Sat.Nov 11, 2017 - Fri.Nov 17, 2017

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Yoda’s Best Advice for Innovation

IdeaScale

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda’s famous advice is absolute. Yoda doesn’t leave much room for failure. But what Yoda is really talking about is commitment. Innovation happens only when we put all our effort into it, which is something demonstrated throughout the history of innovation. Do It Again, And Again, Until It’s Done Right.

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Are you coming to the Innovation Virtual Summit?

Paul Hobcraft

So there is an innovation virtual summit about to happen between 28th November 2017 and 8th December 2017. Each day you can watch for free the different video sessions, with new video sessions released on a daily basis. The final schedule will be sent by email after your registration. For some weeks this has been in preparation and as I am lucky enough to be one of the curators and hosts, I had the chance to chat with SIX terrific and highly knowledgeable people around a subject that is dear to

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Shared innovation language accelerates innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I was leading an innovation workshop recently with a company that invited in some of its customers to talk about the future. We were interested in getting feedback from key B2B customers about the future of the industry, where things were heading and what strategies and programs my customer should begin to put in place. I was hired to lead a trend spotting and scenario planning workshop, but I had successfully convinced my client that we needed to establish a common framework and language about

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Yes, The Inmates Really Do Run The Asylum

Digital Tonto

It's leadership's job to help them run it effectively. Related posts: Why The Lunatics Really Do Run The Asylum. Leaders Must Do More Than Inspire—We Must Shape Networks. The Efficiency Paradox. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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 to Execute on Ideas

IdeaScale

As we’ve discussed before , once you’ve arrived at a clear decision, it is critical to act on the decision. A common pitfall at this point is inaction. Too many ideas reach decision, only to lay fallow without action. Inaction results in effort wasted, opportunities missed, and value lost for your organization. Implementing ideas is the key to delivering significant and measurable value to your organization and stakeholders, and setting yourself up for robust crowd engagement in the next

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A Vital Change Management Strategy Role: Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary

BrainZooming

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? My answers to that question grew recently because of an experience with a client developing its future vision. We were working with an organization on its future vision while facilitating its strategic planning process. The organization’s leaders, and many of the team, have been in place for a long time, limiting the collective view of how other organization’s do things in bold, innovative, and different ways.

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What are Circular Business Models (CBM)?

InnovationManagement

Shortly, the demands and needs of approximately nine billion people will be about three times the current resources. At this time challenges will accelerate for the deficiencies of resources and enormous production of waste. Circular Business Models (CBM) is the solution for not only improving resource management and decreasing waste production but also reducing costs and expanding firm performance.

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Why Open Innovation Makes Sense

Innocentive

Innovation is something that most organizations want to master so that they can survive in our increasingly ‘VUCA’ world. Innovating well is increasingly challenging however. A recent study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research highlighted the difficulties organizations face in the modern world. The study examined the productivity of research and development, on both a national as well as industrial scale, and found that organizations need to spend significantly more, both in

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10 Cues to Identify Strategic Themes in Your Ideas

BrainZooming

Emma Alvarez Gibson and I were talking about identifying strategic themes within tens or hundreds of ideas from a strategic planning workshop or from thousands of comments within a survey. Other than a big dose of help from outside forces , what are dependable ways to identify meaningful strategic themes? This is important because latching onto the right groupings for ideas will make all the difference when highlighting and simplifying smart strategy recommendations.

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Why the Test & Learn Approach Does Not Work

Innovation Excellence

The in-market test & learn approach to innovation is becoming increasingly common, because it meets the cultural needs of modern businesses to behave entrepreneurially. At The Strategy Distillery we believe (and have witnessed) this approach is life threatening to the future success of a newly launched product or service. Here's why.

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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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Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money

IdeaScale

In 2016, NYU’s 16th President, Andrew Hamilton, made clear that he would carry forward a commitment to make NYU more affordable for more students. As part of that commitment, President Hamilton established the Affordability Steering Committee and the Affordability Working Group to create a structure for engagement and consultation across the NYU community.

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Creating Ideas: Think The Way You Think

Idea Sandbox

Do you sometimes wish you had an easier way to organize or gather your thoughts? Ever been working on a presentation, proposal, or to-do list and didn’t know where to start or where you were going to go? A map would have come in handy in these situations… Mindmapping (also known as brainwriting or concept mapping) is a technique which allows you to rapidly organize, gather thoughts.

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1 Way to Spice Up Strategy with Surprising Strategic Planning Questions

BrainZooming

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Here is where we are coming from: when someone with romantic interest in you gives you a gift, it’s usually attractively, even lavishly, wrapped.

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Age Diversity and Innovation Teams

Innovation Excellence

There are lot’s of ways to increase diversity, but should this include age? Are we better of with younger, passionate teams that challenge the status quo, or more mature teams that leverage broader experience and expertise? Or are these both stereotypes, and age doesn’t really matter.

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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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We’re all designers

Dawid

There’s a perception that to be labeled a designer means a turtleneck, a Mac and hipster coffee. However that’s not true at all. We are all designers. If you have a problem, and want to get to an outcome, you have to design something. However, we don’t intentionally always apply design is the mindset. Take the process of returning a customer’s phone call.

