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Make every idea count for your business this year

Exago

Are you truly committed to finding those new ideas to grow your business in 2018? You're not the only one. Learn how Exago innovation management software can make every idea count for your company with your freedemo@exago.com. The post Make every idea count for your business this year appeared first on Exago.

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Five Must-Attend Innovation and Technology Conferences in 2018

IdeaScale

How do you learn more about innovation? Attending conferences is a great way to ignite your creativity, whether you’re just beginning to develop an innovation strategy or a long-time veteran of building innovation. There are many great technology conferences in 2018, but these five are particular standouts for innovation this year: Chicago Ideas.

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3 Ways to Find Strong Creative Thinking Skills in Logic-Oriented Groups

BrainZooming

I was talking with someone who was wondering aloud about how to boost the creative thinking skills of a group made up primarily of fact- and logic-driven individuals. Think accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and others in right-wrong answer professions. What a great (and challenging) question. We’ve faced a few situations like this. We don’t deal with it more frequently because we consciously push in advance for diverse groups to engage in creative thinking and innovation workshops. 3

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Intrapreneurship 101: How To Master Innovation Within Your Company

whataventure

L et our Intrapreneurship 101 give you a better idea of what it takes to set up a successful innovation process within your company. Over the years of supporting many corporates in running intrapreneurship programs, we have put together a compilation of some of the major advice in order to be successful with your initiatives: 1. Stop generating ideas and start creating ROI instead.

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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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How to Guarantee an Innovation Project Team Will Fail

Your Ideas are Terrible

To survive today’s business climate and its exponential rate of change, organizations can no longer practice the disastrous (and all-to-common) practice of placing big bets on a small number of ideas. It’s lazy and comfortable and risky. Innovation leaders must learn the art of rapid decision making. In the game of rapid decision making, only two metrics matter: speed + throughput.

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Innovation and Strategy Need Opposite Types of Motivation

Innovation Excellence

The proper motivation… For a long time it was accepted that incentives, and specifically financial incentives, would motivate any type of desired business behavior. In other words–everyone has a price. There are two main types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation comes from within the task itself, and directly by the value of the benefit from completing it.

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These Two Words Will Change Your Perception of Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Innovation Excellence

It’s easy to criticize Amazon until you realize that what Bezos is doing is what every disruptive company desperately needs. The firestorm of controversy about the work environment at Amazon, sparked by the New York Times article a couple of years ago, has become almost religious. Not only did it surface an important dialogue about.

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Staying relevant in A Fast Changing World Category

Rmukesh Gupta

The 40 – 40 Chasm? Last week, I was attending a conference for senior marketers in Bangalore. One of the things that stuck with me from that conference was something that host Jessie Paul mentioned – the 40 – 40 chasm. She explained that if you are above 40 in age and earned 40Lakhs INR, you are supposed to be an endangered species in a corporate environment.

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Strong Airline Profitability? Is it Really About Fees?

Michael Roberto

Source: Dallas News For decades, the airline industry has been characterized by abysmal profits. The list of airline bankruptcies is seemingly endless. However, the Wall Street Journal reports this week that U.S. airline industry profitability is very strong at the moment - "healthier than ever" according to the headline. The newspaper credits the litany of fees charged by airlines for the strong income numbers: Profit per passenger at the seven largest U.S. airlines averaged $19.65 over the pas

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From product to business model innovation: TICK, the laundry on demand service from Migros.

The BMI Lab Blog

Business model innovation is a complex process that requires skills, motivation, support and time. When we look for inspiring examples of business model innovations on the Internet, we usually find business cases like Netflix, Amazon, Uber or other giants that have successfully implemented new business models, and hence boosted their performance and market dominance.

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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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The Good and Bad of “Fake”

Daniel Burrus

The term “fake” has been in the news quite a bit of late—and not just in terms of politics. A recent article in the MIT Technology Review examined technologies shared in other blogs that illustrate the growing capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of technology to effectively blur the line between what is genuine and what’s an illusion.