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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other. Maybe it is a “digital – innovation twin” that shapes the physical world with digital understanding- think about the current Industrial Digital Twins for IIoT solutions.

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Eight Tips for Better Conversations

Destination Innovation

Photo by Isakarakus on Pixabay. You probably know some people who are unremittingly dull company. You may be fortunate enough to know some brilliant conversationalists who can enliven any discussion. In which category would other people place you? How can you improve your conversational skills to become a welcome sight at every social event? Here are some tips.

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The Data Economy & GDPR – Innovating around Regulation!

IdeaScale

When you hear the word “regulation” – the first thing that comes to mind is bureaucracy. Especially, when it comes to the European Union! The EU directive of data-protection, privacy and general regulation of its data-economy is largely tied to the upcoming launch of the GDPR regime in May 2018. As with every regulation, there are perceived winners and losers – and ample room for innovation within the regulatory framework.

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Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool

Exago

You can save time and money by having your employees contribute ideas for the cost-cutting strategy, as well as cost-optimisation ideas that can transform and impact the company positively. Examples from our clients' innovation management programmes show just that. The post Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool appeared first on Exago.

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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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How To Solve A Really Tough Problem In 3 (Not So Easy) Steps

Digital Tonto

The key to solving fundamental challenges is to go both wider and deeper Related posts: The Uncertainty Problem. How to do a Turnaround in 5 (not so easy) Steps. Top-down vs. Bottom-up Strategy. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What’s Your Innovation Story?

Braden Kelley

Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well.

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You cannot survive doing more of the same

Jeffrey Phillips

It seems so funny, looking back on a meeting I attended about 20 years ago. At that meeting a good friend was presenting a new book, entitled Who Moved My Cheese? He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Of course most of us read it and thought - hmm - that's interesting. We need to get better at accepting change, instead of seeking to sustain the status quo.

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How Gandhi Would Lead Us Toward An AI Future

Digital Tonto

We can’t lose sight of the fact that technology should serve people, not the other way around Related posts: 4 Things Gandhi Can Teach Us About Transformational Change. We Need To Stop Trying To. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Accelerate Your 2018 Commitments and Start the Year Strong

Braden Kelley

As 2018 picks up speed, perhaps you are a manager or leader with a project that you are responsible for finishing before the end of the first or second quarter.

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How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing has been judged to be one of the most impactful, but least used digital hacks by organizations by Gartner. Why is that? Well, it’s an emerging discipline and there’s a lot to learn about how to do it well – how to communicate, how to moderate discussion, how to provide intrinsic value, and more. And one of the questions that we receive every so often is how to correct for voting bias.

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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’s New In Corporate Innovation

Imaginatik

Hello everyone! The world of corporate innovation changes quickly. Our “What’s New” blog series keeps you up to date with all the latest news and views of interest in the space. We hope you enjoy this next instalment. ‘Smart Thermometres’ Track Flu Season in Real Time. This winter has seen – and many of us have experienced – a particularly nasty strain of the flu’ virus sweeping across the globe.

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How Collective Impact Can Empower Innovation Challenges in Higher Education

HYPE Innovation

What do you do when the problem you face is overwhelming in its complexity? What do you do when the experts you need are in every corner of the world? What happens when no individual or group has all the answers?

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Rise of the Green Goblin?

Braden Kelley

For those of you out there who are comic book aficionados, you might be familiar with a super villain from the Spiderman series called the Green Goblin.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

What is a UX designer? I recently saw a great ad for a senior UX specialist from MathWorks. Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects’ needs, goals, and constraints.

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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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What do most innovative companies have in common?

hackerearth

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Not only is innovation necessary for enhancing competitive advantage, it is a requirement for businesses to thrive as well as survive.

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Branding Strategy – Stop Loving Generic Words in the Thesaurus

BrainZooming

You’re working on an important new employee or customer communication to further your branding strategy. You’re trying to say things succinctly. Perfectly. But as you’re looking for just the right word that will have just the right impact, it’s not coming to you. What do you do? The answer is obvious: you go to an online thesaurus and look up synonyms for the tired old word you would typically use.

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Make Money using the Change Planning Toolkit™

Braden Kelley

Want to achieve faster and more effective change on a grand scale?

