IdeaScale
JULY 5, 2018
Risk vs. reward can be a hard thing to balance. All of business, it has been argued, boils down to weighing the likely rewards of a decision against the likely risk. The problem with any innovation strategy is that, at some point, innovation runs into this equation. Any innovation, to some degree, is a risk. It’s just a question of weighing that risk against the reward.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 3, 2018
I used to believe that in order to be innovative, we all have to innovate the same way, my way. Usually, that involves stepping outside my comfort zone and daring to be fearless. My way of innovating includes getting super uncomfortable and taking big risks. Obviously, since that’s how I tend to innovate, you should.
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Digital Tonto
JULY 4, 2018
There is no one "true" path to innovation, but there are basic principles that we can apply Related posts: An Innovation Roadmap. Why Best Practices Can Lead To Better Innovation. A New Breed Of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Mike Shipulski
JULY 4, 2018
Business and life are all about choosing how you want to allocate your time and money. In life, it’s your personal time and money and in business it’s the company’s. If you’ve ever done any winter hiking, you know that it’s important to know the terrain. If there’s a mountain in the way, you either go over it or around it. But there one thing you can’t do is pretend it’s not there.
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.
Idea to Value
JULY 1, 2018
With it’s Kickbox programme , Adobe is giving every employee with an idea the opportunity to go out and experiment on it. The smartest part: they’re completely happy for that idea to fail. Adobe as a company has an innate link with creativity. After all, it produces some of the most widely-used software products used in the design industries, such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
IdeaScale
JULY 3, 2018
In a recent survey, researchers found that seventy-five percent of hospital executives at a location with 400 or more beds are planning to build an innovation center. According to Gartner , innovation centers can serve many purposes, including building cultural innovation norms in the workplace, providing workspaces for strategic goals, and beyond. But when I read this study, what I took away was the fact that hospital executives are beginning to respond to dramatic shifts in trends and technolo
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Innovation Excellence
JULY 2, 2018
Why should brands care? Plastics is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing right now. Thanks to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet, consumers are suddenly aware of the thousands of tonnes of plastic filling the ocean. As plastic is so prolifically used, especially in packaging, brands are going to need to act quick to.
Idea to Value
JULY 6, 2018
According to a recent study by the Unilever Foundation , there is a strong desire for corporations to improve their innovation capability by working more closely with startups. Based on the results of a recent survey of 204 corporate brand managers and 114 startups about how their companies planned to collaborate together, the following results were identified: 80% of corporates believe that startups can have a positive impact on a large company’s approach to innovation. 89% startups believe the
IdeaScale
JULY 4, 2018
Innovation starts in the clouds and comes to Earth. Innovation is particularly important for industries that seemingly move slowly, and that’s particularly true of banking. South Africa’s Standard Bank, which has branches across Africa and is expanding to other markets across the world, is an excellent demonstration of why. Innovation drives everything Standard does, and their particular achievement drew on their internal expertise to reduce the downtimes of their ATMs.
Guide 4 Innovating
JULY 5, 2018
I would like to lay out some thoughts on why we should be considering a curation platform for innovation and the value it can bring to a broader innovation community. These are some opening thoughts that I felt needed to just “hang out there” and see where they take me and clearly, you as a reader. The issue I am reflecting upon is our growing concern that we all are living in a world heading towards digital overload, with the risk of it simply overwhelming us, perhaps we are becomin
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.
Board of Innovation
JULY 5, 2018
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Collectivecamp
JULY 4, 2018
Design thinking is a mindset that empowers children with the ability to think creatively.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 4, 2018
In 1892, George Eastman formed the Eastman Kodak Company to “make the camera as convenient as a pencil.” It was an idea whose time had come and by the early 20th century, Kodak emerged as one of America’s largest companies and Eastman one of its most successful entrepreneurs. It wasn’t just that one idea that.
Guide 4 Innovating
JULY 2, 2018
I have been heavily influenced by the great work of John Hagel and Deloitte’s “ Big Shift Index ” as a frame to measure the forces of long-term change. What really holds my attention is “knowledge flows” and they are suggesting we are moving from a world of push to a world of pull. The world is increasingly uncertain and to steer through this we need new ways to access, attract and accumulate understanding.
