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5 Elements to Consider when Commercializing Your Ideas

InnovationManagement

In this article, we look at five tips to launch your next innovation, using a proven framework for successful launch and scale. The post 5 Elements to Consider when Commercializing Your Ideas appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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The Transformative Power Of Purpose

Digital Tonto

Values are how an enterprise honors its purpose. Yet living up to them involves certain costs. You can’t say you value employees and then lay them off at the first sign of trouble, just like you. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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6 Ways To Master The Art Of Strategy Execution - StrategyFest Recap

Cascade Strategy

Michelangelo, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama. Three great artists from different eras. What could they possibly have in common?

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The Top 10 Female Innovators of All Time

IdeaScale

Women innovators historically haven’t had the opportunities or visibility their male counterparts enjoyed. In fact, when Forbes released its 2020 list of 100 Most Innovative People in Business, there was only one woman on the list. There remains an enormous cultural reporting bias in favor of male inventors despite the countless female innovators involved in some [.].

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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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Digital Transformation Is Changing Supply Chain Relationships

Harvard Business Review

Technology offers new ways of sharing information and assets, meaning managers will have to rethink their relationships with suppliers and competitors.

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Drivers of health in action: shining a spotlight on CommonSpirit

Christensen Institute

In our latest research, You are what you treat: Transforming the health care business model so companies—and people—thrive , we set out to discover what makes health care organizations capable of successfully addressing the drivers of health (DOH). In short, the answer lies in their business models. To better understand what allowed certain organizations to succeed in their DOH efforts, we interviewed leaders successfully addressing DOH in their work.

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Supply chain innovation – only through value creation!

Norbert Bol

The last three blogs I wrote, were about supply chain sustainability in real estate. These blogs triggered me to learn more about supply chain sustainability and learning in general. Therefore I have started the online course “Supply chain management: a learning perspective” by Professor Bowon Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

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Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?

Harvard Business Review

Ten years after the authors made this claim, they take a fresh look at the job.

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4 Hacks to Stop Questioning If You're Good Enough

Entrepreneur - Innovation

High-performers often wonder if we're measuring up. These tools give you the ruler.

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Have Humans Evolved Beyond Nature and a Need for It?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Manuel Berdoy, University of Oxford Our society has evolved so much, can we still say that we are part of Nature? If not, should we worry – and what should we do about it? Poppy, 21, Warwick.

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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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In a Battle of Online Help vs Face-to-Face Service, the Customer Must Always Win: Part 1

Daniel Burrus

There is more opportunity now to transform the customer experiences and customer service of your business organization than at any other time in history. We live in a technological world, but more importantly, we also live in a human world. That world is filled with human customers, human employees, and human wants and needs. Human beings are all about relationships and experiences — the emotions and memories derived from these occurrences are what drive us and, largely, what separate us from ma

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What Skeptics Get Wrong About Crypto’s Volatility

Harvard Business Review

Price swings signal important information to investors — and build previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.

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These College Kids Bought a Custom T-Shirt Company With Their Bar Mitzvah Money. Now it's a $40 Million Business.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Fresh Prints is reimagining classic collegiate style, and that's just the beginning.

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Sickcare AI Field Notes

Innovation Excellence

I recently participated in a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. It was the first onsite meeting after 900 days of the pandemic.

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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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Keeping Up with Trends and Technologies: A Simple (but Powerful) Guide

ITONICS

Keeping up with trends and emerging technologies is essential for any business that wants to stay competitive. An effective trend and technology scouting process is key to keep an overview of drivers of change and to spot innovation opportunities at an early stage. This blog provides four steps to scan, scout, and monitor trends and technologies efficiently.

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How Philanthropists Can Diversify Their Grantmaking Portfolios

Harvard Business Review

It’s about creating a balance of grant types, categorized by operations, growth, and risk.

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How Power Platform Empowers Developers & Helps Businesses Reach Their Goals

Acuvate

A study on how Power Platform helps improve enterprises’ ROI The Total Economic Impact study and ROI analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting interviewed six businesses implementing Power Platform into their business strategy. The study found that the Power Platform reduces application development time significantly by giving non-developers access to develop custom apps and workflows.

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Top Five Reasons Customers Don’t Return

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Whatever you sell, be it a product or service, your customers expect that it will do what it’s supposed to do. If you sell a car, the car should work.

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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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Driving HR Innovation: Post-Pandemic Influences on the Future of HR

ITONICS

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak was unprecedented and felt around the globe. In addition to the threats caused to public health, livelihoods, and social structures, the pandemic also heavily affected labor markets, economics, and enterprises, leading to widespread business disruptions. These challenges resulted in solutions to ensure work continuity, which will impact HR management and the way of working even beyond the pandemic.

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Designing Learning Programs for a Hybrid Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Done well, virtual learning can be even more impactful than in-person learning.

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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE

ImagineNation

Taking personal responsibility is an especially crucial capability, for entrepreneurs and innovators to develop in the decade of both disruption and transformation. It involves developing a set of powerful self-awareness and self-regulation skills and is further enabled by being able to see ourselves as the “cause” or source of what happens to us, and to others affected by the outcome.

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We Must Rethink the Future of Technology

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell The industrial revolution of the 18th century was a major turning point.

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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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Episode 099: Be More Curious To Be More Creative – New Research On This Important Link

Innovation in Practice

Let me ask you: which is more important, curiosity or creativity? Well, the truth is, that’s a trick question. As I’ve spent years studying the world of creativity, I’ve learned over and over again that curiosity is really a precursor to the creative act. The two go hand in hand. Throughout today’s show, I’m going to explain why this is. I’ll share why I’m learning to appreciate curiosity more than ever before and how it’s connected to creativity so intricately.

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You’re Working More. Here’s How to Talk to Your Partner About It.

Harvard Business Review

Four research-backed strategies to help you balance going the extra mile at work and being a good partner at home.

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?

helloFUTURE

You are an innovator, and you are pleased with the role that you play in the world. You take great pride in your ability to anticipate the needs of your customers and to design and manufacture goods accordingly. The only issue is that the task to be done by your customer and the job to… The post Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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What Latest Research Reveals About Innovation Management Software

Innovation Excellence

Our industry of innovation management software is quite an interesting one.

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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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This Couple Escaped Arranged Marriages in Pakistan. Now They Run a Brooklyn Shoe Brand Whose Revenue Went From $1.8M to $12M in Just 2 Years.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

When Sidra Qasim and Waqas Ali landed in the U.S. not knowing a word of English, they had no idea how far their entrepreneurial journey would take them.

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How to Conduct a Great Performance Review.

Harvard Business Review

What to do before, during, and after the meeting.

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2 Ways To Spark Your Strategy Journey And Drive Growth

Cascade Strategy

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a great business strategy? What are the secrets to Amazon's, Disney's, and Apple's success?

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TODAY ONLY – Change Planning Toolkit – Fourth of July Special

Innovation Excellence

Happy Fourth of July! For all of my American friends in celebration of Independence Day, I have a special offer for you.

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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.