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Innovation: Exploiting and Exploring

Jeffrey Phillips

In every aspect of life we create simple dichotomies to simplify decision making. Something is right or wrong, black or white. We do this to simplify our lives, shorten decision making time and become more efficient. Creating these false dichotomies means we often miss excellent opportunities for much deeper consideration. Take innovation for example.

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Death of the Chief Innovation Officer

Braden Kelley

Among my innovation peers, we have talked about how crucial executive commitment is, and some organizations have responded by hiring Innovation Managers, Innovation Directors, VP’s of Innovation, and Chief Innovation Officers (CINO’s not CIO’s so there is no confusion with … Continue reading →

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Soren Kaplan’s Leapfrogging June Newsletter

Leapfrogging

Innovating Parenting through Innovative Products & Services. This past month we celebrated Dads & Grads. Taking it from there I’m sharing with you some amazingly innovative dads, and dad related research, in case you wanted to know what the Dad Bod meme is about. I’m also sharing top innovation conferences, schools and internships for grads interested in moving into the field of innovation.

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Curated for you by our team: Mustread innovation longreads

Board of Innovation

Summer is coming, which means most of you take time for a vacation. While some people spend their holiday on a sunny beach, others prefer a ‘staycation’ to relax at home. No matter where you are, summer is absolutely a great time to catch up your reading. That’s why we decided to share some quality reading material with our fellow. Read More. The post Curated for you by our team: Mustread innovation longreads appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. The report is based on a two year study examining over 3000 products launched in the US. It debunks conventional wisdom that new product success is random.

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Sustainability-oriented innovation

Norbert Bol

Innovation is a vital process for long term business success, whereby new ideas are generated and successfully implemented. To generate new ideas that can be useful, these ideas will probably arise from thinking differently than we normally think. To implement these new ideas companies must dare to act differently than they normally do. In fact we mean that we are looking for new ideas that are different today but normal in the future so there is clear business case.

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8 DOs & DONT's for Customer Advisory Boards

Outside Innovation

6 Things Customer Advisory Board Members Love to do: Network with their peers. What makes a Customer Advisory Group great is the value of the relationships that customers build with one another. You know you're on the right track if members call one another for advice in between meetings. Share their mental models and their plans with their peers. Don't use your CAB meetings as a venue to share your product road map with customers.

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The 3 Biggest Lessons from Our Financial Services Panel

KindlingApp

Since 1937, we’ve witnessed a rise in the average human life expectancy from 61 to 78 years. The exact opposite has happened to corporations. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has dramatically dropped from 75 years down to 15 over the same period. How can companies build and sustain a lasting organization? This was the topic our panelists addressed at an innovation event last week hosted by Kindling , Moving Interactive , and Culturevate at the Innovation Loft in New York.

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The Fear of Being Judged

Mike Shipulski

“Here – I made this.” Those are courageous words. When you make something no one has made and you show people you are saying to yourself – “I know my work will be judged, but that’s the price of putting myself out there. I will show my work anyway.” I think the fear of being judged is enemy number one of creativity, innovation, and living life on your own terms.

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Are Purpose-Driven Leaders The Engine Of China's New Innovation?

Bill Fischer

By Bill Fischer & Tomas Casas Thirty-five years of Reform, and no Apple to show for it! No Steve Jobs as well, for that matter. No wonder that skepticism over the ability of China’s industrial enterprises to make the transition from cost-led competitive strategies to more innovative approaches is so widespread. [.

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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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Comment on Different Questions = Different Answers by Lauren

Stephen Shapiro

Great lesson to practice until it becomes a natural way of life!

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“Not yet decided” – a new management trend?

Eddielogic

It seems as if I have spotted a new trend in management methods. I have observed it more and more frequently over the last couple of months.

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Listen to Employees When Evaluating Leadership

Adam Hartung

24×7 Wall Street just released its fourth annual analysis of the worst companies to work for in America. By looking across all four reports it is possible to identify likely problems which will be valuable for investors, employees (current and prospective,) suppliers and communities to know. Trend 1- Low minimum wages & “Wage gap” issues remain a big deal.

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Disney SVP on How Its Accelerator Program Led to New Partnerships

Innovation Leader

SVP of Innovation Michael Abrams discusses the upside of launching an accelerator program for media and entertainment startups, including partnerships that it has sparked so far.

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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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Valuation During Acquisition

Information Playground

In a recent post I defined the economic value of data as. "the maximum amount of money someone would pay to buy a data set" I went on to explain that the data value research being conducted by Dr. Jim Short extends far beyond a buyer paying a seller for a data set. Dr. Short has uncovered additional areas where valuation is occurring: During an acquisition.

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Dave Gray speaks to Peter Ryan of ABC on culture and change

Xplaner

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Are We Educating Students for a Future that Doesn’t Exist?

Daniel Burrus

Few subjects these days are more contentious than education, and rightly so. If our children are our future, it’s essential we do everything we can do educate them properly, to prepare them for what’s to come. But are we schooling our kids for a future that might not even exist by the time they’re ready to transition to the working world? Today, more than ever before, the ground beneath our feet is continuously shifting — growing and expanding in ways few have been able to anticipate.

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Why Google Does ‘Beer & Demos’ Every Friday

Innovation Leader

Craig Nevill-Manning of Google talks about why the company encourages engineers to show off raw prototypes every week over beer.

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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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An Animated Look at Scientific Illustration

Mills-Scofield

No matter what your profession or passion, design is a part of it, even the most STEM'y ones. Allison Chen , RISD '15, believes that scientific illustration is a definition of STEAM. and she's right! It's Science, Technology, Engineering (how the body works in the case of biological systems) and Math. and Art! This great post, from her STEAM Stories project (please follow it!

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Fathers of Invention? Innovative Dads Make Waves

Leapfrogging

Millennial fathers are reinventing parenting, and a variety of new products and services help them get the job done like never before. . Millennial dads. They’re unlike your father or grandfather. They’re redefining fatherhood – and influencing parenthood as a whole. Mostly because they don’t subscribe to traditional gender norms.They do a larger portion of the household work, spend more time with their kids, and they are more involved (and responsible) in the day to day care of their children.

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Fathers of Invention? Innovative Dads Make Waves

Leapfrogging

Millennial fathers are reinventing parenting, and a variety of new products and services help them get the job done like never before. . Millennial dads. They’re unlike your father or grandfather. They’re redefining fatherhood – and influencing parenthood as a whole. Mostly because they don’t subscribe to traditional gender norms.They do a larger portion of the household work, spend more time with their kids, and they are more involved (and responsible) in the day to day care of their children.