Destination Innovation

JULY 5, 2021

Elon Musk. What do the following people have in common? Levi Strauss, Henry Ford, Estee Lauder, Walt Disney, Elon Musk, Arianna Huffington, Sergey Brin? They are all famous entrepreneurs who founded successful new businesses. But also they are all immigrants or the children of immigrants. According to the Entrepreneurs Network , while just 14% of UK residents are foreign-born, 49% of the UK’s fastest-growing startups have at least one foreign-born co-founder.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 11, 2021

When we use machines to perform tasks formerly done by humans we unlock multiple effects. The most obvious, of course, is that somebody is out of a job, less obvious are how technology affects. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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Idea to Value

JULY 20, 2021

If you ask a number of startups what they are hoping to achieve, undoubtedly you will encounter one that is going to “Disrupt” their industry. Disruption is what Uber, Airbnb, Amazon and the iPhone did to their industries. Disruption is cool. Disruption is sexy. And unfortunately, hardly any of these companies even know what disruption really is.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2021

East and West- the different meeting points in understanding. I lived for about fifteen years in Asia and the before, and in the in-between period, I travelled around the region a fair amount. Today less so, but ask me where I want to go, and it is back to my city for twelve plus of those years, Singapore. Some events today set me thinking that resulted in re-issuing this post, shortening it down a bit.

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting, has had a slower progression – until now. Workforce disruption due to the pandemic, coupled with the rapid adoption of digital workplace technologies, are creating unique, exciting opportunities for service-focused innovation.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 18, 2021

In Built to Last, management guru Jim Collins suggested that leaders should develop a “big hairy audacious goal” (BHAG) to serve as a unifying vision for their enterprise. He pointed to examples such. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

Over the last 25 years, I’ve spent thousands of hours and run hundreds of innovation sessions designed to help business executives across all industries to develop better strategies which will enable them to stay ahead of the competition when it comes to developing the most innovative products and services to serve their customers. ? . One of the most important tools in my arsenal as an innovation consultant is the Innovation Roadmap Template , a tool that provides a visual representation o

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Idea to Value

JULY 9, 2021

A few years ago I had a very interesting discussion with Lisa Bodell , CEO of Futurethink and bestselling author of innovation books Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She told me about how most employees waste far too much time in meetings and answering emails. They were too busy to get any real work done throughout the day. In effect, busyness is getting in the way of their business.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? We are entering some perilous times in climate change and what this will mean in destruction in what we know, what we value and what we are used to. I can’t imagine when Joseph Schumpeter outlined his groundbreaking efforts for explaining “ creative destruction ” he or anyone else could imagine this being flipped around to what we are facing more of today

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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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Viima

JULY 30, 2021

Like a fine-tuned instrument, successful innovation needs perfect calibration and careful adjustments, over and over again. Maybe you’ve already tried recalibrating your innovation efforts but to no avail. What went wrong and what to improve next? Successful companies focus on optimizing around the customer’s real needs. But how to do that? How to discover their underlying needs?

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InnovationManagement

JULY 28, 2021

In this series I’ve been critically examining the significant changes impacting the corporate innovation competency, which leads to how organisations drive future growth and impact. The post What is the New Model for Innovation Success? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 4, 2021

The truth is that leadership is the art of managing the ambiguous, or as Stanley McChrystal has put it, “a complex system of relationships between leaders and followers, in a particular context, that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

Depending on your industry, size and company structure, driving innovation within your business can be a huge undertaking. Some companies are founded with innovation in mind, while others may have struggled to innovate from the very beginning. Innovation, and coming up with new products and services for your business to stand out in the market is one of the most important things you can do to ensure its success. . .

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Idea to Value

JULY 12, 2021

If you want to become more creative, one of the most effective things you can do is become more comfortable letting your mind wander. It sounds simple, but there is a wealth of research which shows the creative benefits of letting your thoughts flow freely. Mind wandering, or daydreaming, often occurs when you are not focussed on a specific task in front of you.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 13, 2021

Visual source; [link]. We need to think about a choice-cascade integrative model for innovation. Often we fail to understand our role in contributing to innovation; we need a cascading effect. Here I want to explain my thinking behind this and provide the visual cascading steps I feel help us succeed in innovation. For me, the “cascading effect” for innovation is “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 14, 2021

