Tue.Mar 14, 2017

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The Connected Leader: Relationships that Produce to Results

IdeaScale

No one is smart enough to solve really important problems alone. Networking is critical. Being able to find, build, and test ideas through a network of diverse perspectives offers leaders, teams, and innovation projects the benefits of new insights and novel points of view, which increase the chance of uncovering real breakthroughs. Having a rich network of productive stakeholders can open doors for your employees and accelerate innovation across the enterprise.

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9 Steps To Cultivating Genius In Your Work

Faisal Hoque

In making something, whether it is a business, an app, a book, or art, we bring something into the world that could come only from us. The post 9 Steps To Cultivating Genius In Your Work appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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Innovation and Sustainability: Brothers in Arms

Innovation Architecture

The computer hardware company Cisco published an article on how blockchain technology holds promise in accelerating the adoption of solar energy. The approach, which uses a version of Bitcoin called Solarcoin, incentivizes people who produce small amounts of power through micro-payments of the crypto-currency. The article stayed at the macro level, envisioning small payments to millions of households connected to the grid.

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Why Cultivate Innovation Agility?

Innovation Excellence

I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”. So.

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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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Changing Company Culture

InnovationManagement

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses the difficulty of changing a company’s culture and how the key is to focus on a few core values and constantly repeat the message. Whitman also stresses the importance of identifying the obstacles standing in the way of change, and making sure the message is just as clear to far-flung groups within a large organization.

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Differentiating Yourself Part One

Guide 4 Innovating

How do we show the real difference that innovation can provide? I believe we have eight needs to achieve. Each of us will arrive at our own personal understanding of what this “all means” Innovation is about achieving difference so if we all arrived at the same point of understanding then we actually are defeating ourselves from the very beginning.

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Big Data Has Broken Its Promises

Innovation Excellence

Because We Need To Fix Our Data Systems FIRST A data scientist, it’s been said, is a statistician who works in Silicon Valley, which is another way of saying that the term has attained true buzzword status. The potential to be unlocked is undeniably, but so far, there has been no shortage of disappointment and.

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4 Simple Ways to Get Lucky

Rmukesh Gupta

4 Ways to Get Lucky by Mukesh Gupta. In an experiment, social scientist Richard Wiseman , placed advertisements in national newspapers and magazines, asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact him. Over the years, 400 extraordinary men and women volunteered for his research from all walks of life: the youngest is an 18-year-old student, the oldest an 84-year-old retired accountant.

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Agile Innovation Manager Training

ITONICS

We offer a training to become an Agile Innovation manager in cooperation with our partners from Innovation Alliance. This modular training program ensures that you benefit from the Innovation Alliance’s many different fields of expertise and leads to the title of Agile Innovation Manager. Modul I A – From strategy to ideas / Foresight, scenarios, trends.

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Application Overlay for a Digital Trust

Information Playground

In a recent post, I proposed an architecture for a digital trust. In that post, I defined applications within a digital trust architecture as  the initiators of data deposits and withdrawals.  If applications are defined as initiators that create value, then it becomes critical for an enterprise to create a framework that does the following: create a development culture of continuous application innovation, create a near-instantaneous release and deployment framework for these

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Comment on Innovation Minute #27: Why Diversity Can Kill Innovation by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thanks for letting me know! I appreciate it.

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Business Needs Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

The significant transformation taking place around exploiting technology and digital management has made ecosystems and platforms a mainstream prospecting need, in most of our businesses today. We must engage in what all of this means and its business impact. I certainly believe the ecosystem approach will increasingly become the main value-producing stream for innovation delivery.

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3 Short, Funny Strategic Planning Questions

BrainZooming

Short Story: Strategic planning questions that allow people to challenge conventional norms are fun and lead to disruptive thinking, so employ questions to harvest ideas from the wild possibilities. The other day, someone reached out looking for short, funny, strategic planning questions. We have tons of strategic planning questions, including a few we have singled out as more fun than others.