The Inovo Group
JANUARY 28, 2019
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in the information?”. – The Rock by T.S. Elliot. Highlights. The two dominant models of innovation are the process/activity model and the human/proficiency model. A third model – the knowledge/flow model – offers an alternative perspective and approach to designing and building an innovation system.
Jeffrey Phillips
JANUARY 31, 2019
As Malcolm Gladwell and other business writers have found, it is entirely possible to write a compelling article around a rather obvious point, and still hold the reader's attention. As a case in point I draw your attention to this article - entitled Why Corporate Innovation is so Hard. This article was clearly written by a communications master, because it has an attractive title that seems to address an intractable problem (and suggest an answer) and is based on a premise that seems inescapabl
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Digital Tonto
JANUARY 27, 2019
Once we have exhausted the realm of the possible, we often must venture into the realm of the impossible to see a new direction Related posts: 4 Visionaries Who Saw Far Into The Future And How They. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
JANUARY 29, 2019
Why are blank pages so scary? Whether it is in the form of a book to be written, a presentation to be delivered, a song to be scribed or any other creative output. The sight of a blank page is enough to prevent many people from ever getting started. But why is this? While there is little research on the topic apart from a few books and academic assessments , we can piece together the puzzle through our understanding of how the mind finds and builds new ideas.
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IdeaScale
JANUARY 29, 2019
The right people make the difference in innovation. Human Resources is sometimes overlooked as a source of innovation. Yet, in many ways, it’s the wellspring of innovation; HR departments recruit, hire, train, and support the individual employees of an organization who will make up the innovative teams that drive your company forward. So how can your HR department help build a culture of innovation?
Exago
JANUARY 30, 2019
Welcoming 2019, we are happy to present the latest Exago 4.0 innovation software release! In a world driven by data and information, the brand new dashboard is what really sets it apart. The Exago Eagle Edition lets you closely watch the performance and evolution of your innovation programme. The post Exago 4.0 innovation software – The Eagle Edition release notes appeared first on Exago.
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Idea to Value
JANUARY 29, 2019
What are the three things which every idea needs to be successful? At Deloitte, we have found that in order for an idea to succeed, it needs to possess three key attributes. Together, these three criteria form what we call the Balanced Breakthrough model. The Balanced Breakthrough Model. the balanced breakthrough model. In order for an idea to become a successful innovation, it needs to validate the following three characteristics: Desirability: Is there demand for this idea?
IdeaScale
JANUARY 30, 2019
Sometimes the key to solving a problem is ignoring the “rules.” IBM has famously made “THINK!” a command to drive innovation. However, it’s not just the act of thought that’s innovative, but how you think. Learning to think laterally can offer surprising and elegant solutions to even thorny problems. So how do you bring lateral thinking to your organization?
Exago
JANUARY 31, 2019
To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together pieces of wisdom from our clients, innovation managers, to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 7. The post Lesson 7 from true innovation managers: you need trust to have participation appeared first on Exago.
Digital Tonto
JANUARY 30, 2019
The company's new technology has the potential to reshape the industry for years to come Related posts: What Will We Do After Moore’s Law Ends? Moore’s Law Will Soon End, But Progress. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
In my role as the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE), I sometimes receive inquiries like this: “Hi, Dr. Meyers. I was reading some of your posts on the SoPE website and social media, and was wondering if you wouldn’t mind taking time to read the enclosed business plan for an idea I.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 29, 2019
The right people make the difference in innovation. Human Resources is sometimes overlooked as a source of innovation. Yet, in many ways, it’s the wellspring of innovation; HR departments recruit, hire, train, and support the individual employees of an organization who will make up the innovative teams that drive your company forward. So how can your HR department help build a culture of innovation?
Leapfrogging
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
The best innovations reduce costs while adding value at the same time. With all the hype these days around the impending disruptions on the horizon such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and the like, it’s natural to assume that breakthrough innovation requires breakthrough technology. And if you consider the mind-boggling burn rates of recent innovation icons like Uber , WeWork , and MoviePass , it’s also easy to assume that monstrous investments are needed t
Board of Innovation
JANUARY 31, 2019
It is one thing to take a piece of paper, fold it into an airplane shape, hurl it across a room, and make it fly. It’s quite another to construct an airplane in real life. This might seem like an obvious thing to point out, but this is often what happens when people try to. Continue reading. The post 3 ways to kill a business on paper appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 27, 2019
Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. These concepts are the seeds of your company’s future growth. How is your company cultivating these seeds? How do companies manage this asset, the portfolio of product concepts, even before they enter the pipeline? In our experience, product.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 31, 2019
A new innovation in the digital marketing sphere is the idea of using crowdsourcing to generate or test marketing ideas. Up until this process, marketing, digital marketing and traditional marketing had been a “ one-way conversation ,” according to The Huffington Post. Previously, the only contributor had been the firm, who would generate, test, and implement marketing schemes and campaigns according to internally sourced ideas.
