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Why expertise is a seductive trap for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been thinking for years that we have innovation all wrong. We treat innovation as it if requires years of experience, deep knowledge of an industry or a technology, or mastery of a specific subject. I think far too often we fall into the fallacy of expertise, and look for great ideas from people who are deeply experienced in one technology or field.

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How to Create Your Trend and Technology Radar in 5 Minutes

ITONICS

B eing able to visualize relevant trends and emerging technologies in a manner that allows specific views, filtering, linking, and relating of different data to each other provides a helpful perspective on opportunities. In the following, w e outline how to create your trend or technology radar with ITONICS in four simple steps.

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America Needs to Innovate Its Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell The world today just seems to move faster and faster all the time. From artificial intelligence and self-driving cars to gene editing and blockchain, it seems like every time you turn around, there’s some newfangled thing that promises to transform our lives and disrupt our businesses. Yet a paper published […].

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Speed may feel like progress, but Velocity gets you to your target

Idea to Value

Too many startups and scale ups today think that the way to success is by being fast. Especially, by growing fast. Speed is king. You need to be the first to market , even if you do not know what your business model is yet. “Move fast and break things” But if you look at making innovation and growth like a scientist would , there is a way of building a business which is much more effective than just speed.

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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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Why Your Values Determine Your Ability To Compete

Digital Tonto

The truth is that 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 Hyper-personalization Data and Privacy Debate?-?Solved

Tullio Siragusa

The Hyper-personalization Data and Privacy Debate?-?Solved. The Internet is an essential part of our life. We surf the internet throughout the day, looking for various products or services online. Data is what we share with the websites we visit. But do we know what happens to our shared information or how our preferences pop as ads? In this podcast recap blog post, we will discuss how websites store data, what goes on with the data that we share, and how we can have an option to control our dat

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JIRA isn’t an optimal product management tool—here’s why

Sopheon

Jira has evolved from being a bug and issue tracker software to uses ranging from test case management to agile software development. But should it be used for product management? The post JIRA isn’t an optimal product management tool—here’s why appeared first on Sopheon.

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Disrupt a Business-As-Usual Industry in 6 Steps

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The most influential innovators all have one thing in common: disrupting traditional industry markets. However, only some are able to pull it off. Here are six steps all market disruptors must follow to succeed.

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Continuous Improvement Methodologies - A Brief Overview

Kainexus

While multiple continuous improvement methodologies are used worldwide, they all have one thing in common. They each rely on a scientific approach to problem-solving. Because of that, they offer increased customer satisfaction, lower operating costs, more engaged employees, and overall more successful organizations. Most of these process improvement approaches have roots in the manufacturing sector but have been adapted to fit every industry, from healthcare to construction.

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Innovation in action: Taking lessons, programs, and assessments online

Christensen Institute

This piece is authored by Esther Clark, Executive Director of Marketing, Inspired Online Schools. As the pandemic accelerated growth in the online education space, major accrediting organizations and exam boards turned their attention to online learning and to experienced online schools, like King’s InterHigh , to source expertise and partnership. Our expertise comes from two key innovations: 1) King’s InterHigh is considered the original online school, founded in the UK in 2005 on a simple prem

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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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Why Are Transformations So Hard to Manage?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Drs. Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson Knowing which type of change your organization is undergoing is critical to your success. Three types exist, and each requires different change strategies, plans and degrees of employee engagement. A very common reason for failure in transformational change is leaders inadvertently using approaches that do […].

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Latest ideas from Israel

IdeaSpies

Israel is a little country in land mass with a relatively small population that is only turning 75 years old next year.

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Continuous Improvement vs. Lean Six Sigma

Kainexus

We are in a fortunate position to have the opportunity to chat with business leaders across the spectrum about the challenges and opportunities they face. Most conversations involve employee engagement, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction. Leaders are hungry for ways to transform their organization's culture and results. Unfortunately, because so much has been written about the various business management methodologies, it is easy to become confused about what will work best.

