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6 Innovation Exercises to Try With Your Team

InnovationManagement

Creative thinking and innovation don’t come naturally to everyone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good at them. Sometimes, teams need practice and routine to improve their creativity skills. This article will highlight some popular innovation exercises you can conduct with your team to get your creative juices flowing. These will be a combination of workplace exercises and ice-breakers.

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Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage

Digital Tonto

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Find a New Way to Show the Facts

Destination Innovation

Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804) was an English polymath, philosopher, educator and scientist who is most famous for his discovery of Oxygen. In 1765 he published a “Chart of Biography” to accompany a series of history lectures. It showed the lives of famous people as lines on a chart. He said it would allow students to “trace out distinctly the dependence of events to distribute them into such periods and divisions as shall lay the whole claim of past transactions in a just and orderly mann

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

Idea to Value

Are some people born creative? Or to say it another way, are some people born not creative? I hear this myth all the time. That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things.

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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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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a blue pill or a red pill. Take one, and you remain as you are. Take the other, and the scales fall from your eyes. Those of us who watched the movie or have seen it on ubiquitous reruns, know what happens next. As an innovator, it would be awesome to pop into a completely different meta-world to understand the hidden workings of the metaverse I just left.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

The Pathway Curve Methodology. The approach we take to embedding innovation in all its forms is a unique one that we call the Pathway Curve Methodology. Innovation needs to be worked at, to grow into a deeper understanding, over time. It needs to be understood in all its different forms and often many can become confused and disappointed by their initiatives by not taking a more measured approach to them.

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Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking. Modern customer success efforts rely on providing unique and positive experiences to customers. As a result, businesses are getting competitive at an ever-increasing rate, trying to offer real value to customers to convince them to stay and plant seeds to come back in the future when they leave. . Because customers have a sea of choices in the market, convincing them to stay requires well thought out strategies to keep winning their hearts.

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Why ‘offline’ digital learning is critical to impact children worldwide

Christensen Institute

As thousands of educators, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered at the recent ASU+GSV Summit, a growing number recognized both the need and opportunity for educational innovation in developing countries, particularly for the over 250 million children who lack access to schools. But many of the solutions proffered still focus on internet-based solutions.

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WE DO NOT SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE

Michael Michalko

It might be hard to believe, but the two tables have the exact same dimensions! Measure both table surfaces with a ruler and prove it to yourself. Why, then, does the table on the left look elongated, while the table on the right appears to have a wider width? The illusion of two tables was first discovered by Roger Shepard at Stanford University. It comes down to how we perceive the scene.

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Building Support for Radical Innovation

Sopheon

Best practices for winning executive support and sources of funding for innovation projects. The post Building Support for Radical Innovation appeared first on Sopheon.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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The Need for a Dignity Economy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every era has its own ideology that creates assumptions and drives actions. At the turn of the century, titans like J.P. Morgan believed that monopolized industries provided stability against the disruptive influence of competition.

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Building and refining the interfaces in learning ecosystems (Part 4)

Christensen Institute

Key Points. For learning ecosystems to become viable alternatives to schooling for more families, they need “orchestrator” organizations to knit together learning experiences from diverse providers. Organizations such as VLACS, My Tech High, and Compass offer early examples of how orchestrators might work. The pandemic sparked unprecedented interest in new models of learner-centered education, such as learning pods and microschools.

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Why is Lean Important? 6 Ways Lean Leads to Success

Kainexus

In every industry, continuous improvements in efficiency, production, and innovation pave the path to profitability. In the modern competitive business landscape, leaders must look for an edge in every element of their business, be it through higher quality products, lower costs, or shorter supply chain lead times. Lean management is a business model that can help organizations achieve these goals and more.

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Five Digital Innovations To Help Elevate Your Retail In-Store and Online Experiences

Daniel Burrus

Consumer behavior has been dramatically altered since the global pandemic of 2020 first started, and we are not going back! Because we are armed with greater comfort in using digital tools to shop and buy, physical stores need to embrace a digital-first strategy to elevate their in-store retail experiences. What people want and need changes almost daily, and companies are always introducing new, innovative solutions to the average person’s everyday problems, but more importantly, are trying to s

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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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Creating Innovation with Hardcore Soft Skills

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Yadira Caro on the Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast. In the episode I define what innovation really is, how people, process and technology come together to create innovation and where people go wrong.