Acuvate
JANUARY 29, 2019
Trade Promotions are a crucial part of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. They are highly instrumental in driving sales, creating brand visibility, awareness and loyalty. As per a research carried out by Nielsen Holdings, more than 40% of trade promotions carried out are ineffective and do not yield the intended results, furthermore, about 59% of trade promotions done do not even break-even.
Wazoku
JANUARY 29, 2019
A study by the World Economic Forum found that whilst not all start-ups make it big, the ones that do greatly impact society by means of new technology, services and increased employment. It is a true honour for Wazoku to have been selected as one of a cohort of 30 companies in Upscale 4.0. We join some great companies in this edition and some amazing alumni.
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Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 30, 2019
Board of Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2019
Learn to co-create strategic corporate partnerships to build innovative win-wins for greater B2B business impact. We're sharing our key insights in this blog post. The post B2B Co-creation: 50 key learnings and insights appeared first on Board of Innovation.
InnovationManagement
JANUARY 29, 2019
Innovators are among us and within us, spot them by how they think and do things differently.
Beyond the Obvious
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
I used to spend a lot of time in India, as most tech guys do. The subcontinent can be spectacularly disorienting for a Westerner. On one trip, I stayed in a blissfully air-conditioned, five-star hotel. Outside there was 100-degree heat, and the uniquely foul stench of Kolkata’s open sewers and packed streets. Inside I had […].
Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified
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Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 28, 2019
Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015. She joined Telefonica in 1998, where she has worked for Telefónica Digital PDI’s (Product Development & Innovation), and in the Research & Innovation direction (Telefonica I+D which coordinates the global strategy of digtal innovation across the group).
Board of Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2019
What is B2B co-creation? An innovation program where you involve a real B2B partner customer. You’ll co-create in a strategic corporate partnership whilst building a win-win situation for greater B2B business impact. Myth-buster: Co-creation is not just for B2C contexts. B2B co-creation, otherwise known as corporate partnerships, has a lot of opportunity for big impact.
Leanstack
JANUARY 30, 2019
In my last post , I described how sketching an idea on a Lean Canvas is akin to stacking a chain of beliefs. Later links rely on earlier links, and cracks in your early links have a ripple effect. This is why it’s particularly important to confront your chain of belief and focus on your weakest links first?—?your riskiest assumptions. The real challenge isn’t idea generation, but idea validation.
Moves the Needle
JANUARY 30, 2019
Digital Transformation (also known as “DX”) is the phenomenon that virtually all companies are incorporating digital technology at some level. The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. The term is not new. In fact, it has been around since the 1990s, when technology started to become commonplace in businesses, and email and the Internet emerged as ubiquitous productivity tools.
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Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 26, 2019
Hello friends, It’s that time of year again: new year’s resolutions, hot cocoa, and a frantic pressure to put together a plan to somehow be innovative as the calendar starts anew. Let’s pause on the panic and look closer at innovation. It takes two factors to make innovation real at an organization: 1. Concepts 2. Culture.
Mills-Scofield
JANUARY 28, 2019
Hank Aaron ~ All time MLB RBI Hitter (2,297) Picture Credit USBData. Opening day is March 28th. The media, fans, and managers will be focused on key stats like on-base and slugging percentages, defensive runs saved, walks/hits per inning pitched and ERA … and of course Grand Slams and Home-Runs! Guess what, companies love those big sexy stats too - especially for innovation.
InnovationManagement
JANUARY 28, 2019
IdeaScale has honored innovation leaders in their annual Innovation Management Awards for six years now. Award recipients have come from almost every industry with a variety of goals (from eradicating cancer to identifying new university technology best practices), but this year’s winners share a few key characteristics that all innovation leaders need to embody.
Norbert Bol
JANUARY 27, 2019
Sustainability has become an important aspect in every business nowadays. However, how can we implement sustainability successfully in our business practices? Lambrechts et al. (2019), show how individual sustainability competences can play a role in business projects and especially in building projects. Sustainability competences can be described as a cluster of related knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that enable a person to act effectively on sustainable development.
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