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Keeping Organizational Innovation Alive

IdeaScale

Pleased with your current team’s ability to innovate and work together? Perfect! Now, it’s time to take a proactive approach to maintaining their bond, creativity, and curiosity. Keeping innovation alive requires a mix of ongoing team building and group and individual skills building. Below are a few options to explore. Create or Revise Your Team [.].

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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

Rob Law and Trunki. Rob Law studied Product Design at Northumbria University. One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. He did some research by going to a local department store. He wandered around the suitcase section and found no inspiration but when he went into the toy department, he had a brainwave. Why not make a piece of luggage which was also a ride-on toy for children?

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6 Simple Growth Hacks for Startups

Leapfrogging

Building a new business is tough. These strategies will help your startup succeed without a big investment. As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy , innovation , and leadership. But recently I’ve been asked a lot about how I helped establish Praxie.com as a destination website for hundreds of best practice digital tools and templates using growth hacking strategies.

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Gaining energy and idea generation

Paul Hobcraft

Gaining energy and idea generation. I have been asking myself how a combined effect of innovation and ecosystem design thinking will support the energy transition we are undertaking to give it additional traction and generation. Let me share my thoughts and proposition here. The vital “infusion” of innovation in thinking, approaching and building this into the front end of any energy transition provides a greater discovery structure and process that can greatly facilitate the changes, with more

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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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We Need To Get Back To Counting What Counts

Digital Tonto

The statistician George Box famously said, ““All models are wrong, but some are useful” and that’s especially true of economic models. When Ronald Coase argued that the “nature of a firm” was to reduce transaction costs, he didn’t mean that was the only purpose of an enterprise. To argue that there is a principal-agent problem between owners and managers should not imply that it only applies to profits.

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6 Ways to Leverage Virtual Tools to Create an Innovation Culture

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change […].

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9 Continuous Improvement Methodologies & Tools

Viima

Not all change leads to improvement, but to improve anything, you need to bring about change. Usually, that’s easier said than done. Greatly enduring organizations have survived over the years through continuous improvement and incremental innovations. What does it take to bring about improvements in a systematic and structured way? Besides the right mindset, culture, and capabilities, you need methodologies and tools to fuel and maintain these improvements.

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The CHIPS Act was a good start—now we can take these three steps to further supercharge innovation

Wellspring

The U.S. will need to build the deepest possible talent base, and then clear the way for that talent to do its best possible work. This article was originally published on Fast Company.

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The surprising link between curiosity and Dopamine

Idea to Value

For years, I have been wondering about how curiosity evolved. It may be a silly question. After all, curiosity brings all sorts of benefits, especially when it comes to making us more creative. But if you look back millions and billions of years to when the first life was evolving, there was real danger to being curious. If you were an animal and you had everything you needed in your immediate surroundings (food, shelter and ability to reproduce), then why would you risk moving away from this sa

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How Every Team Member Can Contribute Their Part to Brainstorming Sessions

IdeaScale

Highlights Especially in hybrid work and the asynchronous workplace across time zones, getting everyone on the same page at a meeting can be difficult. Proper timing, interactive exercises, friendly debates, and both active and passive comments can help teams be more creative. Don’t forget to ask your team what else they can use to be [.].

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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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How product managers can pull organizations out of the ‘feature factory’ trap with the right tools

Sopheon

When features become more important than innovative new products, make sure you let product managers lead. To do so, they’ll need the right product management solutions. The post How product managers can pull organizations out of the ‘feature factory’ trap with the right tools appeared first on Sopheon.

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Still skeptical about mastery-based learning? Here’s a better way of looking at what it is and does.

Christensen Institute

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? My new book, From Reopen to Reinvent , makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand.

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How your mental filter may be making you less creative

Idea to Value

When it comes to getting creative work done, sometimes your brain needs to shut out external information in order to focus. This is especially true for information which your brain previously noticed but deemed unimportant, and so begins to ignore. Examples of this include you not seeing the outline of your nose in front of your eyes, not feeling the weight of your clothes on your skin or not noticing the sound of the airconditioning in the room.

