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Defining Open Innovation - What It Is and How to Do It

Viima

Would you unhesitatingly say that all the smartest people in the world reside in your company?

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When Innovation Goes Wrong, We Shouldn’t Blame Technology, But Ourselves

Digital Tonto

The unintentional consequences of technology have less to do with the relationship between us and our inventions than it does between us and each other. Related posts: The Story Of Technology. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Disasters can open the door for Innovation

Destination Innovation

A catastrophe produces an unexpected set of circumstances and this can lead to opportunities for innovation. In January 1992 a container with 29,000 plastic bath toys was washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean. They were manufactured in China and were on route to the USA. They were called Floatees, bath toys consisting of red beavers, green frogs, blue turtles and yellow ducks.

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Innovating in the digital age- a terrific report

Paul Hobcraft

The report from Arthur D Little “ Innovating in the digital age- a cross-industry exploration ” has to be the one report that really stands out for me from this year. I highly recommend it. They take a look at how digital technology will transform the way innovation will be managed in the future. This report was produced by Dr. Michael Kolk , a partner, Digital Innovation Lead in Arthur D Little and Heike Woerner , a principal, technology and innovation management.

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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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The "whole product" is more relevant than ever

Jeffrey Phillips

You simply must tip your hat to Geoffrey Moore and others who created the concept of the "whole product". I've written about this concept several times, and I raise it again because the underlying ideas are about to become really important in innovation circles. If you haven't read Crossing the Chasm or aren't quite familiar with what a " whole product " is, then it may make sense to go and read up.

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Exago’s client CTT is sowing the seeds of the future

Exago

After being named the Innovation Farmer in Exago’s Innovation Guru Awards 2017, the Portuguese postal service CTT saw 50 trees planted in its name on November 25th as part of its prize. The Plant a Tree project is seeking to increase biodiversity and reduce the risk of fires, following the devastating forest fires across Portugal in recent years. The post Exago’s client CTT is sowing the seeds of the future appeared first on Exago.

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Digital Transformation Is Human Transformation

Digital Tonto

The high value work of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines. Get the human part right and the technology will take care of itself. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How serious are you about innovation?

IdeaSpies

IdeaSpies Enterprise, a platform for ideas that will improve business performance, has released the results of an Employee Innovation Survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed. Innovation was defined simply in the survey as “implementation of ideas that add value”. It’s good to see that 84% of leaders are talking about the need for innovation, but only 69% of employees believe the culture of their organisation actually wel

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Lesson 1 from true innovation managers: set strategic, purposeful challenges

Exago

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together our clients' pieces of wisdom to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 1. The post Lesson 1 from true innovation managers: set strategic, purposeful challenges appeared first on Exago.

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Examples of Great Innovation Engagement Videos

IdeaScale

When participation from your crowd is critical to your innovation program, you’ve got to have a multi-channel engagement strategy that works. Almost everyone uses email to get in contact with their end users, but there are plenty of other channels that are valuable for sharing your message including social media (or your internal messaging system for your business), SMS communication, posters or flyers if you’re soliciting ideas from a particular location, press releases, partner communications

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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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When the Box is the Limit

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Walter Vandervelde, author of the compelling new book When the Box is the Limit. Walter believes that creativity is a mindset. Creativity is his profession, and he adores inspiring and helping people to develop their creative potential. Be it the young and hungry wolves that are his students.

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The Importance of Senior Management Involvement for Innovation

InnovationManagement

Senior management is without a doubt a tough job. If you’re one of the few executives at the top of a large organization, there are likely hundreds of people; customers, employees, partners, and the list goes on; who are all looking for your attention regarding an endless sea of different topics and initiatives.

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Millennial Engagement in the workplace: 4 Actionable Tips

Acuvate

According to Pew Research Center analysis , more than one-in-three American labour force participants (35%) are Millennials, making them the largest generation in the U.S. labour force. Organizations are developing into majority millennial teams, and predictions show millennials representing nearly 75 percent of the workforce by 2030. So it’s time for C-suite executives to channelize their thoughts around how this shift might impact their business.

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Change Management Strategy – 6 Areas to Highlight What’s New

BrainZooming

Here is something I do not remember ever seeing before to call out a change in traffic regulations: a NEW sign pointing out a recently-installed stop sign at a street intersection. I noticed the sign, on Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri, as we drove to an after-mass breakfast one Sunday. While I’d never paid attention to the absence of a stop sign at the intersection pictured in the photo, I guess one wasn’t there previously.

