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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

Imaginatik

Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company calls “WoW-based Innovation” – e.g., breakthrough innovation designed to create net new lines of business greater than $500 million / year. "When will you get a return on its WoW investments?

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Idea Market 3.5 release helps you see clearer ahead

Exago

Exago’s 3.5 release comes with a new contextual navigation feature. It is designed to keep participants context-centred, helping them know exactly where they are, at all times, and where they can head to next. Upon landing on the platform’s homepage, Read More. The post Idea Market 3.5 release helps you see clearer ahead appeared first on www.exago.com.

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This Children’s Hospital In Dallas Is Reimagining The Healthcare Business Model

Digital Tonto

Children's Health in Dallas has been developing an innovative new model that completely reimagines how the healthcare system works with the communities it serves. Related posts: What is a Business. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Beating Cybercrime Before It Happens To You

Daniel Burrus

To understand why cybercrime is rapidly growing, as well as the seriousness and impact it can have, we need to compare it with the more traditional and visible aspects of street crime. If we were to break it down into the business language that we all understand, what is the ROI of crime both online and offline? Robbing a physical bank does offer potential rewards to criminals, but at a very high level of risk including getting shot.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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The importance of noticing the new

IdeaSpies

Our brains are designed to be efficient. Once a habit is formed, then we don’t really notice much outside what’s necessary to do those ordinary things. Think of your customary path to work; you probably pass hundreds of signs, but just don’t notice. On the other hand, you jump out of that rut if there’s a change. But the more you can train yourself to be flexible, the better you can react to change in a positive manner.

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How to be Radically Open-Minded

Innovation Excellence

(in times of exponential change and innovation) Most of us like to see ourselves as open-minded. In the workplace, we claim to be open to our colleagues’ ideas and suggestions, and from time to time we even go along with some of those ideas rather than ours. As long as their ideas don’t compete with.

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Stopping Before Starting

Mike Shipulski

Whether it’s strategic planning or personal planning, work always outstrips capacity. And whether it’s corporate growth or personal improvement, there’s always a desire to do more. But the more-with-less and it’s-never-good-enough paradigms have overfilled everyone’s plates, and there’s no room for more. There is no more time to double-book and there are no more resources to double-dip.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of July 2016

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are June’s twenty most.

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8 ways to lower your collaboration threshold

100%Open

I have recently been enjoying listening to the new Revisionist History podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. This episode is all about why smart people do dumb things. For instance why do basketball players shoot free throws overarm despite overwhelming evidence that throwing underarm is more effective? The answer is really very simple. People behave based on how those around them behave – we all are subject to peer pressure, and some a lot more so than others.

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Sterilite is back for another Idea Generation Campaign!

Betterific

Sterilite ran their first idea generation campaign around storage bins. They generated a whopping 146 unique ideas, and 18% of those ideas were considered “actionable and innovative” by the Sterilite team. They are now back for seconds! Our Sterilite Mobility Challenge was launched yesterday to great fanfare. Sterilite is interested in making storage more mobile.

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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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Comment on How To Create a Culture of Innovation by What does innovation mean for educators? – SC Council on Competitiveness

Stephen Shapiro

[…] Stephen Shapiro defines innovation as “the organization’s ability to adapt and evolve repeatedly and rapidly.” This definition is at the heart of a continuous culture of innovation. Students must drive their own learning paths, and teachers must provide guidance so that students are immersed in learning content as they learn to solve problems, construct projects, develop presentations and create new knowledge. […].

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Pokemon Go! Or Get Left Behind

Svava

A Lesson in Adaptive Marketing.

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How to Listen to an Employee's Pitch

Michael Roberto

Adam Bryant interviewed Lisa Gersh recently for his New York Times Corner Office column. Gersh explains an early leadership lesson she learned. In short, she's talking about how the "yes, and" principle from improv comedy can be used to enhance the quality of team meetings. A mentor, Geraldine Laybourne, gave me a great lesson when I had my first child.

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