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These 3 Cognitive Biases Can Kill Innovation

Digital Tonto

The truth is that our most fervently held beliefs are often wrong. That’s why we need to make the effort to overcome the flawed machinery in our minds. Related posts: The New Era Of Cognitive. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

IdeaScale

We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. Over one-third of projects fail , either not meeting their business intent, missing timelines, or going over budget. If you think of startup businesses as projects, nine out of ten of them fail.

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A Strategic Approach to Starting a Successful Innovation Program

InnovationManagement

I’ve recently been advising a range of leaders in how to start successful innovation programs. A couple are relaunches of efforts that were abandoned in the past, and others are starting from scratch in organizations (and sectors) that are more comfortable with the status quo. The post A Strategic Approach to Starting a Successful Innovation Program appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Facilitating the Innovation Ecosystem Design

Paul Hobcraft

I do like to capture thoughts within Mind Maps. I am never sure if they work for others as the map maker does see things in his or her own way. In the end, it is seeing the other person getting it, that light bulb moment. I have a group of Ecosystem Mind maps but I thought I’d share this one here to trigger further the thinking that needs to go into building an Innovation Ecosystem.

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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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Country Capitals Quiz Answers

Destination Innovation

Answers to the country capital cities quiz: 1. There are five European Capital Cities beginning with the letter V. Can you name them? Vienna, Austria. Vilnius, Lithuania, Valetta, Malta. Vatican City, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. 2. Which are the northernmost and southernmost capital cities in the world? Reykjavik, Iceland and Wellington, New Zealand. 3.

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How to Get the Most from an Innovation Conference

IdeaScale

Conferences play an important role in professional life. Attending conferences relevant to your area of expertise can help you broaden your network, learn new things, and demonstrate innovation leadership. It can be tempting to think of a conference as a sort of vacation, and there’s no question that it’s nice to break out of your routine now and then.

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I prefer the work-to-be-done for innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

When we are really innovating we are actually working on the Work-to-be-done, it is a far more exciting activity than constantly focusing on work done, that we need to do to refine, it, to make it more productive, efficient and effective. This work is done, certainly needs doing, no question but it is the “work-t- be-done” that gets the pulse racing.

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How the Stage Gate Process Can Help You Transform Your Business

Leapfrogging

Why the Stage Gate Process is Being Used by More and More Organizations to Evaluate and Refine Their Next Big Ideas. by upBOARD. While every business wants to be seen as the creator of the next massively “disruptive” product or service , the truth is that most businesses won’t be able to disrupt the market in a truly unique way. Still, even without disruptive innovation, organizations can thrive if they maintain a steady stream of incremental innovations over time.

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Ways to Create a Customer Experience Strategy

IdeaScale

Customer experience is defined as the sum of all interactions between a customer and an organization. In order for businesses to stay relevant in 2019, they must have an excellent customer experience strategy or else they could be severely hurting their bottom line. According to a study conducted by the customer experience management software company Iperceptions , 64% of consumers find customer experience more important than price when making a purchasing decision.

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Even The Most Radical Visions Can Succeed If They Are Built On Shared Values

Digital Tonto

What’s key isn’t any particular plan or policy, but whether you can appeal to common values and mobilize supporters to influence institutions that will determine whether you can bring change. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Materials Science May Be The Most Important Technology Of The Next Decade. Here’s Why:

Innovation Excellence

Think of just about any major challenge we will face over the next decade and materials are at the center of it. To build a new clean energy future, we need more efficient solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. Manufacturers need new materials to create more advanced products. We also need to replace materials subject.

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Why a Balanced Scorecard Process Drives Greater Business Performance

Leapfrogging

A Balanced Scorecard Provides a Model for Businesses to Align High-Level Objectives With Their Mission and Vision. by upBOARD. Most businesses tend to manage their strategic mission and vision with a top down approach, all the while tracking metrics and key performance indicators from the bottom up, which can be messy. Unfortunately, this leaves lots of room for operational inefficiency and confusion , especially when the top-down strategic vision and mission is misaligned with bottom up success

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The Impact of Self-Awareness on Relationships

Tullio Siragusa

The Impact of Self-Awareness on Relationships. Earlier in my career I had the work persona, and the at home persona. Even a DISC assessment revealed this duality. My natural state is someone who drives things forward and who uses encouragement, or influence to bolster support. My adaptive state is someone who plays by the rules, complies, and is boring as heck.

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Starting With The Customer

Strategyzer Innovation

We use the value proposition canvas to help innovation teams design products and services customers actually want. Although one question we get all the time (especially from new users of the value proposition canvas) is: Do you always start with the customer? The last couple of decades have seen an overwhelming focus on customers. I have yet to advise a company whose vision or strategy doesn’t include an acute customer focus.

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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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What My Suitcase Taught Me About Stress, Change And Innovation

Innovation Excellence

I’ve been living out of a suitcase for the past three weeks. That doesn’t sound too bad if you are on vacation. But in my case, it involved two kids, a dog and not having any idea where we were going to live. I sold our home of 12 years faster than expected and couldn’t.

