IdeaScale
MARCH 4, 2020
Are you looking to shape sustainability trends in 2020? There’s a climate fight going on, and consumers and citizens are getting their say. Organizations and policymakers are altering how they do business to introduce new rules for promoting global sustainability. There are several trends set to shape these sustainability efforts in 2020. Here are five to watch. 1.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.
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Wellspring
MARCH 2, 2020
Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and catching up with clients and colleagues.
HYPE Innovation
MARCH 2, 2020
This is the fourth blog post in HYPE’s series on the most-often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the second post provided guidance, practical tips, and examples on how to get started with brainstorming the future of your market , this post offers insight on where and how to identify industry trends to support brainstorming and other foresight activities.
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
MARCH 3, 2020
Are you looking for a way to optimize your innovation strategy? The agile manifesto was created in the early 2000s by software developers who wanted to bring their products to the market faster and more efficiently. Hence, agile software was born. Agile methods have since been adopted by a multitude of non-technology industries that are applying its principles and core values to project management initiatives.
Innovation Leader
MARCH 2, 2020
We released one video from Impact 2019 each week this month. We have also gathered five best practices from our February online coverage below.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Human Factor
MARCH 2, 2020
Costs in business are always mounting up and the more you loosen the purse strings, the more money gets spent. It’s important to remember to try and curb big or regular expenditures that could end up impacting the financial health of the business. Here are some tips to help reduce costs in business. source. Upgrade Your Office Equipment. Office equipment is essential for the running of your business and depending on the equipment used, it can tend to only have a certain shelf life.
Wazoku
MARCH 5, 2020
Ah, the age of disruption! The future of work! The fourth industrial revolution! Futurists and thought leaders have been talking about this for some time. The world of work is changing – on a technological, political and social-cultural scale. Powerful new forms of technology are increasing our rates of productivity capability; demanding new skillsets in the process.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 4, 2020
These days virtually everyone agrees that innovation is strategically important. For example, in an international PwC innovation survey of roughly 250 CEOs, only 3% said that innovation is not a strategic priority for them. Regardless of these results, organizations often struggle in aligning their innovation efforts with their overall strategy. On the other hand, top performing innovators always seem.
Innovation 360 Group
MARCH 1, 2020
Exercises in Innovation #3: Observe customers in the wild. Going out and observing customers is something you should really try and not just as a thought experiment. I have often advised business leaders that to be truly innovative, they should test out anthropology for themselves. That’s exactly what Gillette did. Gillette was one of the first big enterprises to consistently hire anthropologists right from the university.
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.
Cascade Strategy
MARCH 4, 2020
If you’ve been an avid reader of our blog for some time, you know that developing an effective strategy for your organization is vital for growth and sustainability. However, coming up with a strategy that can work is only part of the battle - making it happen is a whole different challenge.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 5, 2020
Suddenly we are stopped from traveling; we are advised to work from home to keep us safe from this coronavirus and catching it. We have the choice of “self-imposed” or company-imposed” time at home. Time takes on a different meaning; we are cutting out those (unproductive) meetings, the train, car, and flight times, and we have the luxury to do what?
Digital Tonto
MARCH 1, 2020
Today, by all indications, we are at a new Sputnik moment in which our global scientific and technological leadership is being seriously challenged. We can respond with imagination, creating novel. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Idea to Value
MARCH 6, 2020
I need to start off by apologising. I’m not immune to bias, just like everyone else. This week I had a very interesting conversation with my fiancee about her experiences and challenges to be taken seriously at work as a woman. Especially as an attractive woman in a creative profession. I was talking to her about a particularly attractive connection I had on Linkedin, also in the field of innovation, whose videos I hadn’t watched in case it made me seem like I was “ only watchi
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IdeaScale
MARCH 5, 2020
Innovation is a buzzword in the corporate world today. If you aren’t on board with collaborating to form ground-breaking ideas, you won’t stay ahead in the fast-paced digital age. Successful innovation management derives from a mindset that welcomes new ideas and allows for a certain amount of risk. How much risk will depend on what your company is able to accept at any given time.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 5, 2020
Even in our line of work, we often meet people who aren’t very familiar with innovation. As such, we often get to answer the question of what exactly innovation in business is, and why businesses should care about it. Given how vaguely the term innovation is used, that is hardly surprising. Also, while we’ve seen.
Board of Innovation
MARCH 5, 2020
Do you see chaos as an opportunity for growth? It's worth a try. Here are 5 innovations that were triggered by forced experimentation. The post 5 ingenious innovations triggered by chaos appeared first on Board of Innovation.
Jeffrey Phillips
MARCH 5, 2020
A friend and I were talking recently about the dramatic change that digital transformation will create. The potential impact on our lives is tremendous, from autonomous vehicles that whisk us to and from work, to drones that deliver goods directly to our homes or other locations, to the insights generated from data harvested by IoT devices. We can expect significant upgrades in customer experience and business models from the use of data massaged by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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BMNT
MARCH 4, 2020
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Tim Kastelle
MARCH 3, 2020
The Core Problem of Management Today. Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3.
Leapfrogging
MARCH 2, 2020
No-code and low-code software may create a massive opportunity. A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. We’ve already seen how Google Docs took the world by storm through free cloud-based software, forcing Microsoft to change its Office 365 business model.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 5, 2020
Premise: In my work at SAP, I support a community of SAP customers in India – INDUS. One of the initiatives of this community is a micro-community of people who are working in their respective organisations around the topic of digital transformation. Members of this community are from organisations of all sizes, differ in their.
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
Bill Fischer
MARCH 1, 2020
Innovation, inventions, creative individuals, devices and the like, are typically referred to as nouns, assigning exclusivity or title to these realms. Instead, what if we considered innovation as a verb, which recognizes that how we do things can be as, or more, important than what results?
Tim Kastelle
MARCH 3, 2020
The Core Problem of Management Today. Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3.
Leapfrogging
MARCH 2, 2020
No-code and low-code software may create a massive opportunity. A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. We’ve already seen how Google Docs took the world by storm through free cloud-based software, forcing Microsoft to change its Office 365 business model.
BMNT
MARCH 4, 2020
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Kainexus
MARCH 6, 2020
Whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, coming up with ideas to keep everyone connected and engaged can be a challenge. It’s easy to fall back on the same old employee engagement programs, but they tend to lose their effectiveness with too much repetition. Don’t worry; we’ve got your back. Here are 21 employee engagement activities you can use as inspiration.
Tim Kastelle
MARCH 3, 2020
The Core Problem of Management Today. Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. 1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3.
Tembosocial
MARCH 2, 2020
Adaptation is the siren song of the innovator and it tells of how when confronted, we are are able to change and make something new.
BMNT
MARCH 4, 2020
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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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