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How Do You Create an Innovation Culture?

HYPE Innovation

This is the second part of a two-part series in building an innovation culture. Make sure to read Part 1: What You Need to Know Before Creating an Innovation Culture here !

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In-house or Outsource as Needed?

Beyond the Obvious

What is your organization’s philosophy about design and development? Do you keep everything in-house, or do you outsource as needed? There are two schools of thoughts on this. By keeping the design process in-house, a company can build a sense of continuity and cohesion that links the entire family of products together in a satisfying […].

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10 Ways to Improve Your Company's Broken Ideation Process

Idea Champions

OK. You're busy. I get it. Which is why I just deleted the first four compelling, context-setting paragraphs of this blog post and will now cut to the chase: Your company's "ideation process" is either non-existent, seriously flawed, or not understood by the members of your team. You know it. I know it. And 99% of the people you work with know it -- a longstanding phenomenon that spawns nothing but frustration, wheel spinning, and resignation.

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Why Fostering Employee Engagement Also Fosters Innovation

IdeaScale

Employee engagement is what causes employees to want to give extra effort at work. Improve employee engagement and you build an environment that cultivates innovation. Employees who are engaged in their work feel as if they are making a real contribution, feel challenged but not overwhelmed, and believe their voice is heard. Since they consider themselves a valuable team member, they’re willing to do more than what is strictly required.

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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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Change the Point of Attack – Insights from Nelson

Destination Innovation

On October 21 1805, the French and Spanish fleets, consisting of 33 ships under the command of Admiral Villeneuve, were intercepted by a British fleet of 27 vessels under Admiral Nelson, off the coast of Cadiz in Spain. What followed, the battle of Trafalgar, was to determine the balance of power on the high seas and across Europe for the next century.

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So CX + DX needs IX for the transformations we need

Paul Hobcraft

We are on the brink of a transformation, a global one that connects us into information, knowledge, and insights in ever-powerful ways. thanks to the digital internet. We are also exploring the use of Artifical Intelligence (AI) more than ever. BCG suggests that nine out of ten companies in their recent survey for the report “The Most Innovative Companies 2019” are investing in AI.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

The average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. World-class corporations spend less time at the top than they once did. Fifty years ago, a company on the Fortune 500 list could expect to stay there for 33 years, but by 1990, that tenure had shrunk to 20 years. By the year 2026, forecasters expect that the average length of time spent on the Fortune 500 will be 14 years.

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Ten Top Tips on Patenting Your Novel Idea

Destination Innovation

A patent can be taken out on almost any new implementable idea. It is not just about protecting your idea. Your patents are part of your Intellectual Property (IP) and can be valuable assets. Often a start-up company will be bought for its IP rather than its products or sales revenues. Here are some tips on patents. You do not need a working prototype before a patent application is filed.

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Innovating at Cloud Speed

Braden Kelley

Innovation in the software industry continues unabated. No longer do we have to program computers directly in ones and zeroes, with cumbersome paper punch cards, or even to craft every line of code by hand.

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4 Things That All Managers Should Know About Digital Transformation (But Most Don’t)

Digital Tonto

Fewer than a third of digital transformations succeed, but it doesn’t have to be a sucker’s bet Related posts: How Experian’s Digital Transformation Brought Its Business To An Entirely New Level. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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What Happens in Melbourne Doesn’t Stay in Melbourne!

IdeaScale

Your intrapreneurs are just a desk away. This February and March, the Ideascale team toured Australia, running workshops in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney to discuss crowdsourcing, open innovation, and most importantly, intrapreneurship, with a stop at the Brisbane Intrapreneur’s Summit. Based on our work there, we wanted to focus on what intrapreneurship means for organizations and how it can be encouraged from both top-down and bottom-up.

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Is Busyness getting in the way of your Business?

Idea to Value

In today’s generation, there is so much pressure to “hustle” ( what some people call Entrepreneurial Porn ), that it is leading people to believe you need to be constantly busy in order to be successful. However, this mindset is literally killing thousands of people each year, and is not actually helping them do their best work. In this video, I show a simple technique to measure if your work and ideas are actually helping you get closer to your goal.

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Why your organisation should be applying innovation management to new product development

Exago

The pressure on businesses today is intense. To remain competitive, or even relevant, organisations must have the ability to innovate and to test, fail and succeed quicker in developing a new offering and new features. New product development can provide companies with fresh opportunities and has become increasingly crucial in the modern-day business battleground.

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Here’s What You Need To Know To Compete In An Ecosystem Driven World

Digital Tonto

To thrive in an ecosystem, you have to connect and build up the nodes around you Related posts: Today, You Need More Than A Market Strategy, You Need An Ecosystem Strategy. It’s Ecosystems, Not. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership

Tullio Siragusa

Future of Work Freedom-Centric Leadership. Last summer I was looking to find a way to bring the freedom-centric culture of my company, Nearsoft to the public. A group of us started to put together some meetup groups with the intention to educate companies and people about the value of freedom at work. We wanted to share the impact freedom can have on the quality of life for people, as well as the health of the bottom-line.

