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Article Organizational Generative AI Readiness Assessment
December 1, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
Is your organization moving beyond talk toward action when it comes to generative AI tools and use cases? This 10-question assessment will give you an instant readiness readout — from minimal to moderate to complete readiness.
Thought Leadership Make the Leap to Innovation Hyperspace in 2024
November 27, 2023 | By Doug Williams, SmartOrg, Inc.
Innovation leaders have a choice, writes Doug Williams of SmartOrg. You can be the Millenium Falcon: float through the year surrounded by garbage, hoping to get away safely and without harm. Or you can be the Star Destroyer: dump all the dead weight that is slowing you down, set a...
Thought Leadership 2024: A Corporate Innovation Odyssey
November 27, 2023 | By Ludwig Melik, HYPE Innovation
It's time to redefine the role of innovation within organizations, writes Ludwig Melik of Planbox. No longer can it be an isolated entity; it must be intricately woven into the very fabric of the company's strategy, vision, and policy.
Thought Leadership Innovations of the Past and the Imperative of Moving Forward
November 27, 2023 | By Michael Goldstein, SwitchPitch
Collaboration when it comes to innovation is imperative, writes Michael Goldstein of SwitchPitch. Corporations should foster environments where individuals feel empowered to share ideas regardless of hierarchical boundaries.
Thought Leadership Innovation Teams vs. Innovative Teams: Which Will Take Your Company to the Next Level?
November 27, 2023 | By Sandra Miller, Foundry 415
Ask yourself: do I want an Innovation Team or a team that is innovative? Find areas of innovation beyond product specs and markets. When working with our partners we ask three key questions: Who is empowered to make change, How are you measuring innovation, and Are you prepared to succeed?
Thought Leadership Ideal Ideation: Four Crowdsourcing Best Practices from History to Drive Innovation in 2024
November 27, 2023 | By Charlie Lloyd, Qmarkets
It’s easy to think of crowdsourcing as something relatively new, writes Charlie Lloyd of Qmarkets. After all, the term itself has only been around since 2006. Yet the reality couldn’t be more different.
Thought Leadership Rethinking Innovation: Navigating the Road Ahead in 2024
November 27, 2023 | By Simon Hill, Wazoku
Let's recalibrate our metrics to reflect the shifting dynamics of our business environment, writes Simon Hill, CEO of Wazoku. Traditional measures of success no longer suffice.
Thought Leadership Why Generative AI is the North Star for Corporate Innovators
November 27, 2023 | By Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner, U+
Companies that embrace and experiment with AI solutions are experiencing a five-fold increase in the number of venture ideas and are twice as selective in their decisions. Sean Sheppard of U+ serves up examples in this piece.
Article A New Model for Understanding How Generative AI Will Impact Your Organization
November 27, 2023
WINS work involves manipulating and interpreting Words, Images, Numbers, and Sounds (WINS). Generative AI, the authors contend, is "a power tool for WINS work." They provide models for thinking about your organization and industry will be impacted.
Thought Leadership The AI-Enabled Explosion of Organizational Creativity and Innovation is Here
November 20, 2023 | By Erik Noyes, Babson College
Innovation won’t come from AI alone, writes Erik Noyes of Babson College, but from your best people with their respective human superpowers now augmented by AI. How will your top innovators leverage AI to explore, imagine, prototype, and create?
On Demand Webcast Three Things Companies Can Do to Win with Generative AI in 2024
November 20, 2023
This November 2023 webcast replay covers what companies should be doing with regard to generative AI. Presenter Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation called generative AI a "clasically disruptive technology" — something that makes things that were previously difficult or expensive accessible to the masses. "It's going to create massive opportunities,"...
Article How Generative AI Customer Service is Saving One Insurance Firm $4M a Year
November 15, 2023
This is a excerpt from the new Corporate Buyers’ Guide to LLMs, published this week by GAI Insights. In producing the report, the analyst firm interviewed consultants and vendors, as well as chief technology officers, chief digital officers, chief innovation officers, and other company leaders at 40 prominent organizations. • • •...
Research Report Getting More from Corporate-University Partnerships
November 13, 2023
In today’s fast-paced world, the synergy between universities and corporations can play a powerful role in driving meaningful technological and business advancements. Universities can bring new ideas and approaches to the practical problems of industry, and industry can provide faculty and students with learning opportunities they simply can’t get in...
Article How AI Will Alter the Innovation Role
November 7, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
Generative AI-based tools are going to radically reshape how corporations generate growth — whether that growth is linked to the core business, or to further-out adjacent and transformational opportunities. Here's what that means for corporate innovators....
Article McGraw Hill Exec on Building the ‘TikTok for Studying’
October 31, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
When he first proposed building Sharpen, McGraw Hill’s app that has been called “the TikTok for studying,” Justin Singh didn’t know whether it would play well with the company’s target audience for the product — students looking for a new way to study that was more aligned with their lifestyle.
Article Five Steps for Devising a Digital Roadmap
October 19, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
Many companies start “digital transformations” that meander along and get nowhere. The new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap, by Columbia Business School professor David Rogers, serves up constructive advice about building digital skills and strategies that can respond to today’s constantly-changing environment. We talk with Rogers...
Article Harvard University’s Chief Sustainability Officer on Pursuing ‘Goal Zero’
October 17, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
With 600 buildings, nearly 20,000 employees, 25,000 students, and a fleet of vehicles, Harvard University oversees a vast amount of infrastructure. And the university is working to ensure that infrastructure ends its use of fossil fuels by 2050. We talk with Chief Sustainability Officer Heather Henriksen.
On Demand Webcast Innovation Metrics: What You Measure is What You Get
October 13, 2023
This October 2023 webcast replay covers what people are currently getting wrong when it comes to innovation metrics, how to put it right (including how best to answer that thorny ROI question), and why innovation data you can trust is so critical in today’s dynamic business environment.
Video Data Insights: How Big Organizations Identify Relevant Startups and Partners
October 12, 2023
InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner shares some data highlights from our latest research about how large organizations search for relevant partners outside their walls.
Video Babson College Prof Gina O’Connor on Getting Innovation Started
October 11, 2023
In this short video, Professor of Innovation Management Gina O'Connor serves up advice about creating a solid foundation for an innovation program.