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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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4th Industrial Revolution Will Change Companies from the Inside

Innovation Excellence

After invention of steam engine, there was years, in some parts of the world even half of the century or more to feel the 1st industrial revolution. Now, 4th industrial revolution is coming much faster and changes that it brings are revolutionary. Very soon we will feel the effect of processing big data, AI, machine.

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Four Pillars of Innovation – People, Learning, Judgment and Trust

Mike Shipulski

Innovation is a hot topic. Everyone wants to do it. And everyone wants a simple process that works step-wise – first this, then that, then success. But Innovation isn’t like that. I think it’s more effective to think of innovation as a result. Innovation as something that emerges from a group of people who are trying to make a difference.

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How to Improve Your Company’s Productivity

InnovationManagement

Maintaining productivity and positivity in the workplace is an ongoing struggle for many businesses and employees. The grind of 9-to-5 life weighs on people and makes it hard to find excitement and motivation throughout the day.

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Why users are constantly disappointed by your software

Dawid

In all the year’s I’ve been developing enterprise software I’ve experienced several projects that have met all the ‘requirements’ but had users disagree with the experience. I’ve seen this at the extreme end where developers are literally high fiving each other about how great the software is. (Here I mean the term literally in the literal sense, as in “He literally broke his back building that house” implying a person actually damaged vertebrae during construction, and not in the “it was litera

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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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Mapping Experiences

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Jim Kalbach, author of the interesting book Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams. Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in user experience design, information architecture, and strategy.

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BP Technology Group

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Stephen Cook is Chief Commercial Officer, Group Technology at BP since 2017, committed to commercial deals in technology-related business development, also cultivating and delivering capability in technology strategy, and intelligence. .

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How Employee Recognition Can Make You a Better Leader

Tembosocial

What is it that makes a good leader? Is it the ability to set a direction? The drive to focus on results? The vision to promote innovation? Or is it possibly the skill to find people and empower them to do all of the above? Advertising pioneer David Ogilvy once said “If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants.

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Five Leadership tips to Strengthen Strategic Results

Focused Momentum

Creating a winning strategic plan is awesome. You feel great, your team is motivated, and you see renewed passion and commitment to shared success.

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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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When the Front End and Back End of Innovation Collide

Innovation Excellence

This article was inspired by a recent blog by Seth Godin, where he discussed some challenges that start-ups who rely on early adopters may face when they scale up. [link] a start-up, early adopters who are highly engaged in a category, and/or know they have a problem, often represent easy sales. They typically need little.

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4th industrial revolution will change companies from the inside

7innovation

After invention of steam engine, there was years, in some parts of the world even half of the century or more to feel the 1st industrial revolution.

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How the Leading Founders of Modern Business Start Their Days

InnovationManagement

Mornings can be a difficult time to get motivated. Often we hit our stride just before lunch time and lose that determination that keeps us going in the afternoon. Here’s how the most successful leaders in business power up their mornings to maximize their productivity.

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The Bitcoin Fad – Successfully Understanding Trends vs Fads

Adam Hartung

Bitcoin value continues to decline, as I predicted in Aug 2017 because it has all the signs of being a fad. Many thought Bitcoin was "the next big thing" and maybe it will be in the future, but for now investors have stopped celebrating with "Macarena".

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Tony Robbins Says This One Trait is What It Takes to Succeed

Innovation Excellence

A Trait that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Richard Branson Share Understanding the key to success is just the start of understanding what motivates you and those around you. There is no one road to success. Each person’s path is different based on his or her individual context and circumstances. Trying to reduce success to.

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Digitizing Design Thinking

Svava

Taking a look at this exciting new horizon with expert Fredrik Heghammar.

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Changes to Drive More Value from Your Innovation / Ideation Platform

InnovationManagement

In our previous article we focused on some of the serious issues being faced by clients and vendors who are working with innovation / ideation platforms.

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Building a Culture of Employee-Led Innovation

Planview

In a recent HR Technologist article , Spigit CEO, Scott Raskin, made the case for why companies need to get employees invested in their innovation and improvement processes – and how to do it. At Spigit, our customers have seen a significant difference in how engaged their employees are when they’re able to collaborate and get involved in the company’s strategy through innovation.

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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