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Why You Need a Diverse Ecosystem of Perspectives to Drive Innovative Thinking

HYPE Innovation

Editor's Note: Andy Seferta is Head of Ecosystem and Analyst Engagement, Digital Technology Services, Fujitsu EMEIA. This post was originally published on May 12, 2019, on the Fujitsu UK Blog. I recently had the pleasure of attending the INNOVATE Bonn forum hosted by our strategic partner HYPE Innovation. At the conference, I hosted open-innovation-themed customer workshops alongside HYPE's head of open innovation, Dr.

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The interplay between innovation, creativity, and consciousness

Innovation Excellence

Innovation consulting can be a lonely place for a woman to play, especially in a conventional, male-oriented, and competitive marketplace like Melbourne is today. Making networking a key way of enhancing my intellectual, emotional and social capital, consciousness and creativity.

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Successful Innovation Program Highlights the Value of Intrapreneurship

IdeaScale

Intrapreneurs are people who are dedicated to their employer yet know how to apply basic principles of entrepreneurship within their roles at work. Sometimes your best “entrepreneurial” ideas come from people inside your organization. There may have been a time when people with characteristics of intrapreneurs were discouraged or outright forbidden to innovate, even within their areas of responsibility.

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Why Company Culture is Key to Innovation and Growth

InnovationManagement

In the world of business to get an edge over competitors, companies are required to constantly evolve their sales, marketing, hiring, and employee retention tactics to stay ahead. External pressures and threats from other companies push entrepreneurs to come up with new strategies and solutions to grow their businesses. There’s no way to succeed other than to innovate.

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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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Digital transformation marks the demise of product innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

There comes a time when every phenomenon reaches its zenith, before a long fall or a sudden collapse. We like to refer to this point in the cycle as the "tipping point" - the point at which we can remain in stasis or the structures will collapse. We are warned that we are close to the tipping point for global warming, for example, where more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may result in weather and climate changes that create catastrophic change in the weather, sea levels and other factors.

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Eight Reasons why Innovation beats Efficiency

Destination Innovation

Elon Musk. If you are running an organization of any kind then making it more efficient is a key priority. It is important to speed up processes, eliminate waste, improve quality, reduce costs and generally please customers. And if you work hard at it you can do all of these things. But it is also important to prioritise innovation – finding new products and services and new ways to do things.

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How Networks Drive Transformation

Digital Tonto

The truth is that we need to reimagine leadership for a networked age to focus less on driving strategy and tactics and more on widening and deepening connections in networks Related posts: Leaders. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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26 Ways to generate new revenue for B2C companies

Board of Innovation

Why read this? This blog post will help you to identify sustainable new revenue streams, challenge revenue streams you have already developed and to come up with alternative money-making tactics. Earning income, producing profits, or generating higher Returns on Investment is a challenge best solved by working smart, not hard. If you thought money was […].

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The Most Powerful Is the Most Vulnerable

Tullio Siragusa

The Most Powerful Is the Most Vulnerable. Growing up as the youngest of three often felt as if I had to catch up with my siblings. There is a rather large age gap between us and being one of three boys made it fairly competitive between us. Don’t get me wrong I love my brothers, and today the age gap is irrelevant but at the time I felt like I had to get it together fast in order to keep up.

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Josh Folk of IdeaScale Dishes with DotCom

IdeaScale

Josh Folk is a co-founder of IdeaScale, and he recently joined DotCom magazine for their Leader Round Table Interview series. Harnessing innovation and putting it to work efficiently are at the heart of the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0.?. The editorial team at DotCom Magazine awarded IdeaScale its Impact Company of 2019 Award, and Josh talked with Torrey Mastery of DotCom Magazine about innovation leadership.

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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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The Five Factors That Drive Digital Innovation

InnovationManagement

Innovation is the core activity of human evolution to change the environment, reach high performance, and make collective progress. The post The Five Factors That Drive Digital Innovation appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Business Model vs. Strategy: What’s the Difference?

CMOE

Military strategy is thousands of years old but the field of business strategy has only been around for about fifty years. Because this field is so new, there’s still a lot of disagreement about how business strategy and business models should be defined—and often among those who write about these topics the most! Given these challenges, is it even possible to answer the question, “What is the difference between a business model and business strategy?

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How to Destroy Innovation Silos

Innovation Excellence

Sick care badly needs innovation if it is to become healthcare. Yet, it’s questionable whether it can be fixed from inside. Despite the popularity of open innovation and community based, participatory innovation networks, healthcare organizations and doctors seem to shun outside ideas and collaboration and are perceived as arrogant know-it-alls, stuck in the ivory.

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What is a Diaper Worth? An Example of Value and Pricing

Innovation in Practice

When it comes to pricing a product, one principle rises above the rest. A price is inextricably linked to the value a customer places on that product. If a customer thinks a product is worth the price you’ve set, they will purchase it. And the more they value the product, the higher the price you can set. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal illustrates this dynamic in crystal clear form.

