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Playing chess with the Red Queen

HYPE Innovation

This is the Red Queen, one of the famous characters in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. And whilst she is an undoubtedly intriguing person, someone you might want to get to know better, here’s a word of advice. Don't try playing chess with her – you’ll very soon find yourself out of your depth! There are three problems you’ll have to confront if you do decide you'd like to give it a go.

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Innovation circles the publishing industry

Jeffrey Phillips

There are a few relatively hide-bound industries in the US that have to date been somewhat impervious to real innovation. If you've followed this blog you know that I believe traditional retail banking is one of those industries. Retail banking is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Another industry ripe for innovation is the book publishing industry.

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3 Reasons To Believe The Singularity Is Near

Digital Tonto

The crazy predictions Ray Kurzweil made a decade ago don’t seem so outlandish now. Related posts: The Singularity: Apocalypse or Nerd Rapture? Facebook, Instagram and the Singularity. Business. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Setting the Vision for Innovation is as Easy as ABC

Idea to Value

A Great Leader paints an ABC vision – Appealing , Believable and Challenging. You cannot expect your team to be enthusiastic and innovative if they do not know the direction in which they are headed. It is up to the leader to set the course and give a bearing for the future. This is set in broad terms and is described as the mission, core purpose or vision for the organisation.

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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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How to create a culture of innovation?

Be-novative

Last week we held an event, which gave attendees a new perspective on successfully creating and maintaining innovation culture in companies. With two guest presenters, we talked about innovation technologies and best practices from Fortune500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. Take a look at the recap on the main discussions! Exponential technologies – Stories from the Silicon Valley by Rita Veres, Market Lead and European Practice Lead at Aon Hewitt Singularity University (SU) sure is

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Creative Thinking – 13 Unexpected Benefits of a Strategic Thinking Workshop

BrainZooming

It’s always incredible to work directly with Brainzooming blog readers in supporting their companies’ innovation strategy objectives. Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting.

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Creativity Redefined for Innovation

Innovation Excellence

The words “creative” and “creativity” have been hi-jacked by the world of advertising. The word means something specific to those familiar with Mad Men or Thirty-something advertising stereotypes. In these cases – and the cases of classic advertising – creativity was visual, copy, or positioning cleverness applied at the end of the new product process, when it was time to market downstream.

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Visa Calls on Startups for Innovative Solutions

Planview

On April 29th, in order to solve their biggest business challenges, Visa turned to the startup community for help with the announcing of its second-annual Everywhere Initiative. The Everywhere Initiative is a challenge where Visa presents three business problems that call for solutions from the startup community. Winning startups receive $50,000 to pilot their ideas while receiving support from Visa’s marketing, product, and technology teams for one year to help bring the solutions to life.

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How PwC Turns ‘Corporate Antibodies’ Into Allies

Innovation Leader

Every company has antibodies, or necessary guardians of the enterprise. Mitra Best of PwC shares five tactics that can help productively engage these antibodies.

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Visa Calls on Startups for Innovative Solutions

Planview

On April 29th, in order to solve their biggest business challenges, Visa turned to the startup community for help with the announcing of its second-annual Everywhere Initiative. The Everywhere Initiative is a challenge where Visa presents three business problems that call for solutions from the startup community. Winning startups receive $50,000 to pilot their ideas while receiving support from Visa’s marketing, product, and technology teams for one year to help bring the solutions to life.

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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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Idea Hunt for the Swedish Growth Hackers Meetup

Svava

Swedish Growth Hackers Meetup on Idea Hunt!

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Diabolically Simple Questions

Mike Shipulski

Today’s work is complicated with electronic and mechanical subsystems wrapped in cocoons of software; coordination of matrixed teams; shared resources serving multiple projects; providing world class services in seventeen languages on four continents. And the complexity isn’t limited to high level elements. There is a living layer of complexity growing on all branches of the organization right down to the leaf level.

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Idea Hunt for the Swedish Growth Hackers

Svava

Swedish Growth Hackers Meetup.

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