Sat.Nov 19, 2016 - Fri.Nov 25, 2016

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Forget Best Practice, It Is All About Next Practice

HYPE Innovation

Often you hear the request made of “can you give us a best practice snapshot; we would like to get a sense of where we are”. The trouble with best practice is you are looking at someone else’s practices and these are highly individual, made up of different groups of methodologies, processes, rules, theories, values and concepts. These together have provided that specific company a level of success that others - mostly competitors - begin to notice.

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Mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations are struggling to understand the behaviors of the ‘connected’ customer. Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do. There is often a difference in understanding the value creating points between them. The lack of having a well mapped out customer journey means missing out on opportunities caused by not knowing this complete set of connections being made into you.

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Four Magic Phrases to Improve your Powers of Persuasion

Destination Innovation

Would you like to be more persuasive with people? How can you get people to like you, respect you and listen to your suggestions? Studies have shown these four simple expressions to be highly effective when used in the right circumstances: 1. What I really like about you is…………… Tell someone something that you admire in them and they will like you for it.

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Your ultimate innovation challenge – what works and what doesn’t

Exago

When it comes down to planning and developing your collaborative innovation initiatives, the way you identify, frame and share your organisation’s challenges with your targeted community is a key determinant of the success of your initiatives. The post Your ultimate innovation challenge – what works and what doesn’t appeared first on www.exago.com.

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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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Now, Anyone Who Wants Can Access The World’s Most Advanced Technology

Digital Tonto

Tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Google are making some of their most advanced resources available to anyone who wants to use them. Related posts: How Technology Can Save Government. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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4 leadership paradoxes and how to embrace them

HYPE Innovation

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be” – Rosalynn Carter. Incremental or radical? Structured or unstructured? People or processes ? If there is one thing innovation management theory is never in short supply of, it’s dilemmas like these. “Managed or unmanaged” is probably my favourite of the bunch, with countless books, blogs, articles, and podcasts dedicated to describing the ultimate innovation leader

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The Tesla of Bikes Got a Brilliant Idea

Innovation Excellence

What do you do when you sell expensive products online, and they arrive at your customers damaged? You have to come up with a brilliant idea. Check it out. Products getting damaged while being shipped, was a real challenge for Dutch bicycle manufacturer VanMoof, ‘the Tesla of Bikes’ They manufacture street bikes that are at the.

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Can We Teach Algorithms Right From Wrong?

Digital Tonto

We need to treat the standards by which artificial intelligences will operate just as seriously as those that govern our legal systems and how we educate our children. Related posts: Here’s Why. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Three Playgrounds for Dual Innovation and Transformation

Integrative Innovation

Here is a chart, shown by Scott Anthony from Innosight during a worthwile talk on “Dual Transformation” in July this year. It puts in a nutshell what he refers to as the “hardest challenge in business today”: Simultaneously strengthening today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. The chart greatly captures the fact that dual transformation involves three distinct playgrounds : Transformation A: Strengthen Today.

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How to develop a mindset to steal your own clients?

Board of Innovation

Let’s get the importance of innovation out of the way to start with. It’s is crucial to any company. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about a startup or a corporation. Any. Apple would not be Apple without an iPod and Toyota wouldn’t be Toyota without their lean manufacturing, or Netflix without…. well Netflix. You get the point. Good, now.

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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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The Only Difference: Mindset

Innovation Excellence

The same truths not brought into action present themselves as lessons, on-going themes. This one rings with more truth every time I encounter it. Mindset is the real pivot point, the only true sustainable, competitive advantage (other than exclusivity, which is always temporary) for organizations that want to flourish.

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Listening to Sounds in Space with Open Innovation Project

IdeaConnection

“In space, no one can hear you scream,” was the tagline of the first Alien movie. And that’s because there is no medium for sound to travel because space is a vacuum. Or is it? Martin Archer is a space plasma physicist at the University of London currently working on an open innovation project to collect sounds from empty space, and he wants the crowd to help him with his endeavor.

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Connection Before Numbers

Mike Shipulski

Compound annual growth, profit margin, Key Business Indicators, capability indices, defects per million opportunity, confidence intervals, statistical significance, regression coefficients, temperature, pressure, force, stress, velocity, volume, inches, meters, decibels. The numbers are supposed to tell the story. But they don’t. There’s never enough data to see the whole picture.

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The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company

Board of Innovation

The holiday season is coming, wondering which gift your boss / manager will give you this year? Or even better, you are in charge of the gifts this year. Great news, we’re sharing ‘our wishlist’ with you early this year. Since 2016 was a great year for intrapreneurship, let’s fill 2017 with even more new business ideas. At Board of. Read More. The post The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Welcome to the New Era of Automation

Innovation Excellence

When Netflix put the Video Rental Retail stores in their coffins, there was still a sizable segment of people who missed the convenience, were suspect of a mail-order or streaming subscription service, or simply didn’t have the connectivity to enjoy it. Enter, RedBox. A new smart-automated adaptation of the Blockbuster model, scaled down to be.

