Wed.Feb 08, 2017

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Innovation Management Award Spotlight: City of Calgary

IdeaScale

At IdeaScale, we host the annual innovation management awards in order to honor the accomplishments of some truly groundbreaking organizations, but also so that some of our smartest clients can share their best practices with others. This year, we honored the accomplishments of the City of Calgary , Oak Ridge National Laboratories , and the National Cancer Institute as well as runner’s up.

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Data And Technology Don’t Change Your Culture, They Reveal it

Digital Tonto

We shouldn’t be so quick to blame algorithms. When we don’t like what we see, it is possible that we are looking at the culture we have created. Related posts: If Big Data Is To Live Up To Its. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Internet of Things Is Creating Smart Airports

Daniel Burrus

For countless travelers, the term “smart airport” is an oxymoron. For these individuals, massive crowds, endless delays and a rash of other headaches hardly add up to an intelligent environment. One exponential technology—a technology that is growing at an exponential rate—that’s helping to create smarter, more efficient airports is the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 10 Questions You Must Consider

BrainZooming

We’re getting a lot of questions currently about identifying the right strategic planning exercises. That continues to surprise me, since I’d expect everyone is focused on implementing strategies at this point. We see it with our clients, though. Planning seems to be happening throughout the year with increasing frequency (more on that later). 10 Questions You Must Consider about Strategic Planning Exercises.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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9 Traits of Highly Innovative People

Innovation Excellence

I’m a big believer in people playing to their strengths, and this includes product team members and others involved in innovation. Not everyone has the same strengths – if we did, that would be a bit boring. Realizing how people approach innovation and their strengths is something Tamara Kleinberg accomplishes. She created a tool, the.

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Lessons of Steve Jobs

InnovationManagement

Guy Kawasaki is the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an "online magazine rack" of popular topics on the web. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. In this talk Kawasaki shares 12 lessons he learned about life and work while working with Steve Jobs.

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What Drives Innovation

Rmukesh Gupta

Every leader wants to build a culture of innovation in their respective organisations. There is enough written about how one can go about building a culture of innovation. I have myself written about it as below: Everyone wants to innovate but no one wants to fail , How do you innovate “Innovation” , What stops Us from Creating Breakthrough Innovations , Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation and many more.

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How Business Intelligence Software can Help you Increase Operational Efficiency

InnovationManagement

Business Intelligence software is an essential tool for analyzing your company's strengths and weaknesses. From inventory management, to accounting, to customer intelligence and beyond, there are many ways you can use BI software to inform your decision-making, increase operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.

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Transcending Our Financial Accounting Systems

Mike Shipulski

In business and in life, one of the biggest choices is what to do next. Sounds simple, but it’s not. The decision has many facets and drives many questions, for example: Does it fit with core competence? Does it fit with the brand? How many will we sell? What will the market look like after it’s launched? Do we have what it takes to pull it off? These questions then explode into a series of complex financial analyses like – return on investment, return on capital, return on net assets (a

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PBTO50: Understanding Why We do, What We do with Dilip Soman

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Dr. Dilip Soman. He is a behaviour scientist and the author of the book The Last Mile , and is a Professor of Marketing and holds the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy. His researches behavioural economics and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. He is also the director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto.

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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.