Wazoku
DECEMBER 20, 2018
A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. If these mark the beginning of the journey, how do you then take the innovative culture you’ve put so much effort into building, cultivate it for sustainability and use it to drive business transformation?
Collectivecamp
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Listen to the likes of leadership coach and retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, and you will be up at the crack of 4:34am, you’ll proceed to splash some cold water on your face and “get after it”, despite every fiber in your body, more likely than not, willing you to go back to sleep.
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Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Psychological safety is the absence of fear of exclusion or loss of status for being one’s self and openly expressing one’s thoughts and opinions. You can tell a team, operational group, or organizational environment is psychologically safe when its members are comfortable with open discussion of their most significant shortcomings Such environments do not focus on.
Wellspring
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Within the innovation space, one of the key points of expansion is the application of leaps in information technology to the physical world. Just as the internet revolution brought about change by networking computers, another similar revolution seeks to bring about change by networking and digitizing the physical world. As such, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main drivers of innovation within a number of fields, as it seeks to digitize, analyze, and automate numerous consumer and in
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.
Destination Innovation
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Managing the Sales pipeline is a well-developed executive skill in any company selling large ticket items to business customers. Each sales person has to gather data and input their reports and forecasts. Some of the key actions in managing the pipeline include: Qualification questions have to be answered. Does the customer need our product? Do they have a budget?
Braden Kelley
DECEMBER 17, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Douglas Ferguson of Voltage Control, to speak with him for their Innovation Series about my work as a popular keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and thought leader on the topics of continuous … Continue reading →
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Exago
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Once the go-to strategy for ensuring business efficiency and growth, in the context of the current reality, Lean Management has been branded by some as being outdated. But, in a more evolved form, this business approach has in fact shown that it can complement Innovation Management when it comes to company operations, and could be the answer for businesses to remain competitive in today’s world.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 18, 2018
There are a number of ways that participating in or administrating an innovation program can help build your career. If you’re wondering how to build careers with innovation, look to these three IdeaScale examples. Your Great Idea is Recognized ! Marketer, Brian Stearns, suggested a new product idea that generated millions of dollars in sales during its first year.
Digital Tonto
DECEMBER 16, 2018
One of the things that I’ve found over the years is that innovation needs exploration. It’s a simple equation: If you don’t explore, you won’t discover, if you don’t discover you won’t invent and if. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Bill Fischer
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Innovation is inherently a social phenomenon; it's who you talk to, and when, and where that can make the difference. By choosing to change the pace by which we work, the spaces that we spend time in, the partners who we converse with we can improve our propensity to be more innovative.
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.
Exago
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2019 from the Exago team! The post Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2019! appeared first on Exago.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Education is about more than going to class. In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 18, 2018
If you had an idea for a medical device, would you know where to go at work to get help commercializing or deploying it in your organization? Most of the time, based on my experience, the answer is no. Giffford Pinchot, who originated the term “intrapreneur”, has suggested that you rate your organization in several.
Board of Innovation
DECEMBER 17, 2018
We took the yearly pulse of healthcare innovation. Here are the results of the checkup and our prognosis of the future. Healthcare is one of the industries that has the greatest potential — and need — for a sea change in innovation in the coming years. Startups are riding the crest of the medical technology. Continue reading. The post The yearly pulse of healthcare innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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.
Digital Tonto
DECEMBER 19, 2018
2018 was a busy year. Due the the success of my first book, Mapping Innovation, I was inundated with speaking requests that took me not only across the country, but across the world, including. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Sometimes companies are afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program, because they’re afraid that they’ll have to deliver on an avalanche of ideas. And although it’s true that organizations often see an outpouring of ideas from their employees, high levels of innovation are hardly correlated with the ability to deliver on every idea – they are instead related to an organization’s ability to identify and deliver on a few of the most promising ideas.
Boxes and Arrows
DECEMBER 18, 2018
The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to generate more ad revenue. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers.
Rapid Innovation in digital time
DECEMBER 19, 2018
There is less framework when it’s time to move your start-up to a scale-up in the corporate environment. Why not designing a canvas for scale-up, borrowing the familiar business model canvas structure?
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Many business consultants agree that benchmarking is imperative to strategic planning. By using metrics, a business will study the practices, designs, and financial outcomes of industry leaders with one distinct purpose: To keep up with the pacesetters. There’s just one problem. Keeping up—with technology, with the competition, with anything in business or life—is what some would call a fool’s game.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 19, 2018
During WWI there was tremendous demand for bandages and sterile dressings for Allied wounded on the Western Front. The US company, Kimberly-Clark, developed a new cotton-like material from wood-pulp. It was highly absorbent. They manufactured this in large quantities to supply gas-mask filters and field dressings. When the war ended in 1918 the company was.
InnovationManagement
DECEMBER 18, 2018
A chief product officer’s (CPO) job description often contains two tall tasks: Drive innovation, and create a compelling product roadmap that delivers business value.
Board of Innovation
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Employees at Brussels Airport help passengers' airport experience take off through a customer-centric ideas contest. The post Brussels Airport holds an Innovation Challenge to improve passenger experience appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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Qmarkets
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Christmas is the time of year for good food, good times, and good will to all. However, it’s easy to forget that many of the beloved traditions of the season began as incremental ideas for overcoming yuletide challenges. That’s why this year, we at Qmarkets are paying homage to 12 of the most outstanding (and unusual) innovations of Christmas, as well as shedding a light on some of their origins.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.
InnovationManagement
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Nearly every company’s strategy these days is to grow through innovation, yet many fall short. We all know the standard reasons: innovation is hard, innovation is uncertain or innovation grinds against the gears of the operating organization. They are all more or less true, but they are also simplistic, not really guiding executives on how to actually get more innovation.
Board of Innovation
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Perhaps we’re becoming nostalgic about the past-future, or the future-past, but we dusted off our innovation predictions from 2015 to see what we could learn about tomorrow. In 2015, we put our heads together to ideate about the future. The goal was to create 200 possible scenarios as a tool that could be used during. Continue reading. The post Back to the Future: A Retrospective of our Future Scan tool appeared first on Board of Innovation.
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
Beyond the Obvious
DECEMBER 21, 2018
My motto throughout my career has been “Ideas without execution are a hobby, and I’m not in the hobby business.” Execution is a risk; it requires commitment, money, and manpower; but there’s no point going through the process of ideation if you’re not going to do anything with the end result. In the end, successful […].
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 19, 2018
One of the simplest and most powerful things you can do as a leader takes almost no time at all. I have a confession. I’m a pain in the ass (arse, for my colleagues speaking proper English) to work with. I thrive on impossible challenges and expect those I work with to do the same.
Planview
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Today is an exciting day for the Spigit business and all the customers we serve, as we announce that Spigit has agreed to be acquired by Planview , the global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Spigit’s mission and commitment has long been to support our customers as they drive sustained innovation by engaging employees in crowdsourced ideation and managing the entire innovation lifecycle.
BrainZooming
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Hello, and happy Monday! Emma here. You may remember me as the woman who so disliked conferences that Mike felt compelled to write a blog post for her. And that’s okay if you do — but you should know that I no longer dislike them. Along with all 23 of those helpful tips for introverts in that post, what helped was attending the right conferences.
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