HYPE Innovation

MAY 29, 2016

Business digital transformation, it can get your pulse racing as you look for the nearest exit. It is being asked of everybody to get involved but have we a sufficient understanding of it? Add in the magic ‘need’ so innovation can benefit from this business digital transformation and we begin to shift around in our chairs even more. What would it mean if we ‘went’ digital and transformed ourselves for innovation with in our organization?

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Idea to Value

MAY 27, 2016

One of the most commonly cited figures when it comes to improving yourself is the so-called 10,000 hour rule. According to Malcolm Gladwell who popularised the notion in his book Outliers: The Story of Success , people who were performing at an expert level, such as musicians or sportspeople, had practiced for approximately 10,000 hours up to that point.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 8, 2016

As reiterated by Tim Kastelle in the previous post , it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both are equally important. This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. The main objective of dual approaches is to sufficiently separate exploration-/discovery-oriented initiatives from exploitation-/execution-oriented ones (e.g. in terms of used tools and metri

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2016

I’m a little tired of the lack of original thinking that goes into measuring innovation. Most trot out the same old chestnuts, including ‘return on investment’ as always, as near or at the top. Leaders want to hear this, the sad true is getting a ‘decent ROI’ for innovation constructed (note constructed) is really hard. If the innovation is new to the world, how can it have a clear financial return on investment until much later?

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Exago

MAY 5, 2016

Be it through team idea contests or widespread programmes, we are enthusiasts of innovation’s number one rule: Give your teams a voice. The post Decisions, decisions… appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Matthew May

MAY 4, 2016

Recently I accepted an invitation from Inc. magazine to be a columnist for their Innovate channel. The column will be called (appropriately, given my new book) BRAIN GAME. It will focus on the nexus of neuropsychology and business, applying the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology to business. Inc. has a massive audience, and it’s the kind of mass appeal platform I’ve been wanting for some time.

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Idea to Value

MAY 26, 2016

Look at the picture above. Focus completely on the dot in the middle, stay still and don’t blink. Within about 5-10 seconds, you might notice that all of the colours disappear. And while it might seem just like an interesting trick, it actually tells us a lot about how your brain works, and why it can be so hard to think of new, truly creative ideas.

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Tim Kastelle

MAY 5, 2016

“In the end, these projects are all business model problems.” That’s what I said to my friend Steve Adelman about the projects we collaborate on as part of the Wharton-UQ Global Consulting Practicum program. “Why aren’t they market entry problems?” he replied. I was stumped by his question for a couple of days.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? Getting to a root cause of innovation blockage. So what does block innovation? Arguably there are plenty of things up and down organizations: a lack of resources, an overcrowded portfolio of ideas, a lack of dedicated people, treating innovation as one-off, keeping it isolated and apart from mainstream activ

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Exago

MAY 12, 2016

Apple, Lego, Philips, Samsung, IBM, GSK and, most recently, Tata Steel, among many others – all have adopted open innovation initiatives to expand their organisations’ horizons. You’ll likely need to do this, too, since competitive advantages enjoy shorter lives. As. Read More. The post Open innovation and the fight for your audience appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 16, 2016

I've been puzzling this over the last few weeks, trying to wrap my head around the importance of innovation generally and the lack of real innovation delivery specifically. What I mean is that everyone knows that innovation is vital to growth and future success, but very few new innovations are created. The vast majority of innovation effort and outcome is expended on me-too, so what incremental innovations that don't really change the user or the market.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 25, 2016

Are innovator’s born differently? Do they have a special something which eludes the rest of us? Or, can innovative traits be studied, understood, and learned? In a study of 72 ‘known innovators’, and 310 executives, it transpired that the innovators consistently demonstrated 5 key skills more than the regular executives. Surprisingly, four of the skills are physical ones, and only one is cognitive.

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Idea to Value

MAY 9, 2016

This short, heartwarming animated feature was previously shown at over 180 film festivals and took home over 50 awards. Based on a comic strip , this short film was the graduation project from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Amazingly, it was produced by just 10 people.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 15, 2016

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? Getting to a root cause of innovation blockage. So what does block innovation? Arguably there are plenty of things up and down organizations: a lack of resources, an overcrowded portfolio of ideas, a lack of dedicated people, treating innovation as one-off, keeping it isolated and apart from mainstream activi

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Exago

MAY 18, 2016

Just a little over two decades ago, engaging external stakeholders was a rare thing. Now, open innovation is trendy. Why is this? For a start, change has become the rule. The post The rise of open innovation appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 31, 2016

As a marketer who was first an engineer, I am often guilty of larding up my marketing content with facts about features. As we used to say at Texas Instruments, I can quote "feeds and speeds" all day long. We can talk about faster processors or larger memories, more sophisticated storage devices and the ability to stream video at close to the speed of light.

