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The ‘perfect’ office layout for innovation and productivity

Idea to Value

Contents. Future offices need to be flexible. The death of open plan offices. What office environments make people more creative? The ‘perfect’ office environment for innovation and productivity. Conclusion and sources. Everyone has seen pictures of the amazing open plan offices in Silicon Valley startups, which offer their staff quirks and perks: Wall paintings by famous graffiti artists.

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R&D Labs Don’t Bring New Innovations to Market

Moves the Needle

Why do R&D labs succeed in creating new technology, but fail at bringing these innovations to market? R&D labs don’t bring new innovations to market typically because they are charged with inventing new technology, but not the commercialization of those inventions. However, innovation requires bringing inventions to market. Innovation requires creating value. 3 Reasons Why Inventions Don’t Get to Market Invention for the sake of invention may be beneficial, if it, for example, extends in

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How Big Data Can Reduce Football Injuries

IdeaConnection

A big data system to help NFL teams prevent player injuries.

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Is your company just performing “Innovation Theatre”?

Idea to Value

Most companies say that they are investing in innovation. They will showcase large initiatives for gaining ideas and suggestions from across the organisation. They will point to their last brainstorming session and say how successful it was, how it produced hundreds of ideas (or at least post it notes). And they will proudly announce to their shareholders: Look at all the innovation we are doing!

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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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How Blockbuster, Kodak And Xerox Really Failed (It’s Not What You Think)

Innovation Excellence

Go to just about any conference today and you will hear a familiar tale of woe. A once great corporation, which had dominated its industry, fails to adapt and descends into irrelevance. The protagonists of these stories always come out looking more than a little bit silly, failing to recognize business trends that seem obvious.

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How to Use Innovation Metrics

InnovationManagement

Last year, one of the most popular topics at the annual Open Nation innovation conference was metrics. How do you measure your innovation capabilities? How do you track your results from established programs?

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First we take Manhattan…

Board of Innovation

Board of Innovation is getting ready to split up. Not in a “your favourite band is no longer” kind of way. We’re sticking together as a core group, just moving a few members to the US of A to take Board of innovation to a new level of entrepreneurism. That’s right. We’re gearing up to. Continue reading. The post First we take Manhattan… appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Does a strategic plan limit you?

Focused Momentum

The short answer? Yes. Is that a bad thing? No. Limitations can be a good thing. They can provide a healthy structure that improves responsiveness to change.

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When Threatened, What Is Your Response?

helloFUTURE

As human beings, we have been designed to fear change – which is interesting, as all life is change. Aristotle equated time with change – if there is no change, time does not pass. A corollary: if time passes, life changes. To be prepared for life, no matter what black swans big or small come… The post When Threatened, What Is Your Response?

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How Human Resources Can Drive Innovation?

Ankush Chopra

If you ask someone the question “which function drives innovation in a company?”, the most likely response will be R&D. After all, R&D spends the most time on inventing and improving products. But as you start digging deeper, additional responses will be Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Information Technology drive innovation.

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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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7 Signs That Your Organization Needs Visual Task Management

Kainexus

When I was a kid, my mother helped motivate and organize her workforce (aka, my sisters and me) with a chore chart. Each week we had tasks assigned and got to put a sticker on the chart when the job was satisfactorily completed. This wasn’t exactly an innovation in parenting, but it worked well for our family. We each knew what we had to do and adding the sticker was a small reward and a visible reminder that we had done what we were asked.

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Saying No to Innovation – Are You Brave Enough?

Inceodia

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” - Steve Jobs. I had just returned from maternity leave only to find that my team was trying to make my baby look like everyone else’s.

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How Innovators and Risk Managers Can Work Better Together

Innovation Leader

In this Master Class, Mastercard’s Bob Reany and Innovation Leader’s Scott Kirsner shared best practices for working productively with security, legal, and compliance teams.

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27 Best Practices of High Performing Volunteer Organizations

Idea Champions

Unless you've been in a coma your entire life, chances are good that, at some time in your life (maybe now?) you've been a volunteer for a non-profit organization. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that many volunteer organizations, without even knowing it, sabotage the value their volunteers bring to the table and you, as a result, may have backed off, gone south, or found yourself grumbling to the other volunteers.

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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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#1,460 – Targeted Audio

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We all learned growing up that it was rude to share secrets but the time may have come to rethink our stance as secrets may soon be the coolest thing around. The change in heart coming on account of the fact that MIT has invented a way to deliver a targeted message to someone that only the recipient can hear. Using lasers! As Futurism puts it, “Scientists have figured out how to use a laser to transmit audio, ranging from music to speech, to a person across a room without any receiver equipm

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A Super Simple Way to Upgrade Your Brainstorming Sessions

Idea Champions

Looking for a simple, low-cost way to upgrade the quality and impact of brainstorming sessions in your organization. Here it is! The $995 Online Brainstorm Training from Mitchell Ditkoff. Other ways to upgrade your ideation sessions. Our clients.