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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

Imaginatik

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. By Jaimie O’Byrne. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

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Using the Power of Crowdsourcing to Combat Humanitarian Catastrophes with Innovation

HYPE Innovation

That old saying - ‘many hands make light work’ - takes on a particular meaning in the world of innovation. Faced with open-ended challenges which require radical solutions, the more minds we have on the task the more likely it is that the innovation ‘light bulb’ will flash on! Whether we are seeking a radical new idea for a novel challenge or suggestions to help improve an existing situation there’s no doubt that shared creativity is a powerful resource.

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Innovation Gift Giving

Jeffrey Phillips

We find ourselves near the end of another fruitful, eventful year, here at December 19, 2017. All eyes turn toward the holidays (actually, the merchandising happened in October and the Christmas muzak started in early November it seems). While there are a few working days left in the month, and year, I thought I'd offer up some ideas for those individuals who are hard to shop for on your lists.

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Secure Innovation Management for US Government-Wide Mandates

IdeaScale

In 2011 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a government-wide cloud security memo and guidance policy known as the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). For the first time, government entities were provided a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Transform Your Business with a Change Success Manager

Braden Kelley

“Stealing the role of customer success manager from the world of SaaS is the key to making your digital transformation efforts a success.

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Getting into that Christmas swing?

Exago

Never resist good old traditions. Always dare to create new ones. Merry Christmas and a sparkling New Year! from your team @exago. The post Getting into that Christmas swing? appeared first on Exago.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 2: Idea Refinement

IdeaScale

Nothing is built without collaboration. Ideas are simple to find. But, as we all know, good ideas are exceedingly rare. It’s much like finding gold. It rarely comes whole out of the ground; it’s often bound up in rock, various other minerals, and other “scrap” you have to separate to get at the gold you want. Ideas are much the same way.

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Top Posts of 2017

Digital Tonto

The articles you liked the best over the past year Related posts: Top Posts of 2016. Top Posts of 2013. Top Posts of 2012. Top Posts of 2015. Top Posts for 2014. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January

BrainZooming

7 Free Gifts that People Won’t Return or Forget by Late January. Finished your holiday shopping? With a long holiday shopping season, you would think that by now all the buying would be behind us. Yet, advertisements, emails, and online remarketing campaigns demand that we keep shopping throughout the weekend if we are truly going to have positive impacts on our relationships with friends, loved ones, and co-workers.

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Is Your Innovation Program Successful?

InnovationManagement

In an Innovation Point article , Founder Soren Kaplan notes that only one third of Fortune 1000 companies have defined innovation metrics. And yet 77% of business leaders see innovation as a priority. How is it possible that something that is so important to business leaders doesn’t have a defined set of KPIs?

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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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3 Keys To Creating Meaningful Innovation In Your Marketplace

Innovation Excellence

The phrase “disruptive innovation” gets thrown around a lot. The way we describe disruptive innovation has moved far past Clay Christensen’s original use of the phrase. Yet, it’s one of those buzzwords that we often use but don’t necessarily know what it means, or how to create it. It’s hard to achieve the goal of.

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Starting 101

Mike Shipulski

Doing challenging work isn’t difficult. Starting challenging work is difficult. The downside of making a mistake is far less than the downside of not starting. If you know how it will turn out, you waited too long to start. Stopping is fine, as long as it’s followed closely by starting. The scope of the project you start is defined by the cash in your pocket.

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Ignite 2018: Registration for the Premier Conference for Innovation Leaders is Open

Planview

We’re thrilled to share that Ignite 2018, Spigit’s annual conference for the brightest minds in innovation, will be returning to the historic Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco on May 1st and 2nd – register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing. So, what’s in it for you? Why should you attend Ignite 2018? Well, for starters…. The keynote.

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Culture Eats Strategy Eats Culture for Breakfast | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Peter Drucker’s famous musings that culture eats strategy for breakfast rings as true today as it did then.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Integrating Schools and Industry for a More Innovative Society

InnovationManagement

Author is suggesting that with the advent of the 4th industrial revolution children ought to start contributing to progress at the age of 6 years, through a learning-oriented but paid work for 3 hours per day, indeed with involvement in the hi-tech end of things. The future is now, and there is no more learning and preparing for the future.

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New Open Innovation Platform for European Farmers

IdeaConnection

Farmers in Europe are set to receive open innovation help for implementing climate-smart agriculture policies and practices. This week saw the launch of Agrisource, Europe’s first open innovation platform for climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA is a set of agricultural practices that sustainably increase productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of November 2017

Innovation Excellence

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 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are November’s twenty most.

