Tue.Mar 24, 2020

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Example COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Campaigns

IdeaScale

We are living in unprecedented times. I’m sure many of you (much like the team at IdeaScale) are experiencing the impacts of COVID-19’s rapid rise in personal and profound ways. So far, I’ve been heartened by how so many of our partners, colleagues, customers, and friends have responded with everything from digital happy hours to connect in times of social distancing to new methods of supporting response efforts without leaving our homes.

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Coronavirus Crisis Only Heightens the Need for Innovation and Co-Creation

InnovationManagement

Those of us that work in the innovation management sector need no convincing of the benefits that it can bring to businesses and government departments all over the world. Adopting an innovative culture and approach allows an organisation to survive and thrive in the highly competitive modern business world and helps prevent them from becoming irrelevant or even obsolete.

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One Quick Thing: IL’s Weekly Meeting for Innovators

Innovation Leader

Join Innovation Leader for a half-hour weekly Zoom meeting to talk about what’s happening right now in the world of corporate innovation, strategy, and R&D.

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Disturbance to Life

7innovation

I was 15 when the war came to my town.

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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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Is Online Collaboration Any Good?

100%Open

These certainly are uncertain times. We are all rapidly having to adapt to new lifestyles and work structures at an exponential rate, as buildings close and we receive instructions to social distance and stay home. With these sudden and disorienting changes come unprecedented challenges and, as a small business, we have been facing them head-on. This has been most prevalent when considering our live events, as we have had four long-planned Domestic Mission events derailed, for example, and we ar

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One Quick Thing: IL’s Weekly Zoom Meeting

Innovation Leader

Join us for a half-hour Zoom meeting every Wednesday to talk about what’s happening right now in the world of corporate innovation.

Meeting 52

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One Quick Thing: IL’s Live Zoom Meeting

Innovation Leader

Join us for a half-hour Zoom meeting to talk about what’s happening right now in the world of corporate innovation.

Meeting 52
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Turning real understanding into innovation outcomes

Cris Beswick

In my earlier article’ Understanding Why’ I talked about why having goals and aspirations is not enough unless underpinned by understanding. This article takes the process to the next stage, exploring why we need to be more intelligent and then why more collaborative and then why more adaptable to become an exponential organisation. Let’s start … Continued.

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#1,609 – UVD Robots

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

High fevers. Extreme fatigue. A long-lasting dry cough. Flu like symptoms. Losing your sense of smell. Shortness of breath. Possible gastrointestinal issues and organ failure. Long term damage to your lungs even if you survive. COVID-19 is a nasty virus to say the least. That much we know. What we don’t know is how to avoid it. How long does it stick to various surfaces?

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The Green Choices Your Business Really Needs to Be Making

The Human Factor

Going green with your business is something that you might do for a number of reasons – and one of them may not be profitability. You might be making your own moral choice to make your business greener and more sustainable, or you could be listening to the demands of your customers who are looking for eco-friendly choices. Making your business better for the environment isn’t always going to be the cheapest choice, but that doesn’t mean it’s the wrong one to make.

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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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#1,608 – Dinner Bonds

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Social distancing and mandatory shelter in place orders are a necessary evil as we try to combat COVID-19. But these practices put a strain on small businesses such as restaurants that are getting shut out as people stay in. Fortunately, there may be a way to keep these mom and pop shops afloat: dinner bonds. The idea is relatively simple. Pay now.

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Keep Your Business Connected During Global Pandemic

The Human Factor

With how things are at the moment for a lot of businesses around the world, it means people working remotely, and working from home. Making sure that a business is connected can be something that is difficult, especially if you have a large team that are all working from home during the pandemic. But it isn’t too difficult to make sure that there are some strategies to implement.

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If Corona Doesn't Kill US, Distance Learning Will

Idea Champions

Here's your comic relief for the day, especially if you are a teacher (or parent) faced with the challenge of transitioning from traditional classroom learning to online, distance learning. I tip my hat to the thousands of dedicated teachers around the world who are making a heroic effort, in a very short amount of time, to make the changes necessary to adapt to these challenging times.

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These Tips will Help you to Improve the Aesthetic Appearance of your Business

The Human Factor

As a business, it’s so important that you adapt and that you also take into account the aesthetic value of your business. Changes do not need to be overwhelming and this is especially the case if you take things slowly. Open Things Up. The first thing that you need to try and do is open things up as much as possible. Get rid of the cubicles you have and also switch to open desks where you can.

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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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The Perception of Ideas as Problems

Idea Champions

Here's something I've been noticing lately: Business leaders and managers tend to respond to the introduction of a new idea not as an imminent solution to be nurtured, but as a new problem to deal with. Ideas, one would think, would be welcomed , especially by an organization's movers and shakers talking the talk about innovation. But all too often a company's leaders, time-crunched and overloaded as they are, perceive the introduction of a new idea as simply "more work" for them to do, the earl

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