Thu.Jan 17, 2019

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User research vs. market research: the lowdown

Board of Innovation

Know your blindspots User centred design is greatly explored terrain, and companies will travel far and wide, searching high and low to fully understand their customers’ experience. Businesses depend on knowing the topography of customers’ needs and wants. And yet, there are major assumptions and innate biases in the process of collecting customer insights.

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10 Tips for Corporate Open Innovation with Startup Companies

InnovationManagement

Over the years, Israel has accumulated a lot of experience with corporate open innovation. Over 350 global corporations selected Israel as their source for innovation, understanding that the rapid rate that technology changes and the fierce competition that exists, does not allow these companies to rely just on their R&D departments.

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Crowdsourcing for Non-Profits: A Look at the Benefits

IdeaScale

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Non-profits are driven by passion. Just like other organizations, however, they can struggle with innovation and change, especially when all ideas come from the inside. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Better Transparency. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear.

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How to Use Interviews to Confirm Candidates’ Innovation Potential

Swarmvision

When you find candidates who score in the desired Swarm Innovation Profiler range, use interviews to dig deeper into their motivations and behavior patterns. To prepare for such interviews, be sure to study this easy guide to the Eight Innovation Skills. Candidates don’t need to (and rarely will) have all of the eight skills and 26 sub-clusters. Look for candidates whose innovation skills can strengthen the team they will be joining.

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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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Why You Have Brand Detachment Disorder

Carla Johnson - Innovation

January 17, 2019 by Carla Johnson In the world of great ideas, there’s iconic brands that get all the credit. Take LEGO, for example. This is a company that sells little rectangular pieces of plastic. But they consistently churn out great idea after great idea. Go to their website and besides ordering products, you can build things, share them with friends and.

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We Need Real Scientific Breakthroughs To Build A Clean Energy Economy

Innovation Excellence

A decade ago, clean energy seemed like a pipe dream. Solar panels, windmills and electric cars were widely considered to be something for wealthy tree huggers to assuage their conscience, rather than components of a serious energy policy. Now, however, Morgan Stanley predicts that renewables will overtake fossil fuels by 2020. The appeal of clean.

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ITONICS at DTIM 2019

ITONICS

From November 6-8, you can find ITONICS as a sponsor and exhibitor at the world’s largest gathering of 700 participants and innovation executives from 250 large multinational firms: the Innovation Roundtable® Summit 2018. The post ITONICS at DTIM 2019 appeared first on.

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Finding the Right Mix of Internal and External Innovation

Innovation Leader

Rob Martens of security company, Allegion, discussed how his team uses venture capital to balance internal and external innovation. Elliot Parker of venture firm High Alpha also shared his experience.

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#1,448 – A Cure for Loneliness

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I like to say that I never get lonely. After all, I’m surrounded by people all day. How could I possibly be lonely? Even when I’m hiking “alone” I’m still around other people. Turn on the TV or pop open my computer and they are again, even more people. So how can I ever be alone if I’m always around someone. But we all know that’s not how loneliness works.

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ITONICS at DTIM 2019 in Berlin

ITONICS

Disrupt or be disrupted! Let’s meet at DTIM 2019 from February 25 – 26, 2019, in Berlin – Germany’s largest industry event on innovation, foresight, and strategy. The post ITONICS at DTIM 2019 in Berlin appeared first on.

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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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#1,449 – The FCC

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

When plans for the Large Hadron Collider were first announced there were some people who feared that it might rip up a hole in the space-time continuum when it was turned on, effectively destroying all life on Earth. Obviously, that never happened with the particle accelerator instead ushering in a new age in particle physics as several game-changing discoveries unfolded, including the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle that gives other particles mass.

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