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The SIT Patterns in Thanksgiving Cooking Gadgets

Innovation in Practice

by Darla Wilkinson (darla@drewboyd.com). . For many people this week’s Thanksgiving celebration will mean endless shopping, prepping, and cooking in anticipation of the big feast. The hours of slaving away in the kitchen usually seem worth it all once you sit and savor the joy shared by family and friends. And though every dish sprinkled with a pinch of love is the tastiest, none of us would slight a little help in the kitchen in order to make this one-day-a-year dinner a little less stressful

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Don’t let your corporate hackathon fail before it starts

Your Ideas are Terrible

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on corporate hackathons. In Part 1 we defined corporate hackathons, described the benefits and set a few expectations. In Part 2 we’ll tackle planning. What could go wrong? Actually, a lot. A colleague of ours attended a hackathon hosted in the basement of a building – no wifi or cell coverage. The participants left after the first hour.

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Accelerate, Incubate or Hub huddle?

100%Open

We’re helping create a UK-wide Accelerator at the moment which is very exciting. Our client, Dstl, asked a very good question yesterday. Do we have a definition of an Accelerator and how that’s different from a hub or incubator? The terms accelerator, incubator, hub are often conflated and also developing rapidly but here’s our attempt at drawing a set of working definitions: Accelerator.

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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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Tap into the Power of Reinvention

Innovation Excellence

Insights I learned at BIF2016 Unlike most conferences, the BIF Summit has no theme beyond presenting remarkable stories of transformation. Why? The BIF organizers know that the participants themselves will discover patterns, aha’s, and insights that make sense for them. I’ve been to most of the 12 BIF Summits. I now work for BIF, but like.

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How is innovation monitored in your organisation?

Board of Innovation

Let’s get the importance of innovation out of the way to start with. It’s crucial to any company. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about a startup or a corporation. Any. Apple would not be Apple without an iPod and Toyota wouldn’t be Toyota without their lean manufacturing, or Netflix without…. well Netflix. You get the point. Good, now we.

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Name that bar (private) innovation challenge

Betterific

Betterific Nation, This was the first time the Betterific community was asked to name a new product. With great power comes great responsibility. We were given the packaging, the details, and some specific instructions (2-3 words) and we’re asked to crowdsource new product names for a nutrition bar. It was a private challenge, so we have to be somewhat vague.

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Create Meaningful Customer-Employee Experience through Digital Solutions with Design Thinking

Leveraging Networks

We are living in an era of constant change, which is radically affecting the sustainability of business today. An organization that is not agile and versatile will not have a long future. The advent of disruptive technologies can make solid and reputable business models redundant very quickly. In 1985, Alvin Toffler (“The Third Wave”) described the “prosumer”, the intelligent and informed consumer.

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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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The Happy Virus

Innovation Excellence

In business there is no greater asset than an inspired culture. Such environments create a Happy Virus that leads to optimized bottom lines and thriving top-line growth.

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The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company

Board of Innovation

The holiday season is coming, wondering which gift your boss / manager will give you this year? Or even better, you are in charge of the gifts this year. Great news, we’re sharing ‘our wishlist’ with you early this year. Since 2016 was a great year for intrapreneurship, let’s fill 2017 with even more new business ideas. At Board of. Read More. The post The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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MIT’s Eric von Hippel Looks at the Rise of Consumers as Innovators

Innovation Leader

Eric von Hippel, a professor at MIT and economist who has studied open innovation since the 1980s, explores the phenomenon of consumers as innovators.

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An Extraordinary Delivery Service

Idea Champions

Most companies trying to get a "competitive advantage" eventually realize that the key is customer service -- the ability to differentiate themselves from the competition by delivering their product or service in unforgettable ways. Here's what I'm talking about: Some years ago, my company came together for a two-day team building offsite -- an "all hands on deck" outdoor ropes course experience in Colorado.

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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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Content and Process

Innovation Excellence

Which is more important to get right, content or process? Is it better to do the right thing or do things right? Well, there are plenty of times where one or the other is most important, but in the vast majority of cases you have to get both right or you will suffer. This weekend.

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Who Drives for Uber and Why?

Michael Roberto

Jonathan Hall and Alan Krueger have published a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper about Uber. They explore the backgrounds and motivations of Uber drivers. Many people have been critical of Uber, arguing that it is wrong for Uber not to treat their drivers as employees (they treat them as independent contractors). Others have been debating the impact of the so-called "gig economy" - does it help or hurt the average worker?

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Google and XPRIZE Execs on Enabling Big Breakthroughs

Innovation Leader

Google X executive Hans Peter Brøndmo and XPRIZE CEO Marcus Shingles give their insights from a session held at the inaugural Harvest Summit.

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Time Is an Invented Thing. Invent It!

Idea Champions

Reality check time. What do YOU need to make more time for? And WHEN will you make it? Idea Champions. What's your story?

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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