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Braden Kelley

MAY 17, 2016

April Fool’s Day was this week. Did anyone have a good prank played on them or come across a good corporate April Fool’s? My favorite this year was from my alma mater, the University of Oregon. Go Ducks!

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Idea to Value

MAY 24, 2016

The next generation of 3D printers has just been released, and they use a liquid technology so futuristic you might think they came out of Terminator 2. The company is called Carbon 3D , and their new M1 3D printers, being shown off in the video above, are not only almost 100x faster than the previous generation’s technology, but finally allow production-quality prints in materials with a wide range of chemical and physical properties.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 22, 2016

There is much talk in the innovation community about the need to produce a minimum viable product (MVP) and bring it quickly to market. But what exactly constitutes a MVP and what is its purpose? In his seminal book, The Lean Startup , Eric Ries defines the MVP as a version of the entrepreneur’s product which enables a full turn of the Build-Measure-Learn cycle with minimum effort and the least amount of development time.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

We need to open up our thinking about risk and innovation management. We should aim for a really healthy construct that does help all involved or associated with innovation and managing risk, that gives a better chance of pushing beyond the incremental innovation that avoids most risk and disappoints those seeking real growth. In this post two, within a three part series, I build the argument on why we need to treat innovation differently within any risk assessment.

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Exago

MAY 25, 2016

While the idea goes back to the 60s, Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the University of California’s Center for Open Innovation, coined the expression ‘open innovation’ in 2003. He defined it as ‘a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas, as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as firms look to advance their technology’.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 20, 2016

One of my recent pet peeves is the proliferation of education options for innovation. One of my alma maters offers a "certificate" for innovation management. While I cannot comment on the course, it is taught by two professors with little private sector experience who haven't created a product. One of them is a psychology major, which I guess makes sense because innovation is often the product of new or unusual insights or perspectives.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 16, 2016

Continuing the “Best Of The Bonn Forum” series, this next post is all about some of the handy (and often surprising) resources our presenters used to refine and redefine their innovation processes, principles and culture. From “children’s” stories to established toolkits and cutting-edge software & algorithms, getting innovation started is as much a science as it is an art.

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Idea to Value

MAY 20, 2016

Silicon Valley is home to some of the biggest and most innovative companies in the world. But what most people know is that over the past 10 years, many of them have fundamentally changed their strategy, allowing anyone and everyone to access their most advanced technology, often for free. When I was growing up, the largest technology companies in the world dominated their industries with a simple premise: stay in control of the customer, and keep your technology secret.

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Destination Innovation

MAY 17, 2016

As a boy brought up in Florida, Jeff Bezos developed a keen interest in computers. He graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He then worked for an investment firm in New York before quitting his well-paid position in 1994 to start Amazon, just as internet commerce was beginning to take off. He started the company in his garage where he wrote the software systems for online commerce.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 18, 2016

We need to open up our thinking about risk and innovation management. We should aim for a really healthy construct that does help all involved or associated with innovation and managing risk that better chance of pushing beyond the incremental innovation that avoids most risk and disappoints those seeking real growth. In this post two, within a three part series, I build the argument on why we need to treat innovation differently within any risk assessment.

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Digital Tonto

MAY 22, 2016

It is all too easy to get caught up in old paradigms. What we often miss is that paradigms shift and the challenges—and opportunities—of the future are likely to be vastly different. In an age of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve lost count of how many times I have heard business people say and then try to explain why their particular companies are unique. By this, they typically mean there is no possibility any other company faces the same types of challenges and operational issues they deal with daily. While that might be a comforting perspective if you’re fond of business isolationism, it’s rarely true once you start to explore the business strategically.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 10, 2016

In recent years I’ve become a bit anti-conference. I still go to some but I find the formats tired. The formula favors big name authors and speakers who sometimes miss the mark. The agenda is so jammed you don’t have time to talk to your peers. The social events are fun, but a bit… forced. So, you may be surprised when I bend over backwards to promote Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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