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What exactly is Open Innovation?

Braineet

Here is my take on what open innovation really is and how you can use it to boost creativity in your company.

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Why the Corporate Antibodies are Innovation’s Best Friend

Wellspring

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Going Beyond the Business Model Canvas

Braden Kelley

For decades when business people and aspiring entrepreneurs came up with an idea and became serious about commercializing it, they would, by default, create a business plan.

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Don't break the rules - become flexible and agile

Jeffrey Phillips

I've read yet another good and insightful piece on success in digital transformation, which relies on an unfortunate metaphor - one about "breaking the rules". I've been around consulting just long enough to have "broken the rules" in the business process re-engineering wave, the ERP wave, the CRM wave, the Six Sigma wave, the innovation wave and now the digital transformation wave.

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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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Checking for the global pulse of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. This GII report investigates and reports on 129 countries and then analyzes and ranks them accordingly. When you are caught up in generating innovation within a business these sorts of reports can often pass you by as not so relevant to your everyday job of innovation.

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Best Project Management and Tracking Tools

IdeaScale

IdeaScale encourages all of your employees to be innovative and create ideas no matter their role in the company. Employees are bound to become engaged when they feel valued and are able to contribute their ideas to your business. With IdeaScale, you’ll have a place to put all of your employees’ brightest ideas, but how do you keep track of the progress of them afterwards?

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What To Do When Your Startup Stops Feeling Like A Family

Digital Tonto

As a business grows, leadership and culture need to evolve. That won’t simply happen all by itself. You have to put in the time and effort to make it so. Related posts: How Growth Can Kill a. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Successful Kids Are Taught This Most Important Lesson

Innovation Excellence

Our kids look to us for answers, advice, and guidance, but what if the best advice was letting them figure it out? If you’re a parent I’m about to push you outside of your comfort zone. One day your child will look at you, with disappointment, perhaps even anger, and say, “Why didn’t you force.

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Best Practices for Leading Innovation

IdeaScale

For innovation leadership to be more than just empty words, companies must understand innovation, determine the best ways to encourage it, be willing to put resources behind it, and understand the importance of the word “practices” in the term “best practices.”. Best practices can’t just be words on a page either. They have to be put to work every day if they are to have any effect.

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Ten Types of Innovation: 30 new case studies for 2019

Idea to Value

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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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Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation

InnovationManagement

One of the reasons why so many crowdsourced innovation programs struggle is because it is difficult for innovators to gather, process, select and implement ideas on a continuous basis. The post Use This Template as a Calendar for Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Six Trends Shaping the Future of Health Care

Innovation Excellence

The healthcare industry is an ecosystem. So are the companies disrupting it. This article is one more in a series I call Everything Transformed where I’m highlighting the disruptive forces revolutionizing just about every industry on the planet, including packaging, travel and hospitality, industrial safety, and more. This time it’s healthcare.

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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

Commercialising and communicating academic research leads to more relevant research that improves lives and provides solutions to our global dilemmas. Raising the profile of research, either through commercialisation or communication, results in academics building relationships and establishing networks both within and outside their field. Exchanging ideas and getting feedback in this way encourages thinking in more practical terms.

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The Top 5 Workplace-Productivity Killers

CMOE

While the beautifully designed spaces and free coffee of the modern workplace might not look like a 19 th century sweatshop, it might still feel that way to employees slogging through their to-do lists. If you feel like there simply isn’t enough time in the day for everything you need to do, the answer could be putting some techniques in place to optimize productivity and cut distraction from your working life.

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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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The Battle for Customers

Beyond the Obvious

Odds are that you and your competitors are actually competing in two distinct ways. The obvious battle is the one to win customers from each other. The less obvious, but equally important, one is the battle for the resources required to produce your product. We touched on the concept of unexpected jolts, and how the […].

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How a Shortage of Innovation Leads to Unemployment

Innovation Excellence

Some believe that robots will take over all our jobs and therefore innovation (specifically in the area of robots) will cause unemployment. But in reality, it’s the other way around. You may be familiar with the product life cycle diagram. Every product (and when I say “product” I also include service, process, or business model).

