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The Only Way to Understand (Innovation) Success is by Measuring Failure

HYPE Innovation

Success is a scarcity, especially in innovation. In fact, one of the few certainties in life is that everything will fail at some moment. Few innovations and experiments succeed, and even the biggest success stories end at one point. It’s just the tendency of our universe towards entropy and disorder. Could be after 70 years, like in the case of Toys R Us, but happen it will.

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How to Build a Culture of Original Thinkers

Carla Johnson - Innovation

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Innovation is the Means, Not an End in Itself

Innovation Excellence

Innovation is all the rage, and for good reason. The most successful innovators outperform other companies by a wide margin. For example, according to the 2018 Global Innovation 1000 study, the sales growth of top innovators was 2.6 times and the operating income growth 2.5 times that of the average of the companies in the.

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Top Jobs for Innovation Professionals in 2019

IdeaScale

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. Failing to innovate can cause even a large established business to lose ground to competitors that more fully embrace innovation. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” An innovation strategy is a key business asset, and innovation leadership is no longer nice to have, but necessary.

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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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Digital Transformation, Data and Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last post I tried to illustrate the importance (and the challenges) of data to digital transformation. This is often a complex and difficult idea for people to understand - why is "data" so hard? Why can't computer systems work more effectively? For example, my father called me over the weekend to ask why his doctors can't get his electronic medical records correct.

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Tart-up or Start up? Two innovation strategies for established companies

Idea to Value

The innovation game is not played on a level playing field. Start-ups – companies under 5 years old owned by one person or a small team of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – will innovate quite differently from established companies, which have a history of successful growth and a market share to defend. Recent start-ups that have grown up, such as Facebook, Google and Netflix are hybrid cases, still youthful and on the warpath for new products and markets,while also owning huge

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How to Build YOUR Best Innovation Process

InnovationManagement

How might we build a more efficient or effective innovation process? The post How to Build YOUR Best Innovation Process appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Empathy 2.0 series: AI technologies you can start using today!

Board of Innovation

In the second part of our Empathy 2.0 series we're exploring what’s next in tech-driven methods for empathy. We look at workflow automation solutions! The post Empathy 2.0 series: AI technologies you can start using today! appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Fascinating new innovation: 3D colour X-rays

Idea to Value

If you think that all X-ray images can do is show you a picture of your skeleton, think again. Scientists from Mars Bioimaging at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand have developed new medical imaging technology which allows them to take pictures of the internal tissues of living beings (including humans), and show the different components of them in different colours.

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When Innovation Goes Wrong, We Shouldn’t Blame Technology, But Ourselves

Innovation Excellence

When I speak at conferences, I’ve noticed that people are increasingly asking me about the unintended consequences of technological advance. As our technology becomes almost unimaginably powerful, there is growing apprehension and fear that we will be unable to control what we create. This, of course, isn’t anything new. When trains first appeared, many worried.

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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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From Poland to Portugal, innovation globetrotter, with Ewa Kopczynska

Rapid Innovation in digital time

What is the Art of Innovation? Pierre-Alexandre Balland, visiting professor at MIT Media Lab presents his strategic tool for cities and governments.

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May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with you – Part 1

InnovationManagement

This is the first in a series of articles that explore the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on modern society. To understand this phenomenon requires that we think beyond the concept of digital and take a closer look at how the digital space impacts the human space. The post May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with you – Part 1 appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Accelerators v Startup Matching v Limited Partnership v CVC

Collectivecamp

You might already know that more than 50% of today’s S&P500 faces replacement in the next 10 years. A lesser known fact is that one in three listed companies are at risk of being de-listed in the next five years alone.

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Are You Ready for the Biggest Economic and Social Shift of the Past 100 Years?

Innovation Excellence

The changes coming in driverless vehicles are just the tip of the iceberg. What’s yet to come is nothing short of unimaginable. The constant chatter about driverless, autonomous, and electric vehicles is nearly deafening. Yet, in all of that noise what’s most often missed is that the implications these trends will have go well beyond.

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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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Innovation Toolkit – Tips, Tools and Templates for Managing Innovation

Viima

Having the right set of tools can help you get more out of your innovation activities by providing you with concrete ways for managing different parts of innovation. The right tools allow you to consider different aspects of innovation, look at innovation from new perspectives and save time.

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The 5 main pitfalls in taking your business global and how to avoid them

IdeaSpies

Do you have a proven business and are you looking to expand globally? Do you see the potential for your product offering overseas? Expanding into new markets and serving new segments does have its risks but also the rewards. Taking your startup business global seems like a daunting task but it doesn’t have to be. There are five main pitfalls many businesses fall into when trying to expand overseas.

