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How to innovate successfully in 2020

Exago

The need to innovate has never been more pressing, and innovation managers must be well-equipped to be able to overcome their (and their companies’) most demanding challenges. We will be sharing the 6 essential dimensions that no innovation programme can do without in the coming year. The post How to innovate successfully in 2020 appeared first on Exago.

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Innovation Via the Customer Journey

InnovationManagement

Innovation is usually spoken of in relation to products, research, and development. However, every aspect of your business can be innovated. In fact, one of the most important – and often overlooked – is customer service. Innovative customer service helps you build loyalty, encourages repeat business, and can also bring in new buyers as they observe how you care for your consumers.

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5 innovation program pitfalls & how to avoid them

Board of Innovation

Give your long-term innovation program the best chance of success by avoiding common mistakes, such as strategic misalignment and hiring uniform teams. The post 5 innovation program pitfalls & how to avoid them appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Run Wildly Effective Meetings With This One Powerful Template

Innovation Excellence

Getting the most out of meetings is easy if you know how to effectively design them. One of the biggest black holes in workplace productivity is the poorly designed, poorly run meeting. No wonder 71 percent of senior managers view their companies’ meetings as unproductive and inefficient. When meetings aren’t effective, the natural instinct is to schedule.

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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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Innovation Savings: Your Input Cost

Beyond the Obvious

There is a reason that the percentage in this question is as high as it is. Sure, it would sound less scary and more reasonable if I asked you how you could cut your price by 5 percent, or maybe 8 percent, but that would be missing the point. If you want potentially game-changing moves […].

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Big Techs x Fintechs x Insurtechs: The New Business Model

mjvinnovation

Although not necessarily a new phenomenon, big techs, fintechs, and insurtechs have achieved an unprecedented role in the last two years. And experts have already stated that they are able to determine the future of entire organizations and segments. In this article, in addition to clarifying each of these terms, we also want to show how they have influenced a profound transformation in some traditional markets, markets such as insurance and banking.

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Ship-Shaped Away Day 

100%Open

Before we said goodbye to summer for good and welcomed in our new Financial Year, the 100%Open team set sail to a little town in the heart of Surrey, where a narrowboat awaited us on the River Wey. In the tight cabins of the narrowboat, whilst we got adjusted to our river legs and swaying heads, we delved right into discussing company strategy, marketing, finance, people and Union retrospectives as well as how we should celebrate 100%Open’s 10th birthday in style.

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Open Innovation Hackathon Results in an App to Cut Parking Fines

IdeaConnection

A novel app that uses image recognition technology to decipher confusing parking signs.

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If You Plan on Asking an Outside Innovation Consultant for Help

Idea Champions

If someone from your company's leadership team asks you to locate an outside consultant to help your organization raise the bar for innovation, stop for a moment and ask the person asking you to locate an outside consultant to answer the following questions. If they answer "NO" to any of them or look at you as if you are ungrateful, uppity, or "not a team player", do not accept the assignment.

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Creating an innovation mindset in your organisation

100%Open

Five ways to begin…. What makes an organisation “innovative” and what can be done to help the people in it develop an innovation mindset? Well, what works for one organisation, may not work for another, and differences in internal and external constraints, tradition, reputation, budget, technical expertise and culture are just a few factors that can become barriers to innovation and progress.

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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.