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We require a more dynamic view of Innovation understanding.

Paul Hobcraft

So why is finding the right skills and competencies for innovation a real challenge but so essential? How do we know the critical skills, competencies and capabilities for innovation? Also, what are the additional dependencies for sustaining innovation capabilities that are becoming vital to understand so an organization can place the appropriate resources behind them, build upon a sustainable future and leverage these innovation dynamics?

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Revolutionize Your Business with the Agile Innovation Process – Here’s How

IdeaScale

As businesses face an ever-changing landscape, it's crucial to have an agile innovation process in place. This allows companies to adapt quickly to new opportunities and challenges, and stay ahead of the competition. In this blog, we'll explore how the agile innovation process can revolutionize your business, and provide five key steps to get started. [.

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15 Benefits of Standard Work

Kainexus

Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, once said, “Without Standard Work, there is no Kaizen.” That’s a pretty bold statement, but when you think about the continuous improvement cycle, it makes a lot of sense. How can you move from the current state to the desired state if the current state is a moving target? Standard Work , which documents the current best practice for performing a task or process, and ensures that everyone is applying it, is a prerequisite for improvement.

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How Empathy Can Be Your Secret Weapon

Digital Tonto

Empathy, as powerful as it can potentially be, is widely misunderstood. It is often paired with compassion in the context of creating a more beneficial workplace. That is, of course, a reasonable and worthy objective, but the one-dimensional use of the term is misleading and limits its value. When seen only through the lens of making others more comfortable, empathy can seem like a “nice to have,” trait rather than a valuable competency and an important source of competitive advantage.

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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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How Has Innovation Changed Since the Pandemic?

Innovation Excellence

The Answer in Three Charts GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Everything changed since the pandemic.” At this point, my husband, a Navy veteran, is very likely to moo (yes, like a cow).

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20 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Effective and More Fun.

Destination Innovation

Let’s face it. Meetings are unpopular. A study by Steven Rogelberg, of the University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in a range of industries: 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work; 71% said meetings are unproductive and 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. We all know these frustrations because we encounter them every day at work.

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Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange. As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

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Unlocking success: The role of digital transformation in modern business

Collectivecamp

How companies operate has significantly changed over the last years due to digital transformation. Regardless of their size, digital transformation is imperative for all businesses.

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Questions Are More Powerful Than We Think

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When I was 27, I moved to Warsaw, Poland to work in the nascent media industry that was developing there. I had experience working in media in New York, so I was excited to share what I’d learned and was confident that my knowledge and expertise would be well received.

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ROI for innovation

Strategyzer Innovation

Here is a classic scene I have observed in many companies: Leslie, an innovation team lead, is pitching a project to the executive board. As required, he presents the business case for investing in the new offering and five-year projections for revenue growth and profits.

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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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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem

Harvard Business Review

Strategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law.

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Product vs. Project Managers

Sopheon

Product managers and project managers are two distinct roles. To launch new products successfully, they play a crucial role and must collaborate tightly. Product managers set the vision for the product, gather requirements and prioritize them, but it’s the project manager’s job to act upon this vision and make sure that it gets executed on time and within budget.

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My prepared remarks for the Technology and Anticorruption panel at the 2nd Summit for Democracy

Christensen Institute

On March 30, 2023, I participated in the Technology and Anti-Corruption panel at the 2nd Summit for Democracy: Indo-Pacific Regional Meeting in Seoul. The summit focused on the challenges and progress in addressing corruption. I prepared these remarks for the summit. Why do people hire corruption? In an attempt to solve any problem, we must first ask why the problem exists in the first place?

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What does Life Expectancy have to do with Business Longevity? Everything.

Daniel Burrus

Every year and in every way, I try to help create more Anticipatory Leaders and individuals working at Anticipatory Organizations as opposed to reactionary ones who quickly miss opportunities that are in plain sight. The major cornerstone to an Anticipatory mindset is my Hard Trend Methodology, where we discern between Hard Trend future certainties that are based on future facts that will happen and Soft Trends that are open to influence.

