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The future innovation core lies at the edge.

Paul Hobcraft

Boundaries seem to be continually pushed in business, nothing seemingly stands still, yet many things stay caught up in not being changed. Something has to change, we need to jettison old ways. In with the new in 2017, out with the old. I continue to read and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation.

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How to Assess Your Innovation Fitness

IdeaScale

There are two types of innovation fitness assessments that you should perform in your organization. Organizational fitness assessments help you understand the health of your innovation strategies as well as whether or not your culture, leadership, employees, and stakeholders are set up for innovation success. Program readiness assessments help evaluate your processes, resources, and goals.

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Unfuzzying the Front End of Innovation. An interview with Liberty Global's Spark Team

HYPE Innovation

Roel de Vries and Sarah Kelly are the innovation managers for Liberty Global’s innovation program, Spark. In May 2017, they’ll be presenting at the HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn. In the following interview we asked them to provide a heads-up on their session, and some of the key talking points. Your talk is about unfuzzying the front end of innovation, how did you arrive on that subject?

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Six common mistakes and one advice for innovation challenges

Exago

Operational efficiency is clearly ahead in idea implementation, while sales and marketing, sustainability and better customer experience count for more than half of all the ideas implemented. By dissecting the innovation challenges that performed the worst – and excluding extrinsic. Read More. The post Six common mistakes and one advice for innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.

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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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This engineer replaced a $1,000.00+ medical device with one costing $0.20

Idea to Value

Sometimes, you need to set yourself really strict constraints in order to come up with the most creative innovations. This is exactly what Manu Prakash did with his team at Stanford when trying to make a better, cheaper way to test blood samples in poorer countries. Check out his video above. He was trying to find a replacement for a vital but very expensive piece of equipment; a centrifuge, which is used to separate blood into its various components for analysis by spinning a sample very quic

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Best Practice: Conduct crowd engagement and outreach with an eye toward diversity

IdeaScale

Research shows that diversity increases the intelligence of the crowd. If you want to geek out on the theory and mathematics, here is a great 10 minute video by Professor Scott Page at the University of Michigan, describing the Diversity Prediction Theorem, which describes precisely (in mathematical terms) how diversity increases the accuracy of a crowd when making predictions or estimates. .

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CDO: Understanding Delivery Acceleration

HYPE Innovation

The Chief Digital Officer’s awareness of the ecosystem’s current and future capabilities is critical for accelerating delivery. In this second of our three-part blog series exploring the critical considerations for any company embarking on IoT-enabled growth, we explore how the ecosystem allows the CDO to leverage previously unattainable access to resources at suppliers, partners, customers and even competitors to bring new opportunities to life.

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GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt on why they are scrapping performance reviews to be more like a Startup

Idea to Value

General Electric is a great case study for how a large corporation can change their company culture and strategy to become more innovative. In this exclusive interview with Linkedin (video above), CEO Jeff Immelt talks through some of the changes the company is in the process of implementing to adjust to the needs of the future. […]. Originally published at GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt on why they are scrapping performance reviews to be more like a Startup.

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Key Goals from the DREAMS Innovation Challenge

IdeaScale

Though significant progress has been made globally in stemming the increase of HIV and AIDS, and in lowering the misconceptions and stigma associated with the infections, unfortunately there are some areas of the world where this education and outreach is more challenging. Of new HIV infections, 71% of those among adolescents are of girls and young women, and nearly half of those new infections since 2014 have occurred in 10 sub-Saharan countries.

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We Too Often Ignore The Tradeoff Between Innovation And Optimization

Digital Tonto

If you want to innovate, forget the metrics and focus on your mission Related posts: Why Best Practices Can Lead To Better Innovation. Why Every Business Should Consider Innovation Teams. What is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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CDO: Understanding Organizational Readiness

HYPE Innovation

The Chief Digital Officer’s leadership is key to success as digital has a transformational impact within and beyond the organization. In this final installment of our three-part blog series exploring the critical considerations for any company embarking on Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled growth, we examine how the new Chief Digital Officer (CDO) leads the convergence of operational and information technology along with its transformational impact across the ecosystem.

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Strategic Thinking on 4 Years of Hoping and Praying

BrainZooming

A new national experiment begins. Strategically, it’s smart to avoid experiments at the top of any organization, but this is what we’re facing. . How will this experiment unfold? Will it be like a Bugs Bunny cartoon from long ago where Elmer Fudd took on the persona of whatever hat he wore ? Does being in a particular position cause one to suddenly behave in an appropriate manner for the office one assumes?

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These 2017 Trends Will Change Our World

Innovation Excellence

Welcome to 2017. It is going to be an interesting year. We have not seen so much creativity, innovation and evolution before in history. Trend watchers go berserk with all the cool new ideas born every minute and futurologist see their predictions come true sooner than expected. The second machine age is here and what.

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The 3 Things About Data You Probably Don’t Know, But Need To

Digital Tonto

Like energy, talent, finance or any other resource, managing data effectively is becoming essential to competing in today’s marketplace. Related posts: 4 Things Managers Need To Know About Data. If. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Diabolically Simple Prototypes

Mike Shipulski

Ideas are all talk and no action. Ideas are untested concepts that have yet to rise to the level of practicality. You can’t sell an idea and you can’t barter with them. Ideas aren’t worth much. A prototype is a physical manifestation of an idea. Where ideas are ethereal, prototypes are practical. Where ideas are fuzzy and subject to interpretation, prototypes are a sledge hammer right between the eyes.

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7 Forgotten Project Management Skills from Our Escape Room Fail

BrainZooming

Have you participated in an escape room yet? You can visit Wikipedia for a more comprehensive description of an escape room. It’s essentially a “locked” room filled with clues that a group needs to discover and decode in order to unlock the door and leave. It’s a timed activity; the team is competing against the clock and previous players to see if they can escape within an hour.

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Cybersecurity Is Everybody’s Business

Daniel Burrus

It’s quite possibly the most modern rap sheet around. And it’s growing larger every day. From hackers looking to steal millions of credit card details to foreign powers allegedly hoping to snag tens of millions of credit card and/or Social Security numbers, cybercrime is fast becoming an out-and-out epidemic. An epidemic means something that is spreading so rapidly, chances are good it may affect all of us sooner or later.

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The Art of Storytelling For Business

Rmukesh Gupta

It is well known that all of us make most of our decisions based on our emotions rather than pure logic or intellect or rationality. So, if we are to influence people and their decisions, we need to learn about moving them emotionally enough to get them to make a decision in our favour. The best way for us to do so is by telling good stories, stories that they can related to and move with.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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The Firm of the Future Will Manage Two Types of Businesses

Integrative Innovation

Bain and Company hast just published an worthwile article , debating on the question: What will the firm of the future look like ? Among several characteristics, the authors also particularly anticipate future-proof companies to be required to manage two types of businesses with distinct “engines”: Companies have always pursued innovation in their core business.

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Implementation Strategy – 15 Questions to Identify Heads Up People

BrainZooming

Moving from planning to implementation strategy , it’s easy to focus on the end goal and never look back – or forward beyond launch. That type of focus and momentum helps drive your implementation strategy. As you move ahead with determination, however, here’s an important tip: look ahead to all the people, processes, and resources you will need for support when what you are preparing to implement is ready to implement.

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Top 40 Innovation Blogger of 2016, and Top 20 Innovation Blog

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Over the past couple of weeks, Nick Skillicorn, Innovationmanagement.se and innoboard.de have been analysing all of the top innovation blogs from across the internet, on their own pages (63 in total).

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Registration Open: Design Your Innovation Blueprint

Innovation in Practice

I am pleased to announce that Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) – has opened registration for their upcoming flagship executive program, “Design Your Innovation Blueprint.” The event will be held in New York City, March 1-3, in collaboration with Columbia University. This year’s program is a platform for executives from around the world to share their innovation experiences and learn how to embed a culture and the practice of innovation within their teams and organizations. .

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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Innovation Through Cross-Industry Learning: How is it Changing the World?

InnovationManagement

Cross industry learning, the transfer of technologies across industry boundaries, can revolutionize technology landscapes. We will illustrate the advantages of cross industry learning with a case study.

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Innovation Strategy – 5 eBooks to Boost Innovation this Year

BrainZooming

Is accelerating your innovation strategy high on your organization’s priority list for this year? If growth is an important component of what you are trying to accomplish, innovation is likely getting a hard look as an important part of realizing that objective. The Brainzooming Group has you covered, with eBooks to: Evaluate innovation opportunities and challenges.

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America Makes Announce Winners of Smart Structure Challenge

Innocentive

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and their Design Research Education of Additive Manufacturing Systems (The DREAMS lab) have been announced as the winners of the America Makes Smart Structure Challenge for their Smart Wing Project – detailed mechatronic devices for use in winds for remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA).

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Turn Your Organization into an Idea Factory: Part I

Innovation Excellence

Up to 80 percent of an organization's improvement potential could come from frontline employee ideas. However, the average employee suggestion box or idea program gets less than 10 percent adoption, has fewer than.5 ideas per employee per year and can hurt employee engagement.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Innovators: Are You Smart Enough For 2017?

InnovationManagement

We can all see that global commerce has evolved, innovative excellence has advanced and entrepreneurialism has accelerated. Just to make things more interesting, all of this change happened extremely rapidly. But how about our own intelligence? Are we really smart enough for 2017 and beyond? Ambition encourages us to reach for success, so let’s test our own entrepreneurial intelligence to see if we’re up to the challenges of 2017.

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Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation

Rmukesh Gupta

The need for innovation has never been more acute for businesses than it is today. Every CEO of any sizable business is worrying about which startup from which garage is going to change the rules of their game and disrupt them. They are looking for ways to find (internally, within their organisation or externally, through acquisition/partnership/investments) innovations that can give them enough breathing space to grow their businesses and give their shareholders a good return on investment (and

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How BMW’s Corporate Venture Capital Strategy is Changing

Innovation Leader

Last year, BMW said that it would invest 500 million Euros in the next decade across the tech landscape and moved its US office to Silicon Valley. Find out what’s behind the changes.

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Visiting Media Lab Bayern [interview]

Innovation Excellence

Stefan Sutor is Head of Strategy and Innovation at Media Lab Bayern. What’s the purpose of Media Lab Bayen? Stefan kindly takes for a tour in this tremendous entity. Nicolas Bry: Could tell us about your experience, and how you’ve joined the Media Lab Bayern? Stefan Sutor: As Head of Digital Strategy at the Bavarian.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.