Board of Innovation
JULY 19, 2021
How SOS Children’s Villages and AkzoNobel’s innovative partnership drives positive change for a pressing development issue. The post Boosting youth employability with innovative partnerships appeared first on Board of Innovation.
InnovationTraining.org
JULY 21, 2021
Which of these virtual whiteboard and collaboration tools comes out on top? Review our analysis here. We’ve covered a lot of digital design thinking and innovation tools in the last few months, including top options Miro and Mural. These two virtual whiteboard and collaboration tools are some of the best in the industry – and today, we’re comparing them side-by-side.
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Idea to Value
JULY 20, 2021
If you ask a number of startups what they are hoping to achieve, undoubtedly you will encounter one that is going to “Disrupt” their industry. Disruption is what Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and the iPhone did to their industries. Disruption is cool. Disruption is sexy. And unfortunately, hardly any of these companies even know what disruption really is.
Digital Tonto
JULY 18, 2021
In Built to Last, management guru Jim Collins suggested that leaders should develop a “big hairy audacious goal” (BHAG) to serve as a unifying vision for their enterprise. He pointed to examples such. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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.
IdeaScale
JULY 19, 2021
It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
Over the last 25 years, I’ve spent thousands of hours and run hundreds of innovation sessions designed to help business executives across all industries to develop better strategies which will enable them to stay ahead of the competition when it comes to developing the most innovative products and services to serve their customers. ? . One of the most important tools in my arsenal as an innovation consultant is the Innovation Roadmap Template , a tool that provides a visual representation o
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Jeffrey Phillips
JULY 21, 2021
Right now, as we (hopefully) emerge from the COVID pandemic in late summer 2021, there is a real debate underway in a lot of corporations. The debate is about whether or not to fund innovation work, and if the decision is positive, how much to spend or invest in innovation. The debate is fueled by the fact that during COVID few really new or interesting products were created, and by the sense that customers are beginning to demand something new and different from the same old products and servic
IdeaScale
JULY 21, 2021
Grant Thornton International, a Fortune 500 company, is a winner of the IdeaScale 2021 Innovation Management Award for Best Innovation. Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to award organizations who have demonstrated a level of sophistication in their innovation strategy that has had a measurable impact on their business. This year, one of our winners was Grant Thornton International in the category of Best Innovation for their ability to deliver the IASC – a process and
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
Depending on your industry, size and company structure, driving innovation within your business can be a huge undertaking. Some companies are founded with innovation in mind, while others may have struggled to innovate from the very beginning. Innovation, and coming up with new products and services for your business to stand out in the market is one of the most important things you can do to ensure its success. . .
Idea to Value
JULY 22, 2021
In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Olympic Gold Medallist, Ben Hunt-Davis MBE. Ben competed at multiple Olympic Games for the British Rowing Team, won the Gold Medal in 2000, and now works with leaders and companies around the world to help them understand how to make their boat go faster. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – Ben’s history with rowing and learning that training harder doesn’t result in success. 00:04:00 – How to make your po
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.
Strategyzer Innovation
JULY 22, 2021
Board of Innovation
JULY 23, 2021
Here’s how Board of Innovation held its people together during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Boosting team togetherness in a pandemic appeared first on Board of Innovation.
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
A little self-awareness goes a long way. For most organizations struggling to innovate for their customers and in their markets, chances are there is a lack of genuine self-understanding and assessment around what’s getting in the way and why. In my 25 years leading innovation initiatives, I have found that big challenges arise when there’s misalignment between commitment to innovation and actual competence to develop new solutions. . .
Idea to Value
JULY 23, 2021
Summer is officially in full swing. For many, that means more time outdoors, soaking up the warm weather. While summer activities can be a lot of fun and a great way to relax, you can also capture inspiration from the things you might already be doing. Or, you could try something new this season to spark your creativity. Science has shown that trying new things makes you more creative.
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.
Adam Hartung
JULY 19, 2021
Pivoting is in Netflix' nature as a company. They anticipate and react to customer needs. Not all pundits get it!
