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A Letter to Innovation Santa

Innovation Excellence

Ten Essentials for an Innovator’s Christmas List GUEST POST from John Bessant Christmas, as my 6-year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that technically it’s a month away and forget the efforts I make, Scrooge-like, not to allow any trace of the season to cross our threshold until at least 1st […].

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Leveraging Middle Managers to Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

If you are looking to take your ideation to the next level, it’s time to strategically empower your middle management team. This isn’t only because they are the ones implementing your innovation initiatives, but because they are closer to your key sources of inspiration—your customers and your employees. Allowing your middle managers to shine minimizes [.].

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022. With the global economy stalling and fear of an upcoming recession, many companies have significantly slowed their investments into new innovation teams. 2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the

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What is the Opposite of Vertical?

Destination Innovation

The Story of Barnes Wallis and the Bouncing Bomb. A key principle of lateral thinking is to consider the opposite. If everyone is heading west think about going east. If the fashion is fast then consider slow. If the crowd is selling then contemplate buying. Which brings us to this question, what is the opposite of vertical? Barnes Wallis was born in Derbyshire, England in 1887.

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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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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Then, we used another AI tool to answer the questions. We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. They did! Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ?

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OUTSIDE-IN: HOW FFL DOES IT

Flying Fish Lab

Outside-in isn’t just about finding inspiration. It’s about relevance of that inspiration to the challenge. So, there are a few that we consider at Flying Fish Lab, when looking for Outside-In stimulus: 1st – What are the key dimensions of the issue that we are facing? Is it about new business model? Penetration? Excellence in execution? Working with crippling constraints?

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Central Principles of the Continuous Improvement Model

Kainexus

Businesses use a host of methodologies to bring structure to the process of identifying and acting upon opportunities for improvement. You may be familiar with Six Sigma , Kaizen, Lean , Toyota Production System, and others. Although these methodologies differ, the foundation of each of them is the continuous improvement model. The continuous improvement model reflects the idea that organizations should constantly implement incremental improvements to services, products, and processes.

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Being Anticipatory is a Strategy that works Across Industries – Here are Just 3 Examples

Daniel Burrus

Being Anticipatory as a leader or an organization is not necessarily a sole act of seeing the future, although paying attention to Hard Trend future certainties and seeing disruptions of any kind before they occur may make it seem so. An Anticipatory mindset that embodies an entire organization or specific leader within an organization means they have also embraced the reality that change is always occurring.

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6 Ways to Successfully Engage Thought Leaders on Your Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler The direct, early engagement with key thought leaders delivers dividends throughout the commercialization process and brings unforeseen opportunities rapidly. However, it is not for the faint of heart. Your innovation is your baby and thought leaders will inevitably tell you that your baby is ugly. But this is the moment […].

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The 2022 Digital Tonto Reading List

Digital Tonto

“Don’t believe everything you think” has become something of a mantra of mine. It’s a simple idea, but desperately hard to accomplish. Once we get an idea in our heads, confirmation bias kicks in and we go looking for evidence that supports it while ignoring facts which would point us in another direction. What makes […].

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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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Co-creation with customers: Liebherr open innovation case study

HYPE Innovation

If you’re reading this, you’re likely keen to find out more about how to successfully manage your open innovation program. Perhaps you’re looking to try out co-creation innovation with your customers but don’t know where or how to start yet. Read on to learn how HYPE’s client Liebherr has harnessed open innovation at their organization to successfully run a co-creation program with their customers.

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Global Prosperity: 2022 Roundup

Christensen Institute

Global Prosperity’s research and focus is about creating prosperity, rather than eradicating poverty. We believe that simply lifting people above a poverty threshold is not enough because this alone does not create economic resilience. In 2022 we successfully drove that mission forward through both our research and community engagement. From the corners of Brazil to those in Sierra Leone we were fortunate to further our learning and partner with inspiring organizations driving forward the socio-

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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) is one of the largest transit agencies in the United States with around 4,500 employees. Its 48 miles of rail and 9,000 bus stops keep Atlanta moving, and since launching as combined transit service in 1979, MARTA has provided more than 5 billion trips for its customers. Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of everything that MARTA strives for.

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Toward Fairer Data-Driven Performance Management

Harvard Business Review

Companies are awash in people analytics — but that data rarely translates into trustworthy markers of performance.

