Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 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 left with large stocks of materials which the military no longer needed.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A few days ago I wrote a blog post about the relevance of the Six Million Dollar man to innovation , noting that the show was based around rebuilding Steve Austin, making him better, stronger and faster. Many corporate innovation organizations need the Six Million Dollar man treatment. Every firm needs to be innovating more effectively, faster, with better outcomes and increasingly with more partners.

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Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Despite what many say, truly original work doesn’t emerge fully formed from a brainstorm or sudden epiphany Related posts: How To Create Transformational Change, According To The World’s Most. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Imaginatik will be attending the 5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) in San Francisco, CA on December 13th and 14th. We’ve partnered with our valued customer, The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) to develop and submit an open innovation paper describing our work together and the resulting economic impact. Our paper was selected to present during the Poster Session on December 13th.

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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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Creativity is about more than just art. Creativity is how we get great innovation, but encouraging creativity in a structured environment, like work, can be a bit tricky. Fortunately, with a little creativity of your own, you can get the ideas flowing. Here are a few ways to encourage creativity as part of your innovation strategy. Issue A Challenge.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Since I write about innovation regularly, I often receive questions about "the future" of innovation. Who really knows anything about the future of innovation, when many of us don't fully comprehend all of the tools and activities for innovation that are available to us now. My standard response is in the title of the post. In the future, we'll do innovation work much more quickly than we do today, we'll be smarter about our approach and increasingly we'll never do it alone.

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Digital Tonto

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Not since the early days of the digital revolution have we seen a technology accelerate with such velocity Related posts: The 3 Big Technologies To Watch Over The Next Decade—Genomics, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There’s something to be said for stability, but also innovation. If you’ve ever seen a plant grow, you know that new shoots are flexible and willing to go nearly anywhere and try nearly anything to get at the resources they need. But, over time, shoots become rooted to the ground, their bodies thicken, and they settle into stability. In some cases, they even stop growing.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For several reasons, such as disruptive threats, digitalization or blurring industry boundaries, established companies are increasingly forced to create new business opportunities, i.e. to come up with adapted or even entirely new business models. Moreover, developing a ‘business model innovation capability‘ seems particularly vital in the light of ever decreasing life cycles.

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Board of Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Go from the blank page on Monday to multiple innovation blueprints on Friday. The post How to shape your innovation strategy in only 5 days appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When you make changes, are they coming at you from the outside in or inside out? In my 30 years of working with top leaders from business, health care, government and education, I have found that the majority of change comes from the outside in. When a new law is passed, you have to make changes in order to comply with it; when a competitor comes in offering lower prices, you probably have to change some aspect of how you do business; and when a new technology comes out that changes customer beh

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2018

There was a lot of talk at this year’s Open Nation about the number of lurkers in IdeaScale communities: those community members who sign on, create a profile and view pages, but then don’t take further action like suggesting ideas, reviewing ideas, refining ideas, etc. For those of you familiar with the 90-9-1 rule of the internet, this makes a lot of sense; 1% of the participants in any digital system will be adding the most value, 9% adding some value and the other 90% are simply viewing the

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Through my 2008-10 doctoral research, I found that the biggest problem that non-innovative companies have is lack of trust. In fact, whenever I was invited to speak to a company about their innovation needs, it didn’t take more than 20 minutes and 16 questions to find that they don’t have an innovation problem, they have.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015. She has developed expertise in Early Stage Innovation model, and the Lean Startup methodology, co-authoring the Lean Elephants whitepaper.

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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.

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Innovation Walk

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Vlad Dumitrescu-Petric?, REframe co-founder and trainer Back in November 2018, Innovation Walk had the pleasure to interview Vlad Dumitrescu-Petric? , co-founder of REframe. Originally from Bucharest (Romania), Vlad teaches this creative thinking concept inspired by personal development, psychology, and renowned creative minds. Check out our conversation to discover more about the REframe workshop and Vlad’s perspective on creativity and innovation. 1. “Creativity” is a word w

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 9, 2018

IoT isn't something you can ignore and hope that it just goes away. The organizations that will take the time to apply IoT to gather data, analyze it, and turn it into actionable insights will gain a competitive advantage over those that don't. The post How Interconnected Devices Are Re-Shaping Businesses appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are November’s twenty most.

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InnovationManagement

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Education is a powerful vehicle for professional growth. It’s now more affordable, and recent technological innovations have made it easier for employees to acquire and advance their skillsets.

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IdeaSpies

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A software tool/digital platform that’s easy to use would make it easier for your staff to contribute ideas. A recent Employee Innovation Survey asked employees what would make it easier for them to contribute ideas. The top response was 45% wanting a software tool/digital platform that’s easy to use, with lower management particularly in favour at 59% as well as organisations with 5,000 plus employees at 64%.

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Peer Insight

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When our clients are in a position to make tough choices on which path to take for growth (especially in slow-moving, scaled organizations), we tell them put on their Venture Capitalist hat and imagine that they’re investing in a startup. This helps them re-imagine and re-prioritize the risks associated with launching new products, services and business models in new ways, which is sometimes hard for organizations that aren’t used to growing in this way.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2018

At Siemens ConneCTs 2018 I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Norbert Gaus, Head of R&D in Digitalization and Automation, and Barbara Humpton, Chief Executive Officer of Siemens USA and one of the topics of conversation that emerged was a collision of different insights and aspects surrounding the future of work. A couple.

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InnovationManagement

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The key to innovation success is simple—innovation is nothing without exploration and exploitation.

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Collectivecamp

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In spite of the growing uptake of technology based solutions by firms, the truly disruptive technologies revolving around AI and blockchain for instance, that will be making waves for the next few decades are still, arguably, in their infancy.

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IdeaSpies

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Young employees in particular would contribute many more ideas with incentives. We recently revealed the results of an Employee Innovation Survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine if employees have a voice in helping their organisations succeed. Innovation was defined simply in the survey as “implementation of ideas that add value”. There are many employee engagement surveys but not employee innovation surveys.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a manager, I always felt incredible pressure to innovate. Yet it was hard to know how to go about it. There were plenty of books about high flying companies, but those same organizations seemed to sputter out almost as soon as the ink was dry. I wanted to know how to innovate consistently, not.

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InnovationManagement

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Customer experience is perhaps the single most valuable and emphasized component of business operations. Both B2B and B2C companies greatly value the concept of creating exceptional customer experience as the bottom line of achieving revenue growth.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

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IdeaConnection

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A novel screening model to predict when passengers will arrive at Dublin Airport security.

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Taivara

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Event Recap. Product Hunt Columbus – Grypmat, Yubi Beauty, and Shuffle. DECEMBER 4, 2018 — This Product Hunt Columbus event was an extra special one. Not only was it a great turnout, but the companies presenting were one-of-a-kind. On November 15th, TIME Magazine released their list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2018. Both Grypmat and Yubi Beauty were named on the list!

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Whether it’s a VC, a partner, an employee, a spouse, or your child, getting someone to see things your way means doing this first. Few negotiations involve decisions with stakes as high as a hostage crisis, but this simple 5-step negotiation strategy works just as well in the boardroom as it does in the battlefield.

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Rmukesh Gupta

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I would like to tell you a short story. There was once an old wise man who after retiring from his work decided to buy a house in his old village and moved there to live his life in a peaceful setting. All was well until it wasn’t. Once the school started, there were a few boys who used to walk past his home on their way to school. They would drum on the metal garbage bins that were near the window of the wise man’s bedroom.

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