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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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The Best Business Dashboard

Cascade Strategy

People often ask me what the best business dashboard is. In the past, I've always tended towards 'politically correct' answers. Y ou know the kind : "It depends on your specific business needs". "What are you trying to achieve?" And suchlike. Well today I've decided to cut all of that bull, and give you my best shot at a proper answer. Like all our posts, this guide to creating the best business dashboard is going to be something that you can actually take away and implement tomorrow in your own

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Groundbreaking IP: Inventors Take a Swim in Shark Week’s Waters

Anaqua

Every year, Discovery’s Shark Week gives tens of millions of viewers the thrill of being in the water with some of nature’s most fearsome predators. For some, this turns into a direct desire to be face-to-face with rows and rows of teeth, relying on cutting-edge intellectual property to keep them safe. To honor one of the most popular annual events on television, we’re using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP patent search solution to look at just a few of the fantastic inventions and creations that keep people

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Eight Reasons why Innovation beats Efficiency

Innovation Excellence

If you are running an organization of any kind then making it more efficient is a key priority. It is important to speed up processes, eliminate waste, improve quality, reduce costs and generally please customers. And if you work hard at it you can do all of these things. But it is also important to.

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Design-Test-Repeat Cycle Visual

Strategyzer Innovation

At Strategyzer we value simplicity, visual tools and iterative prototyping. Over the years, we have used these principles to refine one of our favorite visuals: the Design-Test-Repeat cycle. Check out how our visual language has changed over the years to see how our iterations have made this visual more clear and concise over time. At Strategyzer, we believe in visual business tools that are both simple and conceptually sound.

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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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Leveraging an Open Innovation Portal to Build an Innovation Ecosystem

Yet2

Many large companies have open innovation portals. Some of these OI portals exist simply to collect ideas and protect the corporation against IP-contamination. And then there’s Mondeléz International. The snack food and beverage manufacturer has two separate open innovation portals that play a key role in the company’s strategic initiative and mission to empower people to snack right.

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Driving change in 4 steps

Ankush Chopra

This 4 step change model explains why change is hard. It explains why some change efforts succeed while many fail. If you want to know why people stop going to the gym by February after starting on January 2nd it tells you why. If you want to know why you stopped writing that novel after starting it with so much energy it explains. Look at stage 2 as the reason why change is hard.

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How do you quantify the probability of success of a new product?

Innovation Excellence

For the sake of simplicity (and for most real situations) we will assume that this question is asked by a manager at a company that has been in business, understands the market, and this is a new product for this company. The basic product development metrics we will use are: Sales rate one year after.

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Say Yes To Everything

helloFUTURE

Being a huge Star Trek fan – (growing up during reruns of the Original Series and the Animated Series, Kirk has always been the best captain – although I do share more affinity with Captain Picard – in that we share the same hairstyle.) Even though William Shatner might be a little over the top… The post Say Yes To Everything appeared first on hellofuture.

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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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How Are Innovative Learning Platforms Influencing the Future of Work?

InnovationManagement

Technology has been transforming the workplace for some time now. The traditional education system was formed in the heat of the industrial revolution and many would say is obsolete nowadays. It was primarily meant to create a workforce that was only fit to perform one task for the rest of their working lives. Motivation has obviously shifted from those times towards more engaging, complex, and fulfilling work.

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The Most Powerful Is the Most Vulnerable

Tullio Siragusa

The Most Powerful Is the Most Vulnerable. Growing up as the youngest of three often felt as if I had to catch up with my siblings. There is a rather large age gap between us and being one of three boys made it fairly competitive between us. Don’t get me wrong I love my brothers, and today the age gap is irrelevant but at the time I felt like I had to get it together fast in order to keep up.

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Inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Has Launched a New Startup

Innovation Excellence

Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web was never fully realized. Now he says it’s time to finish the job. For Tim Berners-Lee the past is prologue, and not a very good one at that. Several months ago I had the chance to sit down to dinner with Tim Berners-Lee at an event we were both.

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The Zero-Tolerance Consumer

Beyond the Obvious

The designers and engineers who work at HP face many challenges in getting their ideas signed off on. It’s a long process from an idea to a finished prototype. Before any product can hit the market, it faces one final test. I take the prototype home, give it to my wife, and say, “Tell me […].

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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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How Going Green Can Help Your Profits and the Environment

InnovationManagement

The scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change only grows stronger. The most recent word from scientists is that the present warming of the globe is "unprecedented" in the last 2,000 years. Some 99% of scientists stood in agreement on this in 2011, and now the scientific community has declared there's "no doubt left" that human activity is warming the earth.

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Inspiring Agile Ways of Working: How Design Sprint mindsets help organisations get comfortable with agile ways of working

InnovationTraining.org

It’s easy to get stuck in our ways. We’re only human. But if transforming business is the goal, it requires completely new ways of working. Not just for some, but for everyone. So why not take on the challenge together? Transforming mindsets. The challenge is getting people to understand how to change. What do these new behaviours and ways of working actually feel like and how do you get them excited about them?

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These 3 Indicators May Be Projecting the Next Financial Collapse

Innovation Excellence

While there is no one magic indicator of the market’s future, these three may provide some of the best insights into the current and future state of the economy. Warren Buffett once said, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” In August of 2007, I had a meeting with the.

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Cultivate The Rebel Mindset (Yes, You)

Rebel & Reason

Embrace The Rebel Mindset to drive substantive change within your organization, team, industry or community. As we highlighted in our previous blog, How To Launch Your Career As A Full-Time Rebel, you don't have to be the owner of the company to launch a corporate rebellion. You don't even have to be a C-level executive (or director, manager, supervisor, etc., you see where we're going with this).

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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.