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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other. Maybe it is a “digital – innovation twin” that shapes the physical world with digital understanding- think about the current Industrial Digital Twins for IIoT solutions.

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Eight Tips for Better Conversations

Destination Innovation

Photo by Isakarakus on Pixabay. You probably know some people who are unremittingly dull company. You may be fortunate enough to know some brilliant conversationalists who can enliven any discussion. In which category would other people place you? How can you improve your conversational skills to become a welcome sight at every social event? Here are some tips.

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The Data Economy & GDPR – Innovating around Regulation!

IdeaScale

When you hear the word “regulation” – the first thing that comes to mind is bureaucracy. Especially, when it comes to the European Union! The EU directive of data-protection, privacy and general regulation of its data-economy is largely tied to the upcoming launch of the GDPR regime in May 2018. As with every regulation, there are perceived winners and losers – and ample room for innovation within the regulatory framework.

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Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool

Exago

You can save time and money by having your employees contribute ideas for the cost-cutting strategy, as well as cost-optimisation ideas that can transform and impact the company positively. Examples from our clients' innovation management programmes show just that. The post Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool appeared first on Exago.

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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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How To Solve A Really Tough Problem In 3 (Not So Easy) Steps

Digital Tonto

The key to solving fundamental challenges is to go both wider and deeper Related posts: The Uncertainty Problem. How to do a Turnaround in 5 (not so easy) Steps. Top-down vs. Bottom-up Strategy. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What’s Your Innovation Story?

Braden Kelley

Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well.

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You cannot survive doing more of the same

Jeffrey Phillips

It seems so funny, looking back on a meeting I attended about 20 years ago. At that meeting a good friend was presenting a new book, entitled Who Moved My Cheese? He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Of course most of us read it and thought - hmm - that's interesting. We need to get better at accepting change, instead of seeking to sustain the status quo.

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How Gandhi Would Lead Us Toward An AI Future

Digital Tonto

We can’t lose sight of the fact that technology should serve people, not the other way around Related posts: 4 Things Gandhi Can Teach Us About Transformational Change. We Need To Stop Trying To. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Accelerate Your 2018 Commitments and Start the Year Strong

Braden Kelley

As 2018 picks up speed, perhaps you are a manager or leader with a project that you are responsible for finishing before the end of the first or second quarter.

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How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing has been judged to be one of the most impactful, but least used digital hacks by organizations by Gartner. Why is that? Well, it’s an emerging discipline and there’s a lot to learn about how to do it well – how to communicate, how to moderate discussion, how to provide intrinsic value, and more. And one of the questions that we receive every so often is how to correct for voting bias.

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

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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What’s New In Corporate Innovation

Imaginatik

Hello everyone! The world of corporate innovation changes quickly. Our “What’s New” blog series keeps you up to date with all the latest news and views of interest in the space. We hope you enjoy this next instalment. ‘Smart Thermometres’ Track Flu Season in Real Time. This winter has seen – and many of us have experienced – a particularly nasty strain of the flu’ virus sweeping across the globe.

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How Collective Impact Can Empower Innovation Challenges in Higher Education

HYPE Innovation

What do you do when the problem you face is overwhelming in its complexity? What do you do when the experts you need are in every corner of the world? What happens when no individual or group has all the answers?

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Rise of the Green Goblin?

Braden Kelley

For those of you out there who are comic book aficionados, you might be familiar with a super villain from the Spiderman series called the Green Goblin.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

What is a UX designer? I recently saw a great ad for a senior UX specialist from MathWorks. Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects’ needs, goals, and constraints.

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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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Organizational Pathways to Business Model Innovation

Integrative Innovation

For several reasons, such as disruptive threats, digitalization or blurring industry boundaries, established companies are increasingly forced to create new business opportunities, i.e. to come up with adapted or even entirely new business models. Moreover, developing a ‘ business model creation capabilty ‘ seems particularly vital in the light of ever decreasing life cycles.

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What do most innovative companies have in common?

hackerearth

Although the term “innovation” has found a place in everyday diction, true, game-changing innovation still remains elusive. The increasing competition for customers, market share, and talent in almost every industry demands an innovative approach to business. Not only is innovation necessary for enhancing competitive advantage, it is a requirement for businesses to thrive as well as survive.

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Make Money using the Change Planning Toolkit™

Braden Kelley

Want to achieve faster and more effective change on a grand scale?

