Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Have you ever heard of Google Video, Google Lively, Google Notebook, Google Answers or Google Wave? Do you use Google+? One of the axioms spoken time and time again by leaders in Silicon Valley is that failure is a good thing. In fact, Silicon Valley leaders will tell you that failure is not just unavoidable, but integral to achieving new heights. Google has been a standard bearer for innovation since its founding in 1998 to bring the world Google Maps, Google Books, Gmail, amongst many other pr

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 29, 2016

ca·pa·bil·i·ty ˌkā-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē - the quality or state of being capable (an ability); a feature or faculty capable of development (a potential); or the facility for an indicated use. Capability to outsmart (or outspend) the competition ; capability to put the Business Model Canvas to some good use; capability for new product or service development – like making a Ghostbot , a bot that “uses artificial intelligence to help daters gracefully exit undesirable situations, without having to deal with

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Exago

JULY 27, 2016

With the first round of its new innovation initiative closed, Enel has recognised 10 employees for their top contributions to the business challenges launched, in a ceremony held in Rome. The multinational power company adopted Exago’s Idea Market in 2014, Read More. The post Time to celebrate innovation achievements at Enel appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Idea to Value

JULY 29, 2016

Have you ever wondered why you find the sound of raindrops relaxing, or why some background sounds can help you concentrate? It’s all about how your brain gets distracted, and how certain sounds can prevent this. You might well have heard of white noise before. It sounds a bit like static you used to get […]. Originally published at White noise vs.

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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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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 26, 2016

There's a poem I love, that we post-modern types aren't supposed to love, because it was written by a colonialist Victorian, which by itself is almost enough to discredit any literature. I'm talking today about the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. If is a poem about keeping your wits about you when others are losing theirs, and keeping your course and beliefs when others doubt you.

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Digital Tonto

JULY 24, 2016

The truth is that creativity is hard work. There are no silver bullets. The only way to create successfully is to get your ideas out there, find the flaws and get to work fixing them. Related. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Idea to Value

JULY 28, 2016

This open-source robotic innovation aims to make everyone a backyard farmer, letting you grow a variety of vegetables without ever having to look after them. If you think that sounds too good to be true, you’re probably not alone. Check out the video above to see how it works. But a young startup community called […]. Originally published at Too lazy to do the gardening?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 28, 2016

I read today a rather rambling and confusing piece in the New York Times about Dollar Shave Club. The article, entitled $1 Billion for Dollar Shave Club: Why every company should worry , can't seem to hit its stride or find a point it wants to make. At first I thought the piece was going to congratulate a disrupter, Dollar Shave Club, who, despite the odds, grew a startup business to the point where Unilever acquired it for $1 billion dollars.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

You have heard the old business joke about the pig and the chicken’s different levels of commitment to breakfast ? When it comes to ham and eggs, the chicken is supportive, while the pig is committed. It may be an old and tired story, but it still illustrates an important point about engagement and the willingness (or unwillingness) of employees to go all in with a new business initiative.

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Norbert Bol

JULY 23, 2016

In this Strategy Blog I would like to share with you the blogs of CEO’s that I follow because they also discuss strategic management issues. Ben’s Blog by Ben Horowitz, CEO of Andreessen Horowitz. CEO Blog – Time Leadership by Jim Estill CEO of Canrock Capital. CraigConnects by Craig Newmark, Founder of Craiglist. George Colony’s Blog: The counterintuitive CEO by George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 28, 2016

One of the most important videos in the history of cinema, Walt Disney has just made their original hit Steamboat Willie available for free. Check it out in the video above. The cartoon was released in November 1928, and was the first appearance by Mickey Mouse. What makes this such a seminal and important moment in cinema is that this was the first cartoon with synchronised sound.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 26, 2016

“Disruptive innovation” is one of the most overused and misunderstood phrases of this digital age. Using digital technology to ease our daily frustrations by questioning traditional methods and delivering empowering alternatives or more efficient business models is something that should be celebrated rather than feared. The way that we order a cab, book a room, watch a movie or listen to a song has changed completely over the past few years.

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Mike Shipulski

JULY 27, 2016

As vacation approaches the work days drag. Sure you’re excited about the future, but when compared to the upcoming pleasantness, the daily grind feels more like a prison. Anticipating a good time in the future rips you from the present moment and puts you in a place you’d rather be. And when you don’t want to be where you are, wherever you are becomes your jail cell.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 26, 2016

The online magazine Digital Trends suggests that automation will commandeer around 5 million jobs by 2020. That means that 5 million workers are going to have to resign themselves to joblessness, or will have to improve current and even learn new sets of skills so that they can flourish.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JULY 29, 2016

In this episode, we host Dr. Anders Ericsson. He is the world’s foremost expert on how to become an expert. He shares a lot of actionable information about what forms the core of expertise. He also shares about purposeful and deliberate practice. He also talks about how success it is not about achieving our potential but building our potential as we go along.