Qmarkets
JULY 22, 2021
Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. Your employees’ ideas have the potential to have long term impact on your business, leading to new products, services, and processes – and ultimately providing you with a killer competitive edge.
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
There were over 200 different concepts for new products and services written on multi-colored post-its and stuck on every conceivable surface across the conference room in my client’s office. The innovation session had been going on for most of 2 days, yet the participants didn’t look tired. In fact, they were energized. But how on earth were we going to cut down over 200 ideas into a few that the company could bring forward?
Idea to Value
JULY 19, 2021
As an artist, professional creative or entrepreneur, how many people need to buy your wares in order for you to make a living? 10,000? 100? 1 million??? After all, when we look at stories of “ successful people ” online, often we see social media profiles with millions of followers on Instagram, TiKTok, YouTube or even LinkedIn. But the problem is, those huge numbers of “fans” aren’t usually willing to actually help the artist directly.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Tullio Siragusa
JULY 19, 2021
Why Help Employees Become Self-reliant. Companies who want to make sure that their employees keep working with them long term, must take steps to create a positive and memorable work environment. What people really want, besides competitive compensation, is a sense of autonomy, and belonging. They want their work to have meaning and want to feel empowered to make an impact.
InnovationManagement
JULY 19, 2021
Does creativity suffer in our virtual world, or could working virtually actually lead to more collaborative environments, better ideation and heightened interaction? . The post Unleashing Virtual Creative Collaboration at The Sonophilia Foundation: What Can a Nonprofit Teach Us About Virtual Creative Collaboration appeared first on InnovationManagement.
Leapfrogging
JULY 18, 2021
How do you develop innovative products and services which truly resonate with your customers? In 2016, the American economist Clayton Christensen wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review titled “ Know Your Customers’ ‘Jobs to be Done’ ,” which highlighted the importance of developing a deeper understanding of your target audience to drive innovation. .
CMOE
JULY 23, 2021
Businesses that have leaders who are committed to their strategies grow faster and are more profitable than their counterparts. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all.
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BMNT
JULY 20, 2021
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InnovationManagement
JULY 21, 2021
Government innovators face specific challenges: regulations, compliance issues, cooperation with numerous other branches of government.but they also access some of the most technical and influential trends of our time. The post What are the Challenges to Government Intrapreneurship? appeared first on InnovationManagement.
Brunner
JULY 20, 2021
Meet Alex Berdis—content circus ringmaster…well, maybe someday. As Senior Art Director, his visual expertise allows him to accomplish big things for our clients. Get to know Alex below! Q: Why did you choose Brunner? A: I chose Brunner because I believe coming together is the best way to accomplish big things. I love being an art director because I can use my visual expertise in lots of different ways.
IdeaSpies
JULY 23, 2021
There is a huge hole in every ‘top 10 qualities of a great leader’ list I have seen. They all list approximately the same t.
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
ITONICS
JULY 23, 2021
Developing objectives and setting benchmarks of success is critical for an organization's innovation journey.
Michael Roberto
JULY 19, 2021
Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal have published a new book titled "The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas." In the book, they focus on how to persuade others to support and endorse your innovative ideas. Nordgren and Schonthal argue that one must identify the sources of "friction" that might cause people to resist your proposal.
Idea Champions
JULY 22, 2021
If you're a creative person working on a project that is unlikely to get results overnight, here's a simple practice to save you from the all-too-familiar phenomenon of depressing yourself by focusing on the proverbial cup being half-empty. At the end of each work day, acknowledge yourself for all of the progress you've made -- small, medium, and large.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 22, 2021
This week I share Chapter 2 from Best Practices are Stupid: How Can You Avoid Becoming a One-Hit Wonder? Last week in Chapter 1, I explained the three levels of innovation (event, capability, system). In this week’s episode I share more details on what it takes to create level 2 – an innovation capability. When you think about innovation as a repeatable and predictable process/capability like any other part of the business (e.g., finance), it opens up some new perspectives.
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