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Is There Such a Thing As a Bad Idea in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Is there ever such a thing as a truly bad idea? Does anybody really believe that there are no bad ideas? After all, the Darwin Awards feature, for example, a thief who thinks nothing of resting a metal ladder on power cables before attaching jumper cables to them to try and restore power to his house: Don’t worry, he survived somehow. But at the same time, we live a world with molecular air filters and microbicidal paint, as the Edison Awards show us.

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10 Companies That Were Too Slow to Respond to Change | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

It’s crazy to think that 88% of the Fortune 500 firms that existed in 1955 are gone. These companies have either gone bankrupt, merged, or still exist but have fallen from the top Fortune 500 companies. Most of the companies on the list in 1955 are unrecognizable, forgotten companies today.

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The Number One Piece of Advice for Corporate Innovation Teams (Test Your Assumptions) | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Imagine that by now you’ve held your successful ideation session, generated a bucket load of ideas and created a shortlist of the top ideas that are going to solve the innovation woes of your organisation. Well done, you. What’s next?

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Maybe It’s Time to Find another Job? 13 Career Strategy Articles to Help

BrainZooming

I delivered a Brainzooming workshop on “Budget-Extending Social Content Strategy” at the Social Media Strategies Summit this week. We had more than forty attendees, which is a lot for a three-hour, interactive workshop. We adjusted our approach to maximize the interaction among the participants. During the time together, we worked through various Brainzooming tools to develop and implement social content strategy that is smart online and drives results for a brand.

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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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5 Reasons Corporate Innovation Isn't Happening At Your Organisation | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

“Innovation” is no longer a buzzword but a critical success factor for organisations seeking to survive and thrive into the future. Corporate innovation in particular has started to enter the everyday lexicon of boardrooms and the emergence of innovation managers and departments is increasingly common.

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Get Your Invention Noticed with IdeaConnection’s Network of Crowdsellers

IdeaConnection

So you’re an inventor with a brilliant new product that you know is going to fly off store shelves. Now all you need to do is find someone and convince them to buy it. This is the part that trips up many people so consequently, their ideas never get the attention they deserve. They greatly underestimate the time, effort and expertise that is needed.

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Do You Know Your Distinct Innovation Capabilities?

Innovation Excellence

Achieving this fitness accelerates your opportunities into final tangible outcomes. The more ‘rugged’ the landscape, the tougher the innovation challenge, can also determines the greater fitness for the rate of innovation needed.

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Pfizer Launches New Startup: A Growth Trend in Enterprises

Planview

Pfizer, the largest pharmaceuticals company in the world and a Spigit customer, has launched a startup geared towards developing new treatments for underserved patient communities. The six-person startup named SpringWorks Therapeutics will launch with an initial Series A investment of over $100 million. Investors include parent company Pfizer and Bain Capital Life Sciences.

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The Number One Piece of Advice for Corporate Innovation Teams (Test Your Assumptions)

Collectivecamp

Imagine that by now you’ve held your successful ideation session, generated a bucket load of ideas and created a shortlist of the top ideas that are going to solve the innovation woes of your organisation. Well done, you. What’s next?

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How to Evaluate Ideas | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

Far too often I’ve sat in brainstorming sessions where ideas died a slow death afterwards. Ideas alone are not innovation; without a process of evaluation, selection and execution, they remain mere ideas.

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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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5 Reasons Why Innovation Fails To Happen At Your Organisation

Collectivecamp

“Innovation” is no longer a buzzword but a critical success factor for organisations seeking to survive and thrive into the future. Corporate innovation in particular has started to enter the everyday lexicon of boardrooms and the emergence of innovation managers and departments is increasingly common.

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Embracing Organizational Ambidexterity

Wellspring

Although open innovation serves as a path towards greater openness in product innovation and organizational growth, it is not immune to the typical failures that can be found within any business system. Failures in open innovation programs don't necessarily mean that open innovation itself is flawed, but indicate that the particular program fell victim to various flaws in the execution stage.