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The power of ecosystem thinking for resolving the innovation complexity of today

Paul Hobcraft

Applying ecosystem thinking to innovate complex and challenging problems “Opening up our thinking towards ecosystems will have a powerful effect, it alters the way we will approach problems today and in the future, ecosystems offer a greater potential for collaborative growth, impact and sustaining innovating value” Our understanding of innovation is changing; we are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal orientation) into open and far more collaborative innovation (ext

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With companies cutting budgets — what should innovators do?

Strategyzer Innovation

A few weeks ago, Dana—the Chief Innovation Officer at a large multinational company contacted us. She was concerned her company was cutting costs across the board and her budget for 2023 had been reduced. We started working together in late 2022, designing the company’s innovation ecosystem and taking 10–12 innovation teams through our discovery and validation programs.

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Using Vision Boards to Innovate Better

IdeaScale

Creating a vision board is an effective way to promote innovation in any organization. They are also a secret to success for entrepreneurs across a variety of industries. Vision boards provide an excellent opportunity to brainstorm, set objectives, and visualize goals. They can also be utilized to maintain inspiration and track progress. Let’s dive into [.

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Anchoring: The bias which affects our ability to estimate & negotiate

Idea to Value

When you are about to negotiate, is it better to go first, or is it better to wait for the other person to show their hand and you then are able to adjust with more information? Well, according to the research, whoever provides the first piece of information has a major advantage, as the final agreed number tends to be closer to their initial suggestion.

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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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We Need To Learn How To Bridge Difference To Drive Creativity And Innovation

Digital Tonto

Our identity and sense of self drives a lot of what we see and do, yet we rarely examine these things because we spend most of our time with people who are a lot like us, who live in similar places and experience similar things. That’s why our innate perceptions and beliefs seem normal and those of others strange, because our social networks shape us that way.

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Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success

Tullio Siragusa

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to recognize and understand our own emotions, as well as those of others, and use this information to guide our thoughts and actions.

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Apple Watch Must Die

Innovation Excellence

At least temporarily, because it’s proven bad for innovation by Braden Kelley I came across an article in The Hill, titled ‘Apple flexes lobbying power as Apple Watch ban comes before Biden next week‘ that highlighted how Apple has been found guilty by the U.S.

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The A-Z Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Large Organizations

Collectivecamp

Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important for companies to remain competitive in today's fast-paced business environment. AI offers a range of benefits, from improving efficiency and accuracy to driving innovation and identifying new revenue opportunities. Are you looking to improve your understanding of AI and key considerations for your organization?

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Innovation Walkabouts we all need for learning and testing ourselves

Paul Hobcraft

photo credit: Walkabout (1971) film by Nicolas Roeg How often do you pause for thought, testing yourself, questioning even simply for ‘just those few minutes,’ to allow yourself to openly challenge where you are and what you are attempting to do? We keep relentlessly moving on, like a wandering herd of buffalo, always looking for fresh pasture, those new feeding grounds.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. I had the chance to connect with a longtime friend and colleague, Matt May. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups.

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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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Strategic Partnership Management

HYPE Innovation

Interestingly, financing is not the top reason for start-ups to pursue partnerships, or even among the top three.

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In 2023, let’s focus on the productive resilience of Nigerians

Christensen Institute

A country is never static. It is either growing or shrinking, rising or falling, and, perhaps most importantly, its people are either prospering or languishing. Unfortunately, Nigeria, over the past decade, has been shrinking, falling, and has seen its people languishing. In 2014, for instance, the country’s GDP per capita was $3,200. Today, it hovers around $2,000.

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Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search — Yet

Harvard Business Review

There are major practical, technical, and legal challenges to overcome before tools like ChatGPT reach the scale, robustness, and reliability of Google.

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Wazoku launches open data Challenge to global crowd

Wazoku

In this blog, we look at a Challenge that aims to find more effective ways for local governments to use public data to inform decision-making. To register for this Challenge, click here !

