Sat.Aug 08, 2015 - Fri.Aug 14, 2015

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Idea challenges: Giving a Voice to New Business Opportunities

Imaginatik

How many ideas fluctuate within your organization without enriching your portfolio or becoming business projects? The vast majority of them are never even voiced, why bother when nothing happens right? Engagement programs are a valuable path to change that dynamic. At Imaginatik, we have developed eight sustainable strategic processes to achieve engaging in ideas and taking them beyond idea to action.

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Innovation decreases with knowledge

Jeffrey Phillips

Did the headline of the post grab your attention? Did you think I was going to assert that dumb people are better innovators? Nothing of the sort. However, I think I can positively assert that bringing all of your knowledge to bear on a problem that needs innovation is often exactly the opposite of what you should do. Here's why. If you can solve a problem with all of the knowledge you possess, drawing on everything you know and expect to be true, you are narrowing your range of solutions and ca

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Moving towards a new innovation service model

Paul Hobcraft

The realization that innovation goes way beyond product innovation is a massive hurdle for many of our existing organizations to overcome, certainly in what they are offering today as solutions. We are also witnessing such significant erosion of long-standing practices, established boundaries between suppliers and customers, you get this feeling that everything is blurring.

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The Whole Foods Strategy…Isn’t (Whole)

Matthew May

There’s an interesting strategic play being made by Whole Foods Markets, in the midst of the company’s nearly $2 billion one-day drop in market value a few weeks ago, on the announcement of a shareholder lawsuit. Whole Foods had already come under legal pressure concerning claims of overcharging, but this new lawsuit claims securities fraud. Now, when shareholders file a lawsuit like that, it’s not a good thing.

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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 Write a Winning Business Proposal

Destination Innovation

The Business Proposal is an essential document not only for Sales people but also for anyone who wants to submit a serious proposition for internal or external approval. The process starts with a thorough understanding of the client’s needs, problems and priorities. If a Request for Proposal (RFP) document has been issued by the client then it must be read carefully.

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Mantras aren’t enough. This journey takes real commitment.

Exago

These days, you rarely find an organisation where innovation is not part of leadership’s mantra. Yet the time and resources dedicated to it are far less than other disciplines, like quality and customer service. The challenge is that innovation is. Read More. The post Mantras aren’t enough. This journey takes real commitment. appeared first on www.exago.com.

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We came up with 30 ideas that big corporates should definitely implement.

Board of Innovation

Last week we had some afterwork fun coming up with ideas which large companies should implement. At first it just seemed like a random ideation for fun, but then I noticed we came up with some really great innovations. I made a Google Sheet and invited some of my team to add their ideas. As soon as we reached #50. Read More. The post We came up with 30 ideas that big corporates should definitely implement. appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Bland Products Upset No-one but Delight No-one.

Destination Innovation

A Negative Reaction is Better than No Reaction. South Park is a highly successful cartoon sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central TV network. The show was launched in 1997 and quickly became notorious for its rude language, minimalist characters and black, surreal satire. It was aimed at an adult audience and poked fun at a wide range of topical or taboo subjects.

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Crowdsourcing Ideas for Community Improvement: The “What Works” Challenge

Planview

Social issues resulting from limited employment opportunities, high crime rates, and poverty affect us all. These circumstances are especially devastating to high-risk urban areas like the Frazier community in Dallas, Texas, where unemployment rates are tremendous, and a chance for economic recovery becomes less likely each day. In an effort to bring lasting solutions to the Frazier community, FRI , a non-profit organization in Dallas, has developed the What Works Challenge , an idea management

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Happy 6th Birthday Digital Tonto!

Digital Tonto

To celebrate, here are some of my favorite posts over the past year. Related posts: Happy 4th Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy 3rd Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy Birthday Digital Tonto! Happy 5th. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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How to Improve the Customer Experience for your B2B Customers

Outside Innovation

What are the Top 12 Things that Annoy Your Business Customers? I thought you might like to know about the current Moments of Truth that keep emerging as we work with business customers to co-design their ideal customer experiences in a wide variety of industries, with quite different products and services—from software to information, from analysis to capital equipment, from professional services to office or manufacturing supplies.

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PBTO 25: Fostering Innovation When Failing is Not an Option

Rmukesh Gupta

Today, we host Peter Vander Auwera. HE is the founder of Innotribe and Corporate Rebels United. He shares what he has learnt from running an innovation incubator, where, failure is not an option. We talk about. Different types of Innovations. Collaborative Innovation. Incremental Innovation. The importance of building a Portfolio of Innovation projects.

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Master the Method: Innovation Suite #18

Innovation in Practice

I invite you to join the upcoming Innovation Suite in San Francisco, November 16-18, 2015. Innovation Suite brings together executives from around the world to share their business innovation experiences and to learn how to embed a culture of innovation within their teams and organizations. This time around, the event will have two specialized tracks: one for Innovation Users , and another for Innovation Architects.

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Get hooked-up at reading with Yaqut!

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Yaqut, an Arabic eBookstore for smart-devices, is the recent winner of Seedstarsworld competition in Amman. Ammar Mardawi, serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO of Yaqut, kindly lets us discover Yaqut more in-depth.

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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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Digital Healthcare: What Are the Opportunities?

Daniel Burrus

Much like every other prominent industry, the medical field is becoming inexorably digitized. Digital disruption and transformation within the healthcare profession is a Hard Trend — something that will happen, something we can count on seeing in the future. But these developments aren’t exactly futuristic, far-off advancements; we’re starting to see them in our everyday lives and they’re already improving the quality of healthcare we as patients can expect to receive.

