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Open Innovation Helps in the Fight Against COVID-19

InnovationManagement

The Coronavirus is having an equal impact on companies, giant conglomerates, and startups. Companies are dealing with the crisis in various ways - let's look at how in this article. The post Open Innovation Helps in the Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Anticipate and Think Exponentially

Daniel Burrus

Technology-driven change will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate. Now that quantum computing has recently entered an early phase of application, exponential change will accelerate. Therefore, it is time to turn accelerating change into an advantage by leaning to anticipate and think exponentially! Anticipatory Mindset Takes Advantage of Exponential Tech.

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8 surprising benefits of remote workshops

Board of Innovation

Thinking about a remote session? From improved efficiency and faster experimentation to introvert bravery, here are a few reasons why a digital collaboration might be a great choice. The post 8 surprising benefits of remote workshops appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Six Things I wish I had known before I accepted the position of Chief Innovation Officer

Destination Innovation

Image by Mhouge from Pixabay. I was pleased and proud to be appointed to the position of CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). It seemed like a great opportunity to join a dynamic executive team and help drive the growth and ambition which inspired the company. Unfortunately, things did not work out well and there are some hard lessons to be shared. Here are some things I wish I had anticipated.

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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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The Coronavirus is a Forcing Function for Financial Services Innovation

Innovation Excellence

“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.” –Elon Musk The Coronavirus is having a big impact in financial services, and is going to have an even greater impact on innovation. Why? Because the Coronavirus has made digital innovations essential to running a business no longer optional.

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Five Innovators You’ve Never Heard Of

IdeaScale

According to recent statistics, half of all inventions happen by accident and two-thirds of patents arise from collaboration. There’s plenty of innovation going on, but do you know who invented the products and services you use every day? All innovations begin with an idea that is subsequently shaped into reality. However, even when inventions are used frequently, sometimes there is little knowledge about the inventors behind the innovation.

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The Four Currents of a Culture of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking these days about “culture of innovation” — trying to get down to the root of what the heck it’s all about. It’s easy to wax poetic about the topic these day (and a lot of people do), but too much of the stuff I’ve been reading sounds like.

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How Do Your Employees Feel about Your Innovation Strategies?

IdeaScale

Innovation is at its best when everyone in your organization is involved in the process. Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? Employees who are directly engaged with what’s going on in the company will feel a stronger need to innovate than their disengaged counterparts. Where do your employees fall on the innovation spectrum?

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How a Big Data Strategy Can Fight Insurance Fraud

mjvinnovation

At the same time, insurers have also understood that they need a Big Data strategy for various purposes. Not all, however, already use tools to detect fraud. That’s exactly what we want to help you reflect on with this article. Continue reading and understand how Big Data can help insurers avoid headaches and financial damage! What is Big Data.

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Famous Person Anagram Quiz

Destination Innovation

Test Your Skill at Anagrams with these ten short puzzles. Each answer is a famous person. Please enter your answer in the box. 1. Which terrorist might be said to be A BAD MAN, NO LIES? (5, 3, 5). OSAMA BIN LADEN (1957-2011) was a founder of the terrorist group Al-Quaeda and the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks. 2. Of which famous playwright might this be said, WE ALL MAKE HIS PRAISE?

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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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Seeking out knowledge that feeds our innovations

Paul Hobcraft

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. And the more we ‘push’ for learning, the greater chance we have of thriving in a challenging world. The expectation ‘bar’ needs to be raised from those practicing innovation, I feel the constant need is for those working within innovation; they have this real need to raise their game significantly.

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Practicing for an emerging future

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing this in the stages of the corona virus outbreak in the United States where we've finally decided to take the virus and its impact seriously. While the virus may not be as deadly as some other viruses, it is clearly contagious. I think after weeks of ignoring it or wishing it away, or waiting for a miracle cure, we've finally decided to do what must be done - that is, more social distance to reduce the spread.

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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Idea to Value

As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world. As a result, we’re seeing more and more action being taken to mitigate the spread of the virus.

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Is Creativity & Innovation Learned or Hard Wired?

Leapfrogging

One of the longest standing questions in the field of innovation lies in the debate surrounding whether or not “creativity” is an innate trait or whether it’s something that can be learned. The answer has big implications. If you think creativity can be learned, you can then train people to be move innovative. If you don’t then you can forget about helping people or working with people who aren’t predisposed to creative thoughts.

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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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Collaboration During Pandemics Through The Modern Digital Workplace

Acuvate

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a huge global crisis and is growing at an exponential rate – with no signs of slowing down. As per recent reports , there are over 170,000+ confirmed across 100+ countries. And new cases are being reported every day! Governments and organizations are taking immediate and drastic measures to contain it and ensure the safety of people.

