Mon.Mar 04, 2019

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How Change Management Software Promotes Innovation

Kainexus

Agility is perhaps one of the most essential qualities of successful modern companies. The ability to adapt to changing marketing conditions and customer needs is crucial to survival in today’s hyper-competitive environment. Organizations that are prepared to change when necessary can capture new opportunities, eliminate threats, and delight customers.

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Avoid These Pitfalls when you Measure and Reward Innovation

Inceodia

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't apply anymore. If it ain't broke, its obsolete?. Bill Gates. Tweet. Let’s face it, companies are comfortable investing in incremental innovation – fix what is broken, adopt new technology to make their operation more efficient, train their people to increase their productivity. O utputs are the goal for innovation efforts at these businesses, not the amazing outcomes that can be achieved by truly innovative teams.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business (ALL ELEMENTS)

Qmarkets

When it comes to disruption on the modern business landscape, company size is no safeguard. 88% of Fortune 500 companies in the 1955 -2017 period 1 have either gone bankrupt, merged with other firms, or dropped off the list for other reasons. What’s more, it’s estimated that digital disruption will wipe out 40% 2 of today’s Fortune 500 companies in the coming decade.

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What is the Cost of a Failed Change Initiative or Innovation Project?

Braden Kelley

It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t.

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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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Resist The Urge To Shortcut Stages in Design Thinking

InnovationManagement

To stay relevant in the digital era, most companies are considering design thinking, but continue to be immersed in a “Build it, and they will come” mindset. Often, due to a sense of urgency to play catch-up or disrupt the market, they skip empathy and define stages of design thinking and jump to ideation and build a prototype of the new solution.

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Understanding the 5Vs of Big Data

Acuvate

In order to understand at what point ‘data’ transitions into being ‘big data’, and what its key elements are, it is imperative that we study the 5 Vs associated with it: Velocity, Volume, Value, Variety, and Veracity. What is Big Data. “Big data” is a relatively modern field of data science that explores how large data sets can be broken down and analyzed in order to systematically glean insights and information from them.

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Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. As each of us make progress in our careers and lives we learn all kinds of ways to doing things. We learn to apply best practices and processes that often serve to help us avoid risks and do things right. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things.

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Retooling to Win in the Next Decade

Innovation Excellence

After the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos drew to a close, Martin Reeves, Senior Partner & Managing Director, Director of the BCG Henderson Institute shared his reflections of the event with the Boston Consulting Group. Whilst discussion trended down global economic growth, they also elevated risks on a number of fronts, spanning the whole.

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How we cultivate sustainability and help our customers do the same

Wazoku

At Wazoku the tools and processes we recommend to our customers when generating ideas or solving business challenges are the same we adopt internally. Balbu, is what we’ve branded our own idea management platform instance in our organisation. We use Balbu to run internal competitions, test and develop product features and improve operational and business processes to name a few.

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Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Eight Ways to Adopt Radical Innovation. As each of us make progress in our careers and lives we learn all kinds of ways to doing things. We learn to apply best practices and processes that often serve to help us avoid risks and do things right. At the heart of true innovation, however, is the need to continually birth new ideas, and new ways of doing things.

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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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Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. As we prepare our 2018 year in review of the USPTO patent and publication statistics, we see a year where patent quality and utility to the patent owner is more important than ever. This results in little movement in the overall numbers, but what we believe is likely to be an overall increase in patent quality.

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Flipping mindsets to complement humans

ImagineNation

It seems that the waves of change are not going to subside anytime soon. The possibilities and opportunities that are emerging, can only be realized with the most resourceful mindsets, behaviours and skill sets. As AI and other advanced technologies permeate the workplace, flipping mindsets, learning new behaviours and skills and shaping organizational cultures are causing us to radically rethink work in ways that maximize the value of both humans and machines.

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2018 Patent Analysis: Patent Quality and Utility Essential to Patent Owners

Anaqua

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. As we prepare our 2018 year in review of the USPTO patent and publication statistics, we see a year where patent quality and utility to the patent owner is more important than ever. This results in little movement in the overall numbers, but what we believe is likely to be an overall increase in patent quality.

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I really don?t have the energy for this.

100%Open

We all need to use less energy. Even if renewable sources are growing strongly, much of what we use as consumers still contributes to the bad things we?re doing to our shared home, planet Earth. As a result, the government, the energy industry and plenty of others have spent the last ten years telling us to use less, giving us “smart meters” and “energy dashboards”, and generally attempting to get us to change our behaviour for good.

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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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Open Innovation Uncovers Innovations in Law

IdeaConnection

A browser extension to help consumers understand company service agreements and a voice command app for legal information.

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Finding and Accelerating Solutions to the U.S. Public Sector

Innocentive

By Jon A. Fredrickson, VP, Chief Innovation Officer.

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Open Innovation for Rapid Product Development

IdeaConnection

An innovative tool for filing cryptocurrency tax returns.

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Meet the yet2 Team – Megan Waldock

Yet2

This is one in a series of blog posts where we highlight members of the global yet2 team. We recently spoke with Megan Waldock , a project leader currently in our Boston office. Megan has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Baylor University and a Masters in Sustainable Solutions from Arizona State University. She will be moving and establishing our Houston office within the next few months. .

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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