Thu.Apr 18, 2019

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Innovation Ops – the Golden Triangle and why it matters

Wellspring

The Economist recently published an article chronicling how Amazon leverages machine learning for competitive advantage. The biggest takeaway: it’s really about running their operations better, not a flashy attempt at inventing the future, even at a company that is nearly everyone’s poster child for “highly innovative company.”.

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Top Innovation Leaders and the Lessons They Teach

IdeaScale

Innovation can be sparked by anything, and these innovators can help. Innovation is all about a diversity of voices. The more perspectives on a problem, the more creative and effective the solutions to them will be. When building your innovation strategy, take a moment to check out these innovation leaders and how they’re approaching new opportunities.

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20 Ways Business Meetings and Events Might Change in the Next Five Years

InnovationManagement

What are the key driving forces shaping the emerging future of business meetings, events, and conferences? The next five years promise to bring fundamental changes across society – from the clients we serve, to the technology we use, and the needs and priorities of business – literally everything is "up for grabs".

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Are You Ready to Run a Digital Business for the Digital Age?

Innovation Excellence

In our digital age, all companies must change how they think, how they interact with customers, partners, and suppliers, and how their business works on the inside. Customer, partner, and supplier expectations have changed, and a gap is opening between what they expect from their interaction with companies and what those companies are currently able.

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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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Everything I Learned About Ethics I Learned in Boy Scouts

Phil McKinney

Twelve words. Millions of 11-year-old boys, and now young girls, learn it when they join Boy Scouts. It was something that I had to memorize in order to earn my first step along the way to my Eagle Scout medal. Each weekly meeting started with everyone saying them aloud. We were expected to follow them […].

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How Experian’s Digital Transformation Brought Its Business To An Entirely New Level

Innovation Excellence

When Barry Libenson first arrived at Experian as Global CIO in 2015, he knew that the job would be a challenge. As one of the world’s largest data companies, with leading positions in the credit, automotive and healthcare markets, the CIO’s role is especially crucial for driving the business. So he devoted his first few.

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We're Hiring for a Part-Time IT Administrator

Strategyzer Innovation

The Strategyzer team is looking for an IT Administrator to join us. We're building a world-class platform & services for strategy and innovation inside leading global companies. As such we are using many 'best of its class' SaaS services to help us get there and we need help to manage this ever growing list. This is a part-time position (2-3 days per week).

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Interview #5: Nurturing Innovation with Talent Garden (Davide Dattoli)

Innovation Walk

Davide Dattoli is CEO and co-founder of Talent Garden (TAG), Europe’s leading innovation platform and coworking network for digital innovation. Featured on 2019’s Forbes 30 Under 30 , Davide raised $60 million dollars and established TAG in 23 locations, with 3,500 members across 8 European countries. In this interview, Davide shows us how Talent Garden is nurturing more innovation opportunities for Europe.

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Nick Fury: understand exploratory analysis

mjvinnovation

*Nick Fury image: Marvel/Disney. As we have seen, we are in the exponential curve of Big Data. Because of this, it is very important that we have methods to validate hypotheses and, more importantly, techniques so that we can see all this data clearly. It is in this context that the exploratory analysis becomes fundamental. Next, let’s talk a bit more about the relationship between Nick Fury and the exploratory data analysis, presenting the concept and the main benefits of this tool.

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World IP Day: Innovation is Helping Drive Golfers to Success

Anaqua

By Matt Troyer, Director of Patent Analytics at Anaqua. With sports fans around the world celebrating one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history after golfer Tiger Woods won the US Masters at Augusta, it is timely that World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April should be celebrating sporting heroes and the role of IP in sports. In golf, like in many sports, the margins between winning and losing can be extremely fine.

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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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Blank Checks for Innovators and ‘Getting the Hell Out of the Way’

Innovation Leader

We talked to Northwestern University’s Professor Mohanbir Sawhney about the benefits of a blank check, getting buy-in from the C-Suite, and measuring results.

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Data Is The Key To A Successful Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Data is the backbone of pretty much every business. As soon as you start up, you start collecting all of this data, using it in different ways to try and better the company that you’re running. But a lot of you will know that running a business, and trying to understand the data behind it, can be really hard. This is why data gets misused so much, and some get into so much trouble with it.

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Innovation Answered: The Podcast for Corporate Innovators

Innovation Leader

Innovation at large, established companies is hard. So we made a podcast to help you overcome obstacles and create change at your organization.

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How to Think Outside of the Box in Business Marketing

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Running a business can be challenging in today’s climate, no matter what field your business is in. And standing out from the crowd can sometimes seem difficult, with the amount of competition there is out there. Whether you are selling consumer goods or a service, it is important to make your business stand out in order for it to thrive.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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How Carcasses, Cats and Critters Sparked Brilliant Innovation

Carla Johnson

April 18, 2019 by Carla Johnson “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious after awhile. That’s because they were able to synthesize new things.” — Steve Jobs This quote is one of Steve Jobs’s most. The post How Carcasses, Cats and Critters Sparked Brilliant Innovation appeared first on Carla Johnson.

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What Are The External Actors For Change?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When business owners think of change, they often picture themselves as being the leader who brings change to the company. In reality, change is a response to a variety of factors. While you can be the entrepreneur who transforms the business, it doesn’t mean that change always comes from the top. In fact, more often than not, the business is forced to evolve to remain relevant within the industry field, the audience mindset, or the contemporary science and innovation sector.

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InnoCentive Helps Bureau of Reclamation Find Solutions to Another Key Issue

Innocentive

InnoCentive and the Bureau of Reclamation (US Department of the Interior) recently announced the results of a Challenge, Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo that was evaluated and awarded. Just as spring has arrived, we also have the results of another open innovation Challenge: Pathogen Monitoring Stage 1.