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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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Engaged Employees Create Better Customer Experiences

Harvard Business Review

Companies should find ways to connect employees and customers regardless of whether “customer service” is in their job description.

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Building A Positive Team Culture

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus Teams are a central part of our work experience. Jobs that could have been solitary at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quality because we work in teams.

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The solution to medical gaslighting lies beyond personal advocacy

Christensen Institute

Women are 33% more likely to see a doctor than men; but they are less likely to be taken seriously by doctors. For example: Women wait 29% longer than men to be seen by an ER for a possible heart attack, when presenting with chest pain; Women with acute abdominal pain are up to 25% less likely to be treated with powerful pain medications than men; Women experiencing symptoms of heart disease are more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric condition than heart disease—essentially being told th

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Quarterly Planning: A Guide With Best Practices (+ Free Template)

Cascade Strategy

Your quarterly plan is not just a piece of paper, but a crucial roadmap for executing your business strategies effectively. Without a solid quarterly plan, meeting management expectations becomes a game of chance.

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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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Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement

Harvard Business Review

Retreat isn’t just inadvisable; it’s dangerous.

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What Have We Learned About Digital Transformation Thus Far?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore We are well into our first decade of digital transformation, with both the successes and the scars to show for it, and we can see there is a long way to go.

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Intentionality and the Differentiating Competitive Advantage 

Planview

Last month, Planview released the inaugural 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report , and it is well worth the read. It examines anonymized data from over 3600 value streams, representing over 38K individuals across the value chain from ideation to value. To my knowledge, we are the only organization with access to such a large and complex value stream data set.

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9-Step Strategic Planning Process (+ Free Template)

Cascade Strategy

Tired of being stuck in a cycle of putting out fires and feeling like you're not using your resources effectively? It's time to take a step back and revamp your strategic planning process to ensure successful strategy execution.

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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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Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint

Harvard Business Review

E-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions.

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10 Days to Save on Charting Change

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! From now until April 19, 2023 you can get my latest best-selling book Charting Change in hardcover for only $24.99 – plus FREE shipping! Sorry, unfortunately this sale doesn’t have a discount on the eBook, meaning the hardcover is temporarily cheaper.

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How to do market research for your startup?

Articles from GroundControl

Congratulations on your new business idea! Your first response might be to start working on your website or start building your solution right away. But do you have any evidence your customer actually wants your solution? Probably not. For any new startup idea, you should conduct a market research first, this might sound time-consuming and […] The post How to do market research for your startup?

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Building Business Empathy

100%Open

Now that we’re almost in Spring, we’ve been thinking about the rest of 2023 and what we can to do make it as collaborative as possible. One way we can do this is to work backwards in order to see what dissuades collaborators from coming together. For example, we’ve found that IP (Intellectual Property) is often a stumbling block. So if this is the case, what do we do about it?

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Research: How People Feel About Paying for Social Media

Harvard Business Review

A survey of U.S. residents asks whether new subscription services from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat meet their expectations.

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The Trust Network – Part Two

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski I stand by my statement that trust is the most important element in business (see The Trust Network.) The Trust Network are the group of people who get the work done. They don’t do the work to get promoted, they just do the work because they like doing the work.

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Managing uncertainty meltdown

Innovation 360 Group

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is much volatility globally a locally. Many forces and counterforces are interlinked, amplifying and blocking demand and supply in the short and long term. The post Managing uncertainty meltdown appeared first on Innovation360.

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Special Promotion for TODAY Only: Buy KaiNexus, Get a Free Puppy!

Kainexus

We’ve got some exciting news to share with you today! KaiNexus is thrilled to announce our newest promotion, available only for TODAY: purchase KaiNexus and get a free puppy!

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. He will explain his Product-Market Fit Pyramid and The Lean Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to: Determine your target customer Identify underserved customer needs Define your