Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. Yes, even before the Internet and social media became essential tools in aiding collaboration. For all these years, we have successfully helped many companies benefit from collective intelligence, keeping participants engaged, creating specific tools for managing their communities, and systems of analysis.

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Tim Kastelle

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What we focus on determines our performance I recently had a chance to catch up with my friend Ben for a quick coffee while I was traveling through Seattle. As usual, our discussion was great, covering all kinds of ideas. At one point, he said something I loved: Mountain bikers always say ‘if you see rocks, you hit rocks.’ It’s a simple idea, but it strikes me as profound.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Business Ecosystem Trends by Deloitte. Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of internally generating new products. It opens up a host of possibilities, that can add significantly towards a new service design, new capabilities and solving more complex problems. In opening up to managing within ecosystems you begin to see your ability to contribute and tackle societal problems within a collaborative system.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Today I am leading a panel at the Sports and Fitness Industry Association leadership meeting in New Orleans. I had the chance to sit in and listen as Jim Carroll , the futurist, talked about a number of trends that will force changes in the way we make and sell products. Jim's presentation was very interesting and let me to think about what happens when past experience doesn't matter anymore.

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“Innovation” is often discussed in terms of the “idea” as the product and the formation of that idea as somehow unique and ineffable …. Light bulb / Eureka! / “I was in the shower when…”. There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." Related posts: Broken Logic, Uncertainty and Emergence. The Mathematics of “Anything Can. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Our cat, Clementine, passed away this weekend. While I haven’t shared much about her on the Brainzooming blog, I discovered over the weekend how many people she had touched as the only bona fide social media celebrity at The Brainzooming Group. Clementine was a beautiful and unique looking cat. She resembled the original Gremlin in the movie of the same name.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. Yes, even before the Internet and social media became essential tools in aiding collaboration. For all these years, we have successfully helped many companies benefit from collective intelligence, keeping participants engaged, creating specific tools for managing their communities, and systems of analysis.

Engagement 160

Engagement Innovation Programs Analysis Tools 160

Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The truth is that you probably won’t see trouble coming, because whatever threatens to kill your company in the future is most likely a source of its strength today. Related posts: Why Your Business. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We thought it would be a fun summer activity to pull together a list of the top innovation personalities and information sharers on twitter. We knew we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of the great Innovation Excellence authors) and based on your responses and some of our own we've compiled this year's list of the Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2015.

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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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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Where is the leadership? Is it tainted or toppled by hubris, narcissism, megalomania or some other tragic human frailty? The post Why Board Leadership Fails appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Taylor Mallory Holland at Content Standard wrote this insightful article how tight deadlines can have both a positive and a negative affect on creativity. From her article: Dr. Richard Boyatzis, a professor of organizational behavior, psychology and cognitive science, explained his team’s findings to The Wall Street Journal : The research shows us that the more stressful a deadline is, the less open you are to other ways of approaching the problem.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Awesome new ideas are what make an innovation program…well, an innovation program. But it’s the tools you use that help those ideas become reality and bring about tangible returns — tools like innovation management software (and for some, a new way of thinking about innovation altogether). According to the people who spend their time researching this sort of thing, the importance of ‘managing innovation initiatives systematically’ (i.e., using intelligent technology) is and will cont

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The importance of resources to company success was emphasized in the resource based view theory: “firms obtain sustained competitive advantages by implementing strategies that exploit their internal strengths, through responding to environmental opportunities, while neutralizing external threats and avoiding internal weaknesses” (Barney, “Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage”, 1991).

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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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Mills-Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The Hedgehog’s Dilemma is a metaphor for the problems we have developing relationships. Look around our professional and personal lives; examples are everywhere. My friend and colleague, Ian Gonsher , uses design thinking to solve the dilemma with applications for humans of all ages. I bet you can think of ways to make it apply to you – at work and elsewhere.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. The article shows that it is not enough to bring together people with special expertise from different disciplines to develop innovative ideas.

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Eddielogic

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The business world is trimmed on maximum efficiency. Why would you waste your time when there are plenty of support tools, designed to help you become more efficient? Time is a limited resource.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The network economy, in which nearly everything is available to nearly everyone, imposes a new requirement on leaders. This new requirement is at the heart of leadership.

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Be-novative

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

How does one start their own Innovator’s Journey? At Be-novative, we believe every organization can be innovative and every person creative. Yet some companies and individuals are instinctively innovative – coming up with great ideas and implementing them at break-neck speeds. How do they do it? What do they do exactly before their overnight success?

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Faisal Hoque

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

"We need to notice. Just notice. Notice for a moment…Before the future slips away.Into ashes and dust of humility.". The post For Our World by Mattie Stepanek appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

These days, we see new, dramatic innovations in technology with considerable frequency. Moreover, when we consider the past decade or so, the pace of new developments is increasing at an exponential rate. But while we’re seeing more creativity and inventiveness, how much of this technological development is disruptive rather than simple tweaks to existing innovations already embedded within mainstream society?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

It was largely during the 20th century that corporations rose to power. Private enterprises— usually run by a cadre of professional managers rather than by entrepreneurs— came to rival the reach and influence of governments, controlling massive resources that were not bound by traditional borders. Today, however, that dominance is on the wane.

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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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Mike Shipulski

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The first question is usually – What’s the best practice? And the second question is – Why aren’t you using it? In the done-it-before domain this makes sense. Best practices are best when inputs are tightly controlled, process steps are narrowly defined, and the desired output is known and can be formally defined. Industry loves best practice because they are so productive.

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Innovation 360

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In todays business climate, with high tempo, hyper competition and shorter product lifecycles, a company´s ability to quickly develop and change it´s business model is of outmost importance to be able to remain competitive on the market and as such, be sustainably profitable and successful. But in doing so, it is also very important not to loose direction!

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Being constantly exposed to how we analyze, develop and ultimately help our clients to become and stay successful in the creativity era, where innovation is at the heart, I have decided to put down and share some reflections about how our world is changing, hopefully for the better, and how you and the society can benefit from it. The Creativity Era: fast-moving markets, hyper competition and companies’ shrinking lifespan….

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Scientific breakthroughs are often reported as being innovation. I’m a bit of a purist when it comes to definitions, so if science produces inventions, they only become innovation if they are implemented and add value.

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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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100%Open

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Geeks! I salute you and all that you have achieved. I really do, and consider myself one of you, albeit my coding skills are pretty rusty these days. The power of code has, without question, transformed pretty much every aspect of our lives. However the phenomenal success of code to create value has lead to an overzealous drive towards the codification of everything, which has gone too far and misses a deeper truth. .

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KindlingApp

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Corporate cultures are almost always built on safe bets. It might as well be carved into the neoclassical temple façade of the New York Stock Exchange: “minimize risk, maximize profits.” As someone involved in marketing both the ideas and the software that drive innovation programs , I have always felt a little odd attempting to translate the value innovation offers corporate culture into terms that resonate with this risk-averse worldview, because innovation is inherently about taking risks.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In todays business climate, with high tempo, hyper competition and shorter product lifecycles, a company´s ability to quickly develop and change it´s business model is of outmost importance to be able to remain competitive on the market and as such, be sustainably profitable and successful. But in doing so, it is also very important not to loose direction!

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) provides value to product manager, marketing managers, and innovators. To learn more about the association, I interviewed the president, Therese Padilla.

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