IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders consider innovation to be mandatory, yet of those, only 40 percent think their organization is ready for innovation. Leaders recognize the importance of innovation, yet many aren’t sure how to make their organizations innovation-ready. One problem with innovation strategy in nonprofits is that since they are not for profit, they don’t necessarily push themselves to “compete” by improving their business models or offering innovative products and services.

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Digital Tonto

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Much as any competitive strategy that doesn’t anticipate the response from competitors is doomed to failure, any transformation strategy that doesn’t take into account those who oppose change is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Underlying an innovative culture driven by an innovative leader is innovativeness. Innovativeness drives business growth by increasing innovation opportunities. The post How Do You Define INNOVATIVENESS? Getting it Wrong Could Cost You appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The fourth industrial revolution is no longer just something that companies need to prepare for – it’s a reality that has already arrived. Everything about our current landscape is changing, from how we communicate to the avenues we have for connectivity. In the age of Industry 4.0, the digital landscape and physical technologies are growing increasingly connected.

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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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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In August 1854, there was a deadly outbreak of cholera in the Soho district of central London. Cholera leads to diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration, and in many cases to death. Thousands of people fell ill and over 600 died. At that time, medical authorities believed that cholera was caused by ‘miasma’ – a type of ‘bad air’ possibly from decaying bodies.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Every person who has ever had a job has experienced at least one "moment of truth" in their life -- a time when all the chips were on the table and the decision of whether to go "all in" or not had to be made. One such moment happened to me a few years ago when I was facilitating a creative thinking session for 110 of Lucent Technology's "best and brightest" -- a room full of brilliant computer scientists with more PhDs than most politicians have excuses.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Numerous organizations run crowdsourced innovation programs, because companies can find better new ideas and take action on those ideas faster. This process allows companies to set a challenge and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of participants. The post What NASA Can Teach Us About the Intrinsic Value of Connecting to Other Innovators appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The magical potency of positive thinking has been a common theme among motivational speakers for a long time. In 1952 Norman Vincent Peale published his seminal book, The Power of Positive Thinking. He advocated that you should always be optimistic. You should build a mental picture of yourself succeeding. And at the same time you should drive out negative thoughts, doubts and self-criticism.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Following on from my recent post, “ Managing Energy Transition through Innovation ,” let me build out the innovation argument further. Innovation needs to be talked up within Energy. It is the catalyst to all within the current energy transition underway. There is this compelling and urgent need to accelerate low-carbon technology innovation if the world can achieve decarbonization of the energy sector between now and 2050, to significantly contribute to meet international climate go

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. Instead of companies hiring an entire documentation team, all that’s needed is one person to edit contributions. The crowd will send in documentation and the company editor edits the submissions so they can be published alongside the APIs.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I'm a movie junkie - I love movies. Old movies like Casablanca, or even new movies like John Wick 3. Can't wait to see what John Wick can survive in the third installment. I wore out a Blockbuster card back in the day when Blockbuster was a thing. When I discovered Netflix, and its extensive catalog of movies, I was hooked. Best thing about Netflix is they delivered to my mailbox.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In today’s episode, I speak with Duleesha Kulasoorya about how exponential technologies are already changing the way business is done, and how companies will need to adapt in order to survive. Duleesha leads Deloitte’s Centre for the Edge practice in Asia, which tries to anticipate what will be important in the future for several industries.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Read about the key challenges faced by insurance innovators as we discuss 5 trends that have been impacting the industry: AI, blockchain, digitization, personalization and data, as well as hiring and retaining technically skilled talent. The post Insurance technology trends that are shaping 2020 appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Creativity and innovation are universally considered as positive phenomena. Every culture esteems creativity in its own way. Moreover, innovation psychology researchers conclude that both creativity and innovation are well-distributed across all global cultures. However, that doesn’t mean that one culture innovates the same as another culture. How companies approach innovation and what aspects of innovation are prized most vary depending on prevailing cultural values.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I write and play music as a creative hobby. It doesn’t pay terribly well, but it is fun, and can also occasionally trigger insights into the creative process that translate into the broader innovation space. Most recently, it caused me to revisit integrative thinking, a concept I was first introduced to by Roger Martin in his.