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Capture your whole innovation strategy on 1 sheet of paper

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Capture your whole innovation strategy on 1 sheet of paper appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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How to Evaluate Startups for Corporate Partnerships | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

In the past three years, Collective Campus has been home to more than 50 startups that have gone on to raise over US$13M.

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Before Tom Peters, before Peter Drucker, we had Mary Parker Follett

Tim Kastelle

What year do you think this quote is from? There are three ways of dealing with difference : domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. How about this one? It has often been thought in the past… that I need be concerned only with doing my part well.

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Revolutionize Your Business with a Change Success Manager

Innovation Excellence

“Stealing the role of customer success manager from the world of SaaS is the key to making your digital transformation efforts a success.” I was speaking with a headhunter recently about some of the roles she was recruiting for and there was one that captured my attention. It was a posting she had for a.

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Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Swiss Trains

Innovation in Practice

From a distance this newest railway revolution might look like a string of large barrels tied together. But the Stoos Bahn is now the world’s steepest funicular railway which just opened to the public. Taking over 14 years to build, and climbing at 110% gradient, the Stoos Bahn provides another transportation option for children traveling to school in mountainous Switzerland.

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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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Towards Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools for Suicide Prevention

IdeaConnection

Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest new technologies and research into its use is intensifying across multiple industries, including healthcare where it may be able to help prevent suicide. Every year close to 800,000 people commit suicide which is one person every 40 seconds, according to the World Health Organization. It is a global problem and has become the second leading cause of death among those aged 15-29 years old.

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Use Soft Trends to Influence the Future

Daniel Burrus

There are certain things about the future that we simply can’t change. Some are rather obvious. For instance, spring will always follow winter. New Year’s Day will always be January 1, at least in many parts of the world. Those are chronological certainties. There are other future certainties that have nothing to do with the calendar. For example, are the phones we use in the future going to be capable of doing more or less?

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4 Steps to Break Patterns Undermining Your Success and Happiness

Innovation Excellence

Being aware of what you’re doing wrong isn’t enough to change. These four steps are… We’re all works in progress, trying to grow and change. But there’s no way around it, we carry with us good habits and bad ones. Often those bad habits are pretty well entrenched; not likely to be dislodged by even.

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10 tips (and 5 don’ts) to plan an educational strategy for 2018.

Adam Hartung

Pop-up tree stands have appeared along every highway, and the sounds of Christmas music pierce the air wherever you go. Even if have that one neighbor down the street who has yet to take down the Halloween decorations, it officially feels like the holiday season. And, that means the new year is right around the. The post 10 tips (and 5 don’ts) to plan an educational strategy for 2018. appeared first on YourMembership.

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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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Black Belt grading – New York City

Innovation 360

Black Belt. Purpose. Mastering Innovation Management. Ready for a lifelong learning journey. Content. Insights and learnings. Elements of Innovation – Mastering the Theory. Creating Echo Systems and Eco System Innovation. Regional Development: Triple Helix and Innovation. Competence/People Management – Linking Innovation to HR. Digitalization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Linking to technology.

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Green Belt grading – Stockholm

Innovation 360 Group

Green belt. Day 1: 8.30-18.00 including lunch and dinner. Day 2: 8.30-15.00 including lunch. Purpose. 1.Develop your strategic skills linking innovation and strategy. 2.Mastering advanced innovation analysis. 3.Accredited to sell the Innovation Playbook to your clients. 4.Learn how to use InnovationIQ. Content. Linking Strategy and Innovation. Linking strategic direction and innovation management.

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The Bright (and Innovative) Future of the Mom and Pop Shop

Innovation Excellence

Small businesses can't compete with the massive logistics machines and bargaining power of mega retailers. Prime retail space prevents competing with the cost structure of online retailers, who ship out of low-rent warehouses, and may avoid sales tax for being out-of-state; or they can't offer same variety of online retailers. Yet, there is a future for small businesses.if they understand their advantage.

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Happy Holidays from Innovators Alliance!

Innovators Alliance

To our member organizations, sponsors, and all Ontario business leaders, we wish you and your employees a wonderful holiday season! We hope you enjoy a relaxing, joyful time with your loved ones, and we look forward to the new innovations 2018 will bring. Holiday Hours. We will be closed between December 21 st and New Years Day, reopening on January 2, 2018.

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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.