Destination Innovation
APRIL 22, 2017
In his 2017 letter to shareholders Jeff Bezos shares some powerful insights into decision making at Amazon. Jeff Bezos. “To keep the energy and dynamism of Day 1, you have to somehow make high-quality, high-velocity decisions. Easy for start-ups and very challenging for large organizations. The senior team at Amazon is determined to keep our decision-making velocity high.
Idea to Value
APRIL 28, 2017
In this very special guest post by Professor KH Kim, we find out the updated facts of what is happening to people’s creativity levels over the past decades, now with updated statistics for 2017. This is a follow-up to what I consider to be one of the most important pieces of creativity research from the past decade. Children are born to be creative, like eagles are born to soar, see the world, and find food, not scratch and fight for scraps in a coop.
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Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 13, 2017
The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. It is a really good resource to understand that not everything “starting up” is just coming from Silicon Valley, there are some vibrant startup ecosystems emerging all around the world, some most certainly near you.
IdeaScale
APRIL 5, 2017
The life science industry is close to a significant transformation. Regulations are tightening considerably. In developed markets, governments are restricting the freedom to price new drugs. For many therapeutic areas in developed nations, mortality rates have drastically come down. This makes it difficult to demonstrate significant improvement in health outcomes over standard of care.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 23, 2017
To create anything that is truly pathbreaking, you need to look for it in new places. Related posts: The Big Idea Myth. Here’s What’s Wrong With Your Great Idea. Great Companies Don’t Adapt, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 20, 2017
Kittihawk, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright, up at an insanely early 5am, listening to the wind singing in the wires of their fragile aircraft. They’ve been doing this for three years – in fact ever since they had the idea of attaching wings to the bicycles their repair business operated on. Whatever else drove them to that lonely beach it wasn’t the prospect of making money out of selling aeroplanes – there was no aircraft industry, just a bunch of crazy enthusiasts like them.
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Idea to Value
APRIL 20, 2017
Everyone knows the story of the humble Post-It Note, and how it represents an idea’s ability to evolve and flourish. Some people would even hold up Post-It Notes as a symbol for innovation itself, much like the lightbulb is a symbol for an idea. Yet what hardly anyone knows is that Post-It Notes were amazingly close to the same fate as 96% of other innovations: complete failure.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 27, 2017
Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding. We continually learn, at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. This ‘knowledge is becoming out of date before we can learn from it and sometimes highly dangerous to follow or believe in some rapidly changing times.
Exago
APRIL 12, 2017
When putting your innovation challenges together, make sure you have a complete plan with clearly defined, targeted audiences, across cultures and business units, as well as key messages, frequency expectations, a communication and incentives strategy. The post How to mobilise the right audiences for innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 26, 2017
The work of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines Related posts: How We Should Prepare Our Kids For The Future. Are You Using Data To Analyze The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 9, 2017
Now many of you might not be any the wiser on what DMAIC and DMADV might mean, unless you have had some exposure to Six Sigma. They are two models commonly used by business executives that take you through a logical progression, that is more project specific in focus but with a different objective to follow for a completion of a project. They are applied differently and here I will attempt to make the difference clear.
Destination Innovation
APRIL 26, 2017
Let’s say you are faced with a tough problem. You have wrestled with it for a while and now you have to make a decision. One approach is to use what I call the three by three method. You start by considering many options. You narrow this down to three choices. Your current best option, the CBO. A sound realistic alternative. An outlandish idea that might just work.
IdeaScale
APRIL 26, 2017
How do you build a better government? Crowdsourcing! How do we get people more involved in the civic process? Innovation is probably most strongly needed in the public sphere, in good times or in bad, no matter who leads the country. If driving civic innovation is your goal, here’s a practical look about turning passion into action. Getting On Social Media.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 19, 2017
Digital transformation is now omnipresent and has the potential to reshape the way all organizations operate. The customer has become absolutely central to this transformation and the drive towards the 4th Industrial revolution is driving this transformation wholesale across all industries and services engaged in business. Let me outline some of the challenges in my opinion that might help us all form a clear view of the digital transformation journey, recently researched.
