Sat.Dec 03, 2022 - Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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Innovation Roadmaps – The What, Why and How

Viima

As visual creatures, we rely on graphic representations to simplify and communicate complex data. Over the past decades, processing information has become more challenging than ever, yet decision-making relies heavily on understanding and communicating this data. So, the visual communication responsibilities also extended from specialized roles to managers and professionals who need this additional skill to make sense of their work.

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Stop Expecting People To Act Rationally! Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

In an earlier age, organizations were far more hierarchical. Power rested at the top. Information flowed up, orders went down, work got done and people got paid. Incentives seemed to work. You could pay more and get more. Yet in today's marketplace, that’s no longer tenable because the work we need done is increasingly non-routine. That means we need people to do more than merely carry out tasks, they need to put all of their passion and creativity into their work to perform at a high-level.

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How To Do A Pestle Analysis In 6 Steps

Cascade Strategy

A PESTLE analysis is a tried-and-true approach for identifying macro-environmental factors that might impact an organization.

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Overcoming the Top 3 Barriers to Customer-Centricity

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Alain Thys I just finished a presentation for the leadership team of a European travel company that wanted to better understand the barriers they would face on their journey to true customer-centricity. And what they could do about it. It was a good excuse to give a 2022 update to some of […].

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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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Tackle the monkey first

Idea to Value

When faced with a significantly challenging innovation project, is it worth doing the easy tasks first to get some quick wins on the board, or should you tackle the hardest part of the project? I have been listening to some podcasts with Annie Duke recently, who has a great new book out about when it is the right time to quit. One of the metaphors she uses is trying to teach a monkey to juggle flaming torches while standing on a pedestal.

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An innovation framework that offers a formula for sustainable advantage

Paul Hobcraft

A formula to build a framework for sustainable innovation. Here is my solution that I think is worth working through first to absorb it and its combination. Then apply it to your innovation-building activity as a framework for innovation. Each time you are reviewing innovative activity, run through this formula in your head to see if each of the parts is embedded into the work.

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Fueling Corporate Innovation in Finance: Industry Insights

Qmarkets

You’ve probably heard the term ‘Quiet Quitting ‘ being thrown around by the media recently. It refers to employees who do the bare minimum required of them and nothing more. It’s an issue that might have been exacerbated by the pandemic and economic uncertainty, but it’s by no means a new phenomenon. Quiet quitters are a classic example of poorly engaged employees.

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Group and Individual Learning from an Innovation Assessment

InnovationTraining.org

We partnered with Adobe to create and lead a design thinking certificate program for about 100 learning & development and customer experience leaders as a part of the Adobe Learning Summit. We gave the group the Innovation Impact Assessment as a self-assessment activity towards the beginning of the session. (You can learn more about this innovation assessment in another article we did introducing it.

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Having an argument with Artificial Intelligence

Idea to Value

You may have seen news of people talking about the new artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI, called ChatGPT. Put simply, this is a way you can ask questions to OpenAI’s huge artificial intelligence in a natural, chat-like manner. So for example, you can ask it questions in natural text, and instead of just linking to a page with an answer, it will understand what you were looking to find out and write that answer for you.

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Five Key Considerations for Managing Lay-offs

Destination Innovation

Hard times can strike any business or any organisation, even ones which have been well managed and successful. Sometimes you have to reduce costs and headcount in order to survive. This gives leaders a big challenge. You have recruited and developed a successful team. Now you have to chop it back. What should you do? Here are some key considerations and tips.

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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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Innovative Ways to Optimize Employee Retention in 2023

IdeaScale

The Great Resignation is still going strong. In 2021, 47.8 million Americans resigned from their jobs. As of August 2022, the pace had not slowed. With the economic downturn, resignation rates slowed in September, October, and November of 2022. However, a new trend has emerged—quiet quitting. Quiet quitting is the term used to describe employees [.].

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Digital Transformation at a Retailer Near You

Business and Tech

Digital signage-based experiences are vital to future-proofing retail in ways that allay concerns post-pandemic, lean in to Gen Z, and make life a whole lot more convenient. Beth Warren SVP Marketing and Retail Strategy, Creative Realities, Board Member, Digital Signage Federation. For years, retailers have leveraged the power of the digital display to drive store traffic, spotlight news, and automate dynamic content in a way that’s easier on the planet and relieves the store of the burden of ma

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Can meditation help or hurt your creativity?

Idea to Value

In today’s world, there are so many things which are constantly distracting us. And we know that being distracted can be detrimental to our creativity. As a result, many people are trying to build up their internal ability to ignore distractions and be able to focus better in order to live a happier life. One of the fastest growing ways to do this is meditation.

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How will you measure your life in 2023? Applying business theory to reflections and resolutions.