Whether we ask Amazon’s Alexa to play our favorite song or shout “Hey, Google” before asking the device a question to help our child with their homework, artificial intelligence (A.I.) has been in the spotlight more frequently in the past few years in consumer applications. In past articles, I have identified the implementation of artificial intelligence (A.I.) as being “helpfully cool”; however, its application in industries of all sorts is exponentially revolutionizing how we both think and wo

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 21, 2021

Right now, as we (hopefully) emerge from the COVID pandemic in late summer 2021, there is a real debate underway in a lot of corporations. The debate is about whether or not to fund innovation work, and if the decision is positive, how much to spend or invest in innovation. The debate is fueled by the fact that during COVID few really new or interesting products were created, and by the sense that customers are beginning to demand something new and different from the same old products and servic

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Digital Tonto

JULY 25, 2021

Plenty of people have visions. Elizabeth Holmes had one for Theranos, but its product was a fraud and the company failed. Many still believe in Uber’s vision of “gig economy” taxis, but even after. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2021

The path to identifying and adopting innovation in government is complex and non-linear. Government innovation teams and non-profits will have to work closely to communicate needs, coordinate ideas, and anticipate challenges before they arise. The Challenges Of Government Innovation. Governments face a few specific challenges that any innovator in the space will need to be aware of, whether inside government or working with it.

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Idea to Value

JULY 13, 2021

In order to succeed as a professional innovation manager, you need a variety of skills. And these skills are only going to become more valuable in the coming decades as companies realise that they are required for future growth. From being able to manage bureaucracy to coming up with ideas in the first place, here are the 6 Most Important skills you need to be an effective innovator: 1.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 7, 2021

I keep coming back to the dilemma often faced in innovation- do we practice “creative destruction” or “destructive creation? We are entering some perilous times in climate change and what this will mean in destruction in what we know, what we value and what we are used to. I can’t imagine when Joseph Schumpeter outlined his groundbreaking efforts for explaining “ creative destruction ” he or anyone else could imagine this being flipped around to what we are facing more of today

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

A little self-awareness goes a long way. For most organizations struggling to innovate for their customers and in their markets, chances are there is a lack of genuine self-understanding and assessment around what’s getting in the way and why. In my 25 years leading innovation initiatives, I have found that big challenges arise when there’s misalignment between commitment to innovation and actual competence to develop new solutions. . .

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InnovationManagement

JULY 29, 2021

Problem-solving is an essential skill as an innovator. If problems stump your employees, how can your organization ever innovate for customers? Luckily, problem-solving skills can be learned, and as a leader you can create a team of master problem solvers and innovators. The post Create a Team of Master Problem Solvers appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 7, 2021

As readers of this blog (and you know who you are) are bound to know by now, I am a movie fanatic. I love good movies, average movies, older movies and so forth. I like movies that I can quote, and also like movies that are based on my favorite books. I am one of those people who is constantly astounded when I say " African or European swallow " and people give me a blank look.

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IdeaScale

JULY 27, 2021

IdeaScale now has a Teams integration that makes it simple to submit ideas straight from your chat. Here’s how it works. Over the past year, both due to necessity and the more natural process of remote work becoming more popular, Microsoft Teams has taken center stage as the collaboration software of choice. Now, IdeaScale has developed an integration that makes it even more useful and effective, especially for brainstorming sessions, innovation committees, and open innovation initiatives.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 26, 2021

Few songwriters have creates as many memorable hits as Björn Ulvaeus. You might not immediately recognise his name, but you definitely know his band. ABBA. In this interesting TEDx talk , Björn talks about his own experiences writing music. He then contrasts this with how streaming services have changed the way music is written, to fit in with the desires of today’s consumers.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2021

East and West- the different meeting points in understanding. I lived for about fifteen years in Asia and the before, and in the in-between period, I travelled around the region a fair amount. Today less so, but ask me where I want to go, and it is back to my city for twelve plus of those years, Singapore. Some events today set me thinking that resulted in re-issuing this post, shortening it down a bit.

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Leapfrogging

JULY 18, 2021

There were over 200 different concepts for new products and services written on multi-colored post-its and stuck on every conceivable surface across the conference room in my client’s office. The innovation session had been going on for most of 2 days, yet the participants didn’t look tired. In fact, they were energized. But how on earth were we going to cut down over 200 ideas into a few that the company could bring forward?

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Strategyzer Innovation

JULY 22, 2021

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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

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