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Exago
APRIL 24, 2017
Having identified your key innovation challenges – aligned with your company’s higher purpose and strategic goals and made attainable, useful and targeted – it’s time to focus on describing them plainly and completely, to guarantee you’ll get meaningful content. The post Are you building your innovation challenges right? appeared first on www.exago.com.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 16, 2017
As automation produces ever greater abundance, humanity itself is becoming the scarce, and therefore most valuable, resource. Related posts: Why We Seem To Be Talking More And Working Less—The. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 19, 2017
"Oh, I've never thought about it that way!". Have you ever said this to a friend or a colleague at work? Or has anybody ever said this to you? Probably. We don't always share the same opinion or the same point-of-view with other people in our private or business environment. We typically also don't share similar backgrounds, know-how, experiences and skills.
Destination Innovation
APRIL 21, 2017
Steve Jobs announced the iPhone to the world on 9 January 2007. This iconic product became a sensational success and propelled Apple to become the most valuable company on Earth. It created a new product category, the smartphone, which has become the must-have item for people in all nations. It became a platform for secondary markets in apps, music and videos.
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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.
IdeaScale
APRIL 19, 2017
In case you hadn’t heard, open innovation was defined by Henry Chesbrough as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.”. But what does that really mean? It means that great ideas can come from anywhere. It means that open innovation can happen within an organization (the next great product idea can come from marketing ) or it means you can look outside
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 2, 2017
We often forget it is our people that really make innovation work. They determine the ideas, drive these forward to deliver them as new innovation concepts into the world. People connect the fragmented pieces or dots within innovation from being random and intangible, into being explicit and tangible. In the past we have often believed it is the genius laboring away in his lab that has made the discovery that has led to real breakthroughs in innovation.
Braden Kelley
APRIL 26, 2017
Introduction When it comes to innovation, no two companies are likely to be pursuing innovation in the same way, and they are also likely to be at different stages of innovation maturity.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 5, 2017
We need to change the way we evaluate, recruit, manage and train employees. Related posts: How To Build Trust, Even With Your Enemies. How to Build Cooperation. How to Build an Innovative Culture. 5. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Idea to Value
APRIL 28, 2017
As strategy and innovation consultants, we get called in to organizations when they are exhausted from trying to grow significantly and not meeting their goals. In most cases, the organization is trying to do too many things without a way to tie them into a coherent meaning. Most of them need to either discover or rediscover and articulate what we call their Golden Thread, their driving aspiration.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 27, 2017
Everyone's talking about innovation, which could be a good thing. Except that while they are talking about it, they are often talking about the wrong things, or defining innovation too narrowly, or are too focused on tools rather than outcomes. Sometimes, rather than doing something they are simply talking. Talking about innovation is exciting, I'll grant you, because most corporate types don't get to do innovation, let alone talk about innovation.
IdeaScale
APRIL 11, 2017
Hundreds of years ago, only those who belonged at the top of the career ladder had access to information and research and development. There was little interaction with employees since management expected them to do their job based on practices established by the management themselves. Fast forward to today: employees can share their opinions, come up with ideas, and help the company in the promotion of a product.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 8, 2017
Over the past few weeks, or is it months or is it even years, I have been constantly thinking through how we are learning in our innovation understanding. I have been struggling over this for a long time, looking to create a more compelling narrative and have only realized part of my ongoing difficulties was that I was coming at this the wrong way. Firstly a narrative should be open-ended, there is no finite resolution yet to innovation understanding and secondly, it is for the intended audience
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Braden Kelley
APRIL 25, 2017
I am excited to announce on behalf of Innovation Excellence friend Tiffany Shlain that 50/50 Day is less than a month away and we can’t wait for this global conversation about gender equality!
Digital Tonto
APRIL 2, 2017
When technology automates tasks, value shifts to humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines. Related posts: The Future Of Robots Is All Too Human. If You Want To Avoid Being. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Daniel Burrus
APRIL 12, 2017
The global marketplace is hardly a novel concept. But what is constantly new is the shifting challenge of knowing where you and your organization best fit into that setting—a form of ongoing flux that’s only going to accelerate in the future. That’s why an anticipatory mindset is critical to succeeding in an economy largely defined only by the geographic limits of the planet.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 24, 2017
Sorry I've been a bit lax about keeping up the blog posts. Between an open innovation webinar , a planned trip to Dubai to speak on innovation and a very successful innovation conference , (not to mention some customer work) I've been a bit busy lately. But it was something I saw at our conference, and something I read today about Target that prompted this blog post.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
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
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