IdeaScale
MARCH 29, 2017
Conferences let you meet the latest and greatest in innovation. Tech conferences are where innovation can truly kindle. But there’s also a dizzying array of them from which to choose. So, to help you pick, we’ve selected 2017’s most fascinating, compelling innovation conferences to mark on your calendars. Disrupt 2017. New York, May 15th to 17th.
Destination Innovation
MARCH 30, 2017
Hannibal (247 – 182 BC) was an illustrious general of the North African state of Carthage, Rome’s enemy and rival for control of the Mediterranean. His father was a Carthaginian general, Hamilcar, who made his 9 year old son swear undying enmity for Rome. As a boy Hannibal went to Spain, which was under Carthaginian control, and trained to be a soldier.
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Exago
MARCH 30, 2017
Here’s a simple but essential tip when establishing your innovation challenges: pick ‘fights’ that are useful and bring attainable value to your organisation. The post How to pick useful and feasible ‘fights’ for innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.
Braden Kelley
MARCH 27, 2017
Innovation Keynote Speakers are often misunderstood, maligned, and underutilized. We have all been to many conferences, and heard many good (and bad) keynote and session speakers with a variety of styles (all of which are perfectly acceptable), including: 1.
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
IdeaScale
MARCH 28, 2017
When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated. As products, technologies, business models become commodities over time, your corporate culture can become the source of reinvention and your only enduring competitive adva
Digital Tonto
MARCH 26, 2017
The truth is that even really smart people get the future wrong. We need to be explorers, not oracles. Related posts: We Need To Stop Chasing The Last Big Thing And Start Preparing For the Next One. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Mills-Scofield
MARCH 26, 2017
Fly NYON #ShoeSelfies - Aerial view over Central Park, NYC. I’ve been thinking about comfort zones. Most of the discussion makes it seem like comfort zones are static. They’re not. We decide if our comfort zones: Grow ~ because we’re curious, eager to learn, expand our worldview and meet new people doing all sorts of different, interesting things; Shrink ~ because we’ve been burned, failed, or circumstances have made us more cautious and fearful; Maintain ~ because we feel we are just fine where
IdeaScale
MARCH 30, 2017
The votes are in, the consensus is clear- the #1 challenge for decision makers across industry is now selecting the right problem to solve and more precisely- being confident that that selection is the best problem to focus on. In a recent study 85% of executives agree that their organizations are bad at problem diagnosis and 87% agree that this flaw carries significant costs.
Digital Tonto
MARCH 29, 2017
We need to shift from crafting messages to creating experiencesWe need to shift from crafting messages to creating experiences. Algorithms can analyze and target, but only humans can truly inspire. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
BrainZooming
MARCH 28, 2017
For many business people, it’s intimidating to walk into an unfamiliar situation (whether that’s a new company, client, team, initiative, or project) knowing you are expected to contribute new business ideas right away. If you face those types of situations, you know how nerve wracking it can be to have to go from “nice to meet you” to new business ideas in perhaps minutes.
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.
Integrative Innovation
MARCH 26, 2017
W. Edwards Deming once famously stated: A bad system will beat a good person every time. . What was Deming trying to convey with this quote ? It wasn’t an attempt to get people to give up trying because failure was certain. It was an attempt to get people to understand the importance of the system and the futility of trying to focus on blaming people for failures.
Daniel Burrus
MARCH 30, 2017
When I first discovered Moore’s Law in 1983, I realized I could use it as one of my tools to accurately predict the future of technological change. At the time, few were paying much attention to Moore’s law. Over the decades, the press has declared the death of Moore’s law, usually stating that it is impossible for scientists to make processors smaller and more powerful at the same exponential rate.
InnovationManagement
MARCH 30, 2017
After two years of coming up with my idea, I finally launched the platform 'Scout Me Online.' All the reasons why we procrastinate, avoid or delay in making decisions committing to a specific task are because we believe we need to have something or be perfect. And when we don’t have those, or we doubt ourselves, which reinforces our current belief.
BrainZooming
MARCH 30, 2017
The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence profiled a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Fanatics , the sports apparel manufacturer and marketer, in its Inside the Executive Suite. Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines.
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.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 25, 2017
For the past fifty years or so, technology has followed a fairly predictable path. We squeeze more transistors onto silicon wafers, which makes chips more powerful and devices smaller. Manual processes become automated, productivity increases and life gets better. Rinse and repeat. Today, we’re at an inflection point and that predictable path to progress will.
Faisal Hoque
MARCH 29, 2017
Political and economic headwinds can rock your boat without capsizing it. Here’s how I’ve learned to keep a steady hand on the tiller. The post Three Reliable Leadership Lessons I Keep Going Back To In Uncertain Times appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.
InnovationManagement
MARCH 26, 2017
We increasingly see the world and much of its innovation through the lens of cities not countries, but there is little clarity around where the true innovation hotspots of today, let alone tomorrow, are to be found. While there is general agreement around which are the most innovative countries, the lack of consensus around the criteria used to identify an innovative city has produced multiple views and varied answers.
