Mon.Nov 09, 2020

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Connecting innovating value comes from Ecosystem thinking

Paul Hobcraft

Ecosystems can offer so much connecting value out there to ‘form’ around. We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. There is a new economic logic to build even greater scale, it involves greater complexity, yet its value proposition is to strive towards offer greater customer experience and satisfaction, where the solutions are valued highl

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What is a Virtual Innovation Lab?

InnovationManagement

The Virginia Department of Transportation created their own Virtual Innovation Lab, where they collaborate to solve problems related to remote work, engineering topics, safety, and more with the help of their entire distributed workforce. Learn more in this December 15th webinar! The post What is a Virtual Innovation Lab? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Do You Transform a Company as Big as UPS? Scott Price Explains

Innovation Leader

Our interview with Scott Price covers some of the ways that UPS — and other large organizations — should be approaching forecasting and strategic planning amidst the coronavirus pandemic. “No one is credibly doing long-term planning right now,” Price said.

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3 Innovation Strategies for Solving 'Impossible' Problems

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Innovative ideas start with looking at obstacles causing real harm.

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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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Converse CEO on Building the Brand of the Future

Innovation Leader

As part of our recent Impact conference, Scott Uzzell, CEO of Converse, discussed the brand’s relationship with popular culture, its collaborations, and more.

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Gary Vaynerchuk Launches A New Kind of Consulting Service

Entrepreneur - Innovation

VaynerMedia is now offering a playbook for connecting with Gen Z.

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Design Thinking for Schools

InnovationTraining.org

An exploration of resources and advice for design thinking in education. Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. The approach can be applied to nearly every industry and discipline, making it a useful tool when brainstorming solutions to challenges and testing them in action.

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Remembrance 2020 – Get involved from home

100%Open

It’s being reported in many newspapers that the Royal British Legion may be down on their usual collections this year because of the Covid19. 100%Open is doing more than its usual amount of thinking about the relationship between UK Defence and British Society this November. Your participation in our crowd will help the MOD transform their recruitment of UK Defence (defined as the UK Armed Forces, Reserve Forces and MOD Civil Service) in the future, 2030 and beyond.

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#1,994 – Wired Router

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I love Wired. The magazine. But now there’s another Wired that I may come to love just as much. The shape-shifting Wi-Fi router Wired. As Fast Company puts it, “While the shape is friendly and unique, an additional innovation is in the function of the router itself. The router can morph, revealing a bright color in the interior rib of the knit, to signal that the device is connected or that there’s a weak signal.

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Execution Matters, But So Do Ideas

helloFUTURE

You’ve probably heard a variation of this quote a thousand times: Ideas don’t matter. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Execution matters. This statement, like Schroedinger’s Cat being both dead and alive, is both true and not accurate. Execution matters, but ideas matter too. Of course, you might think this is self-evident. Maybe the only reason why… The post Execution Matters, But So Do Ideas appeared first on hellofuture.

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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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#1,995 – DNA Based Barcodes

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Joe Biden is going to be the next President of the United States, a fact that some people are finding hard to believe thanks to baseless claims of voter fraud in states like Pennsylvania. Fortunately, we may be able to prevent such claims from ever getting made again in the future by adapting Molecular Data Storage technology that makes use of Synthetic Biology to create a DNA based barcode replacement system that humans wouldn’t be able to detect, yet alone tamper with.

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The Myth of Outside the Box Thinking: Why Brainstorming and Other Such Techniques Are Your Worst Enemy

Innovation in Practice

How many brainstorming sessions have you been in? What really came out of it? What was the process like for you? How did you feel about it? . You probably think brainstorming isn’t that bad. But research after research actually shows that brainstorming doesn’t work. Why Brainstorming Doesn’t Work. It’s very unproductive. Five pairs of people can outperform one group of 10 on any task.

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Four areas of your company that can benefit from Gamification

mjvinnovation

To make it happen, it was necessary to create a solution that understood areas such as back office, cash front and assisted sales to support the performance of the professionals responsible for the supply chain, inventory, sales, and even reimbursement. To implement a universal digital solution, approximately nine thousand employees will be trained in all their stores around the country.

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How Design Thinking Saves the World: Design Thinking in Action

InnovationLabs

Free Webinar on Design Thinking – November 12, 2020 In conjunction with York University, on November 12 Langdon Morris will be presenting a free webinar on Design Thinking. He will cover material from the extensive Innovation Mastery course, including fascinating case studies on the use of Design Thinking to create breakthroughs in consumer goods, beverages, […].

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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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#1,993 – The Index Biological Age Test

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We all know how old we are but what is our true biological age? On the inside are we as fit as a fiddle and a few years younger than we really are or are we actually as decrepit as the grumpy old man that we sometimes feel like? Presumably we’ve all aged about fifty years during the Trump Administration but if we really want to find out our true biological age we now have a scientifically proven way to do just that.