Mon.Jan 14, 2019

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Open Innovation Solution for Plastic Waste Problem

IdeaConnection

A plastic-free laundry tablet that could replace single-use sachets.

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Make Your Next Corporate Offsite a Disruptive Innovation Jam

Innovation Excellence

How to transform a boring leadership offsite into an inspiring springboard for the future I’ve been fortunate to work with thousands of executives from many household names over the past 20 years. There’s one thing just about every company and every leadership team share in common – the annual offsite. Most offsites focus on building big visions, crafting.

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Is Innovation Career Suicide?

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: your CEO (or more likely new CEO) decides that your company needs to be more innovative, either generating profitable new products, becoming more of a leader in the space or trying to juice up employee engagement. Let’s do some moonshots! As a career innovator, this is what… The post Is Innovation Career Suicide?

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Here’s What Our Quantum Future Will Look Like

Innovation Excellence

Quantum computing is the hot new thing. With Moore’s Law ending, there is a mad rush to find a new avenue for advancement. To optimists, quantum computing will fit the bill nicely and we’ll make the transition smoothly. To pessimists, the technology will kill encryption and bring down global commerce with it. Neither of these.

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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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Increasing R&D Spending Will Not Lead to Innovation, But This Will

InnovationManagement

In an analysis of high performance innovators (called in this article the “Global Innovation 1000”), researchers made a surprising discovery: “spending more money does not open the doors to innovation.”.

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Innovation Leadership; into the wilderness or into the future?

Cris Beswick

In my recent article looking at why innovation transformations fail I called out innovation leadership (or lack of) as one of the prime causes of failure. And OK it’s not that hard to see why. After all, if CEOs and senior leaders are merrily setting off, compass-less, into the innovation wilderness then there isn’t much … Continued. The post Innovation Leadership; into the wilderness or into the future?

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Inside Cadillac’s Brand Building Initiative, Cadillac House

Innovation Leader

Opened in 2015, Cadillac House space includes a free art gallery, pop-up stores, a café, as well as the latest Cadillac vehicles. Take a look inside the space in this video.

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Blockchain’s International Footprint

Wellspring

Sometimes, when a breakthrough technology emerges, expertise is concentrated in a small group of specialists, and one or two regional ecosystems dominate the landscape. In the past, tapping into that knowledge base might have meant attending a few conferences, working the Valley’s network, and then calling it a day.

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Open Data Innovation to Monitor the Health of Trees

IdeaConnection

The development of a new app that catalogs a city’s trees allowing citizens to keep an eye on their health.

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#1,445 – Bionic Journalism

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The newspaper industry has already been gutted by technological advancements as the Internet has siphoned away advertising revenue but now comes along an even greater existential threat: Bionic Journalism. As Digiday reports: “Over the summer, the business publisher [Forbes], which just had its most profitable year in more than a decade, rolled out a new CMS, called Bertie, which recommends article topics for contributors based on their previous output, headlines based on the sentiment of thei

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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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When Outsourcing Really Is The Way Forward

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. There is a lot of talk about outsourcing in business , not all of it positive. A lot of business owners do not want to outsource, or at least say that they want to avoid it wherever possible. There are obviously some genuine concerns which underpin this, and it makes sense to want to be as in control of your business processes as possible.

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Crucial Transformations Small Businesses Need To Grow

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you first launch your business, the idea to remain static and sticks to what you know is laughed at. Every new entrepreneur knows that they need to transform, experiment and adapt along the way to turn their business dream into a viable and profitable company. But, as surprising as it sounds, a static strategy becomes more and more appealing for business owners who have already succeeded in building a commercially-effective entity.

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Ignorance Is Not Bliss! Improve Your Knowledge To Improve Your Business

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. The common mistake entrepreneurs make is thinking that the tools can help harness the business and prepare it for progression. This is not the case. Of course, while various technologies and processes are very handy, the real answer lies in knowledge and expertise. As your business expands its scope, you naturally have to expand your knowledge.

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