Sat.Mar 24, 2018 - Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Do You Know the Value of an Idea?

IdeaScale

If you’ve been reading our blog, then you know that there are two ways of measuring innovation program success : innovation inputs and innovation outputs. One of our customers is so good at measuring their innovation outputs, that they know the value of every incoming idea (whether it’s implemented or not). This is something that you see in almost every practice that includes a funnel.

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How To Win In The New Era Of Innovation

Digital Tonto

The best way to become a dominant player will be to become an essential partner. Related posts: There Is No One True Path To Innovation. Here’s Why Your Innovation Strategy Will Fail. 4 Myths About. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation: Everyone’s Responsibility

Daniel Burrus

Ask anyone in your organization to outline their responsibilities, and you’ll generally get the usual list—sales, marketing, employee benefits and other similar tasks. Innovation? Sorry, not on the docket. That’s somebody else’s concern. This can be a dangerous mind-set. We are living in a time of transformational innovation—not mere change, but game-changing digital disruption.

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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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5 Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success

BrainZooming

I see many business people conditioned to take what another individual asks or tells them at face value, accepting it as an order to fulfill. That’s natural, I suppose. Someone tells you they want something done, and maybe most of us are pre-conditioned to attempt to make it happen. That used to be me ALL the time. It’s still me SOME of the time. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Stop Undermining Your Success.

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Connecting the Dots between DevOps and Innovation

IdeaScale

How can DevOps encourage innovation? DevOps, short for development and operations, is all about breaking down “silos” in organizations. It’s not enough that one group does the work of designing a product or a service and that the other puts it to use. Instead, they need to communicate with each other, to understand how each side approaches the opportunities and challenges that are presented by their jobs.

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We Are Pushing Away From the Old Innovating Core

Innovation Excellence

I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. We.

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Top 6 Reasons Why Customer Experience Mapping Efforts Fail

Innovation Excellence

Before we can talk about how to improve customer experience maps, let’s start with a definition. Customer Experience Map: A large, colorful chart that impresses leadership for a few weeks and then gathers dust in the corner. A complex visualization that requires a user manual in order to identify anything productive. A user-centered process that, once.

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The Constant Tension Between Managing Innovation vs. Managing Risk

InnovationManagement

Managing innovation is a big role that puts a lot of weight on the shoulders of management teams. Depending on how much a company cultivates an innovative culture and environment, innovative ideas either go through chains of command, or are workshopped in specific departments.

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Co-innovation: the concept, its benefits, and why you need to embrace it

hackerearth

Innovation is the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage, especially in today’s fast-paced, tech-fueled business ecosystem. Traditionally, many organizations used their own knowledge monopoly to innovate and deliver dominant technologies and products to the market. However, businesses soon understood that innovation cannot take place in a vacuum and it requires different points of view, diverse skill sets, and collaboration.

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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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Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge and Idea Management Builds Innovation Capacity

HYPE Innovation

Let's start with some defining statements and then explore Absorptive Capacity, as it has an important role to play in innovation. Innovation is dependent on becoming aware of known external ideas and innovations in the market. Alternatively, innovation can come suddenly out of piecing together strands of thought, which form into something radically different, unknown to the world until now.

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Egoistic Altruism – The reason why innovating for individual gain helps everyone

Idea to Value

The video above is a wonderful explanation of a concept of innovation which is so often overlooked: Individuals who lead innovation gain the most from it. But society gains even more overall in the long run. At its most fundamental level, it is driven by the forces of economics. Kurzgesagt , a wonderful Youtube channel explaining everything from gene editing to the end of the universe , just released this video about the driving forces behind global innovation.

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Don’t Forget to Write Back

IdeaScale

Did you ever have a pen pal in school? I did. I remember sitting down to put pen to paper and always being uncertain where to start the conversation. The format was different than a diary, but I hadn’t yet been introduced to the concept of blogs. It was always so hard to get rolling, but once I had started writing and there was something on the page I felt I could usually write for awhile.

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America Can Win Manufacturing In The 21st Century. Here’s How:

Digital Tonto

We have all the resources we need. It remains to be seen whether we have the vision or the will. Related posts: We Need 21st Century Solutions For 21st Century Problems. 3 Paradigm Shifts That Will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Don’t Start With an MVP

Leanstack

[link] It’s been a little over 18 months since Steve quit his day job and ventured out on his own. Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. He’s come to terms that bringing his vision to life is going to take it’s due course, but he’s not in a hurry.

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Drive Innovation with a Culture of Ownership, Not Blame | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on.

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How Disappointment can Lead on to Success

Destination Innovation

Roger Bannister in 1949. In 1952 Roger Bannister, a 23 year old medical student, was recognised as the best middle distance runner in Great Britain and as a very good prospect for the gold medal in 1500m at the Olympic Games which were to be held in Helsinki, Finland. He had gained a degree in Physiology from Oxford University where he had been president of the university athletic club.

