Wed.Apr 06, 2016

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Diana Neves de Carvalho takes the lead at Exago

Exago

Blending consultancy, management and information technology (IT) expertise, Diana Neves de Carvalho is now Exago’s chief executive officer (CEO). Her problem-solving talents and ‘make it happen’ spirit are focused on one main mission: to provide innovation managers the most efficient. Read More. The post Diana Neves de Carvalho takes the lead at Exago appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Destructive and Constructive Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Today I read a long post that claimed that up to 30% of the banking jobs in the US would be "destroyed" by innovation. No longer will we need bank tellers. Any job that can be automated or done by machines will be. This is a classic case of creative destruction, described by Schumpeter as a component of innovation. Innovation will always create disruption in existing conventions, economies and industries.

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The Definition of Innovation

HYPE Innovation

What happens if you ask a group of so-called innovation experts about their definition of innovation? Nick Skillicorn did this and he gathered the answers in an interesting blog post that shows how vastly different even topic experts see the term “innovation”.

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Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important Technology In The World Right Now

Digital Tonto

Renewable energy and electric cars are becoming competitive with technologies based on fossil fuels. Still, if they are to become truly transformative, we need to develop a new generation of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Branding Strategy – 14 Articles on Engaging an Internal Brand Team

BrainZooming

I am in New York today delivering a Brainzooming branding strategy workshop on Engaging Your Internal Brand Team. The event is the Brand Strategy Conference. Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them.

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Innovation needs all 3 levels of support, so what happens if you miss one?

Innovation Excellence

The words creativity and innovation are often used interchangeably. For my doctoral dissertation, I had to spend time defining them and reached the following definition of (and relationship between) the two words. Creativity is an individual function. It is the cognitive ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, and create meaningful and original ideas.

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Intrapreneurship on the rise

Rapid Innovation in digital time

In preparation for the Intrapreneurship – Get Up To Speed event at NUMA Paris on April 14th, where I will present the Rapid Innovation model in relationship with Intrapreneurship, I had a short chat with Hans Balmaekers, the event organizer, … Continue reading →

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You Can Be Disruptive by Asking a Simple Question

Daniel Burrus

Every marketplace and industry is currently going through a digital transformation. The days of having a “wait and see” approach in business are over. Your brand along with your products and services will need to continually evolve to remain relevant in a world dominated by increasing digital disruption. The word disruption often conjures negative connotations.

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Service Redesign – Lost T-Mobile Smartphone

Innovation Excellence

Given the health risks of carrying a smartphone (or any kind of mobile device) too close to the body for extended periods, I try to always remove electronic devices from my pockets whenever I can. For ten years this has never caused a problem until Saturday. This marked the first time in more than a decade that I walked off and forgot my smartphone.

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Your Product is Not Your Product

Rmukesh Gupta

We do a lot of hard work to come up with a new product. Right from customer in-sighting to customer interviews, design experiments, run hypotheses, do a lot of brainstorming, evaluate technologies and ideas and finally come up with our masterpieces and release the same to our customers, with a lot of pomp and fair. Most of the times, we don’t see the product being received with the same level of enthusiasm that it was released with.

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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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Early Data: Budgets, CEO Support, Metrics & Risk Tolerance

Innovation Leader

In February, we posted an assessment of the maturity of corporate innovation programs — and how they are being accepted by the culture.

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Upgrade Your Brainstorm Facilitation Skills the Simple Way

Idea Champions

Idea champions brainstorm facilitation testimonials from Mitch Ditkoff. Want to upgrade the quality of your company's brainstorm sessions? Looking for a simple way to open the creative floodgates? Here's one way. Read this if you think brainstorming is bogus.