Thu.May 05, 2016

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Treating Discovery Like Execution Will Kill Innovation

Tim Kastelle

“In the end, these projects are all business model problems.” That’s what I said to my friend Steve Adelman about the projects we collaborate on as part of the Wharton-UQ Global Consulting Practicum program. “Why aren’t they market entry problems?” he replied. I was stumped by his question for a couple of days.

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Rethinking the measuring of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

I’m a little tired of the lack of original thinking that goes into measuring innovation. Most trot out the same old chestnuts, including ‘return on investment’ as always, as near or at the top. Leaders want to hear this, the sad true is getting a ‘decent ROI’ for innovation constructed (note constructed) is really hard. If the innovation is new to the world, how can it have a clear financial return on investment until much later?

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Decisions, decisions…

Exago

Be it through team idea contests or widespread programmes, we are enthusiasts of innovation’s number one rule: Give your teams a voice. The post Decisions, decisions… appeared first on www.exago.com.

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How is German Beer made?

Idea to Value

The cleanest tasting, highest quality beer in the world has to be from Germany. [Editor’s note: Ok, perhaps I am a bit biased]. In today’s Curiosity Sparks episode, we’re going to look at how beer (and German Beer in particular) is produced. Learning new knowledge about how the world works, especially of industries outside of your expertise, has been scientifically shown to help your brain become better at forming new associations between ideas and helping you become more cre

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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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The Unknown Is Not Uncertain

Bill Fischer

The robotization of professional services. The introduction of blockchain thinking to more and more industries. Access to truly Big Data. The colonization of Space. Life after streaming music. The significant extension of human life-spans. What happens next? In each case, we know that some reasonable realization of each of these phenomena [.

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Shifting Corporate Consciousness

Innovation Excellence

Finding new ways of connecting people in organizations as to how their products or services could really make their lives better, connect them to a broader community and to something bigger than themselves.

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Work Smart #36 – CEO of Assist, Shane Mac

Getspeakup

“Insane simplicity” Listen in to our chat with Shane Mac, Co-founder & CEO of Assist, investor, advisor, musician and all around interesting guy. -Shane’s best work smart tip: team to-do lists. -How bots are going to change the nature of work. -How to unleash your team’s (and your own) potential. -The importance of being frugal in a new company.

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Management Innovation:  Busting Bureaucracy

Strategos

Management Innovation. As most of you know, Gary Hamel, was one of the founders of Strategos back in 1995. In recent years, his focus has been on Management Innovation – innovating the processes and practices that are used to direct and coordinate the activities of individuals and teams. While most of the client work that Strategos does is aimed at business model innovation, in recent years we have developed a principle-based approach to Management Innovation (see Mercy Salaz’s blog, Scope Cre

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Six Levers for Solving the Corporate Innovation Problem™ – Part 2

Innovation Excellence

This is the second part of a three-part article series from Rob Munro and Frank Mattes.

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Going Public With Your Mistakes: The Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston

Michael Roberto

Imagine a hospital that discusses its mistakes publicly. Does that sound like a good idea? Could it help advance the cause of patient safety. Yesterday we learned that scholars at Johns Hopkins have conducted research demonstrating that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. That's alarming in its own right, but especially so since many hospitals have been trying to reduce medical accidents over the past decade.

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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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A Very Cool Brainstorm Facilitation Training for People in the Fast Lane

Idea Champions

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