Christensen Institute

The past couple of years have been…tumultuous, to say the least. Amongst the plethora of global events, we’ve experienced a pandemic, a war, polarized politics, and worsening climate realities. But within this storm, we’ve also experienced adaptability, perseverance and solidarity. As the year comes to a close, there’s often an inevitable period of reflection. 2022 was a year characterized by dramatics that necessitated growth in hard to cultivate skills, and though past years also ended with th

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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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How Ai Generated Christmas

Brunner

It’s that time of year, again. The KFC yule log is back. Eggnog is flowing at happy hours. And agencies everywhere are taking a break from timesheets to create The Agency Holiday Card that’ll top all agency holiday cards that have come before. Brunner’s Holiday Card is one of our favorite traditions of the season. We create one every year, our 2020 Holiday Card being a recent favorite, but truthfully speaking it can be a bit time-consuming.

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Bringing Caste into the DEI Conversation

Harvard Business Review

As companies increase their global footprint, they must also expand their definition of DEI.

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Challenge conventions for success

Flying Fish Lab

Convention tells us this is about Sumo: Japanese full-contact wrestling with centuries-worth of history, traditions and rituals. But if this is Sumo, and the objective is to win, then the little guy will have very little chance of success. Let’s challenge that convention and ask: What if it were any other sport? What if it were a race? The problem hasn't changed – the challenge is still "how to win against the bigger guy" – but by asking these questions and looking at the situation without the b

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s head of education on supporting student, educator wellbeing

Christensen Institute

As schools have reopened and the challenges facing children remain as glaring as ever, education philanthropy has a significant role to play in how schools innovate and tackle many of these issues. For several years, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has been one of the most significant education philanthropies, but it doesn’t operate like a traditional foundation.

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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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This Tech Is Transforming Real Estate and is Creating a Major Market Opportunity

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Smart home technology is disrupting real estate, presenting a significant market opportunity for designers, builders, entrepreneurs and investors.

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5 Ways to Acquire New Skills Without Going Back to School

Harvard Business Review

Fifty percent of jobs will require new skill sets in the next five years, according to the World Economic Forum.

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What Blinkers Are You Wearing Today?

Flying Fish Lab

Every brand proudly says they’re different, but our consumers and customers most likely see and experience a sea of sameness. If we take the time to remove our blinkers and look at the playing field from the Outside In, we may see it too. [link] Category Conventions. We all make the best effort to understand our consumers and stay ahead of their needs.

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Webinar: ‘Improve or transform’ insights in 30 minutes

Christensen Institute

Last month we hosted a webinar to share insights from our recent health care report, Improve or transform: Choosing the right business model to deliver health. Below you’ll find the 30-minute webinar recording where we cover the highlights from our business model “how-to” guide: Why conventional guidance on preparing for a value-based world hasn’t worked A better solution for leaders seeking to redesign their business models successfully and sustainably Our strategy guide

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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 Businesses Can Harness the Power of Constant Digital Change and Become Stronger Than Ever

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The economic and global crises of the past few years have affected brands of all shapes and sizes. Here are some steps you can take to create new digital capabilities that promote customization, scalability, innovation and stability.

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Preserving Ecosystems as an Innovation Superpower

Innovation Excellence

Lessons from Picasso and David Attenborough GUEST POST from Pete Foley We probably all agree that the conservation of our natural world is important. Sharing the planet with other species is not only ethically and emotionally the right thing to do to, but it’s also enlightened self-interest. A healthy ecosystem helps equilibrate and stabilize our […].

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Using AI to learn what is important to learn about Design Thinking (ChatGPT Open AI)

InnovationTraining.org

I’ve been having fun with the Open AI chatbot ChatGPT. So far over a million people have tried this and have been surprised with some of the “conversations” they have been having with the AI. This tool is made by OpenAI. ChatGPT allows you to chat with the AI and get ideas or knowledge in a more natural way of communication. This tool is capable of understanding natural human language and generating “thoughtful” more human responses after you provide it a question o

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What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs

Harvard Business Review

Many cling to the idea that reducing staff is the fastest, easiest way to cut costs. But there are smarter, more humane approaches.

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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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You Have the Power to Innovate — You Just Have to Unlock It. Here's How.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Too often, we equate newness with technological innovation, but true innovation ruffles feathers. Here's how to bring it to your organization.

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When You Have No Slack Time

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you have no slack time, you can’t start new projects. When you have no slack time, you can’t run toward the projects that need your help. When you have no slack time, you have no time to think. When you have no slack time, you have no time to […].

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AI for Ideation | How to use AI to brainstorm and generate ideas

InnovationTraining.org

Here’s a demonstration of how to use AI to help you brainstorm or generate ideas. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools like OpenAI playground and ChatGPT to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions.

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Data-Driven Approaches Helping Public Sector with Sustainable Water Management

Acuvate

A recent UNICEF research revealed that half of the world’s population could be living in areas facing water scarcity by as early as 2025. Some 700 million people could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030. As grim as these facts sound, the water industry indeed faces several pressing challenges in the form of a severe imbalance between a growing population’s demands and an almost consistent supply, aging infrastructure, in-optimal performance, contamination, and increasing regulatory l

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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.