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Make It Easy

Mike Shipulski

When you push, you make it easy for people resist. When you break trail, you make it easy for them to follow. Efficiency is overrated, especially when it interferes with effectiveness. Make it easy for effectiveness to carry the day. You can push people off a cliff or build them a bridge to the other side. Hint – the bridge makes it easy. Even new work is easy when people have their own reasons for doing it.

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5 Things to Hate about a Strategic Planning Process

BrainZooming

I’ve been remiss in sharing updates about the strategic planning process I’ve been participating in for a non-profit organization. The initial article on the strategic planning process promised updates on my first time participating in someone else’s strategic planning process in many years. 5 Things to Hate about a Strategic Planning Process (and 5 Antidotes).

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Five Tips for Prioritizing Every Day

Innovation Excellence

This past weekend, after finally completing the book I’ve been working on for more than 2 years (The Moral of the Story), I was looking forward to relaxing a bit with the family. However, it didn’t take long before thoughts of all the things still on my plate for the weeks ahead began causing anxiety.

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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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Crowdsourcing for Good: How Adventist Health Gets Employees Into the “Giving” Spirit

Planview

It’s that time of year. Leaves are changing color. Temperatures are dropping (errr, should be). People are ditching Pumpkin Spice lattes in favor of filling their Starbucks holiday cups with Gingerbread and Peppermint Mocha. Maybe you’ve even taken the festivus pole out of storage. You get the idea, it’s the holidays. With so much going on, we often hear from Spigit clients that engaging employees in innovation challenges gets to be difficult at this time of year, specifically mid-November throu

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Open Innovation for a Good Night’s Sleep

IdeaConnection

Things don’t only go bump in the night they also go whizz, woof, and clunk as there are many ways nighttime slumber can be disturbed – rowing neighbours, pets, partying kids, a snoring partner, machinery and so on. Headphones and earbuds can drown out some intrusive noises but there may be another way and that’s with sound. Bose Corporation is developing sleepbuds that produce soothing sounds to help people drift off, and it’s asking the crowd to contribute.

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15 Practices of Innovation Leaders for Creating Cultures of Innovation

InnovationManagement

Darin Eich at Innovation Training has just posted an excellent new article about creating a culture of innovation within one’s company - check it out here!

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The Biggest Impediment to Developing and Deploying Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Command-and-control, top-down organizations have the most trouble innovating. In particular, the fearful mindsets that review, align, and sign off on “decks” to be presented to Vice President-level colleagues often edit out the insights and recommendations that have the power to grow the business in new ways.

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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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Customer Experience, Associate Engagement, and Continuous Improvement: A Virtuous Circle

Planview

Do you remember your first real job? The job where you had to show up on time? The job where, when you got your first paycheck, you were shocked—shocked—at the inexplicable chasm between gross and net pay? My first real job was at Long John Silvers. Long John Silvers served seafood as fast food. Any creature that began its life below the waves was, in the world of Long John Silvers, fair game for the deep fryer.

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Innovation Sighting: Partial Subtraction for Better Beer Drinking

Innovation in Practice

The football season is into full swing. And, no doubt, countless beer drinkers experience the ever so frustrating tension of keeping a clear line of sight for that key play of the game without missing a gulp of their favorite brew. The engineers of the TV Beer Mug saw right through the problem (pun intended) by shaving off one side of the mug. By using the Subtraction Technique , the makers of the TV Beer Mug have eased the beer drinking, football watching woes of thousands of fans.

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Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process: The Most Commonly Used Stages

eZassi

What are the most commonly used innovation software stage-gate process stages? When deciding upon your stages of innovation, it’s important to understand what those stages should be and how to best manage an idea at each stage. To clarify the process , we want to break down the most common stages within an innovation software stage-gate process. Innovation Software Stage-Gate Process Stages Identified.

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Solving the Innovation Learning Problem

Innovation Excellence

Most of us know that organizational innovation involves making serious and significant change, yet what most of us are challenged by is how change impacts on, and disrupts four-core human structures: cognition, emotion, body and will.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Future Of Work With AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Faisal Hoque

Still in the early stages of development and use, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are already impacting how we live, work, and play. Is your organization ready to embrace and leverage these disruptive innovations?

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Wazoku hits Toronto with EveryDay innovation

Wazoku

A relatively new term, intrapreneurship is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “the willingness or ability of people within a large company to take direct responsibility for turning ideas into profitable new products, services, business etc.” Our partner, the Intrapreneurship Conference , developed the idea of intrapreneurship into a global initiative, building an ecosystem of intrapreneurs by regularly bringing together innovation leaders to meet face-to-face in major cities around the world

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Creativity & Magic Secrets Revealed

Idea Sandbox

We view those blessed with the gift of creativity with awe. Their imaginative ideas and creative problem solving skills surprise us – the way a good magician works. How did he do that? We’re left amazed and ooo-ing and ahh-ing. Creative? Me?! I can’t do that! I don’t have that gift. The good news? That’s just your perception. A mis-perception.

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What Appears to be Strategy Often is Not

Innovation Excellence

I regularly engage in hansei (reflection) after each of my facilitation engagements. It’s a simple learning mechanism, essentially an after-action process of asking: what I expected to happen (my hypothesis if you will), what actually happened, and what explains the gap, if there is one. And there invariably is. The gap is where learning and insight live.

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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