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Innovation isn’t a thing in itself.

Mike Shipulski

Innovation isn’t a thing in itself, and it’s not something to bolster for the sake of bolstering. Innovation creates things (products, services, business models) that are novel, useful and successful. It’s important to know which flavor to go after, but before that it’s imperative to formalize the business objective. Like lean or Six Sigma, innovation is a business methodology whose sole intention is to deliver on the business objective.

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Three Cheers For The End Of Google As We Knew It

Bill Fischer

Ask any group of innovation enthusiasts to name their favorite organizations and the odds are that Google will top the list. It could well be the most daring, if not the most innovative, company of our times. But, the catch is that there never was a real Google, or at [.

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Feature Friday: Share that Great Idea

KindlingApp

While spending weekends as a child at my grandparents' beach house in North Carolina, I was always coming up with great ideas for inventions, and I still remember one in particular. I remember thinking that I could not tell anyone about the inventions, or else they would steal my fabulous ideas. So instead of acting on them, I just kept them a secret.

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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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Google to Alphabet and a New Model for Organisational Growth

Rmukesh Gupta

Google founders Sergey and Larry have the knack of doing unconventional things. They have done it again by giving birth to a parent company for Google – Alphabet. In a blog post , that seems to have surprised almost everyone, Larry explains their reasoning behind the need to create Alphabet and how the new structure will provide focus, leadership and independence to all their businesses, while allowing both Sergey and Larry the time and latitude to focus on their moonshots or the big bet

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Introducing the UBS Future of Finance Challenge

100%Open

We are very pleased and proud to be able to share the details of The UBS Future of Finance Challenge which launched globally yesterday. It’s been the culmination of an intense burst of effort and it’s exciting to finally be able to share the details and see a very positive reception on the first day. UBS is one of the world’s leading banks, specializing in wealth management, asset management and investment banking.

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Three Cheers For The End Of Google As We Knew It

Bill Fischer

Ask any group of innovation enthusiasts to name their favorite organizations and the odds are that Google will top the list. It could well be the most daring, if not the most innovative, company of our times. But, the catch is that there never was a real Google, or at [.

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Rotten Choices, Rotten Jobs

CorporateIntel

Maybe I’m getting a tad older. Or maybe with a few added laugh lines I can see a tad more clearly. Here’s what I see: Too many people leaving too many jobs much too quickly. What might that mean? When I look around, I see way too many folks I know pushing themselves to perspiration to land a job, then in the first few weeks discovering they don’t like it (or it doesn’t like them).

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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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Welcome To #BIF2015!

It's Saul Connected

Maybe I’m just getting old, but the self-imposed pressure to get better faster, and to rise to the occasion of the enormous social system challenges we all face, has never been more acute. I feel a heightened sense of urgency. I don’t know about you, but #BIF2015 comes at the perfect time for me. I need the annual fix of connection and inspiration I get from hanging out at our BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit with you — the BIF community of like-minded innovation junkies from around the world

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Creating Tomorrow, Geopolitics and Innovation

InnovationLabs

A couple of quite interesting books to consider for your next visit to the beach … The Accidental Superpower, by Peter Zeihan Zeihan is a geopolitical consultant and strategist who brings a considerable depth of research and insight to key questions about the uncertainties of the future we face in the coming ten to twenty […].

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Insurance and Data Value

Information Playground

Several weeks ago I started a series of blog posts introducing five different types of data valuation business processes. The diagram below depicted each process: During this series of posts I highlighted some of the research findings discovered by Dr. Jim Short (San Diego Supercomputer Center). Jim and I have been studying the industry as part of a joint research project.  One interesting output of the research is the variety of ways valuation is currently occuring in the industry.

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Innovation & Poetry Are Connected

Idea Champions

POETRY OF THE HEART: Mitch Ditkoff from Mitchell Ditkoff. PS: There is something poetic about innovation. And there is something innovative about poetry. When I'm not working with organizations to spark innovation, I'm writing poetry. Click here to order my book.

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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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What Manulife’s Senior Tech Execs Want from New LOFT Initiative

Innovation Leader

Executives at Manulife Financial knew they needed to play more offense when it came to exploring and experimenting with new technologies.

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How to Lose the Fear of Focus

The Human Factor

The business world moves so rapidly these days it’s a wonder anyone can keep up. While this create stress, it also opens up a host of opportunities for those with the vision and passion to pursue them. However, like a kid in a candy store with only a few dollars to spend, it can be very difficult to sort through all the opportunities and choose the right one.

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SCERL: The Ultimate Innovation Management Cheat Sheet

Planview

Check lists and memory joggers can be helpful. Recently, I decided to fly as comfortably as possible on a long trip to San Francisco: jeans, sneakers, etc. I packed my “work” clothes in my bag. Upon landing, I realized—too late—that I had forgotten my dress shoes and belt. I now own a new pair of dress shoes and a new belt that a nice lady working at a store on Union Square sold to me.

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Frequently Asked Questions About My Forthcoming Book on Storytelling

Idea Champions

1. WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? Anyone interested in the power of personal storytelling to awaken, inspire, and communicate a meaningful, memorable message -- especially around "moments of truth" on the job. It's also for forward-thinking business leaders who want to elevate the conversation in the workplace and radically increase the odds of peer-to-peer learning happening on a daily basis. 2.

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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