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The surprising habits of original thinkers

Idea to Value

Sometimes, it takes a while for the best ideas to incubate into something original and beautiful. In this great new TED talk, Organisational Psychologist Adam Grant outlines what he has learned by studying “original thinkers” He outlines his research that suggests that between extreme procrastinators who leave their most important work until the last possible moment ( which is an especially bad problem for entrepreneurs ) and what he calls “precrastinators” who start work

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Best Of The Bonn Forum: John Bessant On Learning The New Innovation Game

HYPE Innovation

In case you were wondering: the 2016 Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn was a blast! It also broke last year’s attendance record by attracting no fewer than 180 innovation management practitioners from around the globe for 2 days of experience sharing, workshops and networking. A definitive gathering indeed with plenty of take-home ideas – a handful of which I plan to share in upcoming posts.

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What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge

Exago

The clock is ticking. Most managers (86%, to be precise) believe transformation in their companies is imperative to guarantee unrelenting success. However, one in five companies has failed in its innovation attempts, and three in five have not yet made any effort in this area. The post What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. We must learn to explore and exploit at the same time, both in parallel and where needed, in separate ways, or entities. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much.

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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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These guys built a beautiful scale version of our solar system

Idea to Value

Sometimes it takes my breath away what some people can do with a little imagination, careful planning and some hard work. In this short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, they recreate the actual scale of our solar system, taken from the perspective of the Earth being the size of a marble. The sun and all the other planets are created to the same correct scale in the Nevada desert.

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Managing Open Innovation: one challenge/ coping strategy at a time

HYPE Innovation

A few months ago, The Economist published an excellent piece on how the fashion for making employees collaborate had gone too far. We wrote about the trend too here on the blog, explaining how excessive collaboration harms organizational performance and stifles innovation (hint: overworking employees for only marginal gains).

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Collaboration Is The New Competitive Advantage

Innovation Excellence

In truth, neither view fully represents today’s business environment. Certainly, companies like Apple and Southwest are still able to dominate their industries, but the source of advantage has changed. We no longer compete in a resource economy, but a semantic economy where firms that can build, manage and widen connections win out.

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Dyson’s newest innovation: an Ultra-powerful $400 hairdryer

Idea to Value

James Dyson has just revealed what his engineering firm has been working on for the past four years: the world’s most advanced hair dryer, called the Supersonic. Known best for its high-end vacuum cleaners, Dyson has consistently entered new markets which make use of its digital motor technology to get more airflow through smaller areas. It achieved this to great effect with its hand-drying solution, and to a lesser degree with its bladeless fan.

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Social Media Strategy – How to Sponsor Bomb the World Series

BrainZooming

Today at the Social Media Strategy Summit, along with Kaite Stover, Director of Readers’ Services at the Kansas City Public Library , I’m presenting a fun case study. The presentation is about how the Kansas City Public Library was able to “sponsor bomb” the 2015 Major League Baseball Playoffs and World Series with a book spine poetry campaign.

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Social media: value creation through interaction

Norbert Bol

Last week I wrote about how Facebook is becoming the innovation platform. Singaraju et al. (2016) point out that social media platforms should not only be viewed as a context in the communication, value co-creation or innovation between participants. A social media platform can be seen as an actor as well, when it is able to generate higher order information through specific algorithms.

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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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Rethink Innovation!

Innovation Excellence

“We need to rethink the term “innovation” and we should drop the term “innovation culture” entirely.” Stefan Lindegaard shares his latest presentation: Rethink Innovation!

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10 Elements of an Innovation Mandate

Gregg Fraley

Getting a Mandate to Innovate is Key. Larger companies typically have an innovation process in place. They don’t always work, but the majority of the Fortune 1000 has some kind of innovation process or system. There is an implied consent then, to innovate, at those organizations. There are people, budgets, expectations. At smaller companies, the Mis-Fortune 5000 as I sometimes jest, there is often not a process in place.

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Who Needs Vision Statement Examples? Try these 6 Steps

BrainZooming

At a Brainzooming internal branding strategy workshop I was presenting , one attendee remarked about wanting more vision statement examples. From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction. She saw documenting as many vision statement examples as possible as a huge help to getting it right this next time.

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When Disruption Meets Laughter & Fun

Mills-Scofield

I was so honored to be a guest on DisrupTV with my good friend Vala Afshar of Salesforce and Ray Wang , founder of Constellation Research. As to be expected, we had a great time talking blue lobsters, innovation, virtues, strategy and women in tech. Take a look!

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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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Why Only Adoption Matters

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had an opportunity to interview Chris Laping, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Red Robin restaurant chain about some of the challenges in achieving successful organizational change. Chris' is a voice that emerged from the darkness as I was creating the Change Planning Toolkit™ and conducting the research for my latest book Charting Change and its focus on beating the 70% change failure rate.

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Will Biometric Logins Replace Your Passwords?

