Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Three Flawed Ideas That Create Innovation Theatre

Tim Kastelle

“One of my pedagogy professors said an interesting thing once: teachers spend their time in the classroom teaching, while students, who you’d hope would spend the time learning, are actually studenting ; that is, performing the gestures they’ve been taught to perform to seem like legitimate students.” -Christy Wampole, The New Serious, p. 231.

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John Bessant on Why Innovation is About Connections

HYPE Innovation

John Bessant is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University. Back in May 2015 he gave a talk at our Innovation Forum in Bonn (he’s coming back again in April 2016). One of the interesting ideas he talked about was spaghetti innovation, and the need to weave more connections in and out of your innovation network. Here’s a breakdown of John’s idea.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. The numbers are accelerating, and if anything it’s adding more confusion to the pile we already have. So let’s see if we can help here, step back a little from your favorite tool and look at this just a little more deeply. How do we pick through all the tools, let alone keep up with all the new ones emerging?

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Fleury’s idea market recognised for game-based approach to innovation

Exago

Exago’s client Fleury, the largest group of clinical analysis services in Latin America, reached the top five shortlist for large companies in the International IMP³rove Award 2015. Fleury was selected for its innovation drive and practices using a gamified platform. Read More. The post Fleury’s idea market recognised for game-based approach to innovation appeared first on www.exago.com.

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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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A Minimum Viable Product is an Object for Learning

Tim Kastelle

Part 5 in The Lean Startup Series The idea of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is frequently misunderstood. From the name, people often think of it as a prototype, but really, it’s a learning object. Here’s an example from our first Lean LaunchPad program. The ASPIRE team was in that group – and they’ve recently launched their platform.

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The Big Short demonstrates customer research

Jeffrey Phillips

I don't know if you've seen the movie The Big Short, and if you haven't I won't spoil it for you. It's a good movie, and gets to the heart of the financial meltdown attributable to CDOs and sub-prime mortgages. If you lived through the stock market issues of the last decade, and are living through what the stock market is doing right now (feels somewhat similar, no?

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We Need To Innovate The Innovation Process

Digital Tonto

While it may be more romantic to believe in lone geniuses and flashes of insight, truly exceptional innovation is a team sport. Related posts: We Need To Innovate The Science Business Model. An. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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CASE: How we identified & selected the right intrapreneur for one of our latest corporate startup projects.

Board of Innovation

For one or the projects we’ve been involved in lately, one of our challenges was to find the right intrapreneur to take the lead in an ongoing innovation project. When I say that “finding a qualified intrapreneur with the right fit for a corporate innovation project is very hard”, that’s an understatement. There are so many criteria you have to. Read More.

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Innovation requires hands, heads, hearts

Jeffrey Phillips

Lately I've been reading a lot of white papers, blogs and tweets about the importance of ambidexterity in corporations. Innovators and analysts have apparently decided that trying to convince organizations to simply become more innovative is too difficult. Innovation distracts from highly efficient day to day operations. Therefore we innovators, and other management thinkers, create a new way to think about introducing innovation, acknowledging the importance of efficient operating models while

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by Robin Sol Lieberman

Stephen Shapiro

“Some innovators (including yours truly) are easily distracted by bright shiny objects. This is one of the enemies of innovation. Following through and extracting value is critical.” yes, critical. As someone who writes about charisma, I know the power of bright and shiny. Thing is, rarely do any of us want to attract or be attracted to, without bearing practical tangible real fruit from the relationship—or as you say, value.

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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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The Debate Between The US Government And The Tech Industry About Encryption, Explained

Digital Tonto

Weakening encryption would offer little to no benefit at possibly enormous cost. In fact, it may make us even more vulnerable. Related posts: Can Encryption Keep Our Information Safe? What Should. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The tools we used in our Innovation & Creativity training for PPG

Board of Innovation

Recently, me and my colleague Vincent facilitated a 2 day ‘Innovation & Creativity training’ for graduates of PPG, world’s leading coatings company (+46.000 employees, 15.4 Billion turnover). The overall goal of this training was to teach & inspire young graduates with the right techniques & knowledge to come up with creative solutions for challenges they face within PPG.

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Secrets from Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurs, with Guillaume Villon de Benveniste

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Guillaume Villon de Benveniste is an innovation consultant, and blogger at the Innovation and Strategy blog. Herea are some chosen pieces from his book 'Secrets from Silicon Valley's Entrepreneurs.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks Linda! I am a big believed that knowing what to “kill” (not who to kill) is the key to success. We get so attached to ideas and beliefs that we don’t make time/room for better ones in the future.

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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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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015

Innovation Excellence

After two weeks of torrid voting by some of the authors' passionate supporters, and after a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round based heavily on the quality and quantity of contributions to Innovation Excellence, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015 : Continue reading →

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What could you be. just for one day?