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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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Design Thinking Self-Assessment

InnovationTraining.org

I’ve been interested in the growing space of self-assessments for design thinking and innovation. I was curious to see if our AI tool could create a self-assessment people could take to assess themselves on their design thinking behaviors, mindset and practices. This assessment obviously wouldn’t be as validated, scientific, reliable, or offer as high-quality a report as the Innovation Impact Assessment for instance.

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From idea to action: 5 strategies to build students’ relationships

Christensen Institute

By now, many educators have probably heard about the sweeping Nature study that revealed that whom you interacted with as you grew up is a major determinant of future economic success. Specifically, children who had connections with peers from higher-income families ended up with higher incomes themselves. Relationships between young people from different socio-economic groups are “very strongly related to children’s chances of rising out of poverty and their economic mobility,” said the study’s

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A Digital Talent Hub Can Make Your Sales Team More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

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Globalization and Technology Have Failed Us

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In November 1989, there were two watershed events that would change the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold War and open up markets across the world.

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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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This OB-GYN and Trauma Surgeon Once Carried $800,000 Worth of Debt. Now They're Helping Other Doctors Navigate Their Finances.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Doctors Renée and Nii Darko talk about the struggles they faced and how they're teaching other physicians about money through their podcast Docs Outside the Box.

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8 Steps to Elevate Safety Culture in Your Organization

Kainexus

How to promote risk awareness and prevention The influence of culture significantly impacts employee behaviors and attitudes about workplace safety and health. Like all other aspects of culture , success depends on leadership from the top. For ideas and actions that support safety to be widespread, they need to be embraced and practiced from the C-suite to the front line.

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Reading Between the Lines of a C-Suite Job Description

Harvard Business Review

Job expectations and responsibilities were misaligned in one out of three job specs, according to an analysis of 185 open C-suite roles.

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How To Create Novelty

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski By definition, the approach that made you successful will become less successful over time and, eventually, will run out of gas. This fundamental is not about you or your approach, rather it’s about the nature of competition and evolution.

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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

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Ecosystems need re-stating for business. Are they real ecosystems?

Ecosystems4Innovating

Ecosystems – the need to be re-stated for Business What are the significant differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems? I wanted to look at this and make some observations and comparisons. Firstly what we seem to get wrong in many labelling of business ecosystems, where sustainability fits, and then attempting to show apparent differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems needs a greater appreciation of differences.

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Storm Clouds Gather For Innovators And Creators As Intellectual Property Rights Face Policy Headwinds, New Report Warns

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The report covers everything from patent and copyright laws to the ability to monetize IP assets and the ratification of international agreements

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How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World

Harvard Business Review

It’s all about generating content — from consumers, creators, and celebrities.

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Rise of the Chief Trust Officer

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Do your customers trust you? Are you sure? According to PwC’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series Survey on Trust, 87% of executives think customers highly trust their companies, but only about 30% of customers do. That’s a 57% gap!

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your

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4 Key Ways that Open Innovation Delivers Lasting Impact

Wazoku

In November 2020, Wazoku launched a series of Challenges with Habitat for Humanity, facilitated by SeaFreight Labs. In Kenya, Mexico, India, and the Philippines, the Wazoku Crowd provided solutions to overcome different humanitarian and housing problems. Read more about their success in our Habitat for Humanity report !

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with William Genovese, CIO Advisory Partner, Kyndryl

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance William Genovese, CIO Advisory Partner, Kyndryl Focus Areas: Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, FinTech Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: William Genovese Social Media: LinkedIn Highlighted Content: Next Generation Digital Financial Services: V School , Next Generation Digital Financial Services: BTOES Thinkers360 Leaderboards: Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing 2023 , Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Continui

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When Is the Best Time to Ask Customers for a Review?

Harvard Business Review

Researchers tested reminders that went out the next day, five days, nine days, and 13 days after the product experience.

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How to Lead Innovation and Embrace Innovative Leadership

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Leaders are bombarded from all directions with advice on how to behave as leaders. It seems like we all know what it takes to lead innovation, at least in theory, yet the attention is mostly focused on famous innovators who oftentimes are the exceptions, rather than the rule.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr