Tue.Aug 13, 2019

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Recognizing an innovation need

Paul Hobcraft

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Smart, fast, innovative and digital

Jeffrey Phillips

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Innovation with a Dash of Seasonal Spice

IdeaScale

A short sprint can freshen up the mind for a longer run at innovation. It’s commonly held that innovation is a race. Unlike your typical race, innovation can be both a marathon and a series of sprints. Just like a change of scenery can inspire runners to keep going longer, a change of tone tied to the seasons and a push for short-sprint innovation themed around the time of year can keep your innovation strategy fleet-footed.

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Business Model Rookie Mistakes

Innovation Excellence

The NSF iCorps experience is a 7 week program that is designed to help scientists, engineers and health professionals commercialize their ideas, or give them a merciful death, based on evidence garnered during a customer discovery interview process. I recently participated as part of a team composed of an entrepreneurial lead, a principal investigator, and an.

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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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Customer Service Innovation: What You Need to Know

InnovationManagement

At its core, customer service is simple: Make sure your customers are happy. But even if you’ve succeeded in making your customers happy for a time, constantly improving your customer service should be a goal for you and your business, as it can help you stand out from competitors. The post Customer Service Innovation: What You Need to Know appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Reminder – Nominations Open – Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2019

Innovation Excellence

We thought it would be a fun summer activity to pull together a list of the top innovation personalities and information sharers on twitter. In case you missed it, here were the Top 50 Innovation Twitter Sharers of 2018. We know we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of.

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Inside Autodesk’s SF Technology Center

Innovation Leader

Autodesk’s San Francisco Technology Center is an innovator’s paradise, equipped with a wide array of tools and a skilled staff to help with the prototyping process…

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Conferences are broken. Are Design Sprints the fix?

InnovationTraining.org

It’s easy for annual conferences to feel cliché. Finding a new angle that gives you an edge and really inspires your people is a huge challenge. Even when you look at ways to mix it up, you find yourself deciding between a similar set of themes, looking at the same venues, using the same bank of trends to find a hook. But those issues are just cosmetic.

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#1,539 – Ramen To The Rescue

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve written in the past about Soylent, the liquid meal replacement that purportedly provides a person with everything they need for a healthy balanced diet, all in one easy to digest liquid helping that enables busy individuals always on the go to enjoy a good meal without the hassle of having to shop for groceries, prep meals, cook them, and you know, actually chew and swallow them.

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Let’s Discuss Web Design And Marketing Options

The Human Factor

contributed post –. source. Web design companies are numerous and vary widely in the services they provide and the level of skills and experience present within the company. If you are looking to hire a web design company for the first time, then wading through the terminology and separating out the important information can be time consuming and confusing.

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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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76 Surprising Facts About Corporation Innovation

Idea Champions

Here are 76 fascinating facts on corporate innovation curated by Valuer in Denmark. And while it's true that Canadian researchers have determned that goldfish have a longer attention span (9 seconds) than human beings (8 seconds), I have great confidence in your ability to buck this trend and focus for the three minutes it will take you to read Valuer's post (unless you are multi-tracking or feeding your goldfish)>.

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Moms Who Dominate the Closed World Principle

Innovation in Practice

If you’re remotely familiar with “mom life” you know that unpredictable needs arise at a moment’s notice. BuzzFeed recently highlighted these daily realities by capturing the amazingly creative solutions that moms bring to the table. Do you become the human popcorn dispenser when attending the movies with your children? Take your cue from one mom and grab an unused diaper from your bag.

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Is it Possible to Create a Small Business on a Budget?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Making the decision to start a business can be huge. At times you may wonder if it’s the right decision, or if you can even afford it. Either way, it’s important to know that it’s more than possible for you to start a company on a budget and if you make the right decisions then you might not even have to apply for investor funding.

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