Idea to Value
APRIL 20, 2016
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan. People with imagination are often dismissed as someone that has his or her head in the clouds, and deeply impractical. That is not true at all. Some of the great minds in human history were people with buckets load of imagination that could envision what other people have no concept at all.
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 10, 2016
The Innovator’s Dilemma gets more of the headlines, but the follow-up book by Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solution , is a far more useful piece of work. The Innovator’s Solution starts out by describing the ‘dilemma’, and in one chapter removes the need to even read the original work. It then proceeds to offer an array of approaches to handling disruptive innovation in large organizations.
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Exago
APRIL 6, 2016
Blending consultancy, management and information technology (IT) expertise, Diana Neves de Carvalho is now Exago’s chief executive officer (CEO). Her problem-solving talents and ‘make it happen’ spirit are focused on one main mission: to provide innovation managers the most efficient. Read More. The post Diana Neves de Carvalho takes the lead at Exago appeared first on www.exago.com.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 6, 2016
Today I read a long post that claimed that up to 30% of the banking jobs in the US would be "destroyed" by innovation. No longer will we need bank tellers. Any job that can be automated or done by machines will be. This is a classic case of creative destruction, described by Schumpeter as a component of innovation. Innovation will always create disruption in existing conventions, economies and industries.
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The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to keyless entry, in-room entertainment, and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 1, 2016
When you read a report that has within its executive summary this: “ In combination the boards stand unarmed to enter the battlefield of future business creation in a disrupted world ” it makes you want to read on. In a recent report called “ Radical Innovation and Growth: Global Board Survey 2016 ” (link opens the pdf) we have results from a survey jointly conducted by Deloitte Denmark and Board Network – The Danish Professional Directors Association, that opens up much that can concern us abou
Braden Kelley
APRIL 12, 2016
I’m super excited to announce that my new Charting Change is now available for Amazon Kindle! Charting Change has been the number one new release on Amazon for at least “Business Management” and “Production & Operations” so far.
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HYPE Innovation
APRIL 26, 2016
In case you were wondering: the 2016 Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn was a blast! It also broke last year’s attendance record by attracting no fewer than 180 innovation management practitioners from around the globe for 2 days of experience sharing, workshops and networking. A definitive gathering indeed with plenty of take-home ideas – a handful of which I plan to share in upcoming posts.
Exago
APRIL 20, 2016
Gartner’s 2016 ‘Market Guide for Innovation Management’ features Exago as one of the companies with more traction and visibility in the innovation management industry. The post Exago featured in Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Innovation Management’ appeared first on www.exago.com.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 18, 2016
I find that I've become increasingly irritated with all of the narrow interpretations and self-serving definitions of what is, or isn't, innovation. I'm happy to climb up on a soapbox again to talk about one of the most common scapegoats for innovation, the act of brainstorming. No other activity is more miscast, more often blamed for failure, or more often denigrated.
Paul Hobcraft
APRIL 28, 2016
Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. We must learn to explore and exploit at the same time, both in parallel and where needed, in separate ways, or entities. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much.
Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant
AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 13, 2016
Rather than hyper-rational calculating machines, computers will think more like we do and help us to collaborate more effectively—with each other and machines. Related posts: Advertising on the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
APRIL 18, 2016
This video might start off looking like just another DIY project, but partway through it shows the fun and creativity that the author put into it. Technically speaking, it’s nothing special. Youtuber Hampton Rutland explains how he’s finishing a construction project with wood he reclaimed from a derelict demolished house. But once it starts (at around 2:10), you see that he’s decided to have some fun with the construction project, adding a bit of stop motion animation to not o
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 27, 2016
A few months ago, The Economist published an excellent piece on how the fashion for making employees collaborate had gone too far. We wrote about the trend too here on the blog, explaining how excessive collaboration harms organizational performance and stifles innovation (hint: overworking employees for only marginal gains).
Exago
APRIL 13, 2016
Most innovations come through steady, continuous improvement. Embedding innovation as corporate culture takes time and perseverance. The post The ultimate innovation management success factor appeared first on www.exago.com.
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.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 13, 2016
It's almost inevitable that innovation will grow to become an amorphous blob of ideas, techniques, processes, "experts", software and a host of other things. It's the natural order of economics that when an opportunity is available, everything rushes in to fill the vacuum, and as the market becomes crowded various offerings must differentiate themselves from the others to demonstrate value.
