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Collective Behavior in IdeaScale Communities

IdeaScale

Contributions from community members in the form of valuable ideas are seen as strategic assets in the success of IdeaScale initiatives. The larger the community of participants the more diverse views are likely to appear; more diversity increases the chances of producing valuable ideas. But the chance for success also increases, when the behavior within communities is also understood.

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Kickstart Innovation by Removing the Barriers

Destination Innovation

Surveys show that the large majority of senior executives see innovation as critical for their businesses but are dissatisfied with progress in this area. If you want to make your organisation more agile and innovative where should you start? You could launch a big initiative with grand statements, training classes and an ideas scheme but you tried all those last year and they fizzled out.

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Playfulness: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

The world’s greatest innovators exhibit 27 creative attitudes, and playfulness is one of the most critical attitudes (Kim, 2016). Playfulness is approaching situations in an exploratory manner and seeing the lighter side of a challenge with a sense of humor, which enables flexible thinking. While innovators are focused and passionate about their pursuits, they do not take themselves too seriously.

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“Innovation is not for us”, they say

Exago

If I had a dollar for every time that someone said that to me, I wouldn't need to work another day in my life. As someone who is trying to get corporations in Pakistan to understand the value of innovation, this declaration is extremely frustrating. . The post “Innovation is not for us”, they say appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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.

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Innovation: Learning from Failure

IdeaScale

Many people look at failure as a complete negative. I like to think of failures as the route to innovation. The keys to innovation from failure are to have a culture around dealing with and accepting failures, failing fast, and learning from the failure. So how do we go about learning from failure? The culture to deal with and accept failures creates a feedback loop of learning.

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Interview with Change Management Review

Braden Kelley

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Theresa Moulton of the Change Management Review™ Podcast, about my work as a popular keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and thought leader on the topics of continuous innovation and change, and some … Continue reading →

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What autonomous cars tell us about the future of innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

May you live in interesting times. This is supposedly an ancient Chinese saying, replete with both opportunity and a veiled threat. Interesting times can introduce great new innovations but can also inaugurate great conflicts. Nowhere is this more evident than the evolving phenomena of autonomous vehicles. Innovators across the globe, from the large (Amazon, Google) to the small are all working on autonomous vehicles.

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The US Tops this List of the Most Innovative Countries in the World

IdeaScale

From sea to shining sea, America’s real promise is innovation. Where does the US stand in terms of innovation? While headlines bemoan middling academics and economic struggles, it turns out that innovation, tracked by the number of patents filed between 1977 and 2015, rules the roost in America. In fact, if states were independent countries, certain US states would push entire countries off the list for most patents filed.

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What’s Next – The Disruptive Innovation Toolkit™

Braden Kelley

… and a new Innovation Intervention service. People have been asking me recently – What’s next?

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Podcast #014 Tendayi Viki – What is Lean Innovation?

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Tendayi Viki on what exactly “Lean Innovation” is. Tendayi is a popular innovation and strategy consultant and is one of the authors behind the recently released book “The Corporate Startup”, which helps large companies understand all of the underlying mechanisms behind lean innovation to bring down the costs and risks of running innovation projects.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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What Dubai gets right about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I've just returned from a trip to Dubai to speak at an innovation conference there. This is my third trip to Dubai, and I come away consistently amazed at what the people and the government are doing in Dubai. When I return to the States people ask me what Dubai is like. I joking tell them that I was visiting the future. In my three visits to Dubai, spanning only a couple of years, the development and progress has been really quite astonishing.

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“Innovation is not for us”, they say

Exago

If I had a dollar for every time that someone said that to me, I wouldn't need to work another day in my life. As someone who is trying to get corporations in Pakistan to understand the value of innovation, this declaration is extremely frustrating. The post “Innovation is not for us”, they say appeared first on Exago.

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Collective Behavior in IdeaScale Communities

IdeaScale

Contributions from community members in the form of valuable ideas are seen as strategic assets in the success of IdeaScale initiatives. The larger the community of participants the more diverse views are likely to appear; more diversity increases the chances of producing valuable ideas. But the chance for success also increases, when the behavior within communities is also understood.

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This Is How Your Business Will Be Disrupted

Digital Tonto

It is always better to prepare than adapt. When you find yourself adapting you are already losing. Related posts: Here’s Why You Should Think Twice Before Listening To Business Gurus. How To. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Why Many Mid-Career Marketers Are Dinosaurs and Not Great Social Media Strategists

BrainZooming

I spoke about Social-First Content at the April 2017 Social Media Strategies Summit in Chicago. As always, I left this Social Media Strategies Summit with valuable insights on social content strategy plus great ideas for further developing our brand. From this Social Media Strategies Summit, I took away a specific insight on the challenge for social media strategists.

