the blog posts. Between an open innovation webinar , a planned trip to Dubai to speak on innovation and a very successful innovation conference , (not to mention some customer work) I've been a bit busy lately. But it was something I saw at our conference, and something I read today about Target that prompted this blog post.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 27, 2017

Introduction When it comes to innovation, no two companies are likely to be pursuing innovation in the same way, and they are also likely to be at different stages of innovation maturity. Because of this, even if you found out what your competitor’s innovation strategy was, it would be of no use to you. It.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 24, 2017

While discussing innovative cities, one can’t help but think about those that were major catalysts for change in the past: Athens, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Florence, for example. But how do they compare to more modern innovation hubs such as Silicon Valley, London, or Singapore? In this article, we’ll look at Florence - and 10 recognizable and applicable elements that contributed to its success throughout the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 28, 2017

These days, “talking about our relationship” means more than it used to. Now, it spells game-changing opportunity. For many, an organization’s relationship with its customers used to be largely limited to the point of sale. Thereafter, contact was a good deal more incidental—maybe a bit of anecdotal feedback or a response to a satisfaction survey, but that was usually it.

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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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Planview

APRIL 25, 2017

Following on the heels of our biggest product release yet, which included new game-changing capabilities, Spigit has announced the launch of its Technology Partner Program. Here’s what you need to know. What is the Technology Partner Program? Spigit’s Technology Partner Program opens a new world of possibilities for ideation and collaboration. It enables qualifying software vendors to build integrations with Spigit that help enterprises execute on their portfolios of high-value ideas faster.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Budapest, Hungary - September 7, 2015: Children's shoes from war refugees at the Keleti Railway Station. Just over three weeks ago, an overcrowded boat carrying a group of Syrian refugees capsized and sank off an island in Greece. At least 34 people, including 15 children, died in this accident alone. Coming atop of the heartbreaking image of a drowned Syrian toddler washed ashore a beach in Turkey earlier in September, this news epitomized the scale and severity of the humanitarian disaster cha

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 27, 2017

By Carol Ozemhoya, Contributing Editor at Vector. Some people worry about technology costing people jobs and taking over the world as has been portrayed in many major motion pictures, such as the “Matrix” series. But in reality, a lot of the advances in technology have made our lives easier and safer, and well, cheaper. Consider the cost of color TVs when they first came out and what they cost now… a mere fraction of the earlier models.

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Svava

APRIL 28, 2017

Innovation – Why It’s Better Not to Go It Alone Why forming and tasking a group with innovation has better results While one person might be tasked with managing and reporting on innovation projects, they shouldn’t have to think them up all on their own. Really, it’s better for everyone if they don’t. Let’s […].

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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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Strategos

APRIL 27, 2017

To make innovation happen takes time. I don’t mean the time it takes for your innovative ideas to mature into their full revenue-generating glory. I mean the time it takes employees to develop insights, generate ideas, and elaborate and test business models. Many companies that list innovation as one of their core values expect that innovation will somehow just “happen” in employees’ increasingly limited moments when they aren’t busy addressing the immediate demands of their job or “putting ou

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

You’ve heard this cliché many times before: innovation is all about people. Even if you’re an avid fan of artificial intelligence, you hardly expect robots replacing humans as innovators any time soon. And if you agree with another popular cliché, the one saying that innovation is a team sport, you will come to a natural conclusion that in order to pursue a corporate innovation project, you need to create a dedicated innovation team.

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Mike Shipulski

APRIL 26, 2017

If you put yourself out there and it doesn’t go as you expect, don’t get down. All you are responsible for is your effort and your intentions. You’re not responsible for the outcome. Intentions don’t drive outcomes. In fact, be prepared for your work to bring out the opposite of your intentions. If you put yourself out there and it goes poorly, don’t judge yourself negatively.

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IdeaConnection

APRIL 28, 2017

Nurture your inventive inclinations with these wise, inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from some of the greatest inventive and scientific minds our planet has ever seen. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein. “There are no rules here–we’re trying to accomplish something.” Thomas Edison. “It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

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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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InnovationManagement

APRIL 25, 2017

Want to improve your leadership skills? Well, you can start by talking less and listening more. While your oratory skills may impress some, your ability to listen will impress even more. Great leaders understand the importance of surrendering the floor. Unfortunately, most leaders choose to dominate the conversation with rhetoric and fail to engage in proper communication, which requires listening.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

As a general rule, we hold our governments to a higher standard than that which we hold private businesses and corporations to. Private sector businesses are expected to only look out for themselves, but the government is meant to look out for us. Why is it then that we've reversed the roles, castigating businesses for not showing involvement but accepting the fact that it seems that governments aren't at all interesting in engaging their citizens?

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2017

In an article on Innovation Excellence , Braden Kelley shares a letter written by one the most well-known innovators on the planet, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In the letter, Bezos gives shareholders a glimpse into Amazon’s DNA as a company and where he puts the most value when it comes to operating the business. Here’s what innovation leaders can learn from the brilliant mind of Jeff Bezos.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 24, 2017

It takes a cross-sectional skill set to successfully implement good AI, and in order to do so, companies need to both understand their consumers’ motivations and capitalize on them using the right tools.

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Guide 4 Innovating

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t have time, how can you learn? We are in need increasingly, of faster understanding, to quickly learn or resolve an immediate need, or we have this determination or essential requirement within our innovation role to deepen our knowledge and understanding of innovation. These are usually split into two parts, called are “micro or macro learning opportunities” The value of having an innovation guide, mentor or coach helps you accelerate through both these needs and l

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Using corporate innovation tools. A lack of executive leadership is one of the most commonly mentioned reasons for the failure of innovation. This leadership vacuum usually comes in two varieties. The company’s CEO loudly declares “Let’s innovate!” and then forgets about it, leaving the nascent innovation team fight alone against the overwhelming forces of inertia and resistance.

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eZassi

APRIL 26, 2017

The FEI 2017 Conference will be held in Boston May 8th through 11th, and eZassi’s new CIO, Denise Fletcher is participating as a panelist. We are thrilled to have Denise representing us at this exciting and informative event. Denise is one of several internationally renowned innovators who will be speaking at the conference on a wide range of topics that address issues of: Startups and Innovation.

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Corporate Innovation

APRIL 25, 2017

This post first appeared on 4/27/17 in O’Reilly’s site. In my book, The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future , I make two arguments: 1) that societal and urban challenges are accelerating the adoption of on-demand mobility, and 2) technology advances, including big data and machine intelligence, are making Autonomous Connected and Electrified (ACE) vehicles a reality.

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