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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I rise today to praise Innovation Leader and Innosight on their publication of the 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report. I've only had the chance to read the synopsis, which is available on Slideshare , but it seems like an well-considered report, and I'm sure it's full of great analysis and observations. The only real head scratcher, from my perspective, is what we are supposed to take away from the research.

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How can you measure innovation management?

Exago

Innovation has left the secluded islands and frosted glass towers of research and development (R&D) departments, reaching all corners of organisations – even going beyond innovation management’s traditional frontiers. As it grows in both potential and intensity, how can we. Read More. The post How can you measure innovation management? appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Achieving Innovations Capability Coherence

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation often fails to align to the strategic needs. This is often not the fault of the innovator happily working away with no specific guidelines, apart from the general remit of “we need to be more innovative”, it lies in the boardroom not communicating the board’s needs clearly enough down the organization. Building up our capacity to innovation does need to understand and reflect the organization’s business activities but it is grasping the value creation aspects that will deliver the nec

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Hiring the Right Chief Innovation Officer

Braden Kelley

Every company begins as the nimble startup, organized around the solution to a single customer problem and executing that solution better than anyone else in the market (including the incumbents with deep pockets).

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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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Marketers Need To Rethink The Customer Decision Journey

Digital Tonto

We still have yet to bridge the gap between crafting messages and designing experiences. Related posts: Simulation Marketing. Why Most Marketers Will Fail In The Era Of Big Data. Should You Be. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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So What Exactly Should Kodak Have Done?

Destination Innovation

Business commentators and writers commonly quote Kodak as an example of a company that was destroyed by disruptive innovation. The usual message is that the big company was just too slow and complacent to react to the obvious tsunami that digital photography represented for the film industry. The facts are dramatic. The company was founded by George Eastman in 1888.

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Birth of the Part-Time Chief Innovation Officer

Braden Kelley

In my last article, we looked at the keys to Hiring the Right Chief Innovation Officer, including some do’s and don’ts.

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Culture Isn’t Everything

Digital Tonto

Culture is no panacea. It only becomes effective when its purpose is made clear. Related posts: 4 Management Lessons From Philadelphia Eagles Coach Chip Kelly. How To Create A Culture Of Change. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Design Thinking Uses Story and Prototyping

Innovation Excellence

An early ah-ha moment that sparked my interest in user-centered design was watching an ABC NightLine episode. They showed how IDEO re-designed a shopping cart in one week. The video from the 90’s is still valuable and easily found on YouTube (search for IDEO Shopping Cart). IDEO’s process was depicted as using an eclectic team of.

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Women in Innovation: We need more!

Board of Innovation

At Board of Innovation we have been wondering why our team mostly consists out of men. A first thought we had was that it might have something to do with the type of work we do, that women are underrepresented in the world of innovation. However, by openly questioning this on LinkedIn, we soon realised we are doing things wrongly. Read More. The post Women in Innovation: We need 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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Innovation Strategy – Dancing Elephants, Orthodoxies, and Cognitive Biases

BrainZooming

Lens smashing is a common innovation strategy technique to get to the next level of thinking. With lens smashing, you articulate different perspectives and create a forced connection or dot-connecting activity to see the impact of various combinations. So what are the lenses? When Strategos created the lens concept in the early 2000’s, it illuminated three external and two internal lenses: External lenses – Discontinuities, Customer Insights, and Economic Engines.

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3 Open Innovation Reports You Need to Read Right Now

Planview

There are trends, and then there are transformations. In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing.

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Three Habits Of Motivational Leaders

Faisal Hoque

Some leaders are better at motivating their teams than others. Here's what it takes. The post Three Habits Of Motivational Leaders appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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How our guy Vincent applied ‘Lean Startup’ by launching his own startup

Board of Innovation

At Board of Innovation, our team values are very important. One of them all of us share, is an entrepreneurial spirit. One of our consultants Vincent is the absolute proof of that, he recently translated his entrepreneurial mindset in his own startup, Sir. Vincent has been working at Board of Innovation for almost a year now and he already did. Read 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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Social Media Strategy – One Way Twitter Builds Your Network

BrainZooming

At the Chicago Traffic Club conference last week , I presented on social media strategy and content marketing. In an hour-long presentation, we spent considerable time discussing why it is a smart social media strategy for business-to-business salespeople to take an active role on social media platforms. We discussed various benefits, including the opportunity to efficiently expand the network of people you “know” that might need what you provide or who know others that might need what you provi

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Why Innovation Leaders are Running Into Brick Walls of Opposition

Innovation Excellence

Every now and then, a study crosses my desk that causes me to assault my assumptions on almost everything I thought I knew. And a just-released report by Boston-based membership organization Innovation Leader did exactly that. The upshot: I assumed that the practice of innovation was further along than it now appears to be. Let me explain.