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Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk By Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt

Svava

Empowering Your Prosumers with Idea Hunt Achieving Open Innovation Without the Risk In this series of blog posts, we’ve been talking about the shift from consumers to prosumer, and how you can bring them into your innovation process, without opening yourself up to risk. At the end of the last post, we began taking a […].

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Innovation at the YouthSpeak Forum 2017

Be-novative

(Video) Social, organization and innovation leaders gathered at the YouthSpeak Forum in Budapest, Hungary to empower young people from across the globe to take part in the sustainability conversation and create actionable steps on important issues in our world today. Watch our video that covered the day-long event.

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Truly Great Innovators Do These 4 Things

Digital Tonto

There is no one "true path" to innovation but there are some common attributes Related posts: 6 Things Great Innovators Do Differently. The Most Important Thing That Great Innovators Do Differently. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix!

BrainZooming

Are you involved with the strategic planning process for your organization? That could involve leading it, participating in it, or trying to influence the strategic planning process so it delivers more value and better results for the organization? 7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix! Typical complaints about a strategic planning process.

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Can Open Innovation Keep Plastics Out of Our Oceans?

IdeaConnection

According to the Prince of Wales, plastic in the world’s oceans is a “growing ecological and human disaster” He was speaking at the launch of a huge open innovation initiative to tackle this environmental menace. His words follow a report by the Dame Ellen MacArthur Foundation that if solutions are not found, the world’s oceans will contain more plastics than fish, by weight by the year 2050. “Because plastics are so durable once they are in the environment that i

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How Big Radical is Reclaiming Design

InnovationManagement

Nobody doubts that design can be powerful. But while words and phrases like ‘design thinking,’ ‘agile’ and ‘lean’ may be officially welcome in the boardrooms of Deloitte, Accenture, PWc, McKinsey and similar firms, I believe that the full potential of design has been neglected and these terms misappropriated.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Introduction. Entrepreneurial thinking is described as one of the most relevant skills for the 21st-century workforce (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie, & Brande, 2016). And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012).

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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How to Become a Content Strategist and Avoid Becoming Extinct

BrainZooming

Following up the post about why so many mid-career marketers have missed out on becoming outstanding content strategists , Emma Alvarez Gibson, from our West Coast (or Best Coast) Brainzooming HQ , is here discussing the steps to become a content strategist and avoid marketing career extinction. How to Become a Content Strategist and Avoid Becoming Extinct by Emma Alvarez Gibson.

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Two Important Market-Trends Vantage Points: Broadview + Futureview®

Daniel Burrus

Even the most traditional, by-the-book organizations share a common goal with their more forward-thinking counterparts and competitors: How to stay in front of market trends. The obvious advantage to keeping ahead of the curve is that you know what your customers currently value—and, just as important, what they’re likely to embrace in the future. The trouble is, that particular challenge is becoming more acute all the time.

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Calling all mumpreneurs! – Put your daily innovations into action

Wazoku

What do toddlers, ideas and carrot sticks have in common? To some people, not very much, but to any parents desperately trying to instil some vitamins into their child – innovative ideas and disguised vegetables go hand in hand. Which is why today is a very exciting day at Wazoku as our customer, the Infant and Toddler Forum (ITF), sets out with a new public challenge addressing one of the hardest questions facing parents today – How can we make sure we’re feeding our children the right t

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Who should lead your digital transformation? And Should anyone?

Exoplatform

In the last year or so, a lot has been written on the subject of digital transformation champions. Strong cases have been made in favor of several members of the executive suite to lead digital transformation in their companies: The post Who should lead your digital transformation? And Should anyone? appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.

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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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11 Hacks for Strengthening Your Brand’s Visual Vocabulary

BrainZooming

Beyond depicting your product every which way (or depicting the equipment and people who create your service every which way), what images do you include in your brand’s visual vocabulary? As you consider that answer, ask yourself this: Are you effectively using the best images to reinforce your brand in strategic, consistent ways ? Let’s talk about your brand’s visual vocabulary.

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User-centered design: how to merge it with a design thinking program

Innovation Excellence

Sometimes underrated and later-introduced in the process, user-centered design is a fundamental tool for innovation. The design thinking approach most of the time offers a great deal of product structure for the team to deal with. If well conducted you can come out from a program like that with elements such as the main issue.

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How To Reduce Innovation Risk

Mike Shipulski

The trouble with innovation is it’s risky. Sure, the upside is nice (increased sales), but the downside (it doesn’t work) is distasteful. Everyone is looking for the magic pill to change the risk-reward ratio of innovation, but there is no pill. Though there are some things you can do to tip the scale in your favor. All problems are business problems.

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How To Reinvent Yourself With An Entreprenuerial Mindset

Faisal Hoque

Like it or not the modern world forces us to constantly reinvent ourselves. And the reinvention process requires and entreprenuerial mindset. The post How To Reinvent Yourself With An Entreprenuerial Mindset appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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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.