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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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How Transformational Leaders Learn to Conquer Failure

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When we think of great leaders their great successes usually come to mind. We picture Washington crossing the Delaware or Gandhi leading massive throngs or Steve Jobs standing triumphantly on stage. It is moments of triumph such as these that make indelible marks on history’s consciousness. While researching my book, […].

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Design Thinking Certificate Program

InnovationTraining.org

We offer our design thinking certificate programs in partnership with an organization, university, or other institution. The human-centered design programs can blend our design thinking training , innovation workshops , design thinking online courses , innovation assessments , design thinking coaching , and other unique project-based experiences and reflection into a certificate program.

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Sustainable Innovation with Sandra Fernholz

Viima

Today I have the great pleasure to chat with Sandra Fernholz on the topic of sustainable innovation. Currently, Sandra is the Head of Social Impact & Sustainability at HYPE Innovation. She kicked off her career in the field from pre-sales positions going into management and now she's inspiring innovators all around the world to innovate sustainably.

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The Risks of Empowering “Citizen Data Scientists”

Harvard Business Review

New tools are making it easier for anyone to use AI. Here’s how to make sure employees are doing so responsibly.

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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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Five Key Skills for Chief Transformation Officers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia As digital transformation continues to become more commonplace in the modern business landscape, the role of the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) has become increasingly important. A CTO is responsible for leading and managing large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives that typically involve multiple stakeholders, departments, and processes.

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Stages of a Virtual Industrial Metaverse Learning Journey

Ecosystems4Innovating

Viewing the stages of the Virtual Industrial metaverse journey. The Industrial Metaverse has really “announced” itself this year. For me, it accelerated in my attention once Siemens and Nvidia announced their partnership to explore the Industrial Metaverse in early July. The announcement came at the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, a digital platform and having both announcements made at the same event had a more extensive “bang” with the more attention-grabbing one, announc

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3 must-read blogs on education innovation this year

Christensen Institute

You know what they say about opinions. But when it comes from researchers who’ve spent years in the K-12 field researching everything from traditional instructional design to cutting-edge, technology-enabled modalities in schools, districts, and programs across the country, those opinions may be worth a listen. Applying innovation theory lenses to the trends, patterns, news bites, and field data gathered over the course of 2022, here are our education researchers’ favorite blogs that either they

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How to Support Your Jewish Colleagues Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Jewish employees share the policies and practices that have helped — or harmed — their sense of inclusion at work.

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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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Great Design Requires Great Testing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you design something, you create a solution to a collection of problems. But it goes far beyond creating the solution. You also must create objective evidence that demonstrates that the solution does, in fact, solve the problems. And the reason to generate this evidence is to help the organization […].

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding the needs and perspectives of users, prototyping, and testing potential solutions, and iterating until the best solution is found. . As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams

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Questions about Innovation

InnovationTraining.org

Top Questions about Innovation. What are the most popular or common questions people have about innovation? What are the frequently asked questions about innovation? We used our AI tools to identify the questions people ask about innovation the most and find the answers. Read on for the innovation FAQs! 1. What is innovation, and why is it important?

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Research: How Many M&A Advisors Do You Really Need?

Harvard Business Review

An analysis of 10,000 acquisitions finds the market performance of firms with two or more advisors tends to be worse than those with just one.

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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.

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Charting Change for a Successful 2023

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! From now until December 31, 2022 you can get a 50% discount on my latest best-selling book Charting Change – plus FREE shipping! OR you can also save on the eBook! You must go to SpringerLink for this Cyber Sale: The offer is valid until December 31, 2022 Please use HOL50 at […].

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3 Principles of Leading Under Conditions of Uncertainty

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We are entering a phase where there is a lot of uncertainty. There is a consensus building up about an impending recession. There is a lot of flux within businesses. There are some sectors that are laying off people and at the same time struggling to find the right people to hire. The general tendency of the people towards work is shifting.

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Top Books for Learning How to Learn

InnovationTraining.org

These books can help you become a better learner. The ability to learn new skills, knowledge, understanding, and values is essential in every area of our lives. While we often think of school as the place of learning, people actually learn throughout their lifetimes both in and outside of the classroom, through trial and error, life experience, and from others.

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When to Give Verbal Feedback — and When to Do It in Writing

Harvard Business Review

Don’t default to your comfort zone. Deliver your message in the way that works best for the situation.

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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