Idea to Value
MAY 26, 2016
Look at the picture above. Focus completely on the dot in the middle, stay still and don’t blink. Within about 5-10 seconds, you might notice that all of the colours disappear. And while it might seem just like an interesting trick, it actually tells us a lot about how your brain works, and why it can be so hard to think of new, truly creative ideas.
Exago
MAY 25, 2016
While the idea goes back to the 60s, Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the University of California’s Center for Open Innovation, coined the expression ‘open innovation’ in 2003. He defined it as ‘a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas, as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as firms look to advance their technology’.
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Paul Hobcraft
MAY 24, 2016
A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? Getting to a root cause of innovation blockage. So what does block innovation? Arguably there are plenty of things up and down organizations: a lack of resources, an overcrowded portfolio of ideas, a lack of dedicated people, treating innovation as one-off, keeping it isolated and apart from mainstream activ
HYPE Innovation
MAY 25, 2016
Are innovator’s born differently? Do they have a special something which eludes the rest of us? Or, can innovative traits be studied, understood, and learned? In a study of 72 ‘known innovators’, and 310 executives, it transpired that the innovators consistently demonstrated 5 key skills more than the regular executives. Surprisingly, four of the skills are physical ones, and only one is cognitive.
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.
Idea to Value
MAY 24, 2016
The next generation of 3D printers has just been released, and they use a liquid technology so futuristic you might think they came out of Terminator 2. The company is called Carbon 3D , and their new M1 3D printers, being shown off in the video above, are not only almost 100x faster than the previous generation’s technology, but finally allow production-quality prints in materials with a wide range of chemical and physical properties.
Destination Innovation
MAY 22, 2016
There is much talk in the innovation community about the need to produce a minimum viable product (MVP) and bring it quickly to market. But what exactly constitutes a MVP and what is its purpose? In his seminal book, The Lean Startup , Eric Ries defines the MVP as a version of the entrepreneur’s product which enables a full turn of the Build-Measure-Learn cycle with minimum effort and the least amount of development time.
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Digital Tonto
MAY 22, 2016
It is all too easy to get caught up in old paradigms. What we often miss is that paradigms shift and the challenges—and opportunities—of the future are likely to be vastly different. In an age of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
MAY 24, 2016
Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival set forth a fundamental framework of 10 Key Imperatives. These Imperatives were intended to help everyone from novices to experts use a structured, repeatable innovation process to Create and Sustain Innovation in order to Innovate and Thrive in this hyper-competitive marketplace.
BrainZooming
MAY 23, 2016
One of my favorite things is when clients, blog readers, and Brainzooming workshop attendees use our strategic thinking exercises to explore new ideas. They often end up creating new formats and adapting tools in ways we hadn’t envisioned! The most recent example came our way this weekend. Diane Bleck of Discovery Doodles and I were tweeting each other a couple of times in the past few weeks about innovation.
Gregg Fraley
MAY 26, 2016
Innovation and Depression. …Six Ideas for Coping with Little “d” Depression… Nobody talks about the dark emotions related to innovation. You hear about the emotional high of a big “aha” moment. Or, less frequently, about the “oh crap” moment when a project hits a brick wall. But nobody talks about how personal battles with the dark side impact innovation.
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.
Digital Tonto
MAY 25, 2016
Blockchains, by creating a "trust protocol," will make the Internet much more useful and secure. Related posts: The Future Of Money. The New Age Of Platforms. How Technology Transforms Human. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Innovation Excellence
MAY 24, 2016
I was recently invited to be a guest on the Entrepreneur On Fire podcast. During the show I shared my story of how I applied "design thinking" to leverage my strengths and design around my weaknesses. This approach resulted in breakthrough performances as both an athlete and an entrepreneur.
Faisal Hoque
MAY 23, 2016
Who doesn’t love chocolate? And we all know Hershey’s — but perhaps we don’t all know the story of the famous chocolate company’s founder, Milton Hershey. The post Five Mindsets That Have Helped Successful People Bounce Back From Failure appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.
Norbert Bol
MAY 22, 2016
In 1962 Everett Rogers introduced the theory of the Diffusion of Innovation. This theory explains how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. Innovation and new ideas do not get adopted by the fact that it is a good idea. This is dependent on the innovation itself, communication channels, time, and the social system. The categories of how we adopt new ideas or innovations are according to the theory: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.
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.
