Mon.Oct 17, 2016

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Six Causes of Failure for Innovation Teams

Destination Innovation

Once you have identified a great idea for a new product or service innovation what do you do? Many firms put together a cross-functional team (XFT) and tell them to bring the product to market. It seems like a good approach. They have budget, people, and empowerment. What could possibly go wrong? Lots of things. Here are six common reasons why XFTs fail to deliver. 1.

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Breaking the Barriers of Creativity

Innovation in Practice

What holds people back from being creative? Is it a lack of time? Do you not have a budget for doing creative work? Perhaps you work in an industry where there are lots of regulatory or legal barriers that seem to make it hard to generate novel ideas. For many people, these types of constraints seem frustrating and overwhelming. They appear to be strict boundaries that seem to limit your ability to be creative.

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Four Cognitive Principles That Can Make Innovation Surprisingly Obvious

Innovation Excellence

No matter how cool or useful our innovation is, it is very difficult to get people to try it if they don’t understand it. People are cognitive misers, and generally don’t like things they have to think a lot about. If we have to explain what an innovation is, we are asking people to invest their.

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What's Not There?

Mills-Scofield

What a lovely home, probably somewhere out in the country. From the crops on left, this must be a farm. From the swing set, they probably have kids (or grandkids). The house seems to be fairly modern (look at the windows) and well maintained. The horses look healthy. What’s the story about this house and family? Are they ‘weekend’ farmers who commute to jobs during the week?

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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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Serious Games & Innovation Management: Hélène Michel on Cubification™

Innovation Excellence

Editor’s note: Hélène Michel is a researcher in innovative learning systems and an expert in serious games and gamification. She develops, imagines and experiments the digital tools that will be part of tomorrow’s classrooms. Innovation Excellence contributor, Nicolas Bry, shares his conversation with her.

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System of Engagement

Information Playground

Earlier this month David Goulden wrote about pushing information technology beyond yesterday's function. One of the key points that he made was that traditional IT systems function as a system of record.  Much of the record keeping in a system of record is a function of company size (how many employees worked for the company), product portfolio (how many products are being sold), and sales engagements (how many customers are involved in potential or actual sales order

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Winners of the Sterilite Mobility Innovation Challenge Announced!

Betterific

Sterilite’s Mobility Innovation Challenge was a really fantastic example of the Betterific community’s ability to generate quality ideas, beyond the brand’s wildest dreams. When Sterilite initially reached out to us, they were looking at asking a narrow challenge, with not a whole lot of room for creativity. In our initial discussions–with all brands–we like to get to the heart of the challenge.

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How P&G Evolved Its Innovation Studio for Broader Impact

Innovation Leader

Procter & Gamble's Clay Street Project allows employees to foster innovation and address the problems that can prevent ideas from growing into new products.

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