Wed.Mar 14, 2018

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How the 'Not Invented Here' Effect Impacts Innovation Success

HYPE Innovation

Getting past the 'corporate immune system'. Imagine the scene. A warm summer’s day. The tree-lined slopes of gentle hills stretch towards a darker valley below. There’s a river running through it, sparkling water, dappled light through the leaves. Now place a party of schoolboys there, shipped out from the nearby town – lucky kids from well-off families, enjoying the fun of summer camp.

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IM Award Lessons: Know Your Innovation Audience

IdeaScale

This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. They won this award, because of the global reach of their community and their tactics for bringing people on board (including creating cool videos like this one ). So we asked Amway a few questions about their program and here’s what they had to say: IdeaScale : Why is innovation vital to your organization?

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7 Innovative Approaches to Educating Your Team

InnovationManagement

Innovation can’t happen without education and inspiration. Stagnation is the absence of creativity, and far too many teams aren’t using education as a way to keep the fresh and creative ideas flowing.

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Innovation Sighting: Task Unification in Samsung’s New Smart TV

Innovation in Practice

Imagine no longer deliberating between trendy art, your favorite photos, or the nonnegotiable family TV for your prominent living room wall. Samsung’s new 2018 QLED TVs are designed to end that dilemma and serve a two-in-one purpose: endless entertainment and personalized décor. And it turns out, Samsung’s newest design is a great example of the innovation template called Task Unification.

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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 Overcome Innovation and Change Fatigue

Innovation Excellence

Alvin Toffler passed away in June 2016 at the age of 87. The author of Future Shock, he warned us almost 50 years ago about the effects of change and our unpreparedness to address it. We are now suffering some the consequences he predicted by not being aware of the signs, symptoms and treatment of, what he.

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Thoughts on Selling

Mike Shipulski

Like most things, selling is about people. The hard sell has nothing to do with selling. Just when you think you’re having the least influence, you’re having the most. When – ready, sell, listen – has run its course, try – ready, listen, sell. Regardless of how politely it’s asked, “How many do you want?” isn’t selling. If sales people are compensated by sales dollars, why do you think they’ll sell strategically?

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Degrees of Openness

Innocentive

Open innovation – what does it mean to you? Shared resources? Open data? More cost-effective workflows?

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Leave Benchmarks Behind

Daniel Burrus

No matter the industry or particular field, competition is the business of the day. Regardless of what you and your