IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2017

Build a startup inside a bigger organization for the best innovation strategy! It’s an axiom of business that the bigger you are, the slower you move. In innovation strategy, that can make the difference between being first to market with a game-changer and trailing behind smaller, nimbler companies. But you can give your business the flexibility of a startup, if you know the startup principles to apply in your company.

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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 23, 2017

On November 23, I had the honor of giving a talk at the NRC Live event for Education. I was scheduled immediately after Bert van der Zwaan, rector magnificus at the University of Utrecht. Van der Zwaan launched his book that day: the result of sabbatical he and his wife took in 2015. During that sabbatical they traveled the world and tried to speak with as many educational visionaries as possible.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 23, 2017

I met Adrian Martinez at an internal management meeting for our client, LeSaint Logistics. Adrian has incredible creative thinking skills. How was I so sure about his creative thinking skills ? Well, get a load of this example! He is a manager with LeSaint, and he faced a challenge. His team needed to move a racking system from one part of the warehouse to another.

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Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 23, 2017

A fast way to boost your creativity is to harness the brainpower of others. Creativity is a team sport, and you’ll generate better ideas if you surround yourself with people to help you. When you invite colleagues to be part of a creativity session, be sure to create a diverse team. Diversity helps people see more possibilities. It creates a stronger sense of group accountability.

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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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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 23, 2017

Crowdsourced innovation is a tactic used more and more often by government organizations as well as enterprise corporations. This means that innovation teams need to add a new skill set to their resumé: communications.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2017

When Steve Jobs was trying to lure John Sculley from his lofty position as CEO at Pepsi to Apple, he asked him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” The ploy worked and Sculley became the first major CEO.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2017

I talked with the author of a recent book, The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough. Doesn’t that sum up the challenge of being a product manager and innovator – when your good idea is not enough! My discussion was with Professor Samuel B. Bacharach, who argues that to implement any innovation.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 23, 2017

I just watched a TED video where Steven Johnson shares the story of how a flute made by a pre-historic man led to the creation of a tech revolution, that is the computer. You can watch the TED video here or below. He goes on to argue that not all inventions come from necessity and that there is a good possibility that people who have fun invariably invent new stuff that enables them to have fun, the kind that they want.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2017

ISPIM, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, is delighted to announce the launch of the ISPIM Grand Prize 2017, for Excellence in Innovation Management. This will be the third competition, building on the highly successful 2015 and 2016 events, won by the US Department of Energy and Orange respectively.

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Idea Champions

JANUARY 23, 2017

Ever since I was old enough to realize there would never be a want ad in a newspaper that described a job I wanted, I've loved working in cafes. I never really thought much about it until a few days ago when a baffled friend of mine asked why I was so into it. His assumption? That working in a cafe would be a distraction. A distraction? Dude, quite the opposite.

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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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Wazoku

JANUARY 23, 2017

Banking is at a crossroads against its own will, facing threats from Brexit regulation, from Trump – and continued change from social and technological evolution. Disruption is no longer on the horizon, it is on every financial institution’s doorstep. These are my predictions for the banking industry in 2017. Tech giants to continue encroaching on financial territory, with a significant land grab to be made by ‘BigTech’ The ability of data to make trade decisions will all

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