Thu.Mar 10, 2016

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Innovating Where the Business Cares: Developing Areas of Strategic Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Almost every innovation manager can recount stories of great ideas, concepts and products that people love and yet they’re never implemented. The business case stacks up and is technically feasible, but finding sponsorship and a budget seems to be impossible. As innovators, we’re often subject to ongoing commercial restrictions. The fastest way to get ideas off the ground is to ensure they’re aligned to the C-Suite agenda in both the short and longer term.

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Too Many Small Ideas? Behavioral Science can Help.

Idea to Value

Innovation has a big problem – Far too many small ideas masquerade as big ones. As an innovation consultant, how to address the lack of genuinely big ideas, combined with the proliferation of small ones is probably the most common challenge I’m asked to help with. And this reflects a similar complaint I often heard from leadership at my ‘Alma Mater’, P&G.

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5 Spectacular Product Failures -- And What You Can Learn from Them

HYPE Innovation

Everybody loves a good success story. After all, that's what inspires innovators to develop the next Coca-Cola or iPod or Corvette. But we can get even more value (along with a few laughs) from the whopping failures. Yes, there is lots to learn from the Edsel, New Coke, and other phenomenal flops. The key is to (quit laughing and) take the lessons learned by others to apply to your own innovation process.

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4 Tips to Efficiently Boost Creativity in the Workplace

BrainZooming

Here’s a brief video produced by SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, where I talk about four easy ways for companies to boost creativity in the workplace without taking a lot of time to do it. The key to efficiently boost creativity in the workplace is through introducing idea-rich questions and statements into daily business conversations.

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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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Is Innovation a buzz word or a buzzkill?

HYPE Innovation

‘Innovation’ – the act or process of developing a new method, idea, or product. Most companies are neurotic about this term ‘innovation’. For most, it has become a buzzword that is synonymous with driving new value and creating new markets (duh). But in a world where institutions and the people leading them pass the buck on risk to the next available hand unwittingly available to receive it, does innovation have any intrinsic value?

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How Ubuntu Education Fund is Disrupting the Nonprofit Model – And Why it Offers Executives Key Lessons on Scale and Agility

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Ubuntu Education Fund is redefining the theory of going to scale, while deliberately solving one of the hardest human problems in the hardest possible way. Tasked with providing world-class education and health support to the most vulnerable township children in an eastern South African city, the nonprofit is sustainably achieving stunning outcomes – following a business model shift that.

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On Entrepreneurship, Importance of Being Self-aware and a lot more – @GaryVee & @SRuhle

Rmukesh Gupta

In this free wheeling conversation, Gary Vee shares his perspectives on entrepreneurship, the hustle, the importance of being self aware and many, many more stuff. This is hands down, one of the best interviews that I have seen in a long long time. Thanks Gary and Stephanie for sharing your thoughts. This is a must watch if you are an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur.

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Former Pixar SVP on Creative Conflict & Why Well-Designed Offices Win

Innovation Leader

“Creative abrasion is the ability to have difficult conversations,” says Greg Brandeau, former Pixar SVP of Technology. Brandeau shares his thoughts and an assessment.

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How Babak Forutanpour Teaches Problem-Solving

Innovation Excellence

How can you grow consumer-focused skill sets and principles in a company that historically has relied on its technological capabilities to innovate?

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Skill at Decision Making: Evidence and Interpretation

InnovationLabs

This blog post discusses the question, “How can we make excellent decisions in an era of accelerating change and increasing compelxity?” It is adapted from Chapter 10 of Langdon Morris’ forthcoming book Strategy for the 21st Century, which is due to be published this spring. ••• In reflecting on the 2008 financial collapse that was […].

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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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Vertical Integration at Amazon

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Amazon will be moving aggressively to expand its in-house logistics capabilities. Here is the lead of the article: Amazon.com Inc. is taking to the air with a fleet of planes, part of a broader effort to reduce its inflated shipping costs. The Seattle retailer plans to shuttle merchandise around the U.S. using as many as 20 Boeing Co. 767 aircraft it will lease from Air Transport Services Group Inc.