HYPE Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Did you know that not that long ago, drones were one of the bestselling Christmas presents ?

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Our recent conversations with business leaders clearly show that the disruption of COVID-19 and changing market conditions have left them thinking about costs in a different light. The "new normal" has forced them to shift from simple cost reduction to cost transformation. The tricky part is that for an actual cost transformation, organizations must adopt optimal cost behaviors that last over time.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Within hours of planes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9-11, stories began circulating that it was not, in fact, the planes that caused the towers to collapse, but explosives planted inside by someone with access. Since then, a number of conspiracy theories have circulated that people ranging from […].

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've argued that leaders need to become more proactive problem finders if they wish to avert surprising failures in their organization. They need to seek out and uncover hidden risks. Unfortunately, as humans, we struggle with regard to how we cope with risk. Three patterns of behavior prove particularly problematic when it comes to risk. 1. We actively downplay and discount ambiguous risks.

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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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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Partnering with third-party subject-matter experts delivers a variety of benefits. The type of partners that will benefit your organization will vary greatly depending on factors such as your industry, tenure, objectives, and budget. Even with an empowered, skill-diverse, and enthusiastic team, partnering with external experts gives you a competitive edge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. There are kids out there, getting ready to graduate from college, who were just being born when I started doing innovation work.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most innovation is not a game-changer or breakthrough in nature. It is about creating novel and valuable solutions to problems and small but effective adaptations to processes, ways of working and models.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you don’t know what to do, what do you do? This is a difficult question. Here are some thoughts that may help you figure out what to do when you really don’t know. Don’t confuse activity with progress. Gather your two best friends, go off-site, and define the system […].

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If there is one thing that we can count on, it is that things will change. Especially in the last two years, how and where we work has changed, and the workforce itself is decidedly different. Organizations are facing new changes every day, and it is essential for leaders to exploit the advantages that these changes can give. But how can leaders make change appealing to their team members , especially after constant change has been thrust upon us over the past two years?

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 30, 2022

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” A few weeks ago, I came across a fantastic quote on creativity in an interview Todd Henry ‘s podcast and Joey Cofone. They were talking about when to know whether something you are working on is “finished” and ready to be released, and Joey came out with this quote attributed to the famous Leonardo Da Vinci: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” While this quote initially may seem depressing, suggesting that we

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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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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms. Learning is a continuous process that is not confined to the classroom alone. Digitization of learning platforms has brought innovation to education. It has enabled learners to get quality yet affordable and user-centric learning experiences that have been a positive force on their career. In modern times, learning is becoming a continuous process.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken You don’t have to be a rock star with an album that makes millions to say, “Music changed my life.” You can be the leader of an organization, searching for a way to overcome an obstacle or challenge plaguing you—potentially for years. The key to resolving an ongoing leadership challenge […].

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When leaders consider implementing a structured business process improvement methodology , one of the challenges they often face is explaining to employees what types of opportunities to consider. Usually, there are some apparent needs that people attack immediately. Still, once those are addressed, it can be challenging to recognize the flaws in processes, especially ones you operate every day.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Key points. Analyzing a school’s value network reveals which types of improvements and innovations it will or won’t adopt. The concept of value networks explains why districts often struggle to make major changes to their organizational models and why charter schools often find it easier to innovate. There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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IdeaSpies

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Who has surprised you on the upside with their leadership skills?

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

by Braden Kelley Recently I had the opportunity to interview Mauro Porcini, author of the new book The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People. Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer. He joined the food & beverage corporation in 2012 and in said role he is infusing […].

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Visual management tools surround us. Although they are so ubiquitous, we might not even think about them. For example, when your car is about to run out of gas, a light will alert you to the problem. Your fitness app may even show you how close you are to your daily goal. Your brain can quickly process these easy-to-understand visual clues and use the information to make decisions.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How do you talk to students about social capital? If you want students to deepen and expand their networks, what messages and experiences increase the likelihood that they’ll feel confident and inspired to do so? These questions come up frequently in our field work. Although this is certainly an area where more R&D would benefit the field, there’s a few guiding principles and examples that we point people to.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rise Up is a start-up that empowers people to build confidence and to inject a little fun into managing their finances. The post Making personal finances fun! appeared first on Innovation360.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The surprising innovation stories behind that sunny afternoon delight GUEST POST from John Bessant Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but wonderful days when the sun smiles down benignly. Strolling in the park, absorbing the warmth my attention was taken by an ice cream. Or rather, to the face of a toddler […].

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) business process plays a vital role in the energy sector, particularly the oil and gas (O&G) industry. It enables O&G companies to raise and obtain approvals on project funding proposals and get funds allocated from the Board’s approved budgeted expenditure. Owing to the critical nature of oil and gas projects and the exorbitant investment needs, AFE requires several levels of input and approval from various stakeholders, including surveyors, engin

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Planview

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Shifting from project to product and implementing value stream management requires buy-in across the organization, including senior executives. At this year’s Planview Accelerate Customer Conference, senior leaders from healthcare and financial services answered questions about their decisions to start this journey, how it affected value delivery in their organization, and what they recommend to organizations that are just starting on their transformations.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the Before Times, we attended conferences to learn, make connections, and promote ourselves and our businesses. Then COVID hit, and conferences became virtual. Although that made them easier to attend, it also made them easier to skip. Because, if we’re honest, most conferences were more about connecting and promoting […].

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Acuvate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Inspections are a routine part of daily work in every industry. Ensuring things are running smoothly and compliance regulations are being adhered to is significant for business operations to run well. With increasing digitalization transforming business landscapes, many companies are starting to deploy inspection apps to simplify processes for employees that perform field inspections every day and typically fill out several paper forms and checklists to record all the information manually and cr

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helloFUTURE

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Even though we talk about improving profitability and our customers benefit from the profitable new ideas we help them generate or generate for them, there are still a lot of creative ideas that, when they are first conceived, have nothing to do with profitability. This is even though we talk about improving profitability. There is… The post Build What Customers Love, And The Money Will Follow appeared first on IDEATE AND EXECUTE.

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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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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

OCTOBER 29, 2022

At a Glance Samantha Kelly, Founder, Women’s Inspire Network Focus Areas: Marketing, Leadership, Social, Startups Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Samantha Kelly Social Media: LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram Latest Content: 5 Tips to stand out online , How to create a Linkedin Audio Event , Join me for a cup of tea in Cork (Or join us virtually) Thinkers360 Leaderboards: 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2022, 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers You Should

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. We also publish a weekly Top 5 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are October’s […].

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Values Centered Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to our Conscious Innovator ® process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicits your unique, innovative potential in life and work? Jolts wake us up. They spur new self-awareness, new capabilities and values, and new actions. Paradoxically, we don’t learn from each Jolt – rather, each Jolt “learns us” !

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Carla Johnson

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

October 25, 2022 I can still remember my first big travel adventure as a kid. It was the summer between first and second grade. My dad took a week off of work, which is a big deal for a farmer in the summer. Mom packed suitcases and stuffed sandwiches into fold-over baggies. My sister, one of my brothers, and I. Read More. The post How Travel Improves Creativity appeared first on Carla Johnson.

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