Wed.Feb 17, 2021

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Post-Pandemic Planning Requires Anticipation

Daniel Burrus

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, exponential digital transformation was the biggest disruption many organizations and leaders within those organizations concerned themselves with. Will artificial intelligence (A.I.) take my job? Will machine learning make our entire operation irrelevant? Is there something on the horizon that will change our industry, and how can we be the ones to discover it?

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These are the Top Female Innovators of 2020

IdeaScale

An innovation culture is the key to successful idea implementation. Gender equity plays an important role in this process. Research shows innovation is six times more likely in companies where the workplace is equal. Many well-known innovators are women. Here are some of the top examples of 2020. Use them as inspiration in your organization. Ginni Rometty … Continued.

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Jeff Bezos’ Rule: What will not change?

Idea to Value

Many innovators and strategists are obsessed with predicting how the world will change in the future. They then try to develop new products and business models to fit this new world. But often, it can be even more valuable to figure out what will not change in the future. At an AWS discussion in 2012, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared some insights on how he thinks about the future and how it informs his innovation investment decisions: (See the video at the top of this blog article ).

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These are the Top Female Innovators of 2020

IdeaScale

An innovation culture is the key to successful idea implementation. Gender equity plays an important role in this process. Research shows innovation is six times more likely in companies where the workplace is equal. Many well-known innovators are women. Here are some of the top examples of 2020. Use them as inspiration in your organization. Ginni Rometty … Continued.

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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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Managing an Innovation Portfolio: Northumbrian Water

Strategyzer Innovation

Part of our work with leaders, is to evaluate whether their innovation portfolio is balanced. We focus on the innovation projects that are taking place within the company and examine whether they cover the three types of innovation (i.e. efficiency, sustaining and transformative). Our aspiration is to ensure that companies are not just focused on optimizing their current business model, but they are also investing in their future.

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The difference between Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital

whataventure

Authors: Lisa Halbweis. Bernadette Zrenner, MSc. Luis Huber. “Corporate investing is dumb. I think corporations should buy companies. Investing in companies makes no sense.” This quote from Fred Wilson, an American businessman, and investor, is by now notoriously famous. It demonstrates the great skepticism by corporates concerning minority investments.

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3 Key Slides to Help You Deliver Innovation Value

Innovation Leader

Looking to find better ways to drive innovation value? The team at Innovation Leader wanted to share three slides that we have been using recently as part of our Best Practices Briefings, to help you think about how well you’re aligned with your organization’s overarching strategy.

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#2,125 – Brain Week: Sentient

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

In addition to Quantum Brains the future may also bring us Artificial Brains, at least in the form of a new Artificial Intelligence system known as Sentient that the United States military may one day come to rely on. As Futurism puts it: “Since 2010, American intelligence agencies have been developing a top-secret ‘artificial brain’ military AI system that they named — seriously — ‘Sentient.’ Newly released confidential and classified documents first reported by Th

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business. More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new

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Play Bold: Carl-Magnus Norden about Always be Selling your Dream

Innovation 360 Group

Meet the bold serial entrepreneur Carl-Magnus Norden. He gets the job done; the more impact it has, the better it is. The latest venture is Volta Trucks, a startup based in Stockholm reshaping the inner-city logistics. The post Play Bold: Carl-Magnus Norden about Always be Selling your Dream appeared first on Innovation360.

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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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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business. More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new

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#2,124 – Brain Week: Quantum Brains

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A new computing approach could revolutionize the growing field of Artificial Intelligence by creating machines capable of thinking for themselves all while consuming less energy to boot. As Inverse puts it: “Computers have come a long way since Alan Turing postulated their limitations in his now-famous 1950 paper “ Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” They may not be falling in love (though, having someone fall in love with them is up for debate), or enjoying a bowl of strawb

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Agility: Tanker, Speedboat, or School of Fish?

Huub Rutten

This blog is about agility. The word “agility” is used a lot in the world of management, especially the world of innovation management. There is a real Quest for Agility: Agility seems the new Holy Grail and you can hardly find an article or blog post without a reference to “the fast changing circumstances” of the business. More than ever before in history, companies are at risk of missing the boat when it comes to “the continuous evolution of the internet, digitization, the climate change, new

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