Sat.Mar 07, 2015 - Fri.Mar 13, 2015

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The Flaming Lips and Economic Development

Gregg Fraley

'Consider Attending the Creativity World Forum 2015. As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. I’ve written here previously about how effective their model is in getting broad-based involvement, participation, and attendance. This is arguably the most successful creativity conference in the world right now.

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Raise The Minimum Wage: It’s Innovation Policy

It's Saul Connected

Raising the minimum wage across the U.S. may be our best innovation policy. You wouldn’t know it from either our current innovation policy or the partisan catfight, cable news talking heads, and tired political arguments about minimum wage. A higher minimum wage is a good thing. It puts more pressure on companies to innovate to increase the value of their products, services, and business models.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a culture that fears failure. A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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Check Your Body As Often As Your Email

Innovation 360

The exponential implications on healthcare are truly disruptive. The revelation of the Apple Watch did not take the tech community by storm, but during the first 24 hours after 23andMe and Apple launched their ResearchKit app mPower 7,400 individuals with Parkinsons enrolled as clinical testers. Up until that date the largest research group was 1,700 individuals.

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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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How Mindful Innovation is Accelerating the Rate of Health & Performance in the Enterprise

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Our Mindful Innovation vision is to refine organization health strategies, reveal population health improvement interventions and weigh productive advantage business models to improve the economic wellbeing and quality of life of consumers worldwide. “Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it,” wrote author James Balldwin.

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Copy C0py Now!

100%Open

How much do you have to distort a figure of Mickey Mouse for it to no longer infringe Disney’s copyright? In other words how much do you have to modify somebody else’s idea before you can call it your own? The answer appears to be quite a lot according to Matthew Plummer-Fernandez , an artist who produces 3D prints of digitally scans of physical objects (see pitcture above).

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Check Your Body As Often As Your Email

Innovation 360

The exponential implications on healthcare are truly disruptive. The revelation of the Apple Watch did not take the tech community by storm, but during the first 24 hours after 23andMe and Apple launched their ResearchKit app mPower 7,400 individuals with Parkinsons enrolled as clinical testers. Up until that date the largest research group was 1,700 individuals.

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China vs. Silicon Valley: Can the rest of the world keep up?DISRUPT | INNOVATE | LEAD

Linda Bernardi

In my recent article published March 6, 2015 on The Washington Post, I write about the strides start-ups in China are making on a daily basis and pose the question of whether or not the rest of the world will be able to keep up. Below is the introduction to the article along with a […].

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A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 3

Boxes and Arrows

'Web site optimization has become an essential capability in today’s conversion-driven web teams. In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the topic as well as discussed key goals and philosophies. In Part 2 , I presented a detailed and customizable process. In this final article, we’ll cover communication planning and how to select the appropriate team and tools to do the job.

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Confused on a higher level

Innovation 360

The first day of Singularity Summit has left us confused on a higher level. In his opening statement Rob Nail, CEO of Singularity University spoke of the exponentiality of technological development and it’s implications on different industries. The energy created by one hour of sunshine is enough to supply the entire globe for a year. The challenge is to capture that energy.

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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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Confused on a higher level

Innovation 360

The first day of Singularity Summit has left us confused on a higher level. In his opening statement Rob Nail, CEO of Singularity University spoke of the exponentiality of technological development and it’s implications on different industries. The energy created by one hour of sunshine is enough to supply the entire globe for a year. The challenge is to capture that energy.

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Launch of the worlds first free online based innovation measurement

Innovation 360

We are very proud to officially launch the InnoSurvey online. The worlds first free, and probably most comprehensive, innovation measurement. Get a free comprehensive innovation measurement report with evidence based advice on how to sharpen your Innovation Capability. It´s just a click away and probably the most valuable half hour you can spend if you want to grow your business successfully!

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Today Launch – Tomorrow into the Future!

Innovation 360

This post is written in Seville where a team from Innovation 360 is attending the Singularity Summit Spain. Singularity University is a teaching organization, funded by companies like Google, Cisco and Genentech. The School is located in Silicon Valley and it’s stated aim is to “educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” Starting tomorrow, the next few days we will be inspired by top researchers and gain insig