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Do You Have a Powerful Innovation Story?

Innovation Excellence

Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well. In both cases, these technology-based potential innovations are often created by engineers or technologists that are well-versed.

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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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How to spot the next big thing

hackerearth

Leaders are always on the lookout for the next big thing in their industry. They want solutions that have immediate marketplace impact but carry minimal risk and offer optimum financial benefits. However, everyday business concerns tend overwhelm leaders to such an extent that they often lose sight of the wider strategy. We live in a rapid-paced, short-term, and talent-based workplace with more diversity than ever before.

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Pursuing a B2B Innovation Strategy for the User’s Benefit

BrainZooming

Is your business-to-business brand looking for new product ideas, stronger innovation strategy opportunities, and a bigger impact ? If so, look for ways to shape the customer experience of your product’s end users. That doesn’t mean the intermediaries your organization may view as its customers: the distributors, wholesalers, or others that sell or bundle your product.

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Bolstering Startups through the CVP

Yet2

The world of startups is fast moving, exciting and innovative. The agility of a small business and the enthusiasm of founders executing on their cherished ideas means startups move fast, pitch often, and put investment dollars to work quickly. The most successful startups have identified an important problem to tackle, and even more importantly, they have developed a clever way to solve that problem.

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Cultures that Inspire!

Innovators Alliance

There is no doubt that attracting talented people is one of the latest challenges that business leaders are facing. Let’s define talented people as those that have options – they have skills and experiences that are viewed as attractive and therefore can command a premium in terms of pay or at least in terms of interest. We might assume that the most important thing to these people is compensation and while a report titled Talent Wars from Development Counsellors International (DCI) shows that

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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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The Permission to Innovate

Beyond the Obvious

“I hereby grant you all permission to innovate.” Some people don’t believe that they can generate the ideas their companies need. A story from a few years ago, when HP acquired a small start-up, illustrates the reason behind this mind-set perfectly. As part of the process of introducing the new team to HP, I hosted […].

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Startup Engagement in Corporate Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Recently, Match-Maker Ventures and Arthur D. Little have released an interesting report, titled “The Age of Collaboration“ The study does a good job in synthesizing the global state of play of corporate-startup collaboration and latest findings on success requirements for its implementation. More and more corporations seek to engage with startups by pursuing corresponding activities across dedicated ecosystems and incorporating them.

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How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

InnovationManagement

Are your employees underperforming? This happens even to star employees when they don’t feel motivated to do their job anymore. Luckily, great managers can drive employee engagement by reconnecting with their workers. To boost engagement, you must find out what drives the people to do their best job every day.

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Big Data: How To Know If Your Organization Is Ready

Faisal Hoque

Use this 7-step maturity model to find your organization’s current state, and then use it to define your roadmap for big data implementation. The post Big Data: How To Know If Your Organization Is Ready appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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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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Creative Leadership – 1 Question to Ask for Stronger Performance

BrainZooming

Idea Magnets display a creative leadership mindset that incorporates acting in ways that help others become high performers in their own tasks. As you consider the people you interact with, ask what you can do and how you can do things to enable their strong performance in their own activities. Want to learn more about Idea Magnets ? Find out more about how you can better embody a creative leadership style that sets you and your team apart for collaboration, imagination, implementation, and succ

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Why Innovation Remains Elusive

Innovation Excellence

Recently a reporter contacted me by email, asking several questions about innovation. I didn’t have the time to answer all of them, so I asked him what he really wanted to know. He replied that what he really wanted was a bottom line answer to the question of what makes the most difference in a.

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A Healthy Dose of Heresy

Mike Shipulski

Anything worth its salt will meet with resistance. More strongly, if you get no resistance, don’t bother. There’s huge momentum around doing what worked last time. Same as last time but better; build on success; leverage last year’s investment; we know how to do it. Why are these arguments so appealing? Two words: comfort and perceived risk. Why these arguments shouldn’t be so appealing: complacency and opportunity cost.

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5 Reasons Employers Should Provide Good Health Benefits

InnovationManagement

Good health benefits are one of the main make-or-break factors for a lot of people searching for companies to develop their careers in. The idea is that any reputable company will care enough about their employees to offer competitive health benefits, which is why this benefit is listed on job descriptions along with 401K plans and PTO.

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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.