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How to Start Your Innovation Journey: 5 Strategies for Success

IdeaScale

Innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition, creating new value, and solving the world’s biggest challenges. But how can you start your innovation journey and ensure success? In this blog post, I will share with you five strategies that can help you unleash your creative potential and achieve your innovation goals. 1. [.

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How Innovation Can Benefit From Artificial Intelligence?

HYPE Innovation

The launch of ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E has put artificial intelligence (AI) firmly in the spotlight. Yet AI is nothing new, and these applications are just the tip of the iceberg. AI has been present in our daily lives for many years, with social media algorithms, chatbots, and the Waze application just a few examples.

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Hire for Diversity and Empathy to Drive Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell One of the questions I get asked quite often, both at conferences and when coaching executives, is what type of personality is best suited for innovation so that they can optimize their hiring. Are technical people better than non-technical people? Introverts better than extroverts?

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Seeking more Energy Transition Ecosystem Success Stories in 2024

Ecosystems4Innovating

There have been so many success stories, specifically in industry and the energy transition, that are so reliant on collaborations and co-creations, coming from essential ecosystem design and thinking. This is partly why I focus on the Energy Transition and Industrial Transformation for my innovation and ecosystem work. Let us remind ourselves where those collaborations between different stakeholders deliver real change in radical, innovative solutions.

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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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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends. The author outlines three key ones — the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations — and then suggests a series countervailing forces pushing against each. He also outlines several smaller stories that leaders need on their radar as well.

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Closing out the year by transforming into innovation ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

As we close out the year, I have been looking back and recognizing the transformation concept for innovation, which has been central to my work and, more importantly, moving forward in where I go in my innovating focus in 2024. Here is the story as I look back at 2023 …… Once upon a time, in a world driven by innovation, there was a transformative concept known as the Integrated Framework for Innovation Ecosystems.

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Top Posts Of 2023

Digital Tonto

My friend Stephen Shapiro does not like New Year’s Resolutions. “According to our study, only 8% of Americans say they always achieve their New Year’s resolutions,” he writes. “The way it seems to work now, setting a New Year’s Resolution is a recipe for defeat. It has come to be one of the nation’s most […] The post Top Posts Of 2023 first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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Our Favorite Management Tips of 2023

Harvard Business Review

Our Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBR’s most popular newsletters. In this article, we list 10 of our favorites from 2023 — covering topics like how to get your mojo back if you’re feeling disengaged at work, questions to ask your boss in your next check-in, talking to your team about using AI, giving hard feedback, speaking with confidence when you’re put on the spot — and more.

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Just Start Already

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski You’re not missing anything. It’s time to start. Afraid to fail? Start anyway. Don’t have the experience? Well, you won’t be able to say that once you start. Just start. It’s time. Don’t have the money? Start small. And if that won’t work, start smaller. Start small, but start.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Hosna Salmani PhD Candidate in Health Information Management

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance Hosna Salmani, PhD Candidate in Health Information Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences. Focus Areas: HealthTech, Health and Wellness, Emerging Technology. Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Hosna Salmani Books: eHealth Technology: Concepts, Strategy, Exchange and Security , Current Trends in Health Information Management Highlighted Content: Empowering Patient-Centered Care: AI Innovations in Healthcare Thinkers360 Leaderboards: Top 50 Global Thought Leaders a

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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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Can we change accepted practices in any Energy transition?

Innovating4Energy

During this year, I felt we were in a growing need to significantly alter the accepted practices of managing the Energy Transition in a new, more innovative, ecosystem-thinking way. Why? We need to engage more broadly in community approaches related to energy. We need a broader energy transition movement. The goal is to create a more dynamic, interconnected, and adaptable strategy that builds on having a more collaborative mindset on how we approach the transition to shifting energy sources and

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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2023

Harvard Business Review

As we close out 2023, we asked our readers: Did an HBR article make a meaningful impact on the way you think, work, or lead this year? And how specifically did it change the way you operate? We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world. They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders.

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Continuous Improvement vs. Incremental Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Are They the Same? GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Isn’t continuous improvement the same as incremental innovation? After all, both focus on doing what you do better, faster, or cheaper.” Ooof, I have a love-hate relationship with questions like this one. I hate them because, in the moment, they feel like a gut punch.

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The Myth of Scarcity: The Endless Supply of Ideas

Phil McKinney

Life is often viewed as a win/lose proposition. It's a common belief that success is a finite resource, with the triumph of one individual necessitating the defeat of another. However, this premise is fundamentally flawed. Success isn't a limited commodity to be won or lost in a zero-sum game. Instead, it is born from the boundless supply of ideas.

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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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4 Ways to Scale Idea Generation with ITONICS Smart Ideation

ITONICS

One of the cornerstones of scalable ideation is the ability to bring diverse perspectives together - a pivotal element in cultivating a wealth of innovative ideas. Actively involving team members results in a higher volume of ideas. More participants mean more opportunities for creative solutions. Active participants not only contribute ideas but also provide constructive feedback on others' suggestions.

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What to Expect from the Global Economy in 2024

Harvard Business Review

The economy is ending 2023 in better shape than expected. Most importantly, inflation is falling in much of the world and some central bankers have signaled likely interest rate cuts in 2024. But risks remain as higher interest rates work their way through markets. Geopolitics also looms large.

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Manage Every Moment

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken I just heard an excellent motivational speaker, Antonio Neves, and one of his messages was called “The Last 30 Days.

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Voting Open – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2023

Innovation Excellence

Happy Holidays! For more than a decade I’ve devoted myself to making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because I truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be.

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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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Customer Success is Everyone’s Job

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore There was a time when CEOs liked to say that everyone is in sales, but nowadays, given the XaaS business model, lifetime value has become the focal point for both the customer and the vendor.

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Neuroplasticity – the Innovator’s Edge

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer Your mindset has a huge impact on how well you’re able to adapt and innovate. But mindset is one of those concepts that’s been used and abused in a variety of ways. It gets talked about as your attitude, feelings or personality. Mindset is not personality as it’s traditionally defined.

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Best of IdeaCast: Behaviors of Successful CEOs

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with consultant Elena Botelho on four effective behaviors that leaders can learn.

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Competing with TikTok: When to Imitate, When to Differentiate

Harvard Business Review

Leading social networks have shown that imitation can sometimes lead to better financial performance than differentiation.

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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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It’s Time to Talk to Your Team About Mental Health

Harvard Business Review

How you can help your organization make employee mental health a priority.

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AI Takes the Wheel: New Advances in Autonomous Driving

Harvard Business Review

Can generative AI change how we drive?