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Five Business Shifts That Will Put Learning at The Heart of The Agenda

InnovationManagement

In our recent book The Future Reinvented, we are argued that, in the face of seemingly unprecedented change across society, learning at every level is central to survival and growth. The post Five Business Shifts That Will Put Learning at The Heart of The Agenda appeared first on Innovation Management.

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The Unintended Consequences of IoT (Internet of Things) Deployment

Innovation Excellence

Three of the most hyped technologies in recent years include Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Internet of Thing (IoT). And how do I know that they are hyped? Because in August 2018, Gartner published its latest hype cycle report for emerging technologies, putting IoT barely past the “peak of inflated expectations” (that’s when we believe.

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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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Commitment to Success; Make Tough Decisions Early

Focused Momentum

While it is true that one of the benefits of investing the time to define a clear strategic direction is that it helps in decision-making, it is also true that it does not make decisions. That is the job of leadership.

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Trends in Innovation in the Chemical Industry

Yet2

In mid-May, yet2 sponsored the NPD and Innovation in the Chemical Industry conference , organized by the European Networking Group. Nearly 100 leaders in the chemical industry gathered to learn and discuss key topics such as efficient innovation project management; ideation methods to boost innovative thinking; growth through partnerships – maximizing success by partnering with innovative startups; practical approaches and specific innovation trends in nanotechnology, CO 2 , food, and plastics;

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3 Ways Businesses Are Improving Their Employee Value Proposition

InnovationManagement

Companies have to attract and retain top talent to remain competitive in a globalized world. Without a motivated workforce, they'll fail to meet their goals and achieve growth, year after year. The post 3 Ways Businesses Are Improving Their Employee Value Proposition appeared first on Innovation Management.

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How Trust Can Be A Competitive Advantage

Innovation Excellence

One of the most rewarding things about writing my book Mapping Innovation was talking to the innovators themselves. All of them were prominent (one recently won the Nobel Prize), but I found them to be the among the kindest and most generous people you can imagine, nothing like the difficult and mercurial stereotype.

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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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Ageism and Innovation

Phil McKinney

Some have put forth what I believe is a false premise — that creativity and innovation are for the young. Silicon Valley has clearly bought into this premise. If you are over 40, some could rightly argue 35, many of the companies in the valley have taken the position that you are over the hill. […].

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Give Your People Vision, Responsibility and Freedom.

helloFUTURE

Trust Your People To Take the Right Path. When you look at your employees, what do you see? Do you see living, thinking, breathing intelligent human beings, with the great capacity to learn new things, take on responsibilities, work autonomously, solve problems on their own volition, and work diligently to move the vision of the… The post Give Your People Vision, Responsibility and Freedom. appeared first on hellofuture.

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Testing New Business Ideas: Learnings from OWLET [Part 1]

Strategyzer Innovation

We often use the OWLET team video from the International Business Model Competition in 2013 to illustrate how to de-risk new ideas, cheaply and quickly. Let's unpack together the most important principles to follow when testing new business ideas. What can we learn from Owlet on testing new business ideas? At Strategyzer we often use the Owlet video (a pitch that led the Owlet team to win the International Business Model Competition in 2013) when we train business teams on how to execute innovat

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The fine art of inNOvation

Innovation Excellence

Business plan. Those two words have been used a lot to kill a lot of innovative ideas. Yet, it persists in the entrepreneurial consciousness. It’s a mainstay in the manager’s tool box. Sure, it you are going to ask for money, you will in all likelihood need to write a business plan. But, so few entrepreneurs.

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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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Can an Employee be an Entrepreneur?

Collectivecamp

I recently concluded an intense but rewarding podcast tour in support of my now newish book, Employee to Entrepreneur.

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Is it foolish to continue an obsolete product?

Beyond the Obvious

What would you have to do to make your company, and its product, so essential to your customer that they would refuse to let your business die? Imagine that kind of passion for what you do. Imagine a customer base so emotionally invested in the unique characteristics and qualities of your particular brand that they […].

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Innovative Solutions to Enhance Cybersecurity

InnovationManagement

In recent years, our world has become hyper-connected, and while that offers many substantial benefits to both corporations as well as individuals, these benefits come with a hefty price tag on our privacy and security. The post Innovative Solutions to Enhance Cybersecurity appeared first on Innovation Management.

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One Thing You Won’t Find in Any Book on Entrepreneurship

Innovation Excellence

No entrepreneur wants to end up doing this, but most will. Here’s how to handle it and the inevitable frustration it brings. The entrepreneurial journey is filled with surprises, joys, and frustrations. Like so many things in life, you can read all you want to help you navigate it, but in the end it all.

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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.