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What Are Operations Management Dashboards and Why Do They Matter to Businesses?

Leapfrogging

Operations Management Dashboards Are Being Used More and More by Businesses Looking to Drive Change. by upBOARD. When pilots take off from an airport with a plane full of passengers, you might imagine that they simply set coordinates for their end location and count the minutes until they arrive. That could not be farther from the truth. In fact, airplanes are typically off course by as much as 10% for the majority of their flight.

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Why the Next Technological Revolution in Alternative Meat Is Chicken

Entrepreneur - Innovation

By investing more research and development into plant-based chicken products, it may not be long before consumers are squawking for more of them.

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Innovation: 8 Steps to Success

IdeaSpies

The ability to be or remain innovative depends on the organisation’s willingness to continue supporting not just new ideas and products, but also processes. Continuous innovation requires constantly changing aspirations, expectations and behaviour. There will always be vested interests rejecting change outright or supporting it half-heartedly, even if those vested interests were successful innovators of the past who now feel threatened by new ideas.

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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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Mentors, Sponsors, Coaches and Colleagues Help with Burnout

Innovation Excellence

Physician burnout is pervasive and appears to be worsening. In fact, in some specialties, residents are burned out even before they have spent their first day in practice. But, they are not alone since burnout happens in many industries other than medicine. Burnout is considered to have a range of symptoms. There is no agreement which.

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What are Marketing Dashboards and Why Do They Matter for Marketing Departments?

Leapfrogging

How to drive better marketing outcomes through use of a marketing dashboard. By upBOARD. One of the most important parts of any business is selling. To do this, business leaders need to be able to effectively market and advertise their products and services to those in their target market. With the rise of technology, marketing has become more data driven than ever before , and we are seeing an increasing number of businesses look for ways to better track their marketing initiatives effectively.

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The Importance of Senior Management Involvement for Innovation

Viima

Senior management is without a doubt a tough job. If you’re one of the few executives at the top of a large organization, there are likely hundreds of people; customers, employees, partners, and the list goes on; who are all looking for your attention regarding an endless sea of different topics and initiatives.

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Winning Ideas and Beyond: 4 Steps to Effective Product Concept Development Workshops

Planview

Are you utilizing concept development workshops as part of your ideation processes? Are you coming up with and executing on winning ideas? If not, you’ve come to the right place. This blog post will help you understand the value of concept development workshops and the steps you can take to find out if those winning ideas you have are the right ones to implement.

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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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FourSight: Innovation when it works and when it fails

Innovation Excellence

An Innov8ors Miami Keynote by Sarah Thurber Last year Innov8rs embarked on a year-long research project to better understand: who are corporate innovators? What makes them tick? What makes their efforts succeed and fail? We partnered with FourSight, creators of the FourSight Thinking Profile, to assess more than 350 innovators from around the world.

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Are You Doing Agile Right?

Leapfrogging

What is the Agile Innovation Process, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? By Upboard. Today, everyone wants to be agile. It’s seen as sexy and cool to be agile, but most people don’t know what the term really means. Still, concepts like agile design and agile software development have taken over the popular zeitgeist recently, and businesses are looking for ways to develop the agile mindset at every possible opportunity.

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Strategic Planning Models: 3 Awesome Examples

Cascade Strategy

Strategic planning models exist as blueprints which we can follow when tackling the process of creating a strategic plan.

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May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 3: ‘Domo arigato, Mr Roboto…’

InnovationManagement

This is the third in a series of articles that explore the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on how we are living our lives today and what we can do to ready ourselves for the workplace of the future. The post May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 3: ‘Domo arigato, Mr Roboto…’ appeared first on Innovation Management.

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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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Designing Your Culture for High Performance

Innovation Excellence

If you follow this column you know that we live in paradoxical times. While our future depends on digital transformations and disruption in every industry, the future of the workplace is human-centered. This particular paradox presents a unique set of issues. If you embrace the thinking in the popular management book, Culture Eats Strategy for.

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How to Influence People and Drive Change

Leapfrogging

What can you learn about change from Baker’s Four Strategies of Influence? By UpBOARD. Are you using the right persuasion tactics to influence the people you engage with? Whether you are trying to drive engagement within your team, make a business case to your boss, or sell a product or service to a customer, the methods that you use to influence decision makers should be tailored to the situation and the individual you are speaking with.

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Task Unification: Under Armour ‘Smart Sneaker’ Uses Task Unification and Attribute Dependency

Innovation in Practice

Wouldn’t your regular workout be that much better if recovery time was reduced to a minimum? Under Armour thinks so and has just filed a patent detailing two versions of a sneaker in development. The sneakers are aimed to reduce recovery time by monitoring an athlete’s blood pressure via their running shoe. One version of the shoe demonstrates the Attribute Dependency Technique and the other version also incorporates Task Unification.

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The digital workplace of the future

Exoplatform

The way we work has changed significantly in the last decades. Gone are the days of pen and paper, emails and static intranet solutions. The post The digital workplace of the future appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.

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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.