Mon.Feb 20, 2017

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The Eleven Change Roles

Braden Kelley

Change is Hard Change can be complicated, change can be confusing, and change can be difficult to successfully implement in any organization. This is why 70% of change initiatives have been found to fail.

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Cuisine vs. Food: Why Specificity Makes or Breaks a Creative Thinking Workshop

BrainZooming

Chuck Dymer co-facilitated a client’s internal management meeting with us recently. Chuck is the owner of Brilliance Activator , which helps leaders uncork the creative genius of their teams to improve products and processes, delight customers, and grow profits. During the creative thinking workshop we facilitated inside an internal management meeting, participants worked through multiple exercises to identify ideas for internal and customer initiatives.

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How to Create an Amazing Life by Design ~ 5 Fundamentals

Mills-Scofield

From the floorboards of Jackson Pollock' s studio in the Hamptons, NY. The paint spatterings can be traced to specific pieces of his art. Two and a half years ago, I was invited to share my story, Life by Design , at Brown University's Creative Mind Lecture series. Since then, it's taken on a life of its own with my mentees who now use it as a noun.

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Innovations Result from Solving Interesting Problems with Unique Insights

Rmukesh Gupta

Innovations Result from Solving Interesting Problems by Mukesh Gupta. I read a blog post from Seth Godin titled – “ Interesting Problems “ You can read it here. I have always held the opinion that the ability to ask Interesting Questions is key when it comes to staying in control of your innovation process. After reading the post by Seth, I think, solving interesting problems is a great path that can lead to asking interesting questions, which in turn leads us to interesting in

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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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Bringing Design Thinking into the classroom to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future

Betterific

Paul Kim , is a teacher at Colorado Academy and Co-Director of the Redi Lab, and is best known for using the design thinking process to teach History. He is our design thinking guest blogger. Paul is an innovator in the education space, who is not afraid to change things up and find new ways to connect with students. Below, Paul lays the case for using design thinking in school.

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Making Innovation More of a Science And Less of an Art

InnovationManagement

One of the greatest challenges facing innovation professionals is to find the right approach to a given innovation problem. Whether that’s instilling the innovation mojo in a large corporation or simply helping teams become more innovative, the ways to do this seem to be more of an art than a science. However, during the last ten years there has been a strong push to turn this art form into more of a science.

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5 Reasons Sustainability Drives Innovation

InnovationManagement

Sustainability is one of the key emerging trends in recent years. But much like innovation, it is a maturing discipline with few established business practices and lots of evolving methodologies. Sustainability champions at organizations often face the same challenges that innovation champions do: lack of senior level buy-in, lack of process, lack of resources.

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Storytelling from the Heart

100%Open

For the fourth year in a row, Roland and I attended The Story , a one day conference about stories and storytelling, held annually in London’s Conway Hall. Booking the tickets roughly 6 months in advance, I often find that the event arrives in the middle of crazy diaries, lots on my plate and not much opportunity to think in advance about what the day will hold.

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Don’t let economic uncertainty hamper innovation

Wazoku

In the relatively early stages of the year, businesses are looking to evaluate their strategies in a time of economic and political uncertainty. In the last few months it would appear that uncertainty has become the new norm. Events like Brexit, the US presidential election and the fluctuation of Sterling, among others, are encouraging an atmosphere of doubt and indecision for organisations.

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ISPIM announces second Grand Prize for Excellence in Innovation Management

Innocentive

Great products are the result of excellent innovation management. However, it’s often the final product that makes the headlines. For this reason, ISPIM, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, has announced their second ISPIM Grand Prize for Excellence in Innovation Management, to recognize the outstanding work that innovation professionals do to deliver great innovation to the market.

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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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Empathy and Sympathy

Rmukesh Gupta

Empathy & Sympathy by Mukesh Gupta. One of the most difficult things for me when it comes to building strong bonds with people I constantly interact with, is the ability to empathise. I always was capable of intellectually understanding what the other person was going through but always found it extremely difficult to feel what they were feeling.

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TED Talk: 3 Ways to Fix a Broken News Industry

Innovation Excellence

Lara Setrakian is building innovative news platforms that stand ready to engage and explain the complexity of our world.

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BIG IDEA: Enter Our Brainstorm Training Raffle Before March 1st

Idea Champions

Being in the experimentation business, Idea Champions is thrilled to invite you and your organization into our next "let's see what happens" experiment. Here goes: In ten days, we are going to raffle off our one-day Brainstorm Facilitation training, at a 65% discount, So instead of paying the usual $6,000 fee, each of our three winners will pay only $2,000 (plus expenses).