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Phil McKinney

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The world is made up of ‘yes’ people and ‘no’ people. We need more optimistic — more hopeful people who find a way to say yes to non-obvious ideas. During Thomas Jefferson's presidency in the early 1800’s, he and a group of travelers were crossing a river that had overflowed its banks. Each man crossed […].

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Self-Acceptance Will Supercharge Your Life. For a long time, society has demanded that we show up as good people. Do the right things and practice Godliness. The facts are that this has turned out to be an impossible expectation to fulfill. Not because we can’t be good people, and do the right things, it’s because the edict doesn’t give license to vulnerably reveal the darkness in the way of achieving the goal of being a good person.

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Board of Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For the second year running, our whole team packed up their Sharpies and Moleskines and ventured to the South of France for our temporary summer office. We rented a complete glampsite and turned it into a remote workspace for an entire week. Why we did it. Firstly, being part of an international innovation agency with […]. The post How a Summer Office benefits our company appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Most of us are aware that the nature of work is changing. According to Singularity University, while emerging technologies may destroy many jobs, they will also create many new appealing ones. Widespread innovation, in the imagination age, will give birth to exciting new industries, all of which are sources of new jobs and occupations. It’s exciting.

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Phil McKinney

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you are a regular reader of the blog, you know it is my policy to avoid mentioning companies and specific individuals … this is a special case – I want you to know Charles Falkenberg. Charles was the Director of Research (CTO) for ECOLogic – a small company based in Washington DC where I […].

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Cris Beswick

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Fifty years ago, whilst the Americans were demonstrating how innovation and insight allied to a drive for success could take mankind on the first step towards the stars, the Monty Python team were settling down to write the opening lines of a show which not only revitalised the comedy scene but is also credited as … Continued. The post Sentiment – Is it the one giant leap innovation needs?

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Organizations that strive for continuous improvement outpace the competition, regardless of the types of products or services they offer. From retail and manufacturing to healthcare and construction , the intensity of effort dedicated to daily positive change in an organization is directly tied to customer satisfaction and financial success.

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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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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Sometimes we get caught up in the details when we should be working on the foundation. Here’s a rule: If the underlying foundation is not secure, don’t bother working on anything else. If you’re working on a couple new technologies, but the overall business model won’t be profitable, don’t work on the new technologies.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In a time when almost 40% of employees switch jobs every year and 45% of employers say that they are unable to find employees with the right skills, employee-retention strategies are a top concern for talent managers. Here are a few facts: By 2030, the global skill crisis will reach a shortage of 85 million people. The larger the organization, the harder it is to find the right fit and retain the employees they manage to get on board.

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Yet2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This is the first in a three-part series on how startups can interact with large corporations more effectively. Are you a startup looking for co-development opportunities? More and better distribution channels? Acquisition opportunities and successful exit? Essentially, are you looking to join forces with a large company? Here’s the next question: do you know the best way to approach, interact with, and get to deal with large corporations?

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Leanstack

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Time flies. We’re already at the 10 year anniversary of the Lean Startup. Yes, it was a little over 10 years ago that Eric Ries started sharing a series of blog posts and giving talks on a new way of building products?—?ideas that went on to spark the global Lean Startup movement. By now, “almost everybody building products” has at least heard the term and has been exposed to the big ideas.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Malls are closing. Retail stores are fighting to stay afloat. Analysts expect that more than 6,000 stores will close in 2019. More than 40,000 employees are expected to be laid off. The blame is often cast on the new digital retail experience. Yes, the way a consumer shops is radically different than even just a.

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Beyond the Obvious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A few years ago I saw a website offering a product called After the Rapture Pet Care. It claimed to offer a service for Christians concerned about the welfare of pets that would be left behind after the Day of Judgment. Subscribers were promised a network of non-Christians who’d swoop in, collect pets, and promise […].

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Self-Acceptance Will Supercharge Your Life. For a long time, society has demanded that we show up as good people. Do the right things and practice Godliness. The facts are that this has turned out to be an impossible expectation to fulfill. Not because we can’t be good people, and do the right things, it’s because the edict doesn’t give license to vulnerably reveal the darkness in the way of achieving the goal of being a good person.

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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

THE WHAT. A Technology Radar maps the technology direction of an organization; the identified, selected and evaluated technologies can serve as threats or opportunities for the future of the company. The Technology Radar is the company’s go-to tool for informed technology management and strategic decision-making on which technology direction to pursue and which one to avoid.

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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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