Innovation Excellence
MAY 5, 2020
The unexpected arrival and spread of COVID 19 has caused massive and global changes, strongly impacting into the business world. Every company, in addition to managing the sanitary emergency by prioritizing health and employee’s support-, has had to respond generally in a reactive and compulsive way, trying to ensure business survival in a context where life is at risk.
The Human Factor
MAY 4, 2020
Hiring employees can be a long and costly process. There is time and money that goes into recruiting, interviewing, and hiring, as well as time and money to train new employees and get them up to scratch with all things that are going on in the business. That is why it is important to look for ways to retain your employees, so that they’re able to, and want to, stay with you for as long as possible.
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IdeaScale
MAY 5, 2020
source: Pexels In a recent study, researchers looked at different businesses and saw that the more the employees generated innovative ideas that management was likely to adopt, the higher the probability was that said company would grow its profits annually. At the other end of the spectrum, companies with little to no new ideas generated … Continued.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 4, 2020
I attended a very special meeting of minds in a remote part of Yorkshire, England at The Centre of Management Creativity , hosted by John Varney, a great mentor who was instrumental in my decision to start my business some 25 years ago. I chose to take the train and bicycle to reach this very special place. This allowed me some quiet space for reflection and a good amount of exercise.
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.
Brunner
MAY 8, 2020
The past few weeks have not left anyone or any business unscathed. While spending within the building supplies category is one of the few to increase, the trade industry is undergoing a shift as contractors figure out how to navigate a contactless world. We looked at several key trades (roofing, HVAC and plumbing) to understand the new landscape and to inform what companies should do to make sure their brand adapts to consumer behaviors.
100%Open
MAY 5, 2020
I was furiously looking for someone on LinkedIn and because there were so many people with the same name, I ended up reviewing quite a few profiles. One of those brought me to a complete halt. Pivoting career as a choice . Our 60+ strong 100%Open Associate network keeps us very intimately glued to the joys and challenges of freelancing, running one-person micro businesses, and sometimes going between one of those and full-time jobs over time.
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Rmukesh Gupta
MAY 3, 2020
Premise: We are already seeing a lot of signals in the economy of the upcoming tectonic shifts and the ripples that they will cause. We have a record number of publicly listed companies in the US deciding not to give out dividends so that they can conserve cash. We’ve seen announcements from large firms indicating that the majority of their workforce will now work from home permanently.
InnovationManagement
MAY 7, 2020
Having a process for the front end of innovation is necessary but not sufficient. It also requires proper levels of funding, and a governance structure to support it. In this article, we'll look at how these aspects tie together, and how your company can support your full innovation lifecycle.
Focused Momentum
MAY 5, 2020
My grandparents had twelve children. Like many of their friends and family members, they married and started their family in the early days of the Great Depression. They had a farm so they could feed their ever-growing brood. They struggled, but so did everyone else. They worked hard and eventually thrived. Later they watched uncles, brothers, and cousins leave their Pennsylvania farmland to travel across the globe as part of the US deployment in WWII.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
MAY 7, 2020
The money will help Copan ramp up production on sample collection kits.
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.
Brunner
MAY 5, 2020
Nurses are caretakers. Nurturers. Lifesavers. Essential. Seems to us, if ever there was a time to recognize nurses for their selflessness and courage, it’s now. As the country continues to grapple with Coronavirus, medical professionals – including nurses and other essential workers – have stepped in and stepped up. And this National Nurses Day, today, Wednesday, May 6, they won’t have time to celebrate.
IdeaSpies
MAY 4, 2020
In times of turmoil we must look through the noise and see the trends that will shape our future. Crises are not new, however this.
Leapfrogging
MAY 3, 2020
The OGSM model (Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) can help teams get on the same page and moving in the right direction. For the past 25 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of groups across dozens of big companies and startups. One thing’s consistent: everyone works in teams, and the ultimate success of any organization relies on the overall effectiveness of the teams within it.
Idea to Value
MAY 7, 2020
In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Kathryn Haydon, keynote speaker and founder of Sparkitivity. We speak about breaking through the inertia of no, and how to use the Universal Creative Process to become more productive and prolific. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:02:00 What are the circumstances that help people find meaning in their work. 00:06:15 The possibility ecosystem. 00:08:30 Breaking through the inertia of no. 00:11:00 Tools to find the rig
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Digital Tonto
MAY 3, 2020
The public trust has been shattered because our institutions have failed us. Technology won’t save us. Markets won’t save us. We need to save ourselves. Yet still, I have to believe our future is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Exago
MAY 7, 2020
Exago is making the Exago Start idea management platform available to NGOs and educational and research institutions to help combat the impacts of COVID-19. The post Exago offers innovation management software to fight COVID-19 and adapt to the “new normal” appeared first on Exago.