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Betterific

JULY 25, 2016

When you win a Betterific crowdourced innovation challenge you get a number of perks – the prize winnings, the bragging rights, and access to the bully pulpit! We want to make you famous for your creativity. When you win a challenge, you embody what Robert F Kennedy said: “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not.” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series.

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Innovation in Practice

JULY 25, 2016

Innovators like you operate in a world of ambiguity. Every situation you face has some uncertainty, and you need to be prepared when unexpected things happen. If you’re not prepared, your strategy may derail and you end up losing competitive ground in the marketplace. Sometimes those unexpected events happen internally. The priorities in any organization are constantly shifting.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 27, 2016

Can you innovate and improve business performance by copying another company from an entirely different industry? This is what the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Michigan did when it wanted to transform its customer service and operational efficiency. The hospital borrowed some of the practices of a five star hotel and hired a new.

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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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IdeaConnection

JULY 29, 2016

For several years XPRIZES have been pushing the boundaries of human potential, encouraging brilliant minds to make breakthrough technologies and discoveries in genomics, space research, ocean health, climate change and more. The first round of the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE has now closed, having received a raft of fascinating submissions. The global open innovation contest is a call to tackle the problem of climate change in new ways.

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Gregg Fraley

JULY 29, 2016

Challenge Mapping & IdeaKeg. Do you want to cut through the clutter when it comes to innovation strategy? Are you sorting through plans for year-end strategy and ideation sessions? Are you at the very front end of innovation and not sure where to go, where to start? Are you asking questions like these (you should be!): What projects might we get started before the end of the year?

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Yet2

JULY 26, 2016

Current Searches: yet2 is searching for solutions. Seeking: Material and manufacturing process to encapsulate a skeleton structure. An open work skeleton structure can be very strong and light weight, but it needs protection against common environmental insults and for internal components. Seeking: Radiation-hardened or -tolerant means of analyzing and outputting data in a high-resolution graphical format.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 24, 2016

Really interesting article in the New York Times relating to Bernard Roth’s book The Achievement Habit. Roth, a prominent Stanford engineering professor, says that Design Thinking can help everyone form the kind of lifelong habits that solve problems, achieve goals and help make our lives better.

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Board of Innovation

JULY 26, 2016

Of course, you can sketch a bike. Give it a try. 2 circles, a few lines & you should be done. I often ask participants of our workshops to do this exercise. On average just one out of three is able to visualise a functional bike. Others draw a variation on the sketch you see above. They forget a chain. Read More. The post Innovator Skills: Your colleague can’t draw a bicycle!

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Innovation Leader

JULY 27, 2016

Executives from Shell TechWorks and the Thales xPlor discuss what they hope to accomplish with their Boston innovation labs, and how they're being measured.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 27, 2016

Growth Stalls are deadly for valuation, and both Mcdonald’s and Apple are in one. August, 2014 I wrote about McDonald’s Growth Stall. The company had 7 straight months of revenue declines, and leadership was predicting the trend would continue. Using data from several thousand companies across more than 3 decades, companies in a Growth Stall are unable to maintain a mere 2% growth rate 93% of the time. 55% fall into a consistent revenue decline of more than 2%. 20% drop into a nega

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 25, 2016

By striking the right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish.

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Information Playground

JULY 26, 2016

In February of 2015 I wrote about a potential "metadata lake" architecture that could manage and measure data like an asset. At the time  Dr. Jim Short  and I had just started our joint research on  data valuation architectures. In January of this year we held our first  data value workshop. The research itself focused on two areas: (1) the emergence of new business processes that were involved with the valuation of data, and (2) the impa

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Idea Champions

JULY 25, 2016

This is a wonderful movie about the Hero's Journey -- the one we are ALL on. Sets the context beautifully for the 5-day Hero's Journey Retreat I will be co-facilitating with Dr. Beverly Nelson at the LifePath Center in San Miguel de Allende on August 15-19 and again at the end of October. Feeling the call? info@lifepathretreats.

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Adam Hartung

JULY 26, 2016

Most leaders think of themselves as decision makers. Many people remember in 2006 when President George Bush, defending Donald Rumsfeld as his Defense Secretary said “ I am the Decider. I decide what’s best. ” It earned him the nickname “ Decider-in-Chief.” Most CEOs echo this sentiment, Most leaders like to define themselves by the decisions they make.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2016

Many of you ask us, ‘What is Lean Start-up?’ and almost as many follow up with the question, ‘Why should I care?’ While many people know start-ups like ride-sharing service Uber and accommodation sharing website Airbnb, many don’t know that what spawned these game-changing companies can also work for their own businesses.

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