Innovation Leader
DECEMBER 21, 2020
One thing is painfully absent from the work-from-anywhere era: serendipity. You can schedule Teams meetings and ping colleagues with instant messages, but it’s not the same. We’ve been testing out tools that support serendipity this year. These are seven of the best.
Innovation in Practice
DECEMBER 20, 2020
Comedian Bill Murray’s classic line, “You’re awesome!” was sarcasm at its best. . Sarcasm is the idea of using irony in a way to mock somebody or to insult them. But while it can be insulting and hurtful to somebody, it also has an important positive aspect on peers. . Sarcasm can lead to higher levels of creativity. . So, the next time you get a sarcastic remark?
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Adam Hartung
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Uber just spun off its autonomous car project into a new company called, "Aurora". Ok, but why did Uber invest in this tech in the first place? It was heralded as a good tech spend, but it was really just a backward integration for a ride share company.
Destination Innovation
DECEMBER 20, 2020
Here is a question for leaders and managers. Would you like your people to try out their ideas for better ways to meet the needs of customers or better ways to run the business? Most leaders I ask give a positive response – often guarded with a ‘within reason’ They would like to see people trying to find new and better ways to do things on their own initiative.
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.
Idea to Value
DECEMBER 24, 2020
In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Adrian Mills, Partner for Creative, Brand & Advertising at Deloitte Digital in Australia. We speak about why a consultancy would bring in advertising people, and his experience in building creative capabilities within a large company. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – His experience joining a consultancy from advertising. 00:04:00 – Why consultancies are bringing in creative talent from other industries. 00:06:3
Digital Tonto
DECEMBER 20, 2020
2020 was a year to be endured more than to be lived. The Covid-19 pandemic arrived as a curiosity, then a panic, extended into tragedy of genuine loss and, hopefully, is emerging as a set of concrete. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Kainexus
DECEMBER 22, 2020
I join many in the Lean community in mourning the recent passing of a publisher, author, educator, and life-long learner, Norman Bodek. He was 88. You can read his obituary here. I was fortunate to get a lot of time with Norman over the past 15 years, as I documented in my LeanBlog.org post. I learned a lot from Norman, and I will forever appreciate his enthusiasm and support over the years.
InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 21, 2020
COVID-19 has changed much about how we live and work. During this post-pandemic age, companies have been forced to shift their attention to virtual working and learning environments. When it comes to employee training and development, then, it seems obvious that a successful virtual environment is also needed to help employees reach their full potential and continue to grow and improve upon their skillset.
Innovation Leader
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Join us on January 22 at 2:00pm ET to discuss your recent experiences adding to your team, or your advice for navigating the job market.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Virtual conferences have become widely used in every industry. While they may not seem productive, they have more to offer than you may think in terms of generating new ideas. Video conferencing allows for face-to-face communication via software. This is crucial for employees working remotely from home, a trend that is expected to continue growing now … Continued.
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.
Kainexus
DECEMBER 21, 2020
By the time an organization invests in software technology to support continuous improvement , they've usually embraced the idea that improvement should be a daily activity practiced by everyone in the organization. They realize that the people closest to the production of value for the customer are the ones who are in the best position to identify and resolve problems.
InnovationManagement
DECEMBER 21, 2020
McKinsey's Organizational Health Index (OHI) is an exhaustive assessment of an organization’s effectiveness and its management’s performance based on an organization-wide survey. It’s a tool that numerous public and private sector organizations have leveraged in order to benchmark their company’s health, align around core areas of improvement, and improve overall organizational performance.
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
DECEMBER 25, 2020
The coronavirus grounded the world to a halt and ruined everyone’s lives. But it was also a driving force for incredible innovation. Such as: Virtual Fashion Show : Who needs models and a room full of people when you can host a virtual fashion show and have the outfits walk themselves down the runway. Hygiene Hand : If you touch something you should wash your hand or use hand sanitizer.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 22, 2020
NASA uses innovation management every day to develop new air and space technology and explore new frontiers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they used technology and skills to help combat the coronavirus. NASA used the IdeaScale crowdsourcing platform to share ideas for leveraging capabilities and expertise during the pandemic. As a result, 220 people submitted ideas, … Continued.
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.
InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Retreats or offsites have been a great way for organizations and teams to take a step back, connect, and reflect on the past period or year. However, COVID-19 has disrupted these in-person retreats and forced businesses to get creative with virtual offsites and remote retreats. These virtual meetings can be just as interactive and collaborative as the old way of doing things – they just require a different mindset!