Destination Innovation
APRIL 4, 2016
. Does your company use hackathons? If you think that they are just for software companies and tech nerds then think again. Today every company has to be a software company and every innovator has to find new ways to meet customer needs. The principle is simple. Teams are given a broad challenge and over 24 to 48 hours they come up with clever ideas and then construct working prototypes of their solutions.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 17, 2016
The truth is that the real world is a confusing place. We have little choice but to walk the earth, pick things up along the way and make the best judgments we can. The decisions we make are highly. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
APRIL 26, 2016
Sometimes, it takes a while for the best ideas to incubate into something original and beautiful. In this great new TED talk, Organisational Psychologist Adam Grant outlines what he has learned by studying “original thinkers” He outlines his research that suggests that between extreme procrastinators who leave their most important work until the last possible moment ( which is an especially bad problem for entrepreneurs ) and what he calls “precrastinators” who start work
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.
HYPE Innovation
APRIL 6, 2016
What happens if you ask a group of so-called innovation experts about their definition of innovation? Nick Skillicorn did this and he gathered the answers in an interesting blog post that shows how vastly different even topic experts see the term “innovation”.
Exago
APRIL 28, 2016
The clock is ticking. Most managers (86%, to be precise) believe transformation in their companies is imperative to guarantee unrelenting success. However, one in five companies has failed in its innovation attempts, and three in five have not yet made any effort in this area. The post What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge appeared first on www.exago.com.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 28, 2016
In truth, neither view fully represents today’s business environment. Certainly, companies like Apple and Southwest are still able to dominate their industries, but the source of advantage has changed. We no longer compete in a resource economy, but a semantic economy where firms that can build, manage and widen connections win out.
BrainZooming
APRIL 20, 2016
We were working with a team responsible for a highly focused internal process that includes a customer-facing aspect. It’s a high volume, high expectation, and deadline-focused role critical to the company’s success. I noticed several references during our time together about how narrow and targeted the team’s job is. VERY NARROW AND VERY TARGETED.
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Digital Tonto
APRIL 27, 2016
Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone, and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program. Related posts: You Can Only Win The Future. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
APRIL 28, 2016
Sometimes it takes my breath away what some people can do with a little imagination, careful planning and some hard work. In this short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, they recreate the actual scale of our solar system, taken from the perspective of the Earth being the size of a marble. The sun and all the other planets are created to the same correct scale in the Nevada desert.
Boxes and Arrows
APRIL 5, 2016
The global wearable technology marketplace is growing at a staggering rate, estimated to increase from $7.1 billion in 2015 to $12.6 billion by 2018. One of the hottest segments in that market is smartwatches. In the past year alone, smartwatch shipments have increased from 7.4 million units in 2014 to nearly 25 million units in 2015. Some analysts believe global smartwatch shipments will reach 101 million units by 2020.
Innovation in Practice
APRIL 18, 2016
Place a check mark beside the statement you agree with most. 1. A. Innovation occurs by adding features to a product. B. Innovation occurs by taking features out of a product. 2. A. Innovation is finding problems that are solved by hypothetical solutions. B. Innovation is finding solutions to difficult problems. 3. A. I am more likely to innovate when I work alone.
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Innovation Excellence
APRIL 24, 2016
Innovation isn’t really an issue of control or not; it’s about the right kind of control.
BrainZooming
APRIL 5, 2016
In my corporate days, I was dispatched to work with competitive companies our corporation purchased. The objective was to help them become better strategic thinkers and marketers. The ground rule was, however, I couldn’t tell them WHAT to do. Since all the companies competed with one another, each one needed to determine its own business strategies.
Digital Tonto
APRIL 17, 2016
We love to talk about disrupting markets and industries, but rarely put forth the effort to disrupt ourselves. That requires and change in mindset and, for most of us, it’s just too hard. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
APRIL 8, 2016
Chances are you’ve heard of and maybe taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test. Unfortunately, what it tells you is pretty much pointless. I remember when I was at Deloitte, my whole cohort took the MBTI test to find out more about our working preferences. The test consists of 93 questions around four contrasting values (e.g. introversion vs extroversion) and from the 16 resulting “personality types” claims to be able to predict your preferred working and s
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