Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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Strategyzer Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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Speaker: Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester, and Jason Cottrell - CEO & Founder at Orium

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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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Collectivecamp

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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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

Marketing

Brunner

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Over the last few months, digital marketing experts have been buzzing about the potential of open-source AI bots taking over their jobs. As paid search experts, we see how consumers are trying to explore this new way of getting useful information, so we have been investigating how these new AI services can add to our capabilities rather than eliminate the need for digital marketers altogether.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In recent conversations, educators and state policymakers have expressed shock to me that district schools aren’t innovating more. With microschools growing and test scores floundering, why aren’t districts seeking permission to reinvent themselves? As evidence of the opportunities to innovate, many bureaucrats and think tanks point to the vast number of waivers that states offer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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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Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One

Elevate your retail game by unleashing the power of customer loyalty! The holidays are the perfect time to redefine and reimagine your retail strategy, as modern customers are being re-engaged through creative retention tactics. Discover how the combination of loyalty management and MACH technology can revolutionize your retail strategy, ensuring sustained customer success through the holiday rush, into the new year, and beyond.

Creativity

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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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Kainexus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Innovation often requires a multi-disciplinary approach, as many challenges are too complex to be tackled by a single individual or team. By collaborating with others, team members leverage each other's strengths and collectively develop more effective solutions. Collaboration also enables team members to build off each other's ideas, leading to more creative and impactful solutions.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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