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Christopher Michael

Innovation 360 Group

Based in India and Saudi Arabia. Background. Christopher is passionate about the indomitable human spirit that is capable of achieving the unthinkable and strongly believes that “imagination breeds innovation.” His perpetual mantra that “my today must be better than my yesterday” prods him to seek and bring out the best in people to start with frugal innovation; the current jargon – Jugaad and move onto bigger things.

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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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The Top 5 Technology Trends That Will Drive Innovation in 2018

hackerearth

Innovation is never easy, and in today’s world where everything is becoming digital, innovation is technology first and quite complex. Over the years, the linear model of innovation has been tweaked to include these variations—the phase gate model (e.g. NASA 1960), market pull (e.g. photo editing software), and technology push (e.g. Samsung Galaxy with touchscreen technology in 2012).

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What is a Google Design Sprint?

Innovation Excellence

Five days for an innovation journey: is it speed or haste? Using the three basic premises of Design Thinking – Immersion, Ideation and Prototyping – and leveraging the creation of a multidisciplinary environment, Design Sprint is emerging as new way for accelerated innovation, where speed and innovation go hand in hand. Design Sprint is a.

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How to Expand Your Brand Attributes in Smart Ways

BrainZooming

We were working with a client’s C-level team to develop its strategic plan. To help them articulate the organization’s strategic direction , we used several branding exercises. These branding exercises focused on identifying: The organization’s strategic foundation. Its best current performance areas. Future strategic aspirations. The pairing of brand attributes that best describes its market position.

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Can Innovation Save Traditional Retail?

Yet2

For Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the stores of their youth are disappearing. While Toys ‘R’ Us is the latest major retailer to liquidate and close, the U.S. retail market has also seen Sears and J C Penney close many locations. Claire’s, a mainstay of many shopping malls, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. There’s a widespread perception that malls across the U.S. are dying.

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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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Top innovation funds for startups in Asia: Part 2

hackerearth

The startup scene is China, Japan, and Southeast Asian countries is flourishing because of changing attitudes, untapped local markets, huge human resources, fierce competition, and foreign investment. As Beenext founder, Teruhide Sato, said, “Asia has an abundance of issues like underdeveloped infrastructure and logistics, and they present great opportunities for startups to come in and solve real problems on the ground.”.

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Eleven Essential Behavioral Science Books for Innovators

Innovation Excellence

No matter how great an innovation is, it is only useful if people notice it, understand it, desire it, acquire it and use (and reuse) it. To achieve this, we need to understand human perception, motivations, decision making and ultimately, influence behavior. Below, in no particular order, are my favorite eleven books that have taught.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Pepperdine University’s Shawn Herrera

Planview

With Spigit’s Ignite conference right around the corner, we had a chance to catch up with Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Shawn Herrera. Herrera is Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Director of Corporate Partnerships and is also an Adjunct Professor teaching sought after courses on leadership and innovation. He’s also one of the many phenomenal speakers at Ignite who will be sharing their experience running an innovation program.

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Do you ensure a safe space for innovation?

Be-novative

It’s a common scenario for people to fear the consequences of suggesting change. Fear is an innovation killer and with a culture of fear, the same results will churn.

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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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#1,277 – BitNation

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Blockchain mania is officially upon us. You can use it to trade digital cats, collect your favorite celebrities, and now…create your own government. That’s the premise, at least, behind a new Blockchain application known as BitNation , that aims to give people freedom of choice when it comes to selecting which government services they prefer. On the surface, BitNation, is more about providing legal services than creating entirely new forms of government.

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Innovation training day: Exago team updates its facilitation skills

Exago

With the aim of improving our team’s skills as innovation workshop facilitators, several Exago employees are attending a certified Workshop Facilitation Training in Lisbon, Portugal. The post Innovation training day: Exago team updates its facilitation skills appeared first on Exago.

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5 steps to engaging 7,000 customers in innovation

Wazoku

If someone asked you how they could make your life easier, wouldn’t you tell them? You probably wouldn’t hesitate. This is, in essence, customer-centric or differentiated innovation. Why customers? Not only do you get instant insight into what your consumers want and need, which helps you create a competitive advantage; as a by-product, you also get your customers’ buy-in before even creating a new product.

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Cultivating an Innovation Mindset

eZassi

Cultivating an Innovation Mindset — Actively Pursuing Innovation. At this point, most businesses are keenly aware that it is imperative to their survival, in a competitive business world, to actively pursue innovation and cultivating an innovation mindset within their organization. The real challenge becomes how to create a culture of innovation where individuals, and the team as a whole, are motivated and inspired to drive the company forward.

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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.