Tim Kastelle
APRIL 13, 2015
My Grandfather’s Watch. I only got to meet one of my two grandfathers – my Mom’s father George. My Dad’s parents both died when Dad was very young. They each had watches that have been passed down through our family. I recently put a new band on the watch from Grandpa George so that I can wear it a bit more often. This is how it looks now: It’s about 50 years old.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 14, 2015
Today, inspired by the Fast and Furious movies, I thought I'd write about the appropriate speed for innovation. One doesn't have to have the arms of the Rock, or the brains of Vin Diesel, to see that most innovation is attempted at the wrong speed. And, much like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, there are speeds that are too fast, too slow and "just right".
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Leapfrogging
APRIL 15, 2015
Sustained competitive advantage comes from innovating how we innovate. That’s the essence of real innovation. In the past, new products and technologies consumed the vast majority of the innovation air-time. That’s no longer the case. The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating.
Boxes and Arrows
APRIL 14, 2015
'When we’re building products for people, designers often do something called “needs finding” which translates roughly into “looking for problems in users’ lives that we can solve.” But there’s a problem with this. It’s a widely held belief that, if a company can find a problem that is bad enough, people will buy a product that solves it. That’s often true.
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.
Technology Created
APRIL 14, 2015
“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” — Tim Berners-Lee. The late 70’s must have been a crazy time. Beyond just Jobs and Woz and Gates and Allen, there was Osborne and Bricklin and Peddle and Bushnell. They must have known they were at a tipping point but just couldn’t quite sense the enormity of change that was about to take place.
Jeffrey Phillips
APRIL 15, 2015
There's a fundamental problem in many corporations that keeps innovation from constantly delivering valuable results. The challenge probably isn't what you imagine. While many of us in the innovation space will point at a lack of tools, a lack of innovation experience, low expectations and significant risk barriers as challenges for innovation, along with a lack of resources and inadequate planning and funding, those to some extent can be overcome.
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It's Saul Connected
APRIL 16, 2015
R&D for new business models is the new strategic imperative for all business leaders. Why? Business models don’t last as long as they used to. All businesses are vulnerable to being netflixed. A Netflix, Uber, or Airbnb can swoop in and disrupt or totally destroy existing industry business models. And make no mistake—this is not about new technologies or new products, it’s about new business models.
100%Open
APRIL 17, 2015
100%Open has had a run of three really successful online crowds recently that appear to have been of above average productivity and intelligence. For example we’ve run our first Russian community for P&G household care brands and have kicked off another P&G community in the UK for laundry sector. And closer to home Water Talkers, a community for UKWIR tasked with finding new ideas for saving water, was highly productive.
Innovation Leader
APRIL 17, 2015
Allstate’s Moises Norena talks about how the $34 billion insurer is measuring innovation impact and why innovation can sometimes be a tough sell in a services business.
The Human Factor
APRIL 14, 2015
It feels good to win – in business as well as sports and almost any other endeavor. We all know winning when we see it or feel it. It’s that moment of excitement and exhilaration. It’s the urge to jump in the air and pump our fists; to give high-fives to our teammates. It’s that intoxicating feeling of accomplishment, knowing we conquered something and prevailed based on our expectation of excellence.
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.
CorporateIntel
APRIL 13, 2015
Here are a few marvels of bad business practices I’ve experienced in the past month: In the middle of a presentation pitching me for a strategic business services contract, the presenter nonchalantly said the words: “We don’t really need this business.” He didn’t get it. I reviewed two proposals for a project: one a two-pager with one paragraph personalized and the balance consisting of the company’s credits; the other a five-pager all personalized around my p
Innovation Leader
APRIL 13, 2015
Home Depot opened a site to connect with Georgia Tech students and explore technologies that could impact how people shop and associates work.
Innovation Leader
APRIL 15, 2015
Nine senior leaders discussed how they’ve set up groups to focus on truly disruptive innovation.
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