IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Mentors see themselves as people developers. They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation .
InnovationManagement
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Why do a large part of the design thinking projects in the corporate world never pass through the prototype phase? In recent years I’ve been involved with many design thinking initiatives. Many of them related to the development of new products inside large companies in industries such as finance, health, education and consumer goods.
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BrainZooming
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
It’s Valentine’s Day. What better time for a retrospective on love in, if not all, at least a few of its varied forms. We hope you love it! Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Maybe you shouldn’t love your idea at first sight. Give it some time to grow into it. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Where does this product story start? It begins with Kärcher North America, the market leader in carpet extraction cleaning. The core product line was 15 years old and in need of innovation. Chad McAllister interviews Bill Ott, Executive Vice President of the product development organization at Kärcher.
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.
Betterific
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
We are excited to bring you Joyce Wycoff , an author and expert on gratitude and creativity. She is a thinker and a doer. She started an innovation conference in the mid 90s, before innovation was a buzzword. The Betterific memberbase is comprised of design thinkers, product developers, and smart creatives. So we like to bring content that helps expand the mind around creativity and brainstorming.
Innovation Excellence
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Over the past four years, Children’s Health in Dallas, along with the Business Innovation Factory, have been developing an innovative new model that reimagines how the healthcare system works with the communities it serves.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Innovation Leader
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Saint-Gobain has thrived for more than 350 years. Get insights inside on how the company works with startups and accelerators to innovate effectively.
Idea Champions
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
This just in! Brainstorming in most organizations sucks. Or, if "sucks" is the wrong word, how about "severely under-delivers"? The good folks of Idea Champions (that's us) have found a way to put an end to this madness. Yes, we have. And yes, we can. Click here for a taste of where we're coming from -- 13 brief videos of us laying it all on the line.
Michael Roberto
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
The Boston Globe reported this weekend on the fascinating new research of Vienna University Professor Martin Schreier. He studied the marketing of crowdsourced products. Schreier found that marketing an item as user-designed tended to increase sales more than marketing a product as created by a firm's own designers. Why this positive effect? Schreier discovered that, "People believe their peers understand their needs better, and therefore, come up with better solutions.
Idea Champions
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Idea Champions is thrilled to welcome a fantastic, new member of our team , Brian Paul Allison. Brian plays two inter-related roles in what some past and present clients refer to as our "boutique consulting and training company": Sales Director and Creative Thinking Facilitator. We like to think of Brian as a "polymath" -- a person of great learning in several fields of study.
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.
Idea to Value
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Important: Get your free ticket to David Burkus’ upcoming Work Smarter Summit: https://davidburkus.samcart.com/referral/SM1cAULR/999888. David Burkus is a best-selling author, an award-winning podcaster, and associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University. His latest book, Under New Management , challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work — and reveals what does.
Corporate Innovation
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
With existing business models in many different industries reaching maturity and providing little or no growth, and startups disrupting them with their new solutions, corporations find themselves more than ever in need for creating new businesses. But few corporations are able to consistently create from scratch new, big businesses that use innovative technologies and employ novel business models.
Rmukesh Gupta
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Rohit Bhargava. He is a “non-obvious” trend curator, founder of the Influential Marketing Group, and an expert in helping brands and leaders be more influential. He is the Wall Street Journal best selling author of five books on topics as wide ranging as the future of business, building a brand with personality, and why leaders never eat cauliflower.
Corporate Innovation
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
With existing business models in many different industries reaching maturity and providing little or no growth, and startups disrupting them with their new solutions, corporations find themselves more than ever in need for creating new businesses. But few corporations are able to consistently create from scratch new, big businesses that use innovative technologies and employ novel business models.
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