Tue.Sep 11, 2018

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The quiet desperation of corporate innovators

Jeffrey Phillips

Over the last year I've been conducting a one person listening tour, talking to a lot of my peers in consulting, as well as prospects, customers and friends who work in government and industry. Of course many of these conversations revolve around innovation and new product or service development (or the lack thereof), and how people are engaged in their work and their roles.

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3 Ways to Improve Team Innovation

Innovation in Practice

The most powerful innovation comes when teams work together. Driving innovation means getting individual employees to be more innovative, but it also means getting high performance teams to innovate. How you form those teams will have a huge impact on their success. Here’s how to create what I call innovation dream teams. First and most important is to create a diverse team.

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5 Things We’re Looking Forward to at Open Nation 2018, Berkeley

IdeaScale

We’ve talked about 2018’s innovation learning priorities already and how they will inform the agenda at this year’s Open Nation 2018, Berkeley, but I would love to reiterate that I think those themes of engagement, implementation, and innovation ROI are some of the most interesting and complex problems to solve in the innovation space so the content should be stellar.

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We Need To Focus More On Networks And Less On Nodes

Innovation Excellence

In the mid-1980s, a Robert Kelley of Carnegie Mellon University began to research why some engineers at Bell Labs performed so much better than others. Initially, what he found didn’t make much sense, By any conventional analysis, the outperforming engineers were nothing special. They seemed just like anyone else. Yet when he looked at their.

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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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The Five Digital Flavors of Innovation

InnovationManagement

Innovation must become your business routine and corporate culture to renew creative energy.

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Master Ideation with this Checklist

Innovation 360 Group

The process of realising innovation rarely happens in a linear manner. Our research has shown that radical innovators (those that create aspire to realise significant change) are far more rigorous and struc t ured in the ir approach and use of process than those that pursue only incremental innovation (gradual change). Rigorous and S truc t ured A pproach.

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Peet van Biljon

Innovation 360 Group

Senior Advisor, North America. Background. Peet is a well-rounded international executive with deep consulting, high-tech and advanced industry experience. He is regarded as an innovative strategist, a creative problem-solver and a thought leader on ethical innovation.He has many years of experience as an innovation practitioner and executive-level advisor.

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Introducing the World’s Biggest List of Live Challenges

IdeaConnection

IdeaConnection is very excited to announce its latest service – the world’s biggest list of live challenges, contests and competitions from all over the planet. Currently, we have more than 70 challenges listed with a combined prize pot of more than $125 million. And we are adding to and updating this information on a daily basis. So why have we created this service?

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Allan Fors

Innovation 360 Group

Commercial Officer Asia-Pacific. Background. Allan is a dynamic professional from the field of Industrial Engineering and Management specializing in Project Management, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Quality Management, Leadership and Change Management. He has several years of experience working in international project groups leading university and work project teams in Indian, Chinese and European companies.

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Scaling-Up: The Foundation

Integrative Innovation

This is the first part of a two-part lead article, co-written with Frank Mattes. The – in the truest sense of words – ‘billion-dollar-question’ we are addressing is: How can companies generate more business impact from non-incremental innovation? The solution to this question lies in the middle part of an end-to-end process for non-incremental innovation.

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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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John Saiz

Innovation 360 Group

Principal. Background. Formerly the Chief Technology Officer / Chief Technologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, John collaborates with senior cross-functional teams to improve their innovative capabilities (via the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing). John also provides Interim CTO services to manufacturing and technology-intensive organizations worldwide (via Fortium Partners).

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Former Pirelli Exec on Digital Transformation as a Team Sport

Innovation Leader

Former Chief Innovation Officer Marcelo De Santis calls digital transformation is a "team sport" that requires buy-in. Get advice from De Santis in this podcast.

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Peter Glasheen

Innovation 360 Group

Head of Faculty, Director-Level Consultant, Black Belt. Background. Peter Glasheen is an experienced consultant and senior Executive with multinational company and international exposure (Australasia, Western Europe, Middle East, SE Asia, USA). He has a creative approach and balanced Technology / Commercial / Operational / Strategic outlook to getting better business results.

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#1,371 – Semi-Artificial Photosynthesis

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve written in the past about an Artificial Leaf that tries to re-create the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in order to produce renewable energy. However, that was just the beginning. Not entirely satisfied with that approach scientists have now turned their attention to another method, a hybrid approach that aims to combine natural and man-made processes in one fell swoop, aimed at combating Climate Change once and for all.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Niclas Claesson

Innovation 360 Group

Director-Level Consultant. Background. Change specialist with a strong hurdler profile that make things happen now. Extensive experience of managing practical innovation and to translate those into a C-level business context. Entrepreneur with experiences as founder of SME business and from developing new business models from an anthropologist point of view of the customer needs.

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