Sat.Aug 04, 2018 - Fri.Aug 10, 2018

article thumbnail

Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

HYPE Innovation

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality.

Agile 100
article thumbnail

Scaling Edges vs. Transforming Core

Innovation Excellence

Dual approaches are evermore finding their way into corporate strategy, development and innovation. There are several manifestations at play, such as.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

If the Door is Shut, Open it. If the Door is Open, Shut it.

Destination Innovation

In looking for innovations it is sometimes helpful to consider whether your product or service is open or closed. If it is open what would happen if you enclosed it? If it is closed what would happen if you opened it? The opposite approach to the current method can yield powerful new ideas. Here are some examples. Computing. • For years software products were completely closed systems.

article thumbnail

How Does Technology Influence Innovation?

IdeaScale

In a recent round of research, I was reviewing adoption rates for new technologies. It took over 55 years for automobiles to reach 80 million people, whereas the internet was able to achieve the same feat in less than 18 years. It reminded me of the staggering comparison: “It took about 75 years for the telephone to connect to 50 million people. It took Angry Birds 35 days.”.

article thumbnail

Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

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.

article thumbnail

What unicorns and nawhals tell us about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

My lovely wife and I were returning from a long car trip, having one of those wide-ranging conversations about everything and nothing that consumes time during long periods of interstate driving. The topics were shifting and free-flowing, when suddenly she asked the question: what's the difference between a unicorn and a narwhal? After all, they both seem a bit mysterious and they share the uncommon attribute of possessing only one horn.

article thumbnail

A feast of opportunities for Siemens?

Paul Hobcraft

I decided to invest a decent amount of time into the Siemens 3 rd Quarter Announcements and it has been worth it. I really don’t understand the investor and analysts attending this event as they are just becoming more fixated, caught in their own view of the world, continuing to stay stuck in their recurring positions and constant looking in the rear-view mirror.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Research is Collaborative

IdeaScale

Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open, networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners. ESIP is supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 110+ member organizations all working together to collaboratively share research, funding opportunities, and to network with one another. According to ESIP their mission is to foster connection between “the functional sectors of observation, research, application, education and use of Earth science.”.

article thumbnail

5 Innovative Agricultural Practices That Are Changing the World

Innovation Excellence

Digitization in the modern age means that almost every contemporary field or industry is becoming more and more reliant on hardware connected to and, in some cases, controlled by software. These industries are being transformed from the inside out by innovative technology and practices, and even traditionally analogue ways of life are finding it difficult.

Change 98
article thumbnail

The History Of The Killer Questions

Beyond the Obvious

I started writing the Killer Questions when I was in my short-lived “retirement” early in 2001. As I relaxed in the Virginian countryside, my mind started to flash back to various experiences I’d had during my working life. Over the course of the preceding twenty years I’d seen dozens of highly innovative products and ideas […].

Course 76
article thumbnail

Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Blockchain

Digital Tonto

Eliminating information bottlenecks is how blockchain will truly change the world Related posts: Bitcoin May Not Survive, But The Technology Behind It Will Live On. Marketers Need To Start Preparing. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

article thumbnail

A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

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.

article thumbnail

3 Steps to Design Your Innovation Management Program

IdeaScale

Disrupt or be disrupted has been the slogan of the past few years as new startups repeatedly overturn and overtake established companies that have been around for years. This trend has given rise to “ innovation management ,” a term that risks being ignored simply for how wonky it sounds. After all, can “innovation” ever really be managed? And stodgy as the term might be, I think it actually helps us to redefine some of our deeply held (and erroneous) beliefs.

article thumbnail

Four Ways to Overcome the Impossible

Innovation Excellence

“You’ve heard it a million times but here’s why it’s true.” I’m just coming off of a one year build of a new startup. As with most startups, it’s been a wild ride, with more twists and turns, obstacles and challenges, learning and growth than I would ever have imagined. You’d think after having made.

article thumbnail

Your Startup (or Innovation Program) Needs Both Kirk and Scotty

helloFUTURE

To Be Successful, You Need Both These Attributes In Equal Measure If you look at most of the successful startups (and internal innovation programs) throughout history, you’ll note a trend – there are usually two or more partner founders (or intrapreneurs) right there at the beginning (although eBay is a notable difference). Additionally, these partners… The post Your Startup (or Innovation Program) Needs Both Kirk and Scotty appeared first on hellofuture.

article thumbnail

Establishing an Effective Innovation Process Architecture

Sopheon

See why it's important to establish an effective innovation process architecture and explore the four pillars of innovation management. The post Establishing an Effective Innovation Process Architecture appeared first on Sopheon.

article thumbnail

The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

article thumbnail

How You Ask for Innovation Matters

Gregg Fraley

Six Considerations for Inclusive Innovation. The Wall Street Journal published an article this week, Why Innovation is a Team Sport. . It reveals a broad based study on innovation done by the research firm Great Place to Work. You can download the entire white paper at Great Places website. Nicely done survey GP2W! Essentially, the survey says that companies that are more broad-based and inclusive in innovation have better growth prospects.

article thumbnail

Every Business Must Prepare For An AI-Driven World. Here’s How:

Innovation Excellence

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the first computer-aided design (CAD) software packages began to appear. Initially, they were mostly used for high-end engineering tasks, but as they got cheaper and simpler to use, they became a basic tool to automate the work of engineers and architects. According to a certain logic, with so.

article thumbnail

The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3) and InnoCentive Announce Award Recipients in the Challenge for Novel Green Preservatives

Innocentive

59
article thumbnail

Bringing Your A-Game: What Game Theory Can Teach Us About Innovation Management

Qmarkets

If you’re one of the approximately 3-4 Billion people who have tuned into the world cup over the last month, chances are that work has taken a backseat to football on more than one occasion…. However, don’t start feeling guilty just yet. Beneath the excitement and panoply of the world cup lies a broad range of core mechanisms and mathematical formulae that are also highly relevant in the world of business.

article thumbnail

The Benefits of Innovation in Times of Crisis

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.

article thumbnail

The importance of coaching intrapreneurs

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Intrapreneurship is an innovation engine for the corporation. But does it soar on its own? Or does it require some guidance and coaching to blossom?

article thumbnail

Innovating Human Resources

Innovation Excellence

If you boil down the function of Human Relations to logical extremes, you end up with polar opposites. On one hand, you have the traditional view of HR: a place to fill out all of your essential employee paperwork, ask questions about benefits, send out messages about birthdays, and a place to be heard if.

article thumbnail

What Role Does Research Play in Innovation?

InnovationManagement

A lot of innovation programs have naturally grown out of research and development groups, but most true innovation is a departure from what’s come before so what role does the “research” in “research and development” play in innovation?

article thumbnail

ITONICS mentioned in the Gartner Hype Cycle on Enterprise Architecture

ITONICS

The recently published Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture 2018 by Gartner deals with various technology-enabled business models and solutions within today’s enterprise architecture. Gartner considers four different phases: On the Rise (e.g. Trendspotting, Human-Centered Design, Customer Journey Analytics), At the Peak (e.g. Security Architecture, Design Thinking, Digital Twin), Sliding Into the Trough (e.g.

Roadmap 48
article thumbnail

How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

article thumbnail

19 Options to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy

BrainZooming

A client raised a question about what more it can do to quicken its pace of innovation ? As with lots of innovation questions, my quick response was we have an eBook for that. and lots of articles, too! Resources are a common barrier to innovation, download the Brainzooming innovation eBook, 16 Keys for Finding Resources to Accelerate Your Innovation Strategy.

article thumbnail

Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Innovations

Innovation Excellence

I had the good fortune to work with Dr. Amar Bose and with the great company he founded. I helped to bring into the world two blockbuster products – BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System. Here are seven product development process lessons learned from our experience creating products enjoyed by millions of customers. Lesson.

article thumbnail

The Subtle and Critical Art of Questioning

Rmukesh Gupta

Lawyers have known all along that the way word their question to a witness, determines the response they get from the witness. They have used this practical knowledge for decades to both right the wrongs and wrong some rights. . In a research paper titled, “ Eliciting the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: The Effect of Question Phrasing on Deception , ” Maurice Schweitzer (Wharton professor) & his team of researchers discovered that subtle tweaks in the way a question is a

Survey 45
article thumbnail

The right time horizon for technology development

Mike Shipulski

Patents are the currency of technology and profits are the currency of business. And as it turns out, if you focus on creating technology you’ll get technology (and patents) and if you focus on profits you’ll get profits. But if no one buys your technology (in the form of the products or services that use it), you’ll go out of business. And if you focus exclusively on profits you won’t create technology and you’ll go out of business.

article thumbnail

Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

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.

article thumbnail

Four Free Hacks to Make Your Travel More Comfortable

Stephen Shapiro

I am on the road nearly 200 days a year. With over 30 years of travel under my belt, I’ve discovered many simple and free ways to make your travel more enjoyable. Here are my four favorites. I hope you like them as they’ve made my life a lot better. Keeping Window Shades Closed. After a long flight, it feels to great to hop into bed for a good night’s sleep.

Tips 45
article thumbnail

The 4 V’s – How to Win at Health Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Back in the day, during the Vietnam era, the suggested credo was “Declare victory and go home” Some sick care entrepreneurs have taken a similar approach by hyping digital health and process solutions that will create “Uberized, disruptive, cutting edge” change. Most are too early and wrong in declaring victory. For sick care innovation to be truly transformative, innovators need to.

How To 67
article thumbnail

How the mind makes new ideas: Bending, breaking, blending

Rmukesh Gupta

In this short video David Eagleman shares how all new ideas originate by bending, breaking or blending existing ideas. . Watch the video here. . Simple, yet profound. Once we know this, there is an amazing array of things that we can create. . Also reminds me of a post that I had written long back – 3 Ways to Systematically Come Up with Breakthrough Ideas.

Video 45
article thumbnail

How the Aerospace Firm Embraer is Pursuing Disruptive Innovation

Innovation Leader

David Rottblatt of EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation team at Embraer, explains how the team is set up and some initial projects, including a collaboration with Uber.

article thumbnail

Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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.