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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Both a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Linus Pauling believed, “The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas… get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process

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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.

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How Continuous Improvement Software Keeps CI Projects Organized

Kainexus

Organizations striving to reach operational excellence through continuous improvement engage in many individual projects to achieve this goal. However, the most successful organizations implement a structured approach for managing their improvement work so that every person in the organization can contribute to positive change. Specialized continuous improvement project management software helps organizations dedicated to CI get the most out of each project.

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Disruption Is Alive And Well, From Dairy To Hearing Aids To EVs

Bill Fischer

Disruption is alive and well and posing a considerable threat to formerly successful, incumbent market-leaders in electric vehicles, dairy products and hearing aids. Time to disrupt has sped-up, and disruption is no longer exclusively for lower-price entrants.

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When — and Why — You Should Explain How Your AI Works

Harvard Business Review

Four scenarios in which companies should be prepared to explain an algorithm’s predictions.

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3 Ways to Get Customer Insights without Talking to Customers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Most of my advice to leaders who want to use innovation to grow their businesses boils down to two things*: Talk (and listen) to customers Do something But what if you don’t want to talk to customers? After all, talking to customers can be scary because you don’t know what […].

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Follow The Leader: Arif Alawi, CEO, Dubai Cultiv8

Entrepreneur - Innovation

As the CEO of Dubai Cultiv8, Alawi is responsible for developing the entity's overarching business plan, while also ensuring it encourages and attracts international entrepreneurs to set up and expand their businesses in the Emirate by offering relevant funding and services.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. But I completely forgot to include the introduction. So I am going back to that for this post. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. Although the principles remain the same, some aspects have evolved since then.

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Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

Harvard Business Review

Decades of research shows that workers are much more likely to go the extra mile when their managers invest in them.

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Driving the Next Era of Growth: Leveraging Data to Innovate

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler “50% of US executives and 39% of European executives said budget constraints were the primary hurdle in turning Big Data into a profitable business asset. Rounding out the top 5 challenges were data security concerns, integration challenges, lack of technical expertise, and proliferation of data silos.” (Capgemini) “The biggest challenges […].

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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How to Set Up Agile Innovation Portfolios Using ITONICS

ITONICS

Radical or incremental? New products or improved processes? CIOs leading innovation are mandated to strike a balance between quick wins and moonshots.

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Verifiable Credentials and the Blockchain

Acuvate

With a greater emphasis on online interactions and digital business, identity management has become a critical global challenge worldwide. Physical credential documents can be easily tampered with; there is no way to separate the real from the fake. Moreover, verifying the authenticity of digital identity has also become difficult. People have become adept at making fake certificates or altering PDFs to create fake IDs.

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How Much Time and Energy Do We Waste Toggling Between Applications?

Harvard Business Review

Researchers found that office workers switch back and forth between programs about 1,200 times each day — adding up to four hours every week.

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Unlocking the Power of Cause and Effect

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, IBM’s Watson system beat the best human players in the game show, Jeopardy! Since then, machines have shown that they can outperform skilled professionals in everything from basic legal work to diagnosing breast cancer. It seems that machines just get smarter and smarter all the time. Yet that […].

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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New epidemic, same problem

Christensen Institute

A mere two years after COVID-19 shut down the country, we were slammed with another public health concern: monkeypox. As of mid-August, there were 14,115 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the US. While the disease burden is not nearly to the same scale as that of COVID-19, the global spread of monkeypox is enough for the WHO to have it declared a global health emergency —the second in two years. .

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How successful PMOs deliver value and avoid the hot seat

Cascade Strategy

Within the leadership community, caution signs are everywhere, and there is a strong sense of redirection due to current and future macroeconomic trends. In this economy, every penny counts. And it’s starting to show.

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Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

Five tools to help you plan and make decisions when the future is unclear.

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How to Solve Transparent Problems

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski One of the best problems to solve for your customers is the problem they don’t know they have. If you can pull it off, you will create an entirely new value proposition for them and enable them to do things they cannot do today. But the problem is they can’t […].

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.