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The Climate Crisis: What You Really Need to Know

Faisal Hoque

Climate change threatened to cut the global economy by $23 trillion.

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Open Innovation: Strategies and Best Practice to Manage Partnerships

ITONICS

Traditionally, organizations have kept their idea generation within the company, but with the ever-changing landscape of technology and globalization, open innovation has become essential for companies that want to stay ahead of the curve. Bosch, for example, has recognized this need and established a best practice to foster centralized partnership management.

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Of Clouds and Clocks

Rmukesh Gupta

Sir. Karl Popper, in one of his lectures, elaborates about the presence of two types of systems – the clocks and the clouds. Clocks: At one end of the spectrum are Clocks. Clocks are those systems that can be taken apart to understand how they function and assembled back together and when done right, will continue to function the way they were designed.

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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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What Makes Digital Health Clinical Trials Different?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. For digital health entrepreneurs, unless your intended use puts you in the FDA category of a medical device, you don’t need to show that your product is safe and effective, let alone cost-effective.

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7 Traits and Skills of Next Generation Leaders

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Grasping these seven concepts requires consciousness and practice.

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CPG Industry Innovation

eZassi

The CPG Industry aims to continuously reinvent itself as the online shopper experience and the in-person retail customer both demand personalized, convenient, in stock, economical, and exciting products. CPG embraces constant change and ceaseless innovation to keep up with consumer demands while building brands customers rely on in their daily lives.

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How IoT Opens Up Opportunities for Limitless Growth in Manufacturing

Acuvate

IoT is changing the world as we know it. Industries are adopting this state-of-the-art technology to understand and make use of the available data sets. Retail, logistics, hospitality, you name it, everyone is vying to provide the best customer experience, become more productive and efficient and stay ahead of the competition. The manufacturing sector is no exception.

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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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Taking Personal Responsibility – Back to Leadership Basics

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I was first introduced to the principle of Taking Personal Responsibility when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Evidence Based Storytelling in Innovation

IM Insights

About the Episode. Elijah Eilert is talking to Tendayi Viki about the power and pitfalls of storytelling in the context of innovation management. . A well told story has the power to move us, we are biologically programmed to buy into storytelling. The problem is that often in an innovation context a well told story bypasses logic and reason, selling a tall story devoid of facts.

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3 Common Team Challenges in the Workplace [& Solutions]

CMOE

There’s the saying, “Teamwork makes the dream work.” But what happens when challenges arise? How can you continue to make that “dream work”? Since collaboration can make up nearly 80 percent of a person’s role in an organization, it’s crucial to focus both on team interaction and the possible conflicts that can occur. The key is to anticipate potential sources of conflict in a team setting and address those challenges in a way that stimulates productivity, innovation, and improves morale.

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First Principles Problem Solving

InnovationTraining.org

Find training resources related to this problem solving technique. Popularized by the likes of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, the First Principles way of thinking was first developed and utilized by the philosopher Aristotle. This way of thinking can be used for understanding complicated problems and developing innovative solutions to challenges in organizations and in life.

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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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Surfacing Your Hidden Assumptions

Innovation Excellence

Successful strategy and innovation are about how fast you can become aware of your assumptions.

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Water4’s NUMA–An innovative system that increases access to safe water where it is needed most.

Christensen Institute

This is the second of a two-part blog series on Water4 and how it addresses a market need to provide clean and safe water in Sierra Leone. In the first blog , I explained that Water4’s business model is a market-creating innovation (MCI) because it transforms a complicated and expensive product (safe water) into a simple and affordable product, thereby making it accessible to a whole new segment of people. .

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Organizational project management: The comprehensive guide

Cascade Strategy

In business, organizational project management is the ultimate system. James Clear hit the nail on the noggin right there. The Atomic Habits author recognizes the critical value of systems when it comes to achieving just about anything in life.

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Unlocking your challenges and issues

Innovating4Energy

Two really important points have troubled me in the past months and given growing challenges and issues relating to the energy transition. The failure of CoP26 lingers very heavily and now as we are caught up in the Russian- Ukrainian war we are seeing so many reverses on pledges made in Glasgow or simply waiting to see where this crisis will take us all.

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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.