May, 2023

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From Quantity to Quality: Improving Your Idea-Generation Process

HYPE Innovation

Day in and day out, we’re all coming up with ideas at work and home as we go about routine tasks or during meetings and problem-solving sessions. There’s often a tendency to think that more ideas mean better results. But, typically, this isn’t the case. A focus on generating more, rather than better-quality, ideas might lead to slower decision-making and lower motivation to be creative.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the pl

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Change Management Requires a Change Mindset

Harvard Business Review

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

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Innovating in India Part 1 – The Unique Challenges

IdeaScale

A Personal Preamble I’m always amazed when I return to India at both how similar and how different it is from the US, where I now live. My family’s originally from India and I grew up there till I was 5, and then intermittently have lived and worked in India. So, in many ways, India [.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Authority Bias: Why we submit to the ideas and orders of others

Idea to Value

Would you ever hurt someone intentionally? What about if someone you respected told you to do it? In some cases, people will believe almost anything someone tells them, if the person telling them appears to have the authority to do so. One of the most dangerous biases in the world might be the Authority Bias. This is the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure ( unrelated to its content ) and be more influenced by that opinion.

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Don’t Trust Your Feelings. They’re Often Triggers That Mislead You

Digital Tonto

The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes we encode experiences in our bodies as somatic markers and that our emotions often alert us to things that our brains aren’t aware of. Another researcher, Joseph Ledoux, had similar findings. He pointed out that our body reacts much faster than our mind, as when we jump out of the way of an oncoming object and only seconds later realize what happened.

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Are we EVER going to embrace innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Why have we not embraced innovation? I will not apologize here; this will partly be a “rant” and then begin to suggest a way forward on embracing innovation fully. I was thinking of having the headline “Innovation as our eternal doom or shame” or “innovation groundhog day” Let me begin in why. I really am fed up with constantly seeing claims that “ innovation is core to our business ” and that we are “ constantly seeking fresh growth ”

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Five Reasons why You are Blocking Innovation.

Destination Innovation

What is inhibiting innovation in your organization? There might be many reasons, but have you considered that one of them might be you? What happens when a colleague or subordinate comes to you with a radical idea? Here are five good reasons why you are likely to reject it. You are smart. The more intelligent and experienced you are the more problems you can see with their idea.

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Innovating in India Part 2 – History of India’s Innovation Challenges

IdeaScale

In the first part of our three-part series, we discussed the unique challenges of innovating in India. In this second part, we will explore how these challenges have their origins in India's culture, history, and institutional structures. Regulatory Challenges: A Legacy of Colonialism India's regulatory environment is a legacy of its colonial past, although [.

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Seth Godin – The Song of Significance: Podcast E165

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast , we speak with one of the most influential and prolific authors on the topics of marketing and creativity in the world, Seth Godin. Seth Godin is one of the fathers of online and email marketing, and has blogged every day for decades. His blog has thousands of posts, he has written over 20 bestselling books, and his views are respected around the world.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Values Always Cost You Something. That’s What Makes Them Different From Platitudes.

Digital Tonto

Values are essential to how an enterprise honors its mission. They represent choices of what an organization will and will not do, what it rewards and what it punishes and how it defines success and failure. Perhaps most importantly, values will determine an enterprise’s relationships with other stakeholders, how it collaborates and what it can achieve.

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The Future of Innovation Management: Trends and Predictions

HYPE Innovation

The “secret sauce” for successful innovation lies in the way it’s managed, particularly for large corporations looking to continuously innovate in a strategic and sustainable way to stay relevant in their market.

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Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What organizations tend to get wrong — and how to get it right.

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Understanding the Limitations of AI

Faisal Hoque

Panaceas are hard to come by. And artificial intelligence (AI) is certainly no exception.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Innovating in India Part 3 – The Way Forward

IdeaScale

In the first two parts of our three-part series, we explored the unique challenges of innovating in India (Part 1) and the origins of these challenges in the country's culture, history, and institutional structures (Part 2). In this final part, we will discuss strategies for overcoming these challenges and fostering a more innovative ecosystem in [.

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Building the innovation stack

Paul Hobcraft

Developing the innovation stack takes the view that innovation is a series of building blocks stacked on top of each other with different layers to work through. These stacks follow an established logic, such as working through idea discovery, relating to given problems, exploring solutions, and determining the final model or design and the execution delivery to achieve this.

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5 Simple Rules That Will Make You A Powerful Communicator

Digital Tonto

Sometimes the hardest thing is merely to make yourself understood. Things that change the world, or even a small part of it, always arrive out of context because, by definition, the world hasn’t changed yet. That’s why innovators need to be great communicators, because an idea that doesn’t gain traction is an idea that fails. That’s easier said than done.

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How to Share and Manage Knowledge for Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Knowledge sharing and innovation In the 1970s, Walker’s Wagon Wheel Tavern sealed its role in innovation history. Its name perfectly captured what took place there – like spokes on a wheel, people converged and the air was full of conversation on a Friday night. Ideas flew around, many of which crashed and burned. But some fused, became something bigger, gained momentum, and grew into new businesses.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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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Who Is Going to Regulate AI?

Harvard Business Review

As the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow.

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Is global development anti-development?

Christensen Institute

On April 25 th , 2023, I had the opportunity to present some of our work on market-creating innovations in the halls of the United States Congress. I began my remarks by telling the following story I’d heard from a minister in an East African country. The minister explained that as the COVID-19 pandemic began, leaders in the country realized they didn’t have the capacity to make facemasks and other personal protective equipment (PPEs).

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What is innovation in business: The Ultimate Guide to Staying Ahead of the Game

IdeaScale

Innovation is the lifeblood of business. It's what keeps companies ahead of the curve, and it's what enables them to stay competitive in a rapidly changing market. But what is innovation in business, and how can it be used to stay ahead of the game? In this ultimate guide, we'll explore the ins and outs [.

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You can expect an explosion of innovation in the next 18-24 months from June 2023

Jeffrey Phillips

I am going to go out on a limb. Not a big limb, but any time you make a written prediction that people can come back and check, you put yourself at risk. My prediction has to do with innovation. Predicting innovation will seem unusual and risky for many people, because innovation seems so random and difficult to anticipate, like a lightning strike. But if you understand the conditions that make a lightning strike possible, suddenly the strikes don't seem so surprising.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

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

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Summer Reading List: 11 Books That Will Help You Navigate the New Age Of AI

Digital Tonto

It’s hard to believe that summer is already here. Where I live, outside of Philadelphia, the nights in May have been pretty cold, so I’m still trying to get used to the idea that the time for backyard barbecues and hanging out by the pool has already arrived. Still, summer is by far my favorite […] The post Summer Reading List: 11 Books That Will Help You Navigate the New Age Of AI first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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How to combine offline and online ideation

HYPE Innovation

Ideas can emerge anywhere: at meetings, through informal conversations, during hackathons, and, in the digital space, via emails, notes, or calls. But how do you combine online (digital) and offline (in-person) ideation and organize ideas in a single centralized space to ensure that you don’t lose any of them, no matter where they originate?

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AI Can Be Both Accurate and Transparent

Harvard Business Review

Historically, tech leaders have assumed that the better a human can understand an algorithm, the less accurate it will be. But is there always a tradeoff?

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Exploring, innovating and settling the new frontier of Space

IdeaSpies

Many of the inventors, researchers, entrepreneurs and government officials who are planning on exploring, innovating and s (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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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10 Mind-Blowing Examples of Innovative Products That Will Leave You Speechless

IdeaScale

Innovation is the key to success in today's fast-paced and ever-changing world. As technology continues to advance, the possibilities for new and innovative products are endless. From self-driving cars to smart homes, innovative products are changing the way we live, work, and play. In this article, we'll explore 10 mind-blowing examples of innovative products that [.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I think a re-introduction is in order. I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Over the last year, I needed to take a step back, to focus on some other things, and to get a new perspective.

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How lithium can jumpstart Latin American economies

Christensen Institute

Three Latin American countries–Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia–account for approximately 61% of the world’s identified lithium resources, notes Eduardo Porter, in his most recent Bloomberg opinion column. An essential component in lithium-ion batteries, these countries have a unique opportunity to jumpstart their advancement to high-income economies in the next decade.

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From Quantity to Quality: Improving Your Idea-Generation Process

HYPE Innovation

Day in and day out, we’re all coming up with ideas at work and home as we go about routine tasks or during meetings and problem-solving sessions. There’s often a tendency to think that more ideas mean better results. But, typically, this isn’t the case. A focus on generating more, rather than better-quality, ideas might lead to slower decision-making and lower motivation to be creative.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.