HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents; The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined; Innovation can’t be measured. What do they have in common? If you’re inclined to say: “They’re all truisms!” (= Truths too obvious to mention) I’d pat you on the back and kindly invite you to join us at the next HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn for two days of enlightening conversations about innovation practice.

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Exago

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The Brazilian company Fleury – a leading provider of clinical analyses in Latin America – has currently more than 10,000 employees. All can participate in Fleury’s innovation efforts. In 2007, the company initiated a programme to encourage suggestions for how. Read More. The post The idea management challenge. How do they do it? appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

So in the past week or so we have seen the announcement that Capgemini has acquired Fahrenheit 212 , at present for an undisclosed sum, now that one was a real surprise. I have a friend when he is presented with something that stops him and makes him really have to think he would say “intriguing”. This joining forces is one of those ‘intriguing” moments for me.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Robotics is a field of study I find fascinating, because not only can you see gradual improvements in design brought on by better technology each year (a perfect example of incremental innovation), but every now and again you see something that makes you realise there has been a big leap forward. A few years ago, it was the video which showed Honda’s Asimo being able to walk up and down stairs , which was all the more impressive considering how many times it had failed in previous demonstr

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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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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

How do your company’s employees react when asked to participate in enterprise collaborative innovation? Do employees cheer enthusiastically, as they are finally able to get involved? Perhaps there’s a degree of cynicism having seen corporate initiatives fail in the past? Do employees understand what you’re trying to do? It can be hard to understand whether you have an ‘innovation culture’ and to what extent that’s propagated the organization, however, running idea campaigns helps to develop a cl

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I've had a really good laugh lately at the people running around tripping robots. I wonder if that's an actual job description (Robot Tripper) or if Google and others simply look for volunteers who are willing to trip the robots. Aren't the people doing this afraid that one day the robots will seek revenge? But here's where innovation turns down a potentially blind alley.

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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Our failure to adapt to the future is less likely to be due to a lack of intelligence than a lack of imagination. Related posts: 5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology. How Google’s. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I recently sat down with Dr Simone Ritter to discuss recent research into how creativity happens in the brain, and whether it is possible to improve it. Dr Ritter is an Assistant Professor at Department of Social and Cultural Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen in Holland, and is leading a team looking into how people generate and select ideas.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. To see the interview in it’s entirety, scroll to the bottom of this post. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? In early-stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction.

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Braden Kelley

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I was lucky enough to (a) get Tanveer Nasser to contribute some thought leadership to my new book Charting Change (launching tomorrow!) and (b) to be a guest recently on his leadership podcast.

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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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Digital Tonto

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The biggest challenges we face now can’t be solved with greater prosperity, technology or education because those are, in large degree, the underlying causes. Related posts: To Prepare For The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

What does it take to encourage creativity and innovation across an entire region? I sat down with Pascal Cools, from the Flanders District of Creativity, which the Belgian government set up to promote innovation and creativity within businesses of the region. Essentially, it was designed to help companies think of innovation in a different way. You could say it was to help them “innovate their innovation” Their philosophy is that innovation should be a combination of insights coming

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. We’re only proponents, however, when there are specific reasons and benefits from the time, effort, and investment to bring a group together in person. Often, however, executives jump too quickly to flying everyone into one place for a big strategic planning meeting.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts of it to create agile change or agile marketing or other such things. Sure agility sounds like a good thing and sure agile marketing sounds like it must be better than regular marketing, but is it?

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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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Rapid Innovation in digital time

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a well known acronym for software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor, and made available to customers over the Internet. Can this concept be applied to innovation? As a matter of fact, we see a growing number of initiatives where innovation endeavor is hosted outside the company.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This post came out of an interview on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Innovation with David Binetti , Founder of Innovation Options, and Brant Cooper, Co-Founder. To see the interview in it’s entirety, scroll to the bottom of this post. One question kills more innovation initiatives than any other: What’s the ROI for this innovation project? In early stage projects with a product that’s not in the market, projections are fiction.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Are you experiencing death by meeting syndrome at work? In all likelihood, you are. It seems as if everyone we talk to in companies of any size complains about the death by meeting syndrome where it’s impossible to get any work done for all the business meetings they have to attend. Is there anything you can do to deal with death by meeting syndrome?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The interesting thing about the dialogue I recently had with Kyle was well, only everything – starting with his customized title “Senior Director of Innovation Capacity and Organization Effectiveness” custom molded to fit Kyle’s extraordinary expertise. When asked to describe it – the words were so fluid it was abundantly clear this role is far more than a title but more a promise to pioneer new thinking.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

This month Larry Fink, the chief executive at BlackRock the world’s biggest investor with $4.6 trillion, sent a letter to the chief executives at S&P 500 companies and large European corporations to bring an end to a culture of short-termism and to focus on long term value creation. The appeal is not new, as other leading figures (e.g. Hillary Clinton , Mindy Lubber , Mark Carney ) have made this claim before.

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Innovation in Practice

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

. The Task Unification Technique is great because it generates novel ideas that tend to be novel and resourceful. It's one of five techniques in the SIT Innovation Method. Task Unification is defined as: assigning an additional task to an existing resource. That resource should be in the immediate vicinity of the problem, or what we call The Closed World.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career. I’m not a big fan of having people do trust falls and anything that’s going to make them physically uncomfortable.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There are four aspects where technology will trend towards open to exploit our connected world that might offer up more opportunities to participate and explore Continue reading →

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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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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2000, I predicted that we would see innovation as a service in the near future. NASA recently invited users from freelancer.com to help them solve 22 of their most complex problems. The open invitation to join a collaborative innovation program that involves training the image recognition of the robotic astronaut by generating 3D models of objects that it would interact with on the EVA spacewalk, including , and of the International Space Station has captured everyone’s imagination.

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Getspeakup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Companion slides: www.slideshare.net/GetSpeakUp/conf…iness-practices. Confronting the ugly truth of employee engagement and how to modernize your business practices. —– Get alerts when we publish new podcast episodes: Register @ blog.getspeakup.com. Create positive change at work and give everyone the power to SpeakUp, try it free: getspeakup.com.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Participants assess where they think the organization currently is and where they want it to be in the future on multiple “strategic dimensions.” The strategic dimensions relate to significant aspirations, big goals, major strategic decisions, and other factors defining the organization.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Drum roll please. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our free Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Innovation Leader

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

We gathered twenty senior innovation, product, and strategy executives, in collaboration with our partner Mindjet. The goal: to discuss how to create sustainable innovation programs.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In today’s episode, we host Natasha, founder & CEO of www.NatsyByDesign.com – an online store that supports artisans by brining their work directly to the consumer. In this free wheeling conversation, we talk about what it means to succeed and fail and how important it is for entrepreneurs to continue to learn. She shares her learning and challenges around scaling a business that depends on people who work on their own schedules and are not very keen on innovations around their traditional

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Many people visit the Brainzooming website looking for ideas on making strategic planning fun. As I always say, those searches are no surprise. I’m a strategic planning guy, and even I don’t enjoy strategic planning the way it is typically handled for groups. Part of making strategic planning fun involves fun exercises , which we continue to create and share here.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

How do enterprises use collaboration as a tool for innovation? Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise is a new book by Peter Cook.

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