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Elon Musk shows how you can turn a Twitter complaint into a solution in 6 days

Idea to Value

Elon Musk is proving to be a wonderful example of how innovative a company leader really can be. Not only is he disrupting several industries with his Tesla and SpaceX companies, but he is constantly pushing his companies to the boundaries of what is currently possible. Not only this, he just showed everyone another example of how social media can actually be used effectively to find new ways to improve your offering.

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Answering Reader Questions on Strategy and Innovation Challenges

BrainZooming

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. I went back through recent responses from among readers who are on the blog most frequently. Here are their comments on opportunities and challenges, along with links to Brainzooming posts addressing the strategy and innovation situations they face: People and Organizational Issues. “Buy in from staff on the new

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I highly recommend you check out the free Work Smarter Summit

Idea to Value

Get your free registration to see 40+ experts tell you all they know about working more effectively. Hi everyone, In a few weeks, I will be speaking at a unique, free, online summit called the Work Smarter Summit. Join 40+ world-class experts who share their proven tactics for getting more done, earning more money, and living a life of purpose and productivity.

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Comment on Innovation Minute #25: How to Conduct Healthy Experiments by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Fraser, thanks for your thoughtful comment. As much as I would love to influence our global leaders, I am not sure how successful I would be. Why? The same reason that experiments often fail: confirmation bias. People want to believe their own perspectives a lot more than those of others. And people who are in power tend to have an even greater tendency to believe their own hype.

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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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Taking the first step toward co-creating with customers

Svava

The First Step Toward Co-Creating Inviting Your Customers to Share their thoughts and ideas The history of companies co-creating with their customers is a relatively short one, starting a few years ago with some offering their customers the ability to design and create their own product. Some argue that it actually dates back further, […].

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How Innovation Really Happens

Innovation Excellence

When Alexander Fleming, a brilliant but sometimes careless scientist, returned to his lab after a summer holiday in 1928, he found his work ruined. A bacteria culture he had been growing was contaminated by fungus and, as it grew, it killed all the colonies it touched. Most people would have simply started over, but Fleming switched his.

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How to Get Better at Dealing with Change

Innovation Excellence

We live in an age where we see accelerating change all around us. Large, extremely successful businesses go bankrupt in a matter of years, if not quarters; companies with billion dollar evaluations are born in the matter of years; as consumers, there is something new that is becoming a rage almost every week. Change is.

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Talking 100% Entrepreneurship & 0% Bureaucracy with Heiko Fischer of Resourceful Humans

InnovationManagement

What do Europe’s most innovative video games company, a US Navy Submarine Captain and Hewlett-Packard have in common? The answer – autonomy, transparency, simplicity and entrepreneurship. Oh and Heiko Fischer! In this episode, sponsored by a-connect, Heiko and Mark discuss how the RH way came into being through Heiko’s time at Crytek, how the core principles behind the RH philosophy “100% entrepreneurship, 0% bureaucracy” work in practice, and how gamification in the workplace can help us solve

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Collaborative Contracts and Competitive Bidding: Not Mutually Exclusive!

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Can collaboration and competition co-exist to create the best contract bidding relationships? The short answer is yes. In 2012, University of Tennessee researchers began studying how organizations use competitive bidding methods. Their findings? Organizations have traditionally thought of procurement as a “make vs. buy” decision.

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Inside the San Francisco Ecosystem: Visa, Yelp & More

Innovation Leader

At our San Francisco Field Study, more than 70 innovation execs joined us for tours of Visa, Verizon, Yelp, Gensler, and more.

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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 My Amazing Race to Brazil by Robin Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

OMG Stephen…You are ABSOLUTELY amazing!

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Taking the first step toward co-creating with customers

Svava

The First Step Toward Co-Creating.

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Ten Simple Ways to Establish a User Friendly Ideation Process

Idea Champions

Let's assume for a moment that you and your company value BIG IDEAS -- the kind of ideas that have the potential to change the game, differentiate you from the competition, and spark some major business growth. Let's also assume that you and your company are not at a loss for these BIG IDEAS -- that they regularly make their appearance via any number of ways: brainstorming sessions, early morning team meetings, or simply the spontaneous epiphanies of the wild and crazy people down the hall.

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Shorter Lines at Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts

Michael Roberto

Several weeks ago, The Street reported the following news regarding Starbucks : " Starbucks also seems to be having trouble dealing with the rapid rise and popularity of its mobile order and pay technology. On a conference call with analysts, executives said there has been significant uptick in the usage of mobile order and pay. The jump created operational challenges, especially at its highest volume stores at peak traffic hours.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Podcast 006 Zal Dastur – The challenges of starting a Tech business in Asia

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we talk to Zal Dastur from Lucep. Lucep is a technology company working out of Singapore and India, which enables companies to respond to leads faster than traditional methods like asking someone to call a number. They have also been nominated as one of the hottest 30 Technology companies in India in 2016.

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Comment on Innovation Minute #25: How to Conduct Healthy Experiments by Fraser Liscumb

Stephen Shapiro

Natural born Innovator administrator and Analyst and actually have been part of change for the last 40 years in Canada to now innovation, R&D, start-up is now supported. More than agree with what you say. Our Hub mandate in 1996 was to change not what the system did but how it did it and 80% of what we tested is now growing in the Global marketplace, The last 20% was a more advanced 21st century form of Crowd Funding was seen as to innovative and to disruptive in 2002 to be supported and the

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