Sat.Dec 26, 2015 - Fri.Jan 01, 2016

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That sudden surge within the crowd

Paul Hobcraft

Have you ever been caught up in a sudden surge within a crowd, when it all suddenly moves, temporarily sweeping you off your feet, making the pulse race a little more until you actually begin to enjoy the sensation? It brings out a sudden rush of emotions. It can be intense, it moves you in a particular direction, often you are struggling to regain control, and everything around you heightens in your awareness.

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Building a Growth Factory: Making Innovation Repeatable

HYPE Innovation

There are several good case studies out there on how large organizations have implemented a corporate innovation strategy, one of those is Building a Growth Factory , by the team at Innosight. In their short ebook (96 pages), they describe how P&G and Citi discovered concerns over their ability to increase innovation, and did something about it.

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Measuring innovation: the human factor

Exago

Innovation is not a stationary object. It’s a process that transforms ideas into value – a way of doing things that every company has to adopt at its core. Since 2000, the focus on innovation has been moving to the. Read More. The post Measuring innovation: the human factor appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Don’t mentor. Develop young talent.

Mike Shipulski

Your young talent deserves your attention. But it’s not for the sake of the young talent, it’s for the survival of your company. Your young talent understands technology far better than your senior leaders. And they don’t just know how it works, they know why people use it. And it’s not just social media. They know how to code, they know how to prototype (I think the call it hacking, or something like that.) and they know how things fit together.

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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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Moving innovation even more in 2016

Paul Hobcraft

Are we entering 2016 with an innovating mind-set? We need too, so as to seize the growth that is tougher to find. As we look to enter into 2016 what is top of mind for innovation to take hold and become the real core within our business organizations? Some of my quick thoughts: • Innovation is not the preserve of the (selected) few but the domain of the community, it is encouraging our connections to actually connect and exchange mutual value and knowledge. • Moving innovation from just being sy

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Why Big Data Matters in Innovation Management

HYPE Innovation

What does it take to sustain innovation in your organization? Ideally, you could devote time, money, and resources to a think tank that had nothing to do but produce a steady stream of promising innovations all day every day. But that isn't realistic for the majority of organizations that do not have the name Google or GE on a sign out front. Everyone else needs some assistance to achieve and maintain a state of regular and consistent innovation.

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Sandra Skohg

Innovation 360 Group

Operations, Ideation 360. Background. Sandra is a young professional with great organizational and analytical skills, a love for excel and a passion for innovation. She has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lund’s University with a major in International Trade and Economic Integration. Currently, she is completing her MSc in Economics of Innovation and Growth at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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Corporate Shamanism

Innovation Excellence

Take risks. Leap into unknown and unexplored areas. Express yourself in new ways. Do these things to locate, validate, and capitalize on new areas of growth for your business. There are formal methods and processes for unlocking potential and manifesting new realities. We always tell clients to.

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Are You More Innovative Than You Think?

Innovation in Practice

New research published in Harvard Business Review suggests that we tend to underestimate our creative ability and that we give up too early. The authors, Brian J. Lucas and Loran Nordgren, shared the following: "In a series of experiments we observed that people consistently underestimated the number of ideas they could generate while solving a creative challenge.

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Be the Disrupter, not the Disrupted: Here’s How to Stimulate Innovation

Daniel Burrus

Whether we acknowledge it or not, we live in an economy of digital disruption. Innovations happen everyday — one of these days, it might be the next big thing that puts you out of a job. But if you’re anticipating the future and trying to be pre-active to future known events, to even be the disrupter (rather than reactive and the disrupted), there’s a better chance you will not only succeed but excel.

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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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Best Strategy Blog in 2015

Norbert Bol

The best read strategy blog in 2015 was the blog from 1 February 2015 about “ Sustainability driving innovation “ I personally like this blog the most as well, as it supports the evidence that sustainability strategies stimulate innovation, beacuse sustainability needs new knowledge and capabilities. It also shows why sustainability is a great strategy.

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Voting Open – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015

Innovation Excellence

Voting is now open in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015 Contest hosted by Innovation Excellence. If you're a first time visitor to Innovation Excellence, we have over 7,500 articles on site to support our mission of making innovation insights accessible for the greater good. Please check out our search feature, browse by category or author, or subscribe to our rss feed, email, or free magazine.

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Johannes Jarl

Innovation 360 Group

Director, US. Background. Johannes has a broad expertise in Business services, which he acquired working as consultant and analyst in Sweden, China and US. He has an international management profile that he solidified during his work at the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in New York, which provided him with an extensive network of contacts. Johannes has an entrepreneurial mindset and enjoys public speaking.

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Stockholm Innovations for the New Year and Beyond

Innovation 360

I missed the Nobel Prize by a smidge. More precisely, (not to mention, much more honestly), I recently had the privilege and opportunity to visit Stockholm, Sweden for Innovation Technology training at the offices of Innovation360 Group AB. As it turned out, my trip only coincidentally occurred within days of the 2015 Nobel Awards Ceremonies. This year’s prize for Peace went to a “quartet” from Tunisia who were recognized for their long, relentless struggle on the path of national liberation, co

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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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Why Tools Giant Stanley Formed a Joint Venture to Tackle IoT

Innovation Leader

Two execs at Stanley Black and Decker and View Technologies explain a long-term bet on the growth of big data and IoT, and a proposition designed to work in the near-term.

