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12 open innovation best practices for the year to come

HYPE Innovation

Did you know that not that long ago, drones were one of the bestselling Christmas presents ?

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How Can Business Transformation Reduce Costs?

Kainexus

Our recent conversations with business leaders clearly show that the disruption of COVID-19 and changing market conditions have left them thinking about costs in a different light. The "new normal" has forced them to shift from simple cost reduction to cost transformation. The tricky part is that for an actual cost transformation, organizations must adopt optimal cost behaviors that last over time.

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Spotting Frauds and Hucksters

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Within hours of planes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9-11, stories began circulating that it was not, in fact, the planes that caused the towers to collapse, but explosives planted inside by someone with access. Since then, a number of conspiracy theories have circulated that people ranging from […].

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Uncovering Hidden Risks: Three Challenges

Michael Roberto

I've argued that leaders need to become more proactive problem finders if they wish to avert surprising failures in their organization. They need to seek out and uncover hidden risks. Unfortunately, as humans, we struggle with regard to how we cope with risk. Three patterns of behavior prove particularly problematic when it comes to risk. 1. We actively downplay and discount ambiguous risks.

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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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The External Innovation Partners You Need Most

IdeaScale

Partnering with third-party subject-matter experts delivers a variety of benefits. The type of partners that will benefit your organization will vary greatly depending on factors such as your industry, tenure, objectives, and budget. Even with an empowered, skill-diverse, and enthusiastic team, partnering with external experts gives you a competitive edge.

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Time for Innovation 2.0

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. There are kids out there, getting ready to graduate from college, who were just being born when I started doing innovation work.

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3 Startups Making a Big Difference with Small Innovations

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Most innovation is not a game-changer or breakthrough in nature. It is about creating novel and valuable solutions to problems and small but effective adaptations to processes, ways of working and models.

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you don’t know what to do, what do you do? This is a difficult question. Here are some thoughts that may help you figure out what to do when you really don’t know. Don’t confuse activity with progress. Gather your two best friends, go off-site, and define the system […].

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Leading Change: The Old Way vs. The New Way

CMOE

If there is one thing that we can count on, it is that things will change. Especially in the last two years, how and where we work has changed, and the workforce itself is decidedly different. Organizations are facing new changes every day, and it is essential for leaders to exploit the advantages that these changes can give. But how can leaders make change appealing to their team members , especially after constant change has been thrust upon us over the past two years?

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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

Idea to Value

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” A few weeks ago, I came across a fantastic quote on creativity in an interview Todd Henry ‘s podcast and Joey Cofone. They were talking about when to know whether something you are working on is “finished” and ready to be released, and Joey came out with this quote attributed to the famous Leonardo Da Vinci: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” While this quote initially may seem depressing, suggesting that we

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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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3 Ancient Wisdoms We Needed To Leave Behind To Create The Modern World

Digital Tonto

If you were a person of sophistication and education in the 19th century, your world view was based on certain axiomatic truths, such as parallel lines never cross, logical propositions are either true or false and "bad airs" made people sick. For the most part, these ideas would have served you well for the challenges you faced in daily life. Even more importantly, your understanding of these concepts would signal your inclusion and acceptance into a particular tribe, which would confer prestig

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Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms

Tullio Siragusa

Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms. Learning is a continuous process that is not confined to the classroom alone. Digitization of learning platforms has brought innovation to education. It has enabled learners to get quality yet affordable and user-centric learning experiences that have been a positive force on their career. In modern times, learning is becoming a continuous process.

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How do you talk to students about their networks?

Christensen Institute

How do you talk to students about social capital? If you want students to deepen and expand their networks, what messages and experiences increase the likelihood that they’ll feel confident and inspired to do so? These questions come up frequently in our field work. Although this is certainly an area where more R&D would benefit the field, there’s a few guiding principles and examples that we point people to.

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Business Process Improvement Examples: 34 Actionable Ideas

Kainexus

When leaders consider implementing a structured business process improvement methodology , one of the challenges they often face is explaining to employees what types of opportunities to consider. Usually, there are some apparent needs that people attack immediately. Still, once those are addressed, it can be challenging to recognize the flaws in processes, especially ones you operate every day.