Innovation Leader
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Here’s a quick look at the most significant events of the year — and how innovators rose to meet the challenges they presented.
Greatest. Idea. Ever.
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Another year, another amazing collection of ideas that make you say, “wow, that’s cool!” Real Life Wakanda: To honor Chadwick Boseman, Whoopi Goldberg proposed adding a Wakanda Theme Park to Disney World. But F that. Why settle for a small scale theme park when you can recreate the real thing in Africa! That’s right. We could soon have a real world Wakanda, based in Senegal, thanks to a plan put in place by R&B singer Akon who has raised some of the $5 billion needed to pul
helloFUTURE
DECEMBER 20, 2020
In last weeks blog post, we discussed the innovation purge – the “disease” which seems to strike corporates once every few years or so, when they realize that the innovation group that they so lovingly created was not going to be able to generate those billion-dollar businesses that they expected from it magically. Depending on… The post Escaping the Innovation Purge – Part 2 appeared first on hellofuture.
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InnovationTraining.org
DECEMBER 21, 2020
In a recent McKinsey survey , leaders at organizations across the world say the COVID-19 pandemic has made them aware of the urgency of getting learning programs right. Yet companies are failing at delivering positive training outcomes, and executives can and must do more to help. The value of capability building. Company leaders report that COVID-19 has accelerated the value of capability building.
Innovation Leader
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Merriam-Webster’s Chief Digital Officer Lisa Schneider shares insights on avoiding digital fatigue and getting a traditional company on board with a large-scale digital transformation.
Phil McKinney
DECEMBER 19, 2020
I looked up and saw that look of disappointment. My 8-year-old self was staring into the face of my father. I had badgered him for weeks to let me cut the grass to earn the same allowance my older brother got for the same chore. My early activism in equal pay for equal work. His […].
Kainexus
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Manufacturing organizations dedicated to continuous improvement look for opportunities to eliminate waste at every juncture. They may spend most of their time looking at core activities like production efficiency because improvements to essential processes result in significant gains. However, there are many activities on the margins that can also be a significant source of waste.
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Stephen Shapiro
DECEMBER 23, 2020
I was recently interviewed for an article for Investor’s Business Daily. The topic of conversation was how reframing a problem can lead to better solutions. Here is the very start of the article: Racing to stay a step ahead of rivals, leaders often rush to find new innovations. They state a problem and tell their team to solve it. Yet jumping right into brainstorming can backfire if you don’t set the proper backdrop first.
mjvinnovation
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This is because the volume of daily data produced in these virtual environments is a real gold mine for companies prepared to prospect for it. We will reflect more on this thought in this article. Keep reading to understand how you can benefit from the combination of Social Networks + Big Data. Social Networks: the gold mine of data. In the age of Digital Transformation , social media is ubiquitous.
7innovation
DECEMBER 21, 2020
No Filter – The Inside Story of Instagram Sarah Frier Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade.
Innovation in Practice
DECEMBER 21, 2020
The golden rule says that you should treat others as you want them to treat you. . Now, the golden rule of creativity states that if you help others boost their creative output then they’re going to help you in response. . Innovation is a team sport. Creativity can also happen in a collaborative context and groups produce better results than that lone genius working by themselves.
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
Stephen Shapiro
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Episode #9 of the Invisible Solutions podcast is now live. Today we start by answering the question, “What if trying to innovate everywhere can negatively impact your innovation effort?” The key is to innovate where you differentiate. Not all opportunities are equal. Therefore you want to invest in the areas that help you stand out from the competition.
The Human Factor
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Even before covid-19 became a global issue and meant that many businesses needed to switch to remote working, working from home was something that more and more employers were offering their teams. It makes sense. After all, if your employees are working from home, you can save money in your business by not needing to have an office space. Plus, the workers themselves are more at ease and happier to carry out their work as they’re in a comfortable space and no longer have to commute every day.
Michael Roberto
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Source: pixy.org MIT Senior Lecturer and management consultant Elsbeth Johnson has written an interesting article for Strategy+Business about why many strategic transformation efforts fail (though I'm not a fan of the article title). She argues that we often blame middle managers for resisting change efforts and putting up various obstacles. However, she finds fault with senior leaders when examining many failed organizational change initiatives.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 23, 2020
You need to explain how — and why — you’re monitoring.
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