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The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Innovation Excellence

Most doctors, scientists, engineers, business school grads and lawyers I’ve taught don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset. There are lots of reasons why, some of which have to do with how they are chosen by their respective educational establishments. After all, you don’t get accepted to medical school because of your intense creativity.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

There is at the moment a lack of sufficient financial resources that is directed toward green investments in order to meet the climate goals that were set in 2015 during the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-UNFCCC). This lack of sufficient financial resources is also known as the “green finance gap” .

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Accelerating new businesses at Thales Digital Factory

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Thales Digital Factory started in 2017, with 4 people, and grows at the speed of light, reaching a staff of 230 people, now dispatched over 3 work spaces: Paris, Montreal, Singapore.

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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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Portfolio Optimization: What Else Can I Do with Accolade?

Sopheon

Accolade brings value to employees working daily within portfolios by increasing efficiency and visibility and making it simple to report information back up the chain of command. The post Portfolio Optimization: What Else Can I Do with Accolade? appeared first on Sopheon.

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These Are The Biggest Innovation Challenges We Must Solve Over The Next Decade

Innovation Excellence

Every era is defined by the problems it tackles. At the beginning of the 20th century, harnessing the power of internal combustion and electricity shaped society. In the 1960s there was the space race. Since the turn of this century, we’ve learned how to decode the human genome and make machines intelligent. None of these.

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How to Innovate with Big Data: 4 Essentials

InnovationManagement

A few years ago, big data was a brand new frontier for businesses, and few could afford to leverage the technology on a large scale. Today, it’s much more accessible for companies of all sizes, and the field of big data has begun to mature.

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Here Is Why Companies Often Do A Lousy Job Innovating

Ankush Chopra

Does it come as a surprise to you if I tell you that most organizations are lousy at innovation? How else do you explain the fact that some great ideas languish in organizations whereas some poor ideas reach the market? How else do you explain that so many people whine that their organizations do not value their great ideas? Let’s take a look at a well-known example: How Fat-Free Oil Failed In 1968, when F.

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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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Interview#4: Bridging Deep Tech and the Internet of (Sex!) Things (Ola Miedzynska)

Innovation Walk

CEO and Founder of SxTech , the only conference where deep tech connects to the Internet of (Sex!) Things. Researcher in technology trends like decentralization, AI, VR, the blockchain, and biotech in relation to the Sex-Tech industry. Ola Miedzynska is committed to changing the way tech world communities perceive sex-tech by encouraging open discussions, running events, matchmaking founders and industry experts, therefore bridging collaboration opportunities in the SxTech conference.

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Prioritizing in a DevOps environment – the Priomide

Innovation Excellence

More and more organisations are implementing DevOps way of working. This means that a product’s development is being done by the same team that does the operations of this product. What does this mean for prioritizing the work within the team? It concerns different types of work with different goals. In order to make the.

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3 Questions That May Reveal Your Hidden Strategist

Focused Momentum

This week, I was a guest on Dov Baron ’s Leadership and Loyalty podcast. This was truly an honor because Dov’s podcast has been ranked as the #1 top podcast on leadership by Inc Magazine. It was also a delight because Dov has a unique and genuine voice in the leadership development field. He explores the questions under the challenges all leaders face in striving to become a great leader.

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Look At The Present With The Lens Of The Future, Not With The Lens Of The Past

helloFUTURE

When we as humans encounter something new, it’s normal to compare this new experience to any experience we had in the past. We are creatures of contrast – we can only understand things as compared to other things that we already know about – or at least that is our default state. We naturally look… The post Look At The Present With The Lens Of The Future, Not With The Lens Of The Past appeared first on hellofuture.

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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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Taking advantage of free publicity

IdeaSpies

When social media started to become popular free publicity was freely available. Many online businesses spread awareness by growing followers, particularly on Facebook. More recently Facebook has been taking advantage of its market leading position by charging businesses to reach their followers. This has led to the need to find other ways of getting free publicity.

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Simple Formula That Explains Why Anyone Would Buy Your Invention

Innovation Excellence

The following is taken from a course that I developed and currently teach at the Cox Graduate School of Business at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, named “Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities” (CISB 6226) The subject of this article is the million (or 10 million, or 100 million, or a billion ) dollar question.

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Implementing Innovative Ideas in The Conservative Environment of A Large Corporation

Wazoku

Businesses know they must innovate to survive. Some companies are, some people within those companies are and others have unbeknownst innovative ideas tucked away. The real question as a large corporation is: how can we take advantage of these ideas and the depth of knowledge inside the minds of employees, partners or the wider business ecosystem? Many enterprises, although heavily resourced, struggle with initiating an idea management programme due to the red tape, being slow to change and oper

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Solve Problems and Innovate as an Anticipatory Leader™

Daniel Burrus

Anticipatory Leaders understand that we are at a unique point in human history, filled with waves of disruption and opportunity. We are doing things today that were impossible just a few years ago. If you look at the Hard Trends that are shaping the future, you can easily see that we will be doing things two years from now that are impossible today.

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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.