Wed.Mar 22, 2017

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government. In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program.

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How Every Industry Can Learn From The Open Source Movement

Digital Tonto

The future, in large part, will be made of proprietary business built on top of communal technologies. Related posts: What Marketers Can Learn From The Civil Rights Movement. How IBM Learned To Love. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Creative Thinking Skills – 8 New Questions for Breakthrough Ideas

BrainZooming

Short story: If you want big ideas, ask the big questions, which is what extreme creativity is all about ! By Friday night, we’ll know the Elite Eight in NCAA college basketball. These eight teams that will vie Saturday and Sunday to play in the national championship basketball game the following week. Keeping with the eight theme, here are eight new questions from the Brainzooming R&D Lab to boost your creative thinking skills.

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Comment on The Carrot or Stick? Conventional Wisdom May be Wrong by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Absolutely. I remember many years back I was awarded a large contract with a client. Let’s just say I was paid $100. This was more money than I thought I would get for this work. I would have been happy if I got paid $70 for it. I hired a contractor to do some work for the client. Their work was $20 and the client paid it. In the end, the contractor’s work was subpar, so to make sure my client was happy, I paid them them $20 from my pocket.

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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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Offering You An Innovation Coaching Methodology

Guide 4 Innovating

Coaching offers real benefits. For instance, in Leadership Coaching, the results offer an ROI on the initial investment of nearly SIX times on average. Can you image this X return factor going through the roof, going way beyond the initial investment if the innovation outcomes ‘take off’ and delivers the level of growth across the organization’s business, partly gained from a greater awareness of innovation and how to apply these different levers within it’s application?

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Maximize The Learning Ratio

Mike Shipulski

As creatures of habit, we like to do what we did last time. Outcomes match expectations and things go as planned – no surprises, no delays, no problems. But as creatures swimming in an evolutionary soup, doing what we did last time leads to extinction. Customers’ expectations multiply and competitors mutate into a higher performing organism and eat us.

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Why We Behave Badly and What Can we Learn from that Behaviour

Rmukesh Gupta

Why We Behave Badly & What Can we learn from it by Mukesh Gupta. Today, I did something bad. Something that I had decided to never do. Ever. Yet, I ended up doing exactly that same thing. What I did seriously undermines one of my most important tenant in my personal manifesto – to stay healthy – emotionally. What I did took a toll on me and even more so on the person on the other side.

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Managing Fundraising Innovation: the Dangers of the ‘Echo-Chamber’

InnovationManagement

This case study explores the results of an innovation research process undertaken by Oxfam, which compared internal feedback vs. general public feedback to identical sets of ideas. In comparing responses between these two audiences, Oxfam discovered an immediate and obvious divide between their staff’s opinions about which fundraising ideas would perform the best, versus what the general public preferred - an important lesson about avoiding the bubble of the echo chamber.

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Innovation management versus change management

100%Open

The only real difference between innovation management and change management, is the intention that lies behind these approaches. Innovation, whilst often highly reliant on luck and randomness, is inherently a proactive and optimistic strategy. Namely it’s an attempt to create a better future using our collective capabilities and creativity. Whereas change management, whilst equally subject to chance and circumstances, is inherently a reactive and more negative approach.

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5 Ways to Use Technology to Improve Employee Engagement, Collaboration and Retention

InnovationManagement

In today’s workplace, technological innovation is key to retaining your best talent. From telecommuting, to growth and career development, to improved communication and collaboration, and beyond, there are myriad ways you can keep your employees happy and productive.

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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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Creating an Place for Innovators at India’s Reliance Industries

Innovation Leader

Sushil Borde, VP of Innovation at Reliance, discusses how the company is working to institutionalize innovation and the five tenets that guide innovation at Reliance.

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Finding a Viable Market – Quantifying the True Opportunity for Your Innovation

Taivara

Finding a Viable Market. Quantifying the True Opportunity for Your Innovation. Download the White Paper. Time and again we see both start-up founders and major corporations invest huge amounts of time and money in a product, only to find that there isn’t an adequate market for it or that it’s way too difficult to compete. Don’t make that mistake!

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IoT Consortium Insiders Newsletter: 3 Perspectives on the Intel – Mobileye Deal

Linda Bernardi

Read my take on the Intel – Mobileye deal from the IoT Consortium’s Newsletter. Click HERE to read two additional perspectives from my respected colleagues. What does Intel’s $15.3B acquisition of Mobileye mean for the IoT industry at large? The recent acquisition of Mobileye by Intel is definitely a spark in the momentum of the IoT Industry.

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How Does Information Flow & Collaboration Take Place?

Michael Roberto

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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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IoT Consortium Insiders Newsletter: 3 Perspectives on the Intel – Mobileye Deal

Linda Bernardi

Read my take on the Intel – Mobileye deal from the IoT Consortium’s Newsletter. Click HERE to read two additional perspectives from my respected colleagues. What does Intel’s $15.3B acquisition of Mobileye mean for the IoT industry at large? The recent acquisition of Mobileye by Intel is definitely a spark in the momentum of the […].

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Sears Acknowledges Possibility of Bankruptcy

Michael Roberto

Many of us have been predicting the demise of Sears for years. The writing has been on the wall now for quite some time - falling sales, declining customer satisfaction, and many store closings. F ortune reported this week that Sears is admitting (finally) that bankruptcy is a possibility. Phil Wahba of Fortune writes: Sears Holdings has recognized for the first time that many people think the retailer is not long for this world.

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