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Planning a Taxonomy Project

Boxes and Arrows

This is part 2 of “Taxonomy of Spices and Pantries,” in which I will be exploring the what, why, and how of taxonomy planning, design, and implementation: Building the business case for taxonomy. Planning a taxonomy. The many uses of taxonomy. Card sorting to validate a taxonomy. Tree testing a taxonomy. Taxonomy governance. Best practices of enterprise taxonomies.

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Structural Fixedness: A Barrier to Creativity

Innovation in Practice

Imagine you’re driving down the highway, and you notice a flag waving in the distance. But something’s not right. The flag is upside down. You’d notice it right away because it’s not in its usual position that you have seen hundreds of times before. We all have this tendency to notice things that are out of order. We have an innate sense of how things are structured, and it helps us make sense of the world around us.

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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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Strategic Thinking Exercises – A SWOT Analysis Example from the Safe

BrainZooming

Sometimes it is very clear what an organization’s threats and opportunities are when performing a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). It may also be that an organization falls into a rut of simply restating the same threats and opportunities every year. We use strategic thinking exercises and questions as “detours” around organizational thinking that is in a rut.

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Birth of the Part-Time Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation Excellence

In my last article, we looked at the keys to Hiring the Right Chief Innovation Officer , including some do's and don'ts. I encourage you to follow the link and read the details of how to hire the right person to lead innovation in your organization, but to quickly highlight some of them.

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How To Become The Most Charismatic Person In The Room

Faisal Hoque

Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Socrates captivated their audiences with every word. You can too. The post How To Become The Most Charismatic Person In The Room appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Return on investing in social sustainability

Norbert Bol

Nowadays, many companies engage in social causes that are aligned with the social concerns of their customers. In the Strategy Blog “ Business sustainability and cost of equity ” it was shown that social sustainability has a more indirect effect to business performance. In the November edition of the Strategic Management Journal Fosfuri et al. (2015) show the effects of social event sponsorship in relation to the timing of new product release, product lifespan and pricing.

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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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Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

BrainZooming

“I know you have a certain way you set up for your pizza meeting. But your pizza meetings COULD BE DIFFERENT.”. What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. We’d make creative thinking happen wherever we could find a large enough meeting room at one of our headquarters locations.

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Innovation Leadership Needs More Than Words

Innovation Excellence

Last year I helped to run a survey with members of the IACCM (International Association of Contract and Commercial Management). We found that while 73% of organizations represented had innovation as an explicit Top 3 priority, only half of respondents felt that they had C-suite support; with 32% ticking the “don’t know” box.

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know Before Taking Any Outside Investment

Faisal Hoque

The Hard Truths About Seeking Outside Investment. The post What Every Entrepreneur Should Know Before Taking Any Outside Investment appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Why Your Company Should Celebrate Intrapreneurs

KindlingApp

Savvy businesses know that innovation is key to keeping up with today’s rapid change. Well, making innovation a goal is one thing, but achieving it is another. Innovation is different for every organization, and this is because of the living, breathing people in that organization. Among these people, there are some who have innovation built into their DNA.

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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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25 Lessons Learned (or Reconfirmed) in Year Six Away from Corporate Life

BrainZooming

Every year at this time, I’ve published a post recounting new (and reconfirmed) lessons from the past year. It is a way to mark the anniversary of another year away from living the corporate life in a Fortune 500 company. I tried stopping last year, but had requests to keep going the annual article going. This year, however, I think is going to be the last one.

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10 Tips To Improve Workforce Alignment

Innovation Excellence

Aligning workforce and strategy can be the difference between winning and losing in business. How can you innovate without it? Here are 10 tips to improve workforce alignment.

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Why Your Company Needs Data Analytics

Daniel Burrus

Data analytics is the science of extracting patterns, trends, and actionable information from large sets of data. While often used interchangeably with the term “business intelligence,” it’s useful to distinguish the terms. Think of business intelligence as the ways in which companies use data to improve their management and operations. Data analytics involves improving your ways of making sense of that data before acting on it; further still, you can slice and dice the data to extract insights

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Rewarding and encouraging innovation

Be-novative

The great debate Here’s an interesting test you can do: type “how to reward innovation” in Google (or just click the link – we like to make things easy for people). When we checked, there were over 72 million results. Now, do the same with “how to encourage innovation.” We got a little over 9 million results. That’s an interesting statistic for us, especially because of the similar challenges we’ve done in cooperation with several of our Fortune 500 clients.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.