IdeaScale
MAY 7, 2020
Creativity is spontaneous. Ideas come to us in a flash of lightning, as quickly as a lightbulb turns on, inspired by everything from children’s toys to dreams to movies. The problem, though, is with executing on the idea, which won’t just happen. Fortunately, there’s a simple tool to feed ideas into and refine them into … Continued.
Jeffrey Phillips
MAY 4, 2020
I'm writing a series of posts that discuss some of the most important traits and skills that are needed to support innovation now, in the midst and in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. I've written about beginner's mind and why that skill will be vital. I've also written about being comfortable in ambiguous settings. Today I am writing about another rare capacity - the ability to have empathy with prospects and customers.
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Leapfrogging
MAY 3, 2020
The OGSM model (Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) can help teams get on the same page and moving in the right direction. For the past 25 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of groups across dozens of big companies and startups. One thing’s consistent: everyone works in teams, and the ultimate success of any organization relies on the overall effectiveness of the teams within it.
Exago
MAY 5, 2020
“Standing in solidarity to serve the member countries” in the fight against COVID-19, the ITFC is raising its innovation efforts to find new solutions jointly. As a leading Trade Solutions Provider, with a responsibility to shore up its activities and protect the member countries and interests of the nations that it provides practical, structural and fiscal support to, ITFC is launching an ideation drive to its staff, using the Exago platform.
IdeaScale
MAY 6, 2020
Does your company have a creative space for coming up with new ideas? Many large companies now do, and they’re becoming more popular day by day. These spaces, known as innovation labs, are safe places for organizations to implement idea management, experiment, discuss projects, and come up with new ideas. Innovation labs are sometimes called … Continued.
Jeffrey Phillips
MAY 8, 2020
There's been a resurgence lately in the concept of open innovation. I'm not quite sure why open innovation as a concept has received more press and more attention lately. It's not as though we have new open innovation methods or mechanisms, or that open innovation has demonstrated more effective outcomes. Rather, I think, open innovation becomes interesting when we are distributed and looking for new ways of working.
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
Innovation Leader
MAY 5, 2020
The former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments shares how to make online meetings more produtive and more human.
Cascade Strategy
MAY 6, 2020
What is meant by Strategic Analysis? Strategic Analysis is the process of researching and analyzing the environment an organization operates in, as well as the organization itself in order to inform the strategy formulation process. The environment of an organization is comprised by two components - the internal environment and the external environment.
Tullio Siragusa
MAY 4, 2020
How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits. We all face times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed or unable to cope due to unmanageable pressures. Our body’s response to shattering situations is what we call stress. This is one of the rapidly growing concerns today. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major stressful impact on the entire world.
Wellspring
MAY 8, 2020
By now, it’s a well-established fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting every aspect of society, including business. Companies are suddenly faced with a fully remote workforce, shifting corporate priorities, disrupted supply chains, and, in some industries, layoffs and dramatic drops in revenue.
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InnovationTraining.org
MAY 4, 2020
Learn to apply an empathy map template to help you visualize your users’ needs and wants across dimensions. When it comes to designing better products, services, and experiences, getting into the mindset of your end user is crucial. However, many designers struggle or even outright fail to understand exactly what their users need or are looking for.
Viima
MAY 4, 2020
I recently met with a very successful company that is seen as a highly innovative global pioneer that others in their industry, which is facing many structural headwinds and inevitable changes, look up to. They understood that even though they are seen as an extremely innovative company now, their current success is actually a result of innovations that happened a decade ago, and that to live up to their reputation, they now need to create the next wave of innovations to keep the company on thei
Acuvate
MAY 8, 2020
How To Improve BI & Analytics Maturity In Your Organization According to a survey by Gartner, more than 87% of organizations are classified as having low Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics maturity. This becomes a great impediment for organizations looking to improve the value of their data assets and exploit analytics. Spreadsheet-based analyses, personal data […].
Wellspring
MAY 5, 2020
In North America, the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey reports annual disclosures have increased 24% over the past 7 years, resulting in cumulative patents under management growing at an exponential rate. Simultaneously, universities and hospitals have not expanded staff systematically to oversee growing portfolios. It has always been important to have a comprehensive understanding of your IP portfolio.
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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