Fri.Dec 01, 2023

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Discover your unique innovator’s Sensory Profile.

Paul Hobcraft

I had a most enjoyable and rewarding conversation last week on Innovation and Ecosystem design. It was partly through this conversation with Margot Nijkamp-Diesfeld and Rick Wielens of the Eco System Thinking Institute (ESTI), based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that we got into the subject of creating different workshop concepts to stimulate those attending and draw out their greater awareness.

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What is Crowdsourcing? Definition, Types, Benefits, Examples and Best Practices

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is defined as an innovative and decentralized problem-solving approach that harnesses the collective intelligence and diverse skills of a large community, known as the 'crowd'. This transformative method empowers organizations to outsource tasks, driving efficiency and creativity beyond traditional boundaries.

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To Scale GenAI, Companies Need to Focus on 3 Factors

Harvard Business Review

The risk with generative AI is not that leaders fail to try it, but that trying is as far as they get. Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water.

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Fun Facts About Concept Testing

IdeaScale

Purchase Intention: Predicting success in concept screening Companies spend millions of dollars every year using purchase intention as a way of predicting success in concept screening. Given the reliance on “purchase intention” as a key predictor or success, there probably isn't as much scrutiny of the measure as there should be. So here it is. [.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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To Craft a Purpose That Motivates Your Team, Balance Pragmatism and Idealism

Harvard Business Review

While many leaders strive to energize and motivate their teams to do work that matters, the unfortunate reality is that employees often feel disconnected to their company’s core purpose. Purpose statements, if they exist at all, tend to be too vague or too lofty, or both. To use purpose to drive business, leaders need to balance idealism and pragmatism.

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Skills versus Judgement

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Best practices are good, but dragging projects over the finish line is better. Alignment is good, but not when it’s time for misalignment. Short-term thinking is good, as long as it’s not the only type of thinking.

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What It Takes to Build a Best-In-Class Company — 3 Essential Elements

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The journey to excellence is not a matter of chance but a deliberate pursuit to shape the future and raise the bar for all who follow.

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When Charismatic CEOs Are an Asset — and When They’re a Liability

Harvard Business Review

Starting in the 1980s, a generation of larger-than-life CEOs became full-blown celebrity, but over time, research suggested that charismatic CEOs tended to have drawbacks at leaders. However, charisma can be especially useful in two business concepts with big unknowns: entrepreneurial startups and corporate turnarounds. In these settings, when everyone — investors, employees, customers, suppliers — is dealing with enormous uncertainties, a leader’s charisma can give people the faith necessary to

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of November 2023

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

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Mark Graban & Greg Jacobson: Thanksgiving Processes, the AME Conference, Technology, Favorite Books [Podcast]

Kainexus

Here's the latest episode of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement podcast, this time featuring another conversation with Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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The Critical Role of Culture for Innovation

Cris Beswick

Organisational culture plays an essential role in fostering successful innovation, yet it is often overlooked or discounted by those responsible for driving that growth, i.e. the executive team. But to drive tangible change and propel a business forward, there needs to be a conscious effort put into curating the leadership style of each internal group – from executive teams down to individual staff members.

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Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma

Moves the Needle

The debate that has raged on since the pandemic; personal productivity. Brant would argue that being in the office does not make someone more productive than working from home. In this podcast from a recent LinkedIn Audio event, Brant will go over how to maximize personal productivity by the use of a KANBAN board. The post Solving the Personal Productivity Dilemma appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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Should We Micromanage Sometimes?

Michael Roberto

Source: [link] Adam Bryant recently posted a terrific interview on LinkedIn with David Wilkie, CEO of World50. Wilkie ended his comments with the following story: The other thing is that people often struggle with the sheer volume of work they face. I like to ask the CEOs I meet, what is your management hack? One gave me a great piece of advice. “Micromanage,” he said.

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How to Monitor Signal Evolution in Key Interest Areas | ITONICS

ITONICS

In the dynamic landscape of strategic foresight, staying ahead requires not just tracking signals but understanding their evolution over time.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.