BrainZooming
MARCH 27, 2017
How are you boosting your creative thinking skills in dramatic ways for 2017 and beyond? If you haven’t thought about it, fortunately for you, there is an opportunity coming up April 2 through April 9, 2017! It features forty-five creativity and innovation experts! And it’s available online and FREE! The Innovation and Creativity Summit 2017 is a virtual event running from this coming Sunday through the following Sunday.
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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
Mike Shipulski
MARCH 29, 2017
When a hurricane is on the horizon, we are all glued to our TVs. We want to know where it track so we know we’ll be safe. Will it track north and rumble over the top of us or will it track east and head out to sea? This is not trivial. In one scenario we lose our house and in the other the crazy surfers get to ride huge waves. The meteorologist shows us a time-lapse of the storm center hour-by-hour.
Guide 4 Innovating
MARCH 27, 2017
I was reminded last week on what I seem to have forgotten in my years of focusing on innovation, or was simply repeating, just how innovation has seemingly stayed still in much of its design in recent years, irrespective of what we believe has been ‘innovation advances’. We certainly do keep moving relentlessly on in finding new tools, to squeeze a little more out of the innovation process but when you stop and think about it, we actually are still extracting mostly that incremental juice, we ar
InnovationManagement
MARCH 29, 2017
Have you ever wondered where great ideas come from? If your company has ever stalled for the lack of innovation, then you’ve probably thought about it from time to time. Innovative ideas can come from nothing, or from a long process of brainstorming and debate, but it always seems like some industries are consistently coming out with the best new products and processes, while others lag far behind.
BrainZooming
MARCH 29, 2017
Short Story: There could be better ways to formalize your organization’s innovation strategy, so ask The Brainzooming Group for ideas (via a FREE conversation) to make sure you consider alternatives! How do you introduce an innovation strategy for your organization ? Do you start from scratch and unveil innovation as a new initiative with a focused team?
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
hackerearth
MARCH 31, 2017
Trying to find an example of the “walking a thin line” idiom is easy. Think of HR managers who have to align company goals and employee satisfaction! HR leaders no longer just stick to legal and compliance issues; they are now strategic business partners with a key role to play in shaping the company’s culture and taking the company closer to realizing its vision.
Guide 4 Innovating
MARCH 30, 2017
So what does block innovation? Arguably there are plenty of things up and down organizations. For instance a lack of resources, an overcrowded portfolio of ideas, a lack of dedicated people, treating innovation as a one-off, keeping it isolated and apart from mainstream activities. Yet many are simply hidden and need surfacing and require often an outside perspective.
Rmukesh Gupta
MARCH 29, 2017
I came across this video where Simon Sinek talks about 5 rules to live by. He shares these lessons through some very interesting and compelling stories. I highly encourage to watch the video below (about 18 mins). If you don’t have the 18 mins and want to know what are the 5 rules that he talks about quickly, they are as follows: Go after the things that we want : There are two ways to see the world – to see what we want or to see everything that stands in the way of what we want.
IdeaConnection
MARCH 31, 2017
Whether it’s coming up with novel ways that allow astronauts to poop safely in space, inventing life-saving medical devices or finding solutions to such complex problems as global warming, open innovation contests are powerful catalysts for groundbreaking advances. We feature many on the IdeaConnection website, brilliant examples of creativity, ingenuity and what happens when great minds work toward a common goal.
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Innovation Excellence
MARCH 26, 2017
For those of you following our posts about ecosystems and platforms and their importance to innovation, this is the 30th post. We thought it made sense to take a breather before pushing on to other ideas, to stop and recap what we’ve been writing about, and to place some of these ideas in context.
Taivara
MARCH 29, 2017
Product Hunt Columbus Recap. Educating with Emerging Tech – Local Tech Heroes. Educating with Emerging Tech – Local Tech Heroes. Safety 3rd Racing and Kneurons have teamed up to create Local Tech Heroes to teach children how to use innovative technology. Everything from drones, to 3D printing, to virtual reality, to coding. They aim to give every child in Columbus opportunities to become the next great innovator by teaching them about these emerging technologies.
Inceodia
MARCH 29, 2017
Customer Experience is one of the least understood aspects of delivering an excellent product. For many businesses customer experience is equivalent to customer service, where the customer only calls when there’s a problem. Think Lily Tomlin managing the phone line switches in small town America. This one engagement is designed around resolving a problem quickly so the service agent can get the customer off the phone and on to the next call.
eZassi
MARCH 29, 2017
Open innovation injects new ideas into an organization by providing the ability for non-employees to submit concepts for consideration. The process relies on a pool of involved and enthusiastic contributors who want to participate in the process. The challenge is how to attract and engage these innovators in a way that sustains their interest and increases the quality of their submissions.
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