Kainexus
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
No executive in the world would turn down operational excellence if you handed it to them on a platter even if they don’t exactly know what it is. It just sounds like something awesome. But operational excellence isn’t like an hors d'oeuvre you can pluck off a tray. In order to be achieved, it must be clearly understood, injected into the culture, and supported with a methodology to guide decisions.
Board of Innovation
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Have you been thinking about running a corporate accelerator to boost innovation capabilities at your company? This might help you make your decision. The post How to run a corporate innovation accelerator? appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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The Human Factor
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
If you’re feeling the need for more peace and quiet these days, you’re not alone. One of the latest trends sweeping the business world is the “pod” – a small, free-standing soundproof space that can comfortably hold one or two people. If you look around, you’ll notice them sprouting up in offices, airports and other public places where people need temporary privacy from noise and other people. .
Yet2
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
At yet2 , we work on a variety of technology scouting projects , from anti-corrosive coatings for automobile applications, to researching the future of laundry in space amongst other topics. One of my favorite topics is innovation in food and beverages, particularly chocolate. This is a timely subject, since many of us are purchasing this delicious commodity for our friends, family, or significant others (or ourselves) for Valentine’s Day.
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.
Jeffrey Phillips
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
I went to a meeting about innovation earlier this week with a former client and a discussion about digital transformation broke out. It was both interesting and strange at the same time. Most corporations are struggling to comprehend the changes in front of them, but at the same time are so fixated on short term thinking that they struggle to see the tsunami that is emerging just over the horizon.
Digital Tonto
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
A leader's role is no longer simply to plan and direct action, but to inspire and empower belief. Related posts: How Experian’s Digital Transformation Brought Its Business To An Entirely New Level. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation. They will point to their last brainstorming session and say how successful it was, how it produced hundreds of ideas (or at least post it notes). And they will proudly announce to their shareholders: Look at all the innovation we are doing!
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
A team works best when it collaborates. Ever since the first suggestion box was put out in a break room, idea management has been part of any well-run organization. Idea management software is a platform that captures the flow of ideas from your employees and helps you and your team distill them into actionable concepts. That’s a superb benefit in and of itself, and it offers a host of others as well.
Digital Tonto
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Throughout its history, it's been able to continually adapt and scale its business model to a changing market Related posts: How Every Industry Can Learn From The Open Source Movement. The One Thing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Design Thinking attempts to extract the mindset of a designer, an artist, a creator, or even a child into a series of steps that can be applied to any discipline (even business or politics) to solve human-centered problems. Its steps are so logical that we can’t imagine anyone opposing them. — Why wouldn’t you speak.
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.
IdeaSpies
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Introduction. The purpose of the Survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed. Employee involvement in innovation was specifically researched. Innovation was defined simply as “implementation of ideas that add value”. Recommendations. Based on these results it is recommended that leaders of organisations: Acknowledge that innovation is necessary to grow businesses and employees are a key source of innovation.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Most of us have encountered a version of the saying, “You can’t improve what you don’t measure,” and it makes intuitive sense. Time itself creates points of comparison, whether you choose to evaluate them or not. Numbers don’t lie. Learn how to measure innovation success to improve the results of future innovation projects. Going forward on hunches, or feelings that a project is performing, is certainly possible, but it’s not wise.
Acuvate
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
In today’s competitive business world employee engagement is an essential element in creating a positive work culture and a productive workforce. Organizations with engaged employees perform better than those without by whopping 202%. This is the reason employee engagement gets top precedence in the workplace strategy. When employees feel engaged, appreciated and considered a part of something bigger than just a “job,” they feel happier and strive to be more productive.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Innovation is something that everyone says they want to do, but it seems increasingly clear that this desire is often rather superficial. For instance, recently I wrote about a new study from Harvard Business School showing that innovation is rarely a top priority for executives. Indeed, just 30% placed it in their top 3 issues.
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IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Here are six lessons to take away from these winners. Queensland Police Service (QPS).
BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
What is your definition of innovation? An article in The Wall Street Journal about food companies innovating to raise prices features this definition of innovation from Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen: “Creating something I didn’t know I needed is innovation.”. We tell new product development leaders all the time that generating innovative ideas isn’t in any customer’s job description.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Go to just about any conference today and you will hear a familiar tale of woe. A once great corporation, which had dominated its industry, fails to adapt and descends into irrelevance. The protagonists of these stories always come out looking more than a little bit silly, failing to recognize business trends that seem obvious.
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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.
Tembosocial
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Between The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Organization: The Power of Two-Way Dialogue. There’s a spirited debate between business strategists: can a company survive today’s Glass Door-reviewed, Youtube-recommended, five-star ranked marketplace with a traditional top-down organizational structure or does it need to go bottom up? At the heart of the argument is this fact: customer experience improves when a company’s employees are actively engaged at work.
New Markets Advisors
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Companies today worry too much about being fast. They want to fail quickly, pivot, and be first to market with their new idea. They want to make sure that they’re in front of customers before their competitors. It makes sense. Why would anyone want to be late to the game when you’d just have to take on an entrenched competitor who already has name recognition and a host of other competitive advantages?
Moves the Needle
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Why do R&D labs succeed in creating new technology, but fail at bringing these innovations to market? R&D labs don’t bring new innovations to market typically because they are charged with inventing new technology, but not the commercialization of those inventions. However, innovation requires bringing inventions to market. Innovation requires creating value. 3 Reasons Why Inventions Don’t Get to Market Invention for the sake of invention may be beneficial, if it, for example, extends in
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Each year I interview hundreds of business leaders about innovation in their companies, and their outlook on the future. One question almost always gets asked: “what’s keeping you up nights?” What I’m hearing of late is about the sudden rise in business uncertainty. Is the decade-long economic recovery about to end? Will the U.S. and.
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
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Last year, one of the most popular topics at the annual Open Nation innovation conference was metrics. How do you measure your innovation capabilities? How do you track your results from established programs?
Board of Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Board of Innovation is getting ready to split up. Not in a “your favourite band is no longer” kind of way. We’re sticking together as a core group, just moving a few members to the US of A to take Board of innovation to a new level of entrepreneurism. That’s right. We’re gearing up to. Continue reading. The post First we take Manhattan… appeared first on Board of Innovation.
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
We categorize everything, from subgenres of music to which foods are the healthiest. But most categorization occurs between generational differences in the workforce and what success means to both, especially in manufacturing. The Change Curve of Manufacturing. In recent years, the change curve of manufacturing has gone from a static line to an extreme slope.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
In 1997 Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma and it sparked a revolution. It seemed that for years all anyone could talk about was disruptive innovation. That was until Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation in 2003 and that got hot. Then Stanford launched its d.school and design thinking was where it was at. Yet go.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The Information Age has made way for several innovations across the business world. While the business industry—much like the American educational system—has been slow to the uptake of implementing technological advancements into their marketing and planning strategies, the 2020s herald a new age for the use of data and technological advancement in companies big and small. 2019 is a fantastic transition year for learning how to use big data in a big way.
Focused Momentum
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
The short answer? Yes. Is that a bad thing? No. Limitations can be a good thing. They can provide a healthy structure that improves responsiveness to change.
Norbert Bol
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
As we probably all know, we are currently consuming more than the planet can reproduce. The annual Earth Overshoot Day is happening sooner every year. Last year this day was 1 August. Less consumption or more sustainable consumption lifestyle is therefore necessary, because we have only one planet. Given the dramatic ecological and climatic implications, many policy makers and non-governmental organizations are trying to enhance consumers’ knowledge about the harmful consequences of this e
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The 12 steps to biomedical innovation starts with being a problem seeker, not a problem solver. Eventually, to be successful, customer problems and solutions need to meld around a VAST business model i.e. one that is not just profitable, but that demonstrates: 1. Validity Regardless or which elements of your model you choose, they have to be valid. In other.
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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