Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

According to a new report from the World Economic Forum, it is clear that creativity at work is going to be one of the most important and in-demand skills in the next 5 years. In fact, it is going to be the third most important skill overall. This comes from a new Forum report, The Future of Jobs , which took input from an extensive survey of CHROs and other senior talent and strategy executives from a total of 371 leading global employers, representing more than 13 million employees.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We all value those times when we can slip away from our desk, from the computer or phone and just simply step outside. Some do this because of a necessity of topping up their nicotine levels or finding a few moments for having a chat, others just simply want to step away, relax a little and freshen up. Another reason to get out of the office is when it comes to thinking differently within the business, going out to seek out different, often radically new ideas.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

How many types of innovation are there? The simplest way to categorize innovation is into two forms – incremental and radical. Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. product, process or service). Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. From this cross-client perspective we understand a broad set of practices and ambitions for open innovation, which we can begin to place in patterns of approach or flavours.

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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.

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HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Making organizations meaningful. Noble pursuit and this year’s theme at the Academy of Management’s 76th Annual Meeting (AOM) where close to 10,000 students, scholars, and professionals in the management and organization space gathered to discuss companies’ raison d’être.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

From corporate giants to startups to world class labs, here are the 6 things every successful innovator has in common. Related posts: If You Want To Innovate, Follow These 5 Rules. How Wells Fargo. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We all value those times when we can slip away from our desk, from the computer or phone and just simply step outside. Some do this because of a necessity of topping up their nicotine levels or finding a few moments for having a chat, others just simply to step away, relax a little and freshen up. Another reason to get out of the office is when it comes to thinking differently within the business, going out to seek out different, often radically new ideas.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are pervasive myths that older people are stuck in their ways, lack creativity and dynamism and cannot cope with new technology. This is reflected in ageism in hiring. According to research firm Payscale, the median age of a worker at Facebook is 29, at Amazon it is 30 and at Microsoft 33. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter.

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Exago

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When targeting participants for your open innovation programme, consider suppliers, customers and universities. Yet, don’t forget your most valuable asset. The post Never forget your most valuable innovation asset appeared first on www.exago.com.

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HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The innovation management industry is highly fragmented today, which makes it confusing to understand which methods apply to which scenarios, and what the difference is between those doing crowdsourcing, and those doing enterprise programs designed to facilitate business transformation.

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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.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

It is one thing that we don’t fully understand the devices we use every day, the markets that drive our commerce and the body of laws that govern our activity, but experts don’t either. We need to. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

You probably know about green screen, and how film and TV studios use it to create computer-generated images for you favorite blockbusters. But did you know that a lot of the cars you see on screen, on TV and especially in commercials might be computer-generated as well? In the above video from WIRED , we take a look at the Blackbird, a collaboration between the Mill creative studios and numerous hardware manufacturers.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to enable innovation to do battle with how the business landscape is evolving. We strongly believe every established company must focus on new capabilities because of two key trends: • Company structures, and therefore customers and areas of competition, are evolving. • Digital transformation – ‘everything’ is changing and will become

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

For centuries doctors tried different remedies for treating illnesses and diligently observed what happened. But they were unable to be certain what caused the outcomes that occurred. When the patient recovered that seemed to vindicate whatever treatment had been used – even it was bloodletting or the application of leeches. The big innovation which transformed medical research and saved countless lives is the Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT).

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Exago

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As we've seen before, you’ll have to create audience-centric content to capture your open innovation audience. But, you should consider to locate suitable community places, as well as aligning your communication messages with your targets, places, channels and value pools. Your communication plan needs to include key timing, targets, formats and messages – to meet programme objectives.

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HYPE Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building spaces for innovation is a hot topic these days. Whether you call them innovation hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs, accelerators or hotspots you can hardly turn a street corner or a magazine page before you bump into another example. The names may vary but the underlying idea is the same – a place where people can meet to get inspired and supported by each other, to articulate and co-create.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It is no longer enough to simply think about problems and propose solutions. The challenges we face in the 21st century require that we collaborate around them. Related posts: The Biggest Problems. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

One of the most common pieces of advice floating around the internet is also one of the most dangerous: To be happy in life, you need to figure out what you are passionate about, and singlemindedly pursue that as your ideal job. This is especially true for anyone who dreams of a creative career or being an entrepreneur and choosing their own destiny.

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Braden Kelley

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Previously I explored the value of eminence and thought leadership to consulting firms, and how unfortunately the power of inbound content marketing has a dark side that forms part of a three-pronged attack on the consulting industry.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are hundreds of books on innovation so why do we need another one? Find out on this webinar: Brightalk Webinar. Rod Sloane interview Paul Sloane. Including the stories of three great innovators; Anita Roddick, Jorge Odone, Sir Charles Dunstone. Save. The post Webinar on How to Think like an Innovator appeared first on Destination Innovation.

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Exago

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Finally, to smooth platform managers’ work, Exago's 3.5 innovation management software release comes with refurbished back office status, phases and workflow pages, as well as upgrading monitoring tools. The post Last, but not the least, Idea Market 3.5 smooths managers work appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So how do businesses organise their structures to be able to simultaneously manage the needs to exploit and explore innovation? In this post I wanted to explain my thinking through on this ability to be ‘ambidextrous’, knowing the difference of when to exploit and when to explore as essential to leveraging innovation, in all its forms and watching out for some of the traps in not managing this well.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The truth is that it’s not enough to be “data driven.” Today’s managers need to take care to prepare their data so that it reflects reality, understand what types of analysis to apply, derive. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. Creating great interfaces is as much about motivating, teasing, leading, and guiding users along—so that they experience value, faster—as it is to improve usability by removing friction. This requires an endeavor into product psychology and the art of designing with purpose and intent.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What is Your Company’s Innovation Fertility? Collecting new ideas is table stakes in the innovation management domain. Without a fertile climate for innovation, more ideas simply lead to more wasted opportunities. It is the creative use of the collected data, not just the ideas themselves, which raises the game – which we refer to as ‘innovation fertility’.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

One of the most ancient and personal forms of art is the tattoo: getting a permanent piece of attached to your own body. But as someone who has never had a tattoo before, I was fascinated to learn exactly how you can get something permanent into your skin that doesn’t fall off as you grow new skin. It’s a completely different way of producing art than spreading colour on a canvas.

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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.

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Exago

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Your customers will always be glad to share with you insights on how to improve your product. They’re probably doing it now in some way, though irregularly and outside any structured framework. The post Fighting for your audience? Take on the right incentives appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

As innovation becomes a more consistent requirement rather than an occasional exercise, it must align to strategic goals and become part of the planning and execution cycle in more aligned ways. . An increased focus on innovation as a consistent discipline requires significant reflection on what needs changing, what impact this change will have and how do we proceed to implement it.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Google vs. IBM is a rivalry for technological rather than market dominance, yet it's likely to determine much about how technology shapes our world. Related posts: Why The Google-Nasa Partnership. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

‘Someone told me that I am poor at taking on board criticism so I quickly pointed out they were wrong.’ This little witticism is at the core of many a corporate disaster. Martin Luther. The Catholic magazine, The Tablet, recently ran an editorial with the intriguing headline ‘Was the Reformation really necessary?’ It points out that Martin Luther and the early Protestants wanted to reform the Church rather than break with it.

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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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