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Choosing WHAT to Do

Innovation Excellence

In business you’ve got to do two things: choose what to do and choose how to do it well. I’m not sure which is more important, but I am sure there’s far more written on how to do things well and far less clarity around how to choose what to do. Choosing what to do.

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Understanding the innovation options in your business

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. So far I've written several blogs, the first about the importance of d efining a why and a how for innovation , the second about the importance of an idea sponsor. Today I'm going to focus on the key drivers for innovation and explain what drives innovation in many organizations.

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How IBM Sees The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

Innovation Excellence

Ever since IBM’s Watson system defeated the best human champions at the game show Jeopardy!, artificial intelligence (AI) has been the buzzword of choice. More than just hype, intelligent systems are revolutionizing fields from medicine and manufacturing to changing fundamental assumptions about how science is done. Yet for all the progress, it appears that we.

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Strategic Plan Template

Cascade Strategy

Need a helping hand to create your strategic plan? Download our tried and tested strategic plan template - the same template used by thousands of startups and multinationals alike. Our strategic plan template will help you to create a complete strategy, from your vision statement through to your values, your focus areas, strategic objectives, projects, and KPIs.

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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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What Happens When You Succeed?

helloFUTURE

There are many, many, many stories of failure in the innovation world, the startup world, and the VC world. Interestingly, all three of those worlds treat failure differently: in the innovation world, some organizations may pull back on innovation initiatives. In the startup world, the startup may pivot, shed, or add founders to shake things… The post What Happens When You Succeed?

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CEO Insights on Innovation from the 2019 Bootcamp: Anton Affentranger, Former CEO of Implenia

Strategyzer Innovation

During our 2019 Bootcamp last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Anton Affentranger, former CEO of Implenia, a European construction company with CHF3.8BN in revenues. Alex and Anton discussed innovation within the context of an existing organization. Anton consistently referred to the challenge of innovating at an existing company (exploit portfolio) and how to convince stakeholders to assess innovation differently than execution.

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How Ignite 2019 Can Help You Deliver Value Through Strategic Innovation

Planview

Innovation. It’s one of the most important elements pushing organizations forward. In today’s tech-driven society, innovation is more important than ever. Companies that experience long-term success are able to stay in touch with the needs of their customers, constantly innovating so their products and services address those needs. We all know what happens to companies that can’t deliver ongoing strategic innovation.

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Four Flashing Warning Signs You Can’t Ignore

Innovation 360 Group

Business Rescue: Part II. Every company is as unique as a strand of DNA, but on the larger scale, it is not as hard as you think to read the signs of a rapidly approaching upheaval. There are four flashing warning lights that indicate faster, more flexible competitors are about to reshape the competitive landscape: 1. When you are operating in highly regulated markets, like the taxi industry, hotels, or healthcare. 2.

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How to Curate the Workplace for a Stellar Employee Experience

Tembosocial

Tell me if this sounds familiar - you get an email from Corporate about an important policy change. It’s not something you can act on today. It’s not something you can put on your calendar. You know it’s important but where can you put stash the message so that you don’t lose it or forget about the policy when you do need to act on it?

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WEBINAR: Customer Driven Technology Development

Wellspring

WITH GUEST SPEAKER ERIN SPRING DIRECTOR OF NEW VENTURES AT GOODYEAR. Projecting the future is hard enough. You’re dealing with incomplete information, fighting multiple sources of bias, and trying to integrate a wide range of weak signals. Building the future is tougher still: tensions with the business, high uncertainty and risk, and long-term horizons to success.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Inside Sam’s Club Now, an Incubator Store for Testing New Concepts

Innovation Leader

Sam’s Club Now is an incubator store made to test out ideas like AR experiences with products, cashierless checkout, a Sam’s Club app, and more.

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Big Data Boost for Restaurants

IdeaConnection

Using sensors and big data to improve the restaurant experience for diners.

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Logos And Marketing Materials

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. In this blog post, we are going to provide some advice on logo design and print marketing materials. image source. Reasons You Should Never Use A Free Logo Maker . Logo design tools are widely available. If you take a look on the Internet, you will see a number of different free logo creators. These can be tempting; allowing you to create your own logo without having to worry about the expense.

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Giving Feedback: Stay on Your Side of the Net

Michael Roberto

Source: www.maxpixel.net Adam Bryant, managing director of Merryck & Co, has a terrific article for the New York Times (for which he used to write regularly), about how to build a successful team. He based this essay on over 500 interviews he conducted with senior executives over many years while writing the Corner Office column for the newspaper.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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50 Quotes on Risk Taking

Idea Champions

1. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Goethe. 2. "Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller. 3. "It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult." -- Seneca. 4.

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Scarcity Is an Illusion

Tullio Siragusa

Scarcity Is an Illusion. It’s tempting and easy to choose to see life as a glass half empty or half full. It’s also easy to judge having more or less, as either being full or empty. Abundance or scarcity. Are these two opposite realities something that happens in the mind, or do they manifest in real life in measurable ways? The answer to both questions is yes.

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Scarcity Is an Illusion

Tullio Siragusa

Scarcity Is an Illusion. It’s tempting and easy to choose to see life as a glass half empty or half full. It’s also easy to judge having more or less, as either being full or empty. Abundance or scarcity. Are these two opposite realities something that happens in the mind, or do they manifest in real life in measurable ways? The answer to both questions is yes.

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