Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we chat with Paul Sloane, one of Twitter’s biggest innovation influencers and author of multiple books on the subject, including the third edition of The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. In this week’s episode, we talk about why leader’s need courage to actually try new things and innovate, and learn some case studies of inspiring leaders who have succeeded in doing just that.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This week, I was talking with one of our clients about additional ways to leverage our innovation software. I soon learned they had been offered an innovation platform from a competitor for three years, for free. They were tempted to take the offer of “free.” For a day. But then they thought about what they need the platform to do, namely: COLLECT ideas, through engaging employees and other stakeholders.

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Braden Kelley

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Innovation is not a solo activity. While the rare lone genius may be able to invent something on their own (although still always inspired by others), nobody can innovate by themselves. Innovation by its very nature, requires collaboration.

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HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research shows, the structures for innovation and open innovation are just as prone to failure, despite sizable investments and the best of intentions. And by structures I mean the physical spaces where innovation takes place and the formal reporting relationships (levels of hierarchy, managers’ span of control, communication patterns) within them.

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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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The world of ideas is vast, but what’s their value? What’s the value of an idea ? What makes an idea truly valuable? It’s a more practical answer than you might think. What’s An Idea Worth? There is an old adage that there’s nothing new under the sun and it is, to some degree, true. We’ve all heard about the man who invented both the iPod and iTunes in the 1970s or how science fiction authors like Jules Verne or H.G.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Oracle’s new global startup program connects startup companies with Oracle global customers to create and nuture an ecosystem of codevelopment and coinnovation where everyone—the startups, customers, and Oracle—can win. This is a tall task—one that other corporations have promised but failed to deliver. It’s also hard to scale. Corporations working with startups isn’t new.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I think we often over complicate the work of innovation, because we believe it cannot be simple and straightforward. After all, how can an activity that can disrupt an industry, create compelling new products or services and reap significant riches be simple? To drive all of this change, certainly innovation must be difficult and complex, right? Consultants often benefit from this assumption that innovation is difficult or unusual.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

At IdeaScale, the employees like to encourage an atmosphere of continuous learning about innovation by hosting book clubs that relate to our industry. Earlier this year, we read Adam Grant’s Originals : How Nonconformists Move the World. The book came to our attention, because one of our prospects had read the book and was convinced that they needed an open and transparent system for sharing ideas.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

What makes a great partnership? The business world today is in a state of flux. New companies enter the ecosystem every day, bringing with them new technologies and business models, any one of which could transform an entire industry from the ground up. Most companies want to use this current of change to drive innovation. But the magic bullet is elusive as ever — the question is how best to drive innovation.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The power to solve tough problems won't be found in ivory towers, but emerges at the center of networks, where ideas can connect, evolve and adapt to a ever-changing and more complex. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Braden Kelley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Should innovation be spelled with two v’s instead of one?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As you may already know, it’s pretty easy to integrate Google Analytics with IdeaScale (seriously, we’re talking data insights that are basically 2-3 clicks away). But maybe you don’t yet know what sorts of things you might want to look at in Google Analytics. Here are some great ways to learn more about your community. Traffic to Your IdeaScale Community.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The fidget spinner is a child’s toy which easily spins around a central bearing. Because it is a type of gyroscope it can be used to perform various tricks involving balancing, throwing and catching. It was originally developed as a device to help children suffering from ADHD or autism but it became a global phenomenon as a toy for all children. It became so pervasive that many schools banned it.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nine Questions CEO’s Should Ask About Innovation. “Tell me what I should be thinking about.” The man asking, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, was dead sincere. We were at a social event. He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. Then he popped the question. This question, an open door to summarize my philosophy, is not one I get asked every day by a CEO.

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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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Collectivecamp

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In this post I’ve unpacked 36 cognitive biases that can stifle your innovation efforts, how they might apply to the field and a proposed solution or mitigant for each. If you’ve got some alternative mitigants to address these biases, I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

That the new Apple iPhone X uses facial-recognition software (FRS) to unlock the device rather than a pin or fingerprint, underlines the importance of this burgeoning technology. We will likely see a massive spread in the use of FRS which will bring many benefits but some serious risks which we need to start addressing now.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

You’ll never guess what I’ll be doing during my rare free time the next few months. Serving on a strategy planning team for an organization where I am a member! (See busman’s holiday.). I’m part of one of ten small teams within a seventy-plus-person volunteer group developing a multi-faceted strategic plan. An external consultant is leading the process along with the organization’s top leaders.