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Branding Strategy – Stop Loving Generic Words in the Thesaurus

BrainZooming

You’re working on an important new employee or customer communication to further your branding strategy. You’re trying to say things succinctly. Perfectly. But as you’re looking for just the right word that will have just the right impact, it’s not coming to you. What do you do? The answer is obvious: you go to an online thesaurus and look up synonyms for the tired old word you would typically use.

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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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Do You Have a Powerful Innovation Story?

Innovation Excellence

Many, but not all, innovations involve some kind of technology, and start as an invention. Many of these technology-based inventions that may eventually become innovations are created by startups, but many are created inside large companies as well. In both cases, these technology-based potential innovations are often created by engineers or technologists that are well-versed.

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How to spot the next big thing

hackerearth

Leaders are always on the lookout for the next big thing in their industry. They want solutions that have immediate marketplace impact but carry minimal risk and offer optimum financial benefits. However, everyday business concerns tend overwhelm leaders to such an extent that they often lose sight of the wider strategy. We live in a rapid-paced, short-term, and talent-based workplace with more diversity than ever before.

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Gamification: fun for everyone?

Norbert Bol

Gamification has become a popular phenomenon in education, business, government and science. Introducing fun-game activities in these real life situations, fits within the idea of an experience oriented economy. The question is: is it fun for everyone? Gamification is a technique that brings game elements to real life (non-game) products and services to design behaviors, develop skills and enable innovation with the aim to increase customer experience, organizational productivity, learning, sust

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Pursuing a B2B Innovation Strategy for the User’s Benefit

BrainZooming

Is your business-to-business brand looking for new product ideas, stronger innovation strategy opportunities, and a bigger impact ? If so, look for ways to shape the customer experience of your product’s end users. That doesn’t mean the intermediaries your organization may view as its customers: the distributors, wholesalers, or others that sell or bundle your product.

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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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Bolstering Startups through the CVP

Yet2

The world of startups is fast moving, exciting and innovative. The agility of a small business and the enthusiasm of founders executing on their cherished ideas means startups move fast, pitch often, and put investment dollars to work quickly. The most successful startups have identified an important problem to tackle, and even more importantly, they have developed a clever way to solve that problem.

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Crowdsourcing and Smart Cities: A Winning Combination

Qmarkets

The evolving trend of Smart Cities is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. At first glance, the term “smart government” appears to be oxymoronic.

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Cultures that Inspire!

Innovators Alliance

There is no doubt that attracting talented people is one of the latest challenges that business leaders are facing. Let’s define talented people as those that have options – they have skills and experiences that are viewed as attractive and therefore can command a premium in terms of pay or at least in terms of interest. We might assume that the most important thing to these people is compensation and while a report titled Talent Wars from Development Counsellors International (DCI) shows that

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The Permission to Innovate

Beyond the Obvious

“I hereby grant you all permission to innovate.” Some people don’t believe that they can generate the ideas their companies need. A story from a few years ago, when HP acquired a small start-up, illustrates the reason behind this mind-set perfectly. As part of the process of introducing the new team to HP, I hosted […].

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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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Startup Engagement in Corporate Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Recently, Match-Maker Ventures and Arthur D. Little have released an interesting report, titled “The Age of Collaboration“ The study does a good job in synthesizing the global state of play of corporate-startup collaboration and latest findings on success requirements for its implementation. More and more corporations seek to engage with startups by pursuing corresponding activities across dedicated ecosystems and incorporating them.

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How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

InnovationManagement

Are your employees underperforming? This happens even to star employees when they don’t feel motivated to do their job anymore. Luckily, great managers can drive employee engagement by reconnecting with their workers. To boost engagement, you must find out what drives the people to do their best job every day.

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Big Data: How To Know If Your Organization Is Ready

Faisal Hoque

Use this 7-step maturity model to find your organization’s current state, and then use it to define your roadmap for big data implementation. The post Big Data: How To Know If Your Organization Is Ready appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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What’s the Value of Privacy?

Daniel Burrus

Consider these interesting statistics when it comes to privacy: Google commands 77 percent of search advertising revenue in the United States. Between them, Google and Facebook control 56 percent of the mobile advertising market. At first glance, they sound like monopolies, don’t they? And, if that’s the case, why hasn’t the government pursued action?

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.