Mon.Nov 05, 2018

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5 Ways to Measure Whether Your Idea Will Become a Great One… or Fail Miserably.

Innovation Excellence

“Everything begins with an idea.” Right? Uhhmmm… not really. Instead, everything begins with a problem. Something happens (or doesn’t happen) that highlights a problem that either already exists or could exist. And more importantly, the need for a solution is born. The bigger or more widespread the problem, the more pressing an answer to that.

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Innovation Is Not Mad Science, It’s Good Science

Innovation 360 Group

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If You’re Looking To Make A True Breakthrough, Start With The Monkey First

Innovation Excellence

At Google’s X division, the company’s “moonshot factory,” the mantra is “#MonkeyFirst.” The idea is that if you want to get a monkey to recite Shakespeare on a pedestal, you’d better start by training the monkey, not building the pedestal, because training the monkey is the hard part. Anyone can build a pedestal. The problem.

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How the Creative Mind Works

Michael Michalko

Rockefeller University physicist, Heinz Pagels, in his book “The Cosmic Code,” wrote that quantum physics is a kind of code that interconnects everything in the universe. There are, for example, remarkable similarities between the mysteries of how our creative mind works and what quantum physicists have observed in their studies of the universe. Thoughts in our subconscious minds behave remarkably like subatomic particles in quantum physics which simultaneously exist and don’t exist until observ

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to succeed with innovation – Linköping

Innovation 360 Group

Commit the mistakes before it costs too much and to avoid expensive extensive feasibility studies. We are many who have been informed that ideas / products or IT systems have been launched, despite the fact that it has been known in advance that it will be a failure. How to avoid these mistakes and save money on both development and marketing and avoiding bad reputation among customers and employees?

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Seattle Roundtable Exploring the Process of Getting Ideas to Market

Innovation Leader

Our latest roundtable dove into the challenges of sourcing ideas, and how to move those ideas through prototyping, pilots, and eventual release into the world.

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Spanx and Rent the Runway Founders on Building Brands

Innovation Leader

Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman and Spanx Founder Sara Blakely discuss brand building, using humor, and empowering women at Forbes 30 Under 30.

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Evolve Your Workshops

Svava

Announcing the next new feature in Idea Hunt’s transformational SaaS Suite.

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Caring For Your Customers With The Utmost Priority

The Human Factor

Image source. Contributed post –. If customers, or however you term those who interact with your firm and keep it running weren’t taken care of, they would quickly ignore your facility or firm and move onto a better option. This is perhaps one of the most basic things we understand about customer care. Unfortunately, not enough operations treat their customers with the respect they are due.

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The Ultimate Guide to Building an Internal Innovation Coaching System

Moves the Needle

Digital technology, the accelerated pace of change, and the evolving relationship between businesses and their customers all have an effect on how organizations must operate in order to remain relevant in today’s shifting business landscape. The fact is, companies must be more agile, understand their customers deeply, and make bold moves in order to survive.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Surviving & thriving in the entrepreneurs game

ImagineNation

I was shocked to see in my calendar that it’s exactly 30 years since I exited my corporate career as a top retail executive at the now defunct Australian Coles-Myer Group. I also realized that it’s also my 30-year anniversary as a serial entrepreneur, now running a global SME consulting business. Who is ploughing away, when most of my peers are advancing begrudgingly towards retirement, at creating a global start-up that everyone said wouldn’t work.