Thu.Jun 01, 2017

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Curiosity: The Key to Creativity and Innovation

Idea to Value

Albert Einstein generally did not like school, but this all changed when he was 16 at Aarau High School, Switzerland where teachers nurtured his curiosity and encouraged him to ask a lot of questions and even express criticisms. He not only became popular among his classmates but imagined what it would be like to ride a light beam, paving the way for his later theory of relativity.

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13 Change Management Experts Share Their Tips

Braden Kelley

Recently my colleague Daniel Lock collected and published points-of-view (POV) from 13 change management experts on implementing fast, dramatic and powerful change.

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Watch how this guy builds his own iPhone with parts he bought in China

Idea to Value

Some people have a “let’s just try it” mentality. And in the video above, I think we have a perfect example of it. It’s quite inspirational and already has over 6 million views. This guy called Scotty Allen, who runs a blog called Strange Parts , built a like-new (but really refurbished) iPhone 6S 16GB entirely from parts he bought in the public cell phone parts markets in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, China.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THE AVERAGE PERSON THINKS AND A CREATIVE GENIUS THINKS

Michael Michalko

Once we have settled on a perspective, we close off but one line of thought. Certain kinds of ideas occur to us, but only those kinds and no others. What if the crippled man who invented the motorized cart had defined his problem as: “How to occupy my time while lying in bed?” rather than “How to get out of bed and move around the house?

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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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Dozens of Ways to Fast Forward Your Implementation Plan

BrainZooming

It’s the time of year when it’s easy to look backward and forward at multiple dimensions of your implementation plan. You have enough time to gain a sense of what’s working. You can look at your first steps and see whether your subsequent steps have been as effective. There is also enough time to still address gaps in your implementation plan to improve results before the year ends.

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The Importance of Casting a Wide Net While Innovating

Qmarkets

Dr. Bornhofen is a practitioner-scholar who has a passion for helping organizations adopt change, act on new ideas, and grow through innovation. His Doctorate degree (2012) in Management focused learning in the areas of organizational change, leadership theory, and strategy. Read on to discover innovation best practices from Robert's experience working at a range of renowned companies, including Citibank, Delta Airlines, and most recently Southwest Airlines.

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Why Great Innovators Do One Thing Differently

Innovation Excellence

Most companies try to avoid problems. Experian actually goes looking for them. In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to pursue new opportunities and create new products.

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How to Get Your Innovative Idea off the Ground in the Current Economic Climate

InnovationManagement

Incredibly, business confidence in the UK is continuing to rise, despite the spectre of Brexit and its potential implications on citizens. Many experts have attribute this to the growth of the manufacturing sector, which recorded a Credit Manager's Index (CMI) score of 62.7 during the first quarter of 2017 and a 1.5% increase from the previous quarter.

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Talking Innovation and Digital Transformation on DisrupTV

Innovation Excellence

DisrupTV co-hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar in Episode 63 recently sat down with Innovation Excellence co-Founder Braden Kelley to chat about a range of innovation, digital transformation and organizational change topics. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series that airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by.

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The biggest side effect of creativity is…

hackerearth

Have you ever wondered why people fear change? A change of any kind, especially the one which is radical and unanticipated, is always met with resistance. The response to a change could range from an absolute dismissal to unconditional embracement but is seldom uneventful. Since at the heart of creativity is changing, most acts of creativity are met with similar reactions, mostly dismissal and rarely acceptance.

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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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Openness Verses Intellectual Property

100%Open

Never ask a hairdresser if you need a haircut. And never ask a lawyer if you need to protect your ideas. Intellectual property (IP) is often the first thing people want to discuss when exploring open innovation. It’s something we at 100%Open know quite a bit about and we have developed a range of tools to effectively manage IP (e.g. innovation airlocks ).

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The IdeaScale Support Team Best Practices

IdeaScale

A successful product like IdeaScale’s relies heavily on satisfying customers when it comes to various factors like price, value, usability, flexibility/customization. But customer support also plays a vital role in communicating product changes to customers promptly, collecting feedback good or bad about the product and passing it along internally, and primarily resolving issues and documenting bugs reported by customers.

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Elmer's Glue: The Slime Craze

Michael Roberto

In 1947, Borden introduced Elmer's Glue packaged in a glass bottle. Over the years, it became a key item for elementary school classrooms throughout the country. Seventy years later, Elmer's Glue (owned by Newell Rubbermaid now) has experienced an interesting phenomenon, fueled by social media. Product sales have skyrocketed over the past year, as young people throughout the country enjoy the "slime" craze.

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3 steps to help you create an effective diet plan

xMind

Nowadays, people tend to pay more attention to health care issue and try to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Or maybe you just want to lose fat? Build muscle? Whatever your specific goal is, you absolutely need a diet plan. A diet plan can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases and promote your overall health.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Public Sector Innovation: moving innovation from the margins to mainstream

Innovation Excellence

UNDP remains one of the few UN agencies that supports governments in setting up Public Sector Innovation Labs to experiment with new approaches to policy-making and that advises government partners on designing Open Innovation Prize Challenges.

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Organizational Culture: Innovated in 3 Basic Steps

Daniel Burrus

An organization’s culture is more valuable and singular than just a way of doing business. Culture is one of the few elements that simply cannot be replicated. Products can be copies and processes mimicked, but culture is utterly specific to an organization. Your culture can be a strategic asset, or it can act as an anchor holding progress back. SHARE.

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