Daniel Burrus

Bank notes and silver coins are starting to feel incredibly primitive or quaint at best to an increasing number of shoppers. Many are happier using their credit or debt card for both their online and offline purchases. Now that the U.S. has joined Europe and other nations by requiring a chip-in-card system, the pressure is on technology to increase security and at the same time replace other annoyances from our past such as PINs and the dreaded passwords. . 53% of us forget crucial passwords mor

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Comment on The Innovation Minute #2: Differentiation by Shahla Khan

Stephen Shapiro

Love your 1 minute videos. I also have your book on my nightstand, big admirer of your style of challenging the status quo. Congrats for the new start and I wish you all the best.

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Lifee: A brand new style for kids

Svava

Lifee is a wristband for kids that motivates physical activity while being entertaining and easy to use. Wear Lifee and your everyday life becomes a game. - Patrik Jutterström.

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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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When Art and Science Combines for Innovation

Innovation Excellence

The powerful combination of designing and providing something that pushes our existing knowledge, our boundaries, understanding or expectations — and capturing it in thought, explanation, or detailing the discovery makes up the art and science of innovation. We just need to find even better and consistent ways to combine them continuously.

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Crowdsourcing App Studies the Health Benefits of the Outdoors

IdeaConnection

It seems intuitive that being outdoors, surrounded by nature and natural beauty is good for the heart, soul and mind. But just how healthy is it? A new crowdsourcing app developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK could help them to understand more about the relationship between biodiversity and well-being. NatureBuzz can be downloaded for free on iOS and Android platforms and asks participants three times per day to answer questions about how they feel and whether they are

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Comment on Introducing the Innovation Minute by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, the author of Listening for Success is a different Steve Shapiro, and he sadly passed away many years ago. However, his work continues to inspire.

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9 Ways to test your MVP

Svava

After building an MVP it is important to gather customer feedback and see whether you should have be building the MVP in the first place and if it´s solving a problem for customers or not. Most of the ideas people have can be realised from the technical point of view but the question is always if there is a demand on the market and this is sometimes difficult to find out.

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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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Measuring Innovation, Part 1/3: Why is Innovation Important, and How do we Measure it Today?

Innovation Excellence

This article is the first in a series of 3 articles discussing measuring product innovation.

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The Chief Innovation Mascot

Mike Shipulski

I don’t believe the role of Chief Innovation Officer has a place in today’s organizations. Today, it should be about doing the right new work to create value. That work, I believe, should be done within the organization as a whole or within dedicated teams within the organization. That work, I believe, cannot be done by the Chief Innovation Officer because the organizational capability and capacity under their direct control is hollow.

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Magnus Penker Appointed as Speaker at The Global Drucker Forum, 2016

Innovation 360 Group

We at Innovation 360 Group are very proud to announce that Magnus Penker, CEO and one of the founders of our company, has been appointed as a speaker at the most important forum for global entrepreneurship – The Global Peter Ducker Forum in Vienna. This year’s theme will be “The Entrepreneurial Society” and renowned personalities from the business world such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Clayton Christensen and Philip Kotler will attend this year’s edition of the Forum.

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Magnus Penker Appointed as Speaker at The Global Drucker Forum, 2016

Innovation 360

We at Innovation 360 Group are very proud to announce that Magnus Penker, CEO and one of the founders of our company, has been appointed as a speaker at the most important forum for global entrepreneurship – The Global Peter Ducker Forum in Vienna. This year’s theme will be “The Entrepreneurial Society” and renowned personalities from the business world such as Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Clayton Christensen and Philip Kotler will attend this year’s edition of the Forum.

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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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Turning Good Ideas into Great Products

Innovation Excellence

One innovation method is to invite customers (in a B-2-B situation) or consumers (in a B-2-C scenario) into the creative process with you. Here, they will ideate, workshop concepts that arise in the session, augment concepts provided for them, and create some new product or service ideas that do not yet exist.

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How can we have healthier workplaces?

100%Open

This was one of the challenges that we recently put to the 32 London Clinical Commissioning Groups, the NHS bodies responsible for the planning and commissioning of health care services for their local area. We used a crowdsourcing platform for this, called HealthWorks, and it was a fascinating insight into the health of the people who care for our health.

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Innovation Sighting: "Sweaty" Billboards That Fight the Zika Virus

Innovation in Practice

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Zika virus is a global emergency. To fight it, humans have to find a way to kill the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. . Two marketing agencies in Brazil have designed a novel way to do just that. They call it The Mosquito Killer Billboard. It's a great example of the Task Unification Technique , one of five in the innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking.

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Comment on Do You Really Think for Yourself? by jep2020

Stephen Shapiro

The question, “Do you really think for yourself?” isn’t as easy to answer as you might think. When a challenge or problem arises at work and you’re unsure of an answer, you probably rely on the judgment of others. But what if you know the answer to the problem? How likely are you to be swayed by other people’s opinions?

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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