Sat.Nov 14, 2015 - Fri.Nov 20, 2015

article thumbnail

To accelerate innovation, focus on culture

Jeffrey Phillips

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. The joke goes that a young man steps out of a bar, and spies another person, obviously drunk, peering intently at the sidewalk under a street lamp. Curious, the guy just leaving the bar goes over to the drunk and asks "what are you doing?

Culture 271
article thumbnail

How To Write a Book in 45 Days

Matthew May

It came together fast. Perhaps too fast. The proposal and contract for a new book, that is. It took all of a couple weeks to go from a 1-page concept to signed contract. Most authors would rejoice at that kind of speed, and indeed I did. The problem was that under ordinary circumstances, the publisher would take a year to get the book out. Crazy, right?

How To 191
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Risk and Innovation frustrate me

Paul Hobcraft

I have been really struggling in the past few weeks. Partly a niggling health issue finally got resolved with a ‘delightful’ week in hospital, a couple of operations later, with a reasonably speedy recovery now thankfully under way. The plan of course was for me to really use this confinement period as one of those opportunities to catch up on an awful lot of reading around innovation, planning out some areas to focus upon in the coming months and year ahead.

article thumbnail

How to Embrace, Rather Than Be Threatened By Disruptive Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Talk and action often exist in different universes. That's one reason why disruptive innovation sometimes appears to arrive out of nowhere. Plenty of organizations talk a good game about innovation, and meanwhile those who actually are innovative are busy changing the world.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

It’s our anniversary, but you’re the one getting the gift!

Exago

As part of our eight-year anniversary celebrations, we’ve decided to give an amazing gift: one free idea management programme (software and services) for a whole year, starting January 2016. Could it be you? The winner will be able to: Use. Read More. The post It’s our anniversary, but you’re the one getting the gift! appeared first on www.exago.com.

article thumbnail

How Ebay’s Spinoff Of PayPal Can Be A Model For Crisis Management

Digital Tonto

Nobody seeks out a crisis. Yet that should not blind us to the fact that a crisis, effectively managed, can positively impact performance for years to come. Related posts: 4 Management Lessons From. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

More Trending

article thumbnail

Hire a lean entrepreneur for one year. The story of Symbio

Board of Innovation

At Board of Innovation we love to share our learnings as soon as we finish an innovation project. Not so long ago we shared the tools we used during a 3-day ideation brainstorm and a checklist to organize your own corporate innovation accelerator. Now we have something else for you, one of our colleagues joined a corporate startup for almost a. Read More.

LEAN 83
article thumbnail

Separate Innovation from Entrepreneurship!

Innovation Excellence

The words innovation and entrepreneurship became synonymous in our language, and the place we see this the most is in universities and business schools. But why are we linking these two words? Why is being an innovator means I have to launch a startup company? Can’t I be an innovator in a mature company?

article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by Jason Hewlett

Stephen Shapiro

Killer article, so much to agree with on so many levels. As a Speaker who showcases often for no fee, it is by design and lands me many events at full fee, it is a wonderfully easy strategy really, and I embrace it. The more who see me the more I know will want to hire me. Just hope it’s the right audience However, where we fall short is in taking our own fee and devaluing it when, if we had the … guts… we would stick to what we feel it’s worth and really keep everyone ho

Design 80
article thumbnail

How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

BrainZooming

We’re developing a workshop on creative thinking techniques for a B2B salesforce in a few weeks. Reviewing the attendees’ pre-workshop surveys on their expectations, personal learning objectives, and needs for creative thinking development, they mentioned “thinking outside the box” and “how to get out of my comfort zone” frequently. Quite honestly, we don’t use those phrases much.

How To 84
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company

Board of Innovation

The holiday season is coming, wondering which gift your boss / manager will give you this year? Or even better, you are in charge of the gifts this year. Great news, we’re sharing ‘our wishlist’ with you early this year. Since 2015 was a great year for intrapreneurship, let’s fill 2016 with even more new business ideas. At Board of. Read More. The post The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company appeared first on Board of Innovation.

Company 82
article thumbnail

Why Smart People Struggle to be Innovative

Innovation Excellence

If you’re employed by a business and are reading this article, the chances are you’re quite smart. You must have a level of knowledge and expertise in something that your employer values – which is why they offered you a job in the first place. Unfortunately, it’s this knowledge and expertise that’s often stopping you from being innovative.

article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by sshapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks Chris. And you are so correct! Some people would rather be a victim and blame everyone else for their situation instead of taking the bull by the horns and doing something about it.

80
article thumbnail

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

BrainZooming

What do you do when things aren’t working as planned ? Panicking or shutting down and not trying something different doesn’t work when all eyes are on you. You have to be ready to try something else, but what? 7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

Boxes and Arrows

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice.

article thumbnail

The Little Known Secret To Pixar’s Creative Success

Innovation Excellence

With 15 Academy Awards and an average worldwide gross of over $600 million per film, Pixar might just be the most successful creative enterprise ever—and one of the most profitable. Out of the 14 features the firm has produced, all but one have made the list of top 50 highest grossing animated movies.

article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by Julie Ann Sullvian

Stephen Shapiro

I also agree. And you broached the subject masterfully. Change is good. It makes us grow. If you can’t grow, you don’t move forward. I’m with you to constantly find ways to move forward, change, adapt, be aware and still be me.

