Sat.Jul 18, 2015 - Fri.Jul 24, 2015

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Three principles to help you generate better ideas

Jeffrey Phillips

It's interesting to me how little we appreciate the depth of knowledge and discipline that has been developed over the years where innovation is concerned. Recently a client asked me where we (OVO) based our methodologies. I told her that like most innovation consulting firms our foundations are based on work done in the 1930s and thereabouts by Alex Osborn.

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Making an impact on an organization’s innovation environment

Paul Hobcraft

Where do you set about to intervene and begin to change the organizations ability to innovate? There are seemingly so many intervention points it can get bewildering. The innovation environment can be made-up of how well you collaborate and network, the level of group and individual interactions, the presence and commitment of leadership towards innovation, as well as the organizational set-up and structures.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

Not until this year’s Thinkers50 nominations would I have ever given the possibility of being nominated a glancing thought. I consider myself to be more of a solid practitioner of others’ ideas than a high-concept thinker. My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-bor

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Which is the Greatest Invention of All Time?

Destination Innovation

Johannes Gutenberg. Which invention or innovation has had the most positive impact on the development of civilisation and the greatest benefit for mankind? A strong contender is the printing press. Johannes Gutenberg (1398 – 1468) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith and printer who invented the printing press and movable type. Before Gutenberg all books had been hand written or stamped out with fixed wood blocks.

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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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How to build and train your internal army of innovators

Exago

We’ve seen how collaboration and collective intelligence are key to shaping your company’s future. Since you’ve not been given an army of trained consultants, you need to find creative ways to build your own. Ongoing training programmes that ‘produce’ innovation. Read More. The post How to build and train your internal army of innovators appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Innovation Requires Dedicated Management

Integrative Innovation

For quite some time, I’ve been advocating the idea that successful and sustainable corporate innovation management systems should be based on the following cornerstones : Organizational ambidexterity : Sustainable innovation management is required to account for organizational ambidexterity , i.e. optimizing existing businesses and developing new businesses have to be driven in parallel.

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Can Africa’s Entrepreneurs and Innovators solve Africa’s Problems?

Destination Innovation

What can save Africa from its many problems; grinding poverty, corrupt bureaucrats, incompetent governments and dire infrastructure? The best hope might lie with the innovations of its home grown entrepreneurs. Many solutions that work in the developed world do not translate well to Africa so indigenous innovations are often a better answer. In some cases they leap-frog current Western offerings.

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Innovating Out of Crisis

Innovation in Practice

In Innovating Out of Crisis, How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) As Its Core Business Was Vanishing , published by Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, Shigetaka Komori, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation Chairman and CEO, recounts how he was inspired to lead Fujifilm’s journey from the brink of extinction to its current path of prosperity and growth – and a new direction.

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Looking for words about the future of sustainability

Norbert Bol

Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability has grown exponentially. The quality of the reporting has also improved, including historical information and forward-looking statements. A recent study by Aiezza (2015 in press) shows that there is still a strong bias towards optimistic trends when it comes to reporting on sustainability issues.

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Is Your Company Cut Out for Crowdsourcing? Take This Quiz

Planview

When it comes to gathering innovative ideas, one of the biggest mistakes companies make is to confuse strategic crowdsourcing with something like a virtual suggestion box. But without structure or process, game-changing ideas can go unheard — and you’re missing out on great opportunities to drive growth, profits, customer loyalty, brand awareness, new product development, and a lot more.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Imagine: crowdinnovation platform, and launchpad for entrepreneurs

Rapid Innovation in digital time

This post shares a few learnings and tells the stoty of the development of Imagine with Orange. It explains how Imagine combines a crowd-innovation platform with a launchpad for entrepreneurs.

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My fridge can disrupt your Bank

Matthew Griffin

The Internet of Everything, an emerging multi trillion dollar trend that embues a world where everything is connected to everything else and where inert ‘Dumb’ materials and products are embedded with technologies and sensors that make them ‘Smart’ isn’t ordinarily a trend that is associated with the Financial Services industry. Today the most connected financial services product is arguably the NFC enabled contactless credit or debit card.

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Incentivizing Innovation: Should I Offer Rewards for Good Ideas?

KindlingApp

Convincing your employees to submit ideas to an innovation program is a challenge we’ve written about extensively , but we usually discuss the problem in terms of preventing loss of engagement. That’s probably a consequence of our perspective—we're always thinking about innovation and understand that the value it adds for organizations is essential, rather than optional, so we often offer advice to keep participants from losing interest in submitting ideas.