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Beyond the Obvious
JULY 6, 2018
I’ve been fascinated by the power of questions, either good or bad, for my entire professional life. The more I thought about them, the more I began to notice how people used them. I started to see how some people had the innate ability to formulate and pose questions that propelled others to make investigations […].
Collectivecamp
JULY 2, 2018
The real estate industry has long been considered a laggard insofar as technology adoption has been concerned with more than 40% of real estate companies still relying on spreadsheets and paper-based processes to manage properties today.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 2, 2018
One of the most important roles of the leader of a creative team is to keep the team separated from the rest of the organization. Just like your immune system separates you from disease. What is the most important trait of the creative team leader? In my research of why people are more creative in startup companies than in.
Bill Fischer
JUNE 30, 2018
After so many years of creating electric light, heavier than air flying machines, communications systems that span the world, enormous computer power that fits in our pockets, vaccines that have conquered age-old diseases, gone to the moon, etc., we have become the “can’t do guys”!
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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.
CREATORS
JULY 3, 2018
Everyone wants innovate, create new products, cut down costs. But what about an innovation in the way we structure organizations? A survey done by Deloitte in 2015 revealed that only 38% of over 7000 companies surveyed retained a traditional structure. Out of the 38% minority, 92% said organizational redesign was “the top priority.” One proposed alternate business model, adopted by companies such as Zappos, W.
Collectivecamp
JULY 4, 2018
Our recent Lemonade Stand program Lemonade Stand brought kids together to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and capabilities.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 5, 2018
Did you miss Part One or Part Two? Innovation labs or rapid innovation centers are developing at fast pace. Hereafter, we prolongate the previous review of Innovation Labs, with an industry point of view. Each archetype can inspire the managers in charge of creating an innovation lab, and arm them to compose their own recipe for.
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
IdeaConnection
JULY 6, 2018
Calling all petrol heads. Formula 1 needs your help. The “Tata Communications F1 Innovation Prize” is offering $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best way to improve broadcasts of races and how they are enjoyed by viewers. “We’re giving you, the fans the chance to design your F1 the ultimate user interface using F1’s diverse data points to create your own viewing experience,” commented Ross Brawn, the managing director of Formula 1.
Wazoku
JULY 3, 2018
Based on the Innov8rs webinar on the same topic where Nicola Darke, Customer Success Director at Wazoku, Tim Westall, Co-Founder of April Strategy, and Hans Gillior, Founder of the Goodwind Company, each shared two ways to improve innovation through culture change. You’ve been assigned the grand task of transforming a business and don’t know where to start?
Innovation Excellence
JULY 1, 2018
Probability is a wonderful tool but it may also be the surest path to an ordinary life devoid of innovation. History is littered with people who reached for the impossible against odds that where less than zero. Our greatest fear is uncertainty. We will do anything to avoid it, including lying to ourselves and trying.
Innovation Leader
JULY 3, 2018
Jackson Wang shares his advice on the most effective ways to use design thinking, highlighting lessons from his work as VP of Retail Design at L’Oreal and Procter & Gamble.
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InnovationManagement
JULY 2, 2018
One of the most popular resources that IdeaScale has ever created was our white paper about how crowdsourcing was going to impact the financial sector. I think the reason why that white paper was so popular was because crowdsourcing was just one of many emerging trends that were beginning to shake up the financial sector. Other financial trends included the emergence of blockchain, sophisticated hacker schemes, and much (MUCH) more.
Collectivecamp
JULY 5, 2018
In an age where a firm’s innovation strategy can make or break the company, it’s more important than ever for companies to define what it means to innovate. In this article, we cover the strategies and models for business innovation strategy, along with examples.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 1, 2018
Recently I had the opportunity to interview Howard Yu, LEGO professor of management and innovation at the prestigious IMD Business School in Switzerland, director of IMD’s signature Advanced Management Program (AMP), and author of the book Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied to investigate a series of important questions.
Innovation 360 Group
JULY 5, 2018
Back in 2011, we were wondering how to develop the first hypothesis in the large and very complex assignments we were undertaking. We decided to look at other trades and industries to see how they approached complex tasks. After some investigation, we heard that the CIA was using something called “grounded theory”; later this turned out to be a vital element in capturing Osama bin Laden.
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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