BrainZooming

I have dear friends that were ripped apart yesterday. I have to admit I was only a fan in passing. But this video was on my Facebook feed last night, shared by Adrian Belew, the lead guitarist on the song. Before seeing this live version of Heroes , I never knew the instrument running throughout was a guitar and not a synthesizer. I don’t know why it means so much more knowing it’s a guy playing guitar instead of someone with one finger on a keyboard, but it does.

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FORRESTER: Financial Services Innovation Requires Digital Tech, Matchmaking, and Discipline

Planview

Banking is an old business. But in the past year, the rapid adoption of financial services innovation technology has catapulted banking, insurance, and financial leaders into the now. In fact, researchers are saying that 2016 is set to be a year of massive disruption for this sector, as leaders search for new ways to approach business, serve customers, and defend their positions in the market.

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Comment on 2016 is Nothing New by Linda

Stephen Shapiro

Stephen, I really resonated with the fourth bullet point: Kill it! Some things stay on our implementation list because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Intentionally considering what we should abandon is very powerful. And as a CPA, my kids grew up knowing about ‘sunk costs’ It is one of those concepts that works in accounting, business, relationships and life.

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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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Do Accelerators And Incubators Serve Themselves Better Than Startups?

Faisal Hoque

There are now more support resources for startups than ever. Trouble is, most oversell and under-deliver. The post Do Accelerators And Incubators Serve Themselves Better Than Startups? appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Creative Thinking Skills – Protecting Yourself from Creative Thinking Challenges

BrainZooming

Sometimes creative thinking challenges come from inside your own head. In many organizations, however, substantial creative thinking challenges come from leaders and cultures that may say they want new thinking, but seem to do everything they can to scuttle creativity. Do you work in one of those types of organizations that says one thing and supports another where creativity is concerned?

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Integrating corporate sustainability in strategic management

Norbert Bol

Based on a literature review of 114 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles it shows that sustainability is an important topic for managers but they just rarely consider it in strategic management. Many companies therefore still lack a strategic approach to integrating corporate sustainability into strategy. One of the reasons can be that sustainability is adding more complexity and uncertainty to corporate strategy, which is difficult to influence and monitor as discussed last week in the blo

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Ditkoff: Storytelling @work

Innovation Excellence

Mitch Ditkoff's new book teaches us why storytelling improves efficacy for whatever it is that we are trying to communicate. It's simple to do, opens minds, and shifts behavior in a positive way. Here are some reasons why.

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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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Haier And GE: Understanding The Magic Behind The Deal

Bill Fischer

This is not just another acquisition. This is a real effort in strategic experimentation not only about global expansion but also about dreaming bigger as a disruptive advantage.

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions – What Happens on the Way to Your Brand?

BrainZooming

On the Way to the Arch. I took the picture above on the way to morning mass at the church underneath the St. Louis arch. A sidewalk message to navigate the way to what is already a very visible landmark reminds me of my wife’s marketing activities in college. Before we dated, she was in charge of marketing for student activities at Fort Hays State University where we both earned our bachelor’s degrees.

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Creating a Culture of Accountability

Rmukesh Gupta

One of the biggest challenges that leaders face in creating a culture of high performance is their ability to create an environment where their teams are accountable for their results that they have committed to achieve. Creating a culture of accountability is exactly that — creating a culture. It is not easy and it starts with them. They are the custodians of the culture within their organisations.

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Today Every Company must be a Service Provider and a Software Company

Innovation Excellence

Companies will need to think innovatively about customer needs. CEOs must ask ‘In the IOT what is our new value proposition?’ Firms will have to hire software engineers to design and deliver service solutions based on usage data. They will need data analysts to review all the data they gather from their devices. In other words every company will have to become a service provider and a software company – or perish.

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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.

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Haier And GE: Understanding The Magic Behind The Deal

Bill Fischer

This is not just another acquisition. This is a real effort in strategic experimentation not only about global expansion but also about dreaming bigger as a disruptive advantage.

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Doing New Work

Mike Shipulski

If you know what to do, do it. But if you always know what to do, do something else. There’s no excitement in turning the crank every-day-all-day, and there’s no personal growth. You may be getting glowing reviews now, but when your process is documented and becomes standard work, you’ll become one of the trivial many that follow your perfected recipe, and your brain will turn soggy.

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Great Marketing is when…

Rmukesh Gupta

I recently read a post by Bernadette Jiwa titled Good Marketing. It was an interesting short post which talks about how good marketing is all about the customer and not about the marketer. That raised a question for me – What is Great marketing ? In my opinion, great marketing is when marketing blurs the marketer completely. Great marketing is when the customer talks about your products or service to their tribes.

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Know What It Takes for New Product Success?

Innovation Excellence

While nothing in life, innovation, and marketing is guaranteed, we can know what our chances for success are for a new product or service. We can know what it takes to double your chances of success as compared to the average of 25% for all new products.

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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