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

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To Get Big, Start Really Small

Tim Kastelle

When you’re starting out with something new, it’s important to understand that your customer is never “everyone.” Even if your eventual potential market is huge, you need to start out by dominating a small niche. Google didn’t start out by organising the world’s information. Google started out as a way to make searching the Stanford Library easier as part of the Stanford Digital Library Project.

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Rocket Fuel

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

If we had our way, we would eliminate the titles of CEO, president, COO, or general manager. There are two distinct types of leaders in all small businesses: the “Visionary” and the “Integrator.” One sees the future, and the other makes it happen. These two roles could not be more different from each other. That is why it is magic when they work well together.

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Is open innovation ‘business infidelity’?

100%Open

One of the activities that we do is run p ublic open innovation calls so that businesses can find each other and collaborate. Like in Colombia CO4 , we create and publicise an ‘interesting question’ in the form of a challenge and then we help filter and judge the proposals from new potential suppliers and partners. We usually do this for big companies who have specific needs and who are normally very satisfied with the results.

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The swedish IT-kanalen and IT24 write about us

Innovation 360

The swedish home electronic retail magazine IT-Kanalen write about our start, please read the article here. The leading swedish IT site IT24.se give their perspective on our start. Read the article here. The post The swedish IT-kanalen and IT24 write about us appeared first on Innovation Consultant | Innovation 360 | Home Of Innovation.

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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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5 Important Points About Business Models

Tim Kastelle

One Technology, Five Business Models. In the late 1990s, some researchers at The University of Queensland made a breakthrough. They invented radar equipment that works with an extremely high degree of precision over a relatively short range. Once they had made their discovery, they next started working on bringing their technology to market. Their first thought was that this would be very useful for locating pipes and underground power lines when people were digging things up.

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Coke’s David Butler on Building a Program for ‘Exponential Growth’

Innovation Leader

VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship David Butler talks about his work to combine entrepreneurial ideas and speed with Coca-Cola’s scale and brand power.

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The swedish IT-kanalen and IT24 write about us

Innovation 360

The swedish home electronic retail magazine IT-Kanalen write about our start, please read the article here. The leading swedish IT site IT24.se give their perspective on our start. Read the article here. The post The swedish IT-kanalen and IT24 write about us appeared first on Home of Innovation.

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Managing sustainability perspectives

Norbert Bol

Organizations have become more aware of the social, environmental, and economic consequences of their activities. Therefore most organizations have a seperate policy on sustainability or corporate responsibility, which enable them to manage and to act more effectively. Sustainability on a strategic or company level is often difficult to define, measure and manage.

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Co-Creation: Vodafone, Thomson Reuters Share Lessons Learned

Innovation Leader

Can two companies innovate together? Shannon Lucas of Vodafone Global Enterprise and Saidah Nash Carter of Thomson Reuters share their advice.

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Frugal Innovation: Six Principles, a Case Study

Innovation Leader

The authors of the new book “Frugal Innovation” share six principles of frugal innovation, and an example from the book about Kingfisher…

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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.