Fri.Jul 01, 2016

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Should a car be able to decide who to kill and who to spare?

Idea to Value

Inevitably, and unfortunately, sometimes when there are big innovations which work with both humans and machinery, there will be fatalities. This week, the first known fatality happened with something that will be affecting millions of us in a few years time: Automated driving by cars. Yesterday, the driver of a Tesla S (which are known as having the best safety rating in the world ) was killed while the car was using its Autopilot setting.

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Nestlé’s New Open Innovation Platform for Entrepreneurs

IdeaConnection

Within the next few days, Nestlé, the Swiss multinational food and beverage company will launch its new open innovation platform. It will offer start-ups opportunities to “bid” for business challenges that its various brands are looking to solve. In an interview with The Drum , Pete Blackshaw, global head of digital and social media at Nestlé, said: “…the way that will work is we will take businesses challenges from within Nestlé.

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This is the new blackest material in the world, absorbing over 99.965% of light

Idea to Value

You know that little black dress you’ve had your eye on, because black hides imperfections? Well, it’s about to get significantly blacker. Surrey Nanosystems has just released details on their newest product, called Vantablack. It is a carbon nanotube-based system (where each tube is just one atom thick), and the special way that these nanotubes are arranged causes much more light to be absorbed into the surface rather than reflected back.

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Former Gap Exec: Is Innovation Really Everyone’s Job?

Innovation Leader

Michael Perman formerly of Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. writes, “Yes, everyone needs to have EMPATHY, but in reality, innovation requires talent, passion, and tenacity.

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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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ISPIM Grand Prize for Innovation Management

Innovation Excellence

ISPIM Announces the 2016 Grand Prize Winner!

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Roundtables & Other Events

Innovation Leader

Innovation Leader organizes a variety of other events that bring together corporate leaders, including our roundtable series and our one-day Deep Dive events.

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Business Transformation Is All About Feedback

Innovation Excellence

We aim to optimize performance, hence the business term: Performance Management. Sounds simple, but of course it isn’t. Humans have a lust for control and have developed quite a few mental concepts to ‘control’ performance management; processes, ratings, manuals, competency frameworks, forms, collective labor agreements, etc.

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The amazing CGI behind that unforgettable Games of Thrones battle

Idea to Value

I love Game of Thrones. It’s almost a perfect TV show, with a wonderful blend of story, visuals, fantasy and characters. [Ed: And don’t forget the sex]. And messy, visceral violence. Few episodes have showed quite how violent and yet realistic war can be as the wonderful penultimate episode of Season 6, called the “Battle of the Bastards”, where Jon Snow’s army takes on the much larger forces of the evil Ramsay Bolton.

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