Change 80
article thumbnail

How to Make Sure You’re Heard in a Difficult Conversation

Mills-Scofield

I'm honored to host this excerpt from Amy Gallo 's new book, HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work. Amy is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review and a wise woman. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to Make Sure You’re Heard in a Difficult Conversation Your words matter. A difficult conversation has to be a two-way street. You’re unlikely to come to a resolution if you don’t hear the other person out.

How To 73
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Gratitude: Why Extremely Successful People Swear By This 5-Minute Daily Habit

Faisal Hoque

Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Socrates captivated their audiences with every word. You can too. The post Gratitude: Why Extremely Successful People Swear By This 5-Minute Daily Habit appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

article thumbnail

Building a Global Innovation Capability at a Large Company

Innovation Excellence

An interesting thing happens in successful companies. They tend to focus on what made them successful and over time actually drive out innovation and instead develop a resistance to risk-taking. Known as the “incumbent’s curse,” examples are easily found, such as Kodak, Research in Motion, Sony, and Hewlett Packard. Find a large company and chances are high that.

Company 79
article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by Paul Hobcraft

Stephen Shapiro

Hi Steve, One of my favorite quotes. “If you wish to have value for money would you give money for value” I agree we all need to adjust ‘our sails’ and find the fresh, stronger winds that move us all along, in both of our cases, around innovation. Cheers. Paul. Paul.

article thumbnail

Paying Lip Service to Developing Entrepreneurs

Gregg Fraley

There is a very frightening trend happening in the USA. We are not growing entrepreneurs. What is it we believe in our capitalist country? Isn’t it something like this: Anybody who works very hard, has a bit of talent and a good idea, can start something, grow it, and do well. . Isn’t that the essence of the entrepreneurial American dream?

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

The shifting map of global innovation In the 2015 Global Innovation 1000 study, Strategy&, PwC's strategy consulting group, provides new insights into the ways corporate innovation spending—which totaled $680 billion last year—has been changing in recent years, and examines the implications both for the future course of global economies and for corporate performance.

Study 66
article thumbnail

Analytics for Innovation: Why You Need to Read the External Signals

Innovation Excellence

How can you use big data to increase your chances of success at the fuzzy front-end through big data analytics? At the recent IE Product Innovation Summit in Boston, we shared our firm’s learnings to date and showed how can works in a case study on Keurig.

article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by David Newman

Stephen Shapiro

Steve, Great post that reflects your great thinking. My response: ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! Look at Uber’s model of “surge pricing” which is where the fee reflects demand. You want some same-o, lame-o talking head speaker or dull industry exec who will bore people to tears? Great – that’s a low-fee or no-fee ride. You want a high-level pro to deliver massive value at a pivotal moment in your company’s or association’s evolution?

article thumbnail

What You Need to Know About Idea Software

Planview

What is idea software? Idea software, often referred to as idea management software, is a powerful solution that you can use to ask for, collect, analyze, and track ideas from diverse groups of people, also called a “crowd.” For businesses, this typically means employees, but many companies also use it to solicit and vet new ideas from their customers and partners, too.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Learning from green innovation failures

Norbert Bol

Sustainability is increasingly seen as a driver for innovation. Many innovations however fail or did not succeed yet. In a recent article (Wicki, 2015) there is an interesting insight of a failed green innovation and the lessons that can be drawn from this example for those who want to seize business opportunities in the green economy. In my opinion the lessons are not only applicable for green innovations but also for other types of innovation when it comes to innovation within an existing comp

article thumbnail

New, Better Way to Search for Technology

Innovation Excellence

You are tasked to find that all-important next big thing—how do you find it among the deluge of information on the web? Joe Granda presents a scouting tool that firms can use to quickly route and evaluate technology and investment opportunities.

article thumbnail

Comment on To Fee or Not To Fee…That is the Question by Chris Price

Stephen Shapiro

Great points Stephen and good analogy with Uber. As Uber makes transportation more accessible, so do other technologies make our content more accessible. Like a taxi company that once had a monopoly, we no longer can sit on our laurels and expect customers to bend over backwards for us. We have to come to where they are. That’s hard work and many would rather moan, complain, and wish for the old world.

article thumbnail

11/18 WEBINAR: Driving Digital Innovation through Crowdsourcing

Planview

Prioritizing digital innovation is only one of the many challenges leaders face in today’s idea-driven business climate. And it’s not something to table until bandwidths and budgets are better — it’s critical right now. Company leaders need a simple but effective way to align existing resources to better focus on digital innovation, or they’re putting their businesses at risk of becoming irrelevant and unable to keep up with competitors.

article thumbnail

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.