Daniel Burrus
MAY 23, 2016
On an almost daily basis, we read stories about how every industry is facing digital disruption. Although there has been a flurry of negative articles warning how we are heading for a dystopian technological future, the reality is that disruption has always happened; it is the speed at which it happens that has changed. Way back in 1942, Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase “Creative Destruction” to describe something new that kills something old.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 23, 2016
IBM Learning is now developing a completely different set of competencies which they encapsulate and describe as an ‘adaptive learner’. Stating that “innovation is the art of combination” where designers, developers, and engineers (and supervisors, managers and leaders) are required to combine their ‘expert intuition’ (and knowledge, skills and experience) with ‘strategic intuition’ (and innovative thinking).
BrainZooming
MAY 27, 2016
I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. Or maybe a competitor HAS figured out how to deliver the brand promise, but it can’t do it profitably, efficiently, or consistently. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need.
IdeaConnection
MAY 27, 2016
Global biopharmaceutical company Pfizer want your help to improve the health of children around the world. It has launched an open innovation competition, along with the Institute of Pediatric Innovation (IPI) to source ideas for a package and dispensing device that will make it easier to dispense medicine to children. The Open Innovation Device Challenge is seeking an innovation to help counter some of the problems of giving medicines orally to children.
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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
Innovation in Practice
MAY 23, 2016
For most companies, the top marketer, usually called the chief marketing officer, is part of the senior leadership team and sits on the executive committee or management board. In other words, marketing has a “seat at the table.”. But here’s the challenge. If you let things slip in terms of your team’s skills and effectiveness, you’re going to lose that seat.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 25, 2016
After a study highlights the benefits of accelerating the transition of research from lab to market, Adi Gaskell looks at how companies can better work with university and government research labs.
Open Innovation EU
MAY 25, 2016
A few weeks ago, a friend brought the book “ Innovation Thinking Methods: disciplines of thought that can help you rethink industries and unlock 10x better solutions ” from Osama A. Hashmi to my attention. I ordered it, read it and was impressed by the both the power and simplicity of the work. The book is thin and comprehensible. In fact, it read like a weblog post enriched with interesting personal thoughts of the author and beautiful examples from his own perspective.
Rapid Innovation in digital time
MAY 25, 2016
Mike Irvine is the leader of Ricoh’s European Technology Centre. His team is responsible for bridging the gap between Customers business needs and the Ricoh engineering and development teams. I met with Mike at Barcelona Innovation summit, and was impressed by the presentation he delivered on customer driven innovation, and how Ricoh unfolds various ways to involve customers in its product roadmap.
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
The Human Factor
MAY 24, 2016
Dr. Seuss has always been one of my favorite authors, especially his book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think. As a child I loved his clever rhymes, wild imagination, and endless array of made-up creatures. As an adult, I love his playfulness with the English language and how he really gets what a marvelous instrument the human brain is – including the fact that we can think up just about anything we want.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 27, 2016
One of my recent pet peeves is the proliferation of education options for innovation. One of my alma maters offers a "certificate" for innovation management. While I cannot comment on the course, it is taught by two professors with little private sector experience.
Svava
MAY 27, 2016
We met up with Peter Hopwood at TNW Europe Conference to get his top 3 tips for delivering a smashing pitch for your startup. Peter is hosting a session at TNW and he is also a startup pitching coach.
Mike Shipulski
MAY 25, 2016
How a company allocates its resources defines its strategy. But it’s tricky business to allocate resources in a way that makes the most of the existing products, services and business models yet accomplishes what’s needed to create the future. To strike the right balance, and before any decisions on specific projects, allocate the desired spending into three buckets – short, medium and long.
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Innovation Leader
MAY 25, 2016
Unilever has launched more than 90 pilots with 90 different startups, scaling about half of those initiatives. Jeremy Basset of Unilever Foundry explains how and why they're doing it.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 27, 2016
One can argue that today’s education system is skewed towards the teaching of Professional Skills, and it’s this category that will face the greatest opportunities and challenges over the next fifty years.
Innovation 360
MAY 25, 2016
We at Innovation360 Group proudly congratulate our CEO Magnus Penker to the Business Worldwide Award in the two categories ‘Most Innovative CEO Sweden 2016’ and ‘Growth Strategy CEO of the Year Sweden 2016’. Read the full interview here. Business Worldwide is a comprehensive source of timely, accurate and reliable market intelligence on trading in today’s global corporate marketplace.
The Human Factor
MAY 24, 2016
Dr. Seuss has always been one of my favorite authors, especially his book Oh, The Thinks You Can Think. As a child I loved his clever rhymes, wild imagination, and endless array of made-up creatures. As an adult, I love his playfulness with the English language and how he really gets what a marvelous instrument the human brain is – including the fact that we can think up just about anything we want.
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