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7 Top Tech Trends Impacting Innovators in 2016

Innovation Excellence

2015 was a transformative year for technological innovation. 2106 continues that technology trend with more disruption in sight.

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Peter Glasheen

Innovation 360 Group

Head of Faculty, Director-Level Consultant, Black Belt. Background. Peter Glasheen is an experienced consultant and senior Executive with multinational company and international exposure (Australasia, Western Europe, Middle East, SE Asia, USA). He has a creative approach and balanced Technology / Commercial / Operational / Strategic outlook to getting better business results.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. There was no shortage of financial engineering experiments in 2015 intended to increase short-term shareholder returns at the expense of long-term value creation.

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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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The Gifts of Innovators: Six to Watch, Listen and Learn from in 2016…starting with Roger McGuinn

Innovation Excellence

In our current era of corporatized innovation, and obsession with Silicon Valley’s unicorns, there’s a certain kind of person that I’m drawn to in the extreme - the artist as innovator who uncompromisingly runs their own creative enterprise, on their own steam.

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How 2015 Changed Corporate Innovation: An Overview

Innovation Excellence

There were several key (and generally welcome) themes that emerged throughout 2015 within corporate innovation. These are, in part, driven by the increasing value that corporate and business leadership place on this (still relatively) new competency, the sophistication of practitioners in the field, and the results of seeing what works or fails. It is truly an exciting time to be in this field and to see these changes form across the industry.

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LAST DAY TO VOTE – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015

Innovation Excellence

Voting is now open in the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015 Contest hosted by Innovation Excellence. If you're a first time visitor to Innovation Excellence, we have over 7,500 articles on site to support our mission of making innovation insights accessible for the greater good. Please check out our search feature, browse by category or author, or subscribe to our rss feed, email, or free magazine.

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Your Key To Creativity – The Projected Mind

Innovation Excellence

To make new theories, new inventions, and other great creations, we have to do better than adjusting existing theories and designs. We must forcefully move our mind beyond the existing thinking about the subject. We must move out of our conscious world and focus our mind in a new place occupied only by the new creation.

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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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3 Big Things to Look Out for in 2016

Innovation Excellence

Is there anything truly new that is having a major impact? A new year is a great time to both reflect and look forward. In past years, I’ve written about how the cloud is reshaping industry, how interfaces are evolving and the emergence of new ecosystems. We always seem to be in the midst of some great new trend that is reshaping how we live and work.

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How Simplification is the Key to Change

Innovation Excellence

Why are change and innovation so hard to achieve? It’s not why you think. The reality is this: we spend our days drowning in mundane tasks – meetings, emails, reports – often self-created complexities that prevent us from getting to the meaningful work that truly matters. Using simple stories and techniques, Lisa Bodell, CEO of future think , shows us.

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Four Reasons to Take a Rapid Prototyping Approach to Your PLM Implementation

Innovation Excellence

Many companies view product lifecycle management (PLM) implementations the same old way they’ve viewed enterprise system implementations (like ERP) for years. As a result, companies tend to follow the same waterfall implementation approach. The waterfall approach, which originates from very structured project methodologies in the manufacturing and construction industries, is a linear and sequential approach to software implementations.

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Embracing Quick Wins and Quick Losses

Innovation Excellence

When moving a new product or service through the development cycle, there are generally four outcomes a New Product Development (NPD) team can expect. Two of these outcomes are especially good – although which ones they are might surprise you. It may seem counterintuitive, but one of the positive outcomes does not result in revenue – or even a product – and organizations must learn to embrace this notion.

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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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Innovation Risk & Return: Horizons, Uncertainty and the Teddy Bear Principle

Innovation Excellence

I’ve had a couple of interesting conversations recently focused on the strategic view of innovation using the 3 Horizons framework originally proposed by McKinsey, and the assessment of risk and return from innovation. The 3 Horizons approach can be used to manage different areas of future business concurrently, albeit with different managerial approaches given the different requirements and characteristics.

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Dr. Koh Hock Kiat

Innovation 360 Group

Dr. Koh Hock Kiat is based in Singapore. Background: Dr. Koh Hock Kiat is an Education Business Investor, Advisor and Mentor of few organizations. He serves as the CEO of Heluo Pte Ltd. He is also a Director of BAMBOO SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY PTE LTD and Zhicheng Private School. Dr Koh Hock Kiat was the founding Director of Confucius Institute, Nanyang Technological University (CI-NTU).

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Dr. Alison McMillan

Innovation 360 Group

Based in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Background: Previously an R&D specialist at Rolls-Royce, Alison is currently an innovation consultant and engineering professor. Her company, WOT-I Ltd, offers a number of services around the theme of operations and technology innovation, including innovation assessment, capability mapping, expertise and funding searches and innovation techniques and inventing workshops.

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Stockholm Innovations for the New Year and Beyond

Innovation 360 Group

I missed the Nobel Prize by a smidge. More precisely, (not to mention, much more honestly), I recently had the privilege and opportunity to visit Stockholm, Sweden for Innovation Technology training at the offices of Innovation360 Group AB. As it turned out, my trip only coincidentally occurred within days of the 2015 Nobel Awards Ceremonies. This year’s prize for Peace went to a “quartet” from Tunisia who were recognized for their long, relentless struggle on the path of national liberation, co

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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.