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Capgemini’s Top 3 Takeaways for Crowdsourcing Innovation

Planview

This week, Corey Glickman, the Global Lead of Rapid Design & Visualization at Capgemini, joined the Spigit team to discuss how and why Capgemini is crowdsourcing innovation to power their $14B business. If you think that it’s challenging to create business impact from crowdsourcing, or are just too wary to give it a try, you’ll want to catch a recap of this webinar (full recording below).

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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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Serious Business

Mike Shipulski

If you’re serious about your work, you’re too serious. We’re all too bound up in this life-or-death, gotta-meet-the-deadline nonsense that does nothing but get in the way. If you’re into following recipes, I guess it’s okay to be held accountable to measuring the ingredients accurately and mixing the cake batter with 110% effort. When your business is serious about making more cakes than anyone else on the planet, it’s fine to take that seriously.

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Smart Home Opportunities

Daniel Burrus

Today’s smartest smart homes have your appliances talking to you through texts sent directly to your smartphone. We have thermostats that automatically adjust based not just on the temperature, but on your daily routine. Some smart homes allow the homeowner to control everything—from starting your coffee in the morning to locking your doors and arming your security system—right from your smartphone.

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Helping UNICEF Create a Polio Free World

InnovationLabs

Innovation is critical not only for the success of a business, but also in addressing broader social needs. For the last few years, InnovationLabs has been working with UNICEF to support their compelling efforts to rid the world of the polio virus. Through a project called GPEI, or Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has been […].

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The New Era of Global Supply Chain Ecosystems- Complex But Strategic

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Supply Chains are the arteries of today’s globalised economy – they enable the international trade flows that empower global commerce. Today’s Supply Chains are evolving to reflect the increased complexity of world trade – a highly competitive, super connected, fast changing and increasingly volatile global environment, which is progressively more difficult to predict.

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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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General Mills EVP on Becoming ‘Best Big Small Company’

Innovation Leader

Peter Erickson of General Mills, is focused on a very clear goal: to help the company, with 43,000 emloyees and brands become “the best big small food company in the world.

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Should strategists have answers or questions?

Eddielogic

Strategists always are some sort of consultant. They help businesses make their way into the future. A consultant should have in-depth specialist knowledge, shouldn’t he?

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Valuation and Data Monetization

Information Playground

Over the last few weeks I have been documenting some of the work EMC has been doing with Dr. Jim Short of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (our  Architecting for Value  research). The research has allowed us to explore the topic of data valuation processes within the enterprise. Previously  I highlighted five different use cases where we are looking at how valuation occurs.

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Encouraging Others to Set High Expectations for Themselves

Michael Roberto

We often hear that great leaders and great teachers establish high expectations for their followers and their students. They set the bar high and challenge others to exceed that target. However, I was struck by some advice in a recent column by Fast Company that challenges this conventional wisdom a bit. Natasha Awasthi wrote a piece titled, "7 Hard-Earned Lessons in Leading a Dysfunctional Team.

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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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Is It Time to Rethink This Standard HR Practice?

Michael Roberto

This week Forbes contributor Liz Ryan takes on some standard company policies and procedures that she thinks are outdated and counterproductive. Among them, she criticizes the rule in many firms whereby employees must notify their manager if they wish to apply for another job within the organization. Here's an except from her article: Most large and many medium-sized organizations still have policies in place that require an employee who wants to apply for a different job in the company to get h

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There is No Optimal Organizational Structure

Michael Roberto

Many senior executives seem to obsess over organizational structure. They love to move the boxes and arrows around on organization charts. Today we are a functional organization; tomorrow we will organize ourselves by product line. That will solve our problems! It will make us more customer-focused! We will improve speed to market! One year later, they shift to a geographically-focused organization chart.

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Risks for High Potentials If They Switch Jobs

Michael Roberto

In today's Wall Street Journal, Joann Lublin writes about the "stay or go" decision for high-potential leaders. These folks often find themselves in demand these days. Should they stay at the company that has designated them as a high potential and invested in their development, or should they go to a new employer promising better opportunities, faster promotions, and/or a slice of equity?

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Engaging Your Consumer to Create New Products

Michael Roberto

Leading companies have become much more adept lately at co-creating new products in close partnership with their customers. They do so in a number of ways, including intensive ethnographic research, crowdsourcing projects, social media contests, customer advisory councils, etc. One example of an interesting approach is the "Do Us a Flavor" campaign conducted by the Lays brand of potato chips (owned by Pepsico).

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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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Hiring for Cultural Fit

Michael Roberto

Many companies hire for cultural fit. They want to find employees who share their organization's values, and whose behavior and mindset align with the way that decisions are made and work gets done in their firm. A recent Knowledge@Wharton article argues that companies need to be careful, however, when considering a candidate's cultural fit. Cultural fit clearly plays a key role in organizational effectiveness.

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