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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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The Emotional Labor of Being a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Many organizations fail to adequately prepare leaders for — or support them in — this critical part of the job.

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Music Can Make You a More Effective Leader

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken You don’t have to be a rock star with an album that makes millions to say, “Music changed my life.” You can be the leader of an organization, searching for a way to overcome an obstacle or challenge plaguing you—potentially for years. The key to resolving an ongoing leadership challenge […].

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WHY IS IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO INNOVATE?

ImagineNation

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant to innovation. Resulting in many organisations, teams, and leaders appearing to walk backward as if they are sleepwalking through this time in their lives.

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How Visual Management Tools Start & Sustain Improvement

Kainexus

Visual management tools surround us. Although they are so ubiquitous, we might not even think about them. For example, when your car is about to run out of gas, a light will alert you to the problem. Your fitness app may even show you how close you are to your daily goal. Your brain can quickly process these easy-to-understand visual clues and use the information to make decisions.

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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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Adapting Your Sales Approach in a Downturn

Harvard Business Review

The right process can help you boost revenue, expand margins, and successfully launch new products — even in challenging economic times.

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Ice Cream Dreams

Innovation Excellence

The surprising innovation stories behind that sunny afternoon delight GUEST POST from John Bessant Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but wonderful days when the sun smiles down benignly. Strolling in the park, absorbing the warmth my attention was taken by an ice cream. Or rather, to the face of a toddler […].

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Making personal finances fun!

Innovation 360 Group

Rise Up is a start-up that empowers people to build confidence and to inject a little fun into managing their finances. The post Making personal finances fun! appeared first on Innovation360.

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Digitizing Inspection Activity with Modern Inspection Apps for Businesses

Acuvate

Inspections are a routine part of daily work in every industry. Ensuring things are running smoothly and compliance regulations are being adhered to is significant for business operations to run well. With increasing digitalization transforming business landscapes, many companies are starting to deploy inspection apps to simplify processes for employees that perform field inspections every day and typically fill out several paper forms and checklists to record all the information manually and cr

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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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3 Strategies to Earn Consumer Trust in Email Marketing

Harvard Business Review

People prefer a personalized message — but are also skeptical of how companies use their data. Here’s how to thread the needle.

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Human-Centered Design and Innovation

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley Recently I had the opportunity to interview Mauro Porcini, author of the new book The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People. Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer. He joined the food & beverage corporation in 2012 and in said role he is infusing […].

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Build What Customers Love, And The Money Will Follow

helloFUTURE

Even though we talk about improving profitability and our customers benefit from the profitable new ideas we help them generate or generate for them, there are still a lot of creative ideas that, when they are first conceived, have nothing to do with profitability. This is even though we talk about improving profitability. There is… The post Build What Customers Love, And The Money Will Follow appeared first on IDEATE AND EXECUTE.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Samantha Kelly, Founder, Women’s Inspire Network

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance Samantha Kelly, Founder, Women’s Inspire Network Focus Areas: Marketing, Leadership, Social, Startups Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Samantha Kelly Social Media: LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram Latest Content: 5 Tips to stand out online , How to create a Linkedin Audio Event , Join me for a cup of tea in Cork (Or join us virtually) Thinkers360 Leaderboards: 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2022, 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers You Should

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Research: Why It’s So Hard to Map Global Supply Chains

Harvard Business Review

They’re more vast, dense, and dynamic than you might think, according to an analysis of 40,000 global firms.

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3 Mind-Blowing Things I Learned in Nebraska

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the Before Times, we attended conferences to learn, make connections, and promote ourselves and our businesses. Then COVID hit, and conferences became virtual. Although that made them easier to attend, it also made them easier to skip. Because, if we’re honest, most conferences were more about connecting and promoting […].

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Culture Jolt #27 - Propagate relaxed synchronicity, not uniformity

Values Centered Innovation

Welcome to our Conscious Innovator ® process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicits your unique, innovative potential in life and work? Jolts wake us up. They spur new self-awareness, new capabilities and values, and new actions. Paradoxically, we don’t learn from each Jolt – rather, each Jolt “learns us” !

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Bright Sparks can become a Galaxy of Stars

IdeaSpies

Who has surprised you on the upside with their leadership skills?

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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