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NIST PSCR 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting

Yet2

I recently attended the NIST PSCR 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting from July 9 th -11 th. I was very honored to get to speak on one of the featured plenary panels where I discussed a project yet2 did for NIST on the benefits of prototyping devices for first responders in virtual reality. This was a great event to not only hear more about NIST’s work and advancements, but also to hear directly from first responders about technology that will make their job easier and safer.

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70:20:10 Rule of Innovation

ITONICS

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to innovate at scale. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? Or maybe entering new markets with existing products? Many organizations have adopted the 70:20:10 model to drive innovation.

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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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Understanding Data Governance and Who Should Own It

Acuvate

Introduction. Data governance is the foundation for managing data efficiently and making the organization’s data reliable and trustworthy. The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. The aim of data governance is to: Minimize risks of data inconsistency and breach.

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Leaders Need Members – Optimizing versus Maximising

Innovation Excellence

I help businesses innovate their business more quickly than they innovate their products. What that means is I help businesses modernize their leadership to become more coaching and co-constructive. I help businesses create cooperation across silos. I help businesses engage their customers, to co-create their products. And I help businesses to integrate their commercial and.

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Slow down and move ahead - sounds like summer to me.

Focused Momentum

A slower pace, time to reconnect with friends and family, spending more time out of doors, or finally setting off on a trip months in the planning; these are all hallmarks of the summer months. Summer is also a time to start planning for next year. A bummer? Maybe. Too nerdy? Absolutely. However, also super smart.

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70:20:10 Rule of Innovation

ITONICS

One of the challenges that companies face is understanding how to manage their innovation resources. Should they go after the disruptive and risky idea? Or concentrate more on incremental innovation, improving their current products that already have generated customer interest? Or maybe entering new markets with existing products? Many organizations have adopted the 70:20:10 model to drive innovation.

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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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Handshake vs Heart Attack

Tembosocial

PICTURE IT: a customer walks into a bank and has a heart attack. A teller jumps over the wicket to revive them, winning the admiration of onlookers and the client's entire financial portfolio. WHAT A STORY!

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So, if patients are customers, how do you sell to them?

Innovation Excellence

Consumerization of sick care is on everyone’s lips. I think patient consumerism, i.e. the belief that if given the right information, patient-consumers will make smart sick care choices based on value , is a myth. However, since the holy grail is changing doctor and patient behavior to move sick care to healthcare, we should learn from.

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Inside the Mind of Bob Metcalfe

Innovation Leader

What’s the difference between innovation & invention? Bob Metcalfe shares.

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ITONICS at the Innovation Campus in Berlin

ITONICS

Since this year, ITONICS is part of the further training program Innovation Campus of zero360 GmbH and Gründerszene. The Innovation Campus is aimed at managers, professionals, and innovation drivers across all industries and combines project-based learning modules with expert lectures from practice. In four consecutive modules, the participants are trained to become innovation lead.

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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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How’s Your Lean Software Implementation Working Out?

Kainexus

We’re not going to lie. Implementing any kind of software solution in an organization is not easy. First, you must make sure you select a solution that will actually help address whatever challenge is at hand. Then you have to get it implemented and work out the kinks (there are always kinks). You have to get users trained, and then you face the biggest hurdle of them all – getting people to use the system.

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The World is on the Verge of Getting Smaller

Innovation Excellence

As many of you may already know, recently I joined Oracle to help build a new innovation and digital transformation offering that leverages design thinking and other tools to engage prospective North American customers of Oracle in human-centered problem-solving focused on solving their most pressing challenges. One of the attractions to this particular role was.

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What is Crowdsourcing? (in 2019)

Braineet

No matter what business you're in, you can use crowdsourcing to find great new ideas and solve tough problems.

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Apollo 11 Moon Landing – Doing the Impossible

Daniel Burrus

As I travel around the world as a strategic advisor and keynote speaker, I have the privilege of meeting many amazing people, including presidents, prime ministers, and Fortune 500 CEOs, just to name a few. Several years ago, I was speaking in Jordan at a leadership summit when I had the pleasure of meeting Neil Armstrong. Of all the people I’ve met, I must admit that this meeting was the one I was most looking forward to.

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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.