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IdeaConnection

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Alzheimer’s is an incurable and fatal disease that affects around 50 million people all over the world. Included in this number are nearly half of individuals who are over 85 years of age. To accelerate research into treatment and detection and to find a cure, a group known as the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough team is turning to open innovation and crowdsourcing models.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The word sprint means different things to different people. A runner thinks of it as a race, a mad dash of a few seconds. A software developer practicing "agile" thinks of it as a short, iterative cycle of work, often weeks or months, rather than seconds. An entrepreneur practicing "lean startup" methods thinks of it as minimally viable product development effort of a week or less.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

One point I continually stress in speaking to audiences and in consulting with organizations of all sorts is the absolute importance of innovation. Without a culture that encourages and rewards innovation—and not just tweaks to an existing product or service—you will increasingly find yourself reacting to innovation supplied by others. And that’s a dicey place to be.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The Hubspot Inbound conference is coming up at the end of September. Based on last year’s attendance at the Hubspot Inbound conference, I’m guessing there may be 20,000 or more people this year. That’s more people than where I grew up in Hays, KS. That’s why I call Inbound, and other conferences drawing tens of thousands of people, small-town business conferences.

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Innocentive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous post I highlighted a report from The European Academic Network for Open Innovation into the skills shortage many organizations face when trying to innovate successfully. One potential solution to this challenge is to build a dedicated department whose primary remit is to innovate. You can then do everything necessary to ensure that the personnel within that department have the skills required.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The world is changing and needs Social Business Architects. Gone is the epoch of the passive consumer, now customers want a say. At the same time, the quest for survival and growth is causing companies to stop looking at suppliers as someone to squeeze on price and instead as partners in innovation. And, employers are realizing that to maximize their success they need to attract and engage the best talent not just into internal talent pools, but external ones as well.

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Idea Sandbox

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

When I was six or seven years old, my grandfather took a trip to Australia and brought me back a boomerang. While I thought it was the coolest thing, no matter how much I practiced throwing it, it would never come back. A non-returning boomerang was exasperating since that is the whole purpose of a boomerang. Right? However, if I were to fill a field with boomerang beginners who lacked instruction.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The Innovation Imperative… growing innovation culture and capacity. If you want an organization to survive, you must innovate. But innovation is more than survival, it’s the heart beat of an organization. What you make, what you do, and how you do it — is the lifeblood of who you are. Staying in business means reinventing as markets shift.

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The Inovo Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. – Wernher von Braun. Are your company’s yearly revenues greater than $2B? Then according to a number of studies (see here , here , here , and here ) this is what is likely in store for you. Within 17 years there is a 50% chance that you will no longer be in the Fortune 1000. You are investing less and less in basic research (leaving it to Universities and Government).

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Any business that wishes to survive​ ​(​​and thrive)​ ​in today’s constantly changing business environment must continuously evolve its processes, operations, strategies and product/service offerings. Fortunately, many business leaders in America appreciate and value innovation as an essential element of business. Because of this, many businesses across America spend millions of dollars every year trying to.

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Mike Shipulski

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

100% of the people won’t like your new idea, even if it’s a really good one like the airplane, mayonnaise or air conditioning. I don’t know the right amount of conflict, but I know it’s not 0% or 100%. If 100% is good, 110% isn’t better. Percentages don’t work that way. 100% alignment is not the best thing. Great things aren’t built on the back of consensus. 100% of the problems shouldn’t be solved.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Courier services have come a long way in the past decade and a lot of that is down to technological developments. These days, couriers understand that in order to stand out and provide an exceptional service, they need to invest in the latest technology innovations. This is especially true when it comes to international courier services.

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Taivara

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Upcoming Event: Virtual Reality Happy Hour. With Taivara & Local Tech Heroes. Thursday, February 22nd, 2018. Join us for a truly out-of-this-world experience. I'm In! Virtual Reality? Taivara is hosting a happy hour to give us an opportunity to meet new friends and spend time with old ones. Rather than host just another happy hour, we decided to team up with our neighbors, Local Tech Heroes , to create an unforgettable event!

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