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How supply chains and ecosystems will be shaped by the corona virus

Jeffrey Phillips

Right now the global economy is in a bit of an uproar over corona virus and its impact on people, businesses and economies. Starting in China, the virus has significantly slowed the production of goods from a core portion of China, which will have knock on effects to supply chains in Europe and in the US. Travel and trade will likely slow, as governments try to contain or mitigate the spread of the virus.

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Innovating During a Crisis

Innovation Excellence

We are living in interesting times. There is probably nobody out there whose personal and business life has not been impacted at least to some degree by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, in the time between writing this and it publishing, I suspect a lot will have changed. To that point, it remains to be seen.

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Innovation in the Family

Leapfrogging

One of the longest standing questions in the field of innovation lies in the debate surrounding whether or not “creativity” is an innate trait or whether it’s something that can be learned. The answer has big implications. If you think creativity can be learned, you can then train people to be move innovative. If you don’t then you can forget about helping people or working with people who aren’t predisposed to creative thoughts.

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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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When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation

Viima

As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world. As a result, we’re seeing more and more action being taken to mitigate the spread of the virus.

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When Pundits Say That Robots WIll Take Our Jobs, Remember These 4 Things

Digital Tonto

There are some things that a machine will never do. Machines will never strike out at a Little League game, have their hearts broken or see their children born. That makes it difficult, if not. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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51 Strategy Statistics And 3 Key Lessons To Help You Succeed

Cascade Strategy

At Cascade, we love data. Having the numbers to help see where you are, assess what's happening, understand how you got there, and decide what to do next, is a core principle behind the Cascade system and why we built it in the first place. Strategy and its implementation are wide concepts that cover a lot of ground, and although pretty much everyone intuitively agrees that a) having a good strategy, and b) implementing it well, are obviously good things for an organization, it's not always easy

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How to Spot Inflection Points In Business Before They Happen with Rita McGrath and Alex Osterwalder

Strategyzer Innovation

Bestselling author and longtime professor of management at Columbia business school, Rita McGrath, joins Strategyzer co-founder Alex Osterwalder for a fascinating discussion on our StratChat webinar series about her latest work ' Seeing Around Corners: How To Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen'.

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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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Elevated Consciousness Improves Relationships

Tullio Siragusa

Elevated Consciousness Improves Relationships. For a relationship to be successful, it is equally important to know yourself as it is to know your partner. You need to know all your abilities as well as weaknesses and embrace them. You must be aware of the things that agonize you, make you happy or sad, and above all you need to love yourself for what and who you are.

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How to Find the Idea at the Right Time

InnovationManagement

One of the things that was surprising to us at IdeaScale was that many of our customers came to us looking for idea management software not because they didn’t have enough good ideas, but because they simply needed a place for those ideas to live. How could that be the main reason? The post How to Find the Idea at the Right Time appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Real Life Examples of the 7 Wastes of Lean

Kainexus

Eliminating waste is at the heart of the Lean Business methodology. The goal of Lean is to spend more of your time creating value for customers by reducing or eliminating everything else - the waste. Several common types of waste have been identified and together represent the “ 7 Wastes of Lean ” (sometimes expressed as "8 types of waste, including the additional "waste of human potential" or "waste of talent").

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Chasing Invincibility: Lessons Learned from Top Organisations Around the World

Strategyzer Innovation

No company is invincible. Those that come closest are the ones that constantly reinvent themselves before their business models become obsolete. This need for reinvention is more pressing than ever. 60 years ago, the average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 index was 50 years, today, it is 15 years. By 2027, the average company could last just 12 years on the S&P 500.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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The Eternal Temptation of the Low Hanging Fruit

Innovation Excellence

By Francesco Pagano & Costas Papaikonomou Spoiler alert. This is a rant, but it’s a short one. Maybe it’s a mini therapy session for a lot of innovators out there. It started with a small comment on LinkedIn, which triggered a response. A nerve, an open nerve was exposed. There must be a reason why.

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Digital Transformation and Its Impact on New-Product Management for Manufacturers

InnovationManagement

For the manufacturer undertaking new-product development, Digital Transformation means smart new products with embedded software. Digital products in turn require software and hardware development teams to work together – a hybrid project – which ultimately leads to combining software development methods with the more traditional gating process that manufacturers use.

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Social Media Strategic Response Plan

Rebel & Reason

Social media has been around for over 20 years and currently, there are about 3.8 billion active users. Brands have been leveraging these platforms for years to amplify their business values, products, or missions. Today, companies have the potential to reach far more fans than traditional advertising would allow. With this much reach, however, it is possible that you may attract a few reactive or combative individuals who are ready to rumble. .

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Interview with Jeremy Gutsche, the author of Create the Future

Viima

This time around we’re going to have a slightly different kind of post. I recently had the opportunity to read Jeremy’s new book and interview him. I hope you’ll find the discussion interesting and useful!

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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.