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Some students succeed at the expense of others. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Christensen Institute

Educators preach about growth and grit to children, but the system itself fails to encourage perseverance and curiosity. Instead, it does the opposite by affixing labels to students, sorting them into relatively static groups, and signaling to the students that their effort doesn’t matter. This learning model is an outgrowth of a dangerous zero-sum mindset.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Crypto Doesn't Have to Be Serious. Just Ask This Comedian Who Organized a Conference About Failure in the Industry.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Allison Bishop, general chair of this year's International Crypto Conference, is a computer scientist and comedian who knows humor can make a real impact.

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Now is the Time to Design Cost Out of Our Products

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski With inflation on the rise and sales on the decline, the time to reduce costs is now. But before you can design out the cost you’ve got to know where it is. And the best way to do that is to create a Pareto chart that defines product cost for […].

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ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet

Harvard Business Review

Counterintuitively, ESG ratings reward companies that are likely to profit in the climate crisis — not those who are doing the most to fight it.

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The secret to UnitedHealth Group’s power

Christensen Institute

As tends to be the case each earnings season, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has been at the top of multiple headlines lately. Among them was a clear and insightful analysis from Dr. Nisarg Patel that outlined UHG’s strategy playbook as “the original full-stack healthcare company.” Despite the detail and insights he provided, I was left wanting more. It’s clear that with its Optum division, United has a new growth engine that is fueling its growth today, and will do so well into the future.

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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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The 7 Dimensions to Prioritize Your Innovation Efforts

ITONICS

In this article, we’ll unpack the seven critical dimensions upon which organizations should prioritize their innovation efforts, as recommended by Gartner®. This framework can be combined into innovation portfolio planning models, such as the Three Horizons Model, which can be used to balance multiple goals, making it a practical innovation methodology.

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Should you be a physician entrepreneur?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Not every doctor is cut out to be a physician entrepreneur. Are you? It seems to me there is confusion about physician entrepreneurship, its definition and whether it represents a threat to professionalism. I’m not alone. Is a physician entrepreneur someone who starts and runs a business, or is it something […].

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Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down

Harvard Business Review

With an aggressive but thoughtful approach, it’s possible to survive a downturn — and even emerge stronger.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. This mismatch in spending versus outcome is what we call Brazil’s Education Paradox.

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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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Planview Enterprise One vs. Cascade: Which One Is Right for YOU?

Cascade Strategy

For project management offices (PMOs), picking the right platform to master their workflow productivity and performance often boils down to the same dilemma: Planview vs. Cascade.

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7 Tips for Creating a Great Content Experience

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Content marketing is a sound strategy. Using email, texting, and social media, companies, and brands are taking advantage of an effective way to connect with customers. Most companies use content to deliver value-added information that gets customers excited about what they sell. That makes sense, but it’s limiting. Think beyond […].

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How to Answer “Why Do You Want to Work Here?”

Harvard Business Review

Three approaches to help you ace this classic interview question.

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Disrupt a Business-As-Usual Industry in 6 Steps

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The most influential innovators all have one thing in common: disrupting traditional industry markets. However, only some are able to pull it off. Here are six steps all market disruptors must follow to succeed.

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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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3 Types of Business Transformation for Surviving Rapid Change

Planview

How can businesses stay relevant, prepare for future change, and survive in our rapidly changing world? Through transformation. Understanding the three different types of business transformation will help you choose the right transformation for your organization. Although business transformation is complex, its impact isn’t: Research from McKinsey clearly shows that the more transformation actions a company takes, the greater its chances for success financially, culturally, and organizationally.

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Best 7 Project Portfolio Management Software For Portfolio Managers in 2022

Cascade Strategy

Your decision-making is only as good as your information. When juggling multiple projects across an organization, it's not always easy to focus on the big picture and keep strategic priorities in mind. With project portfolio management software, you stand a chance.

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Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy

Harvard Business Review

After its acquisition of One Medical, how will the giant navigate the U.S.’s $4.1 trillion health care sector?

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What does it mean to be Disruption Proof? | Ep 01

Moves the Needle

Welcome to The Disruption Proof Podcast! In this episode, Brant talks about what it truly means to be Disruption Proof. To him, disruption means much more than the ideology of startups eating away at the market share of large businesses. What we will focus on are the ongoing disruptions we’re seeing at a rapid pace e.g. pandemic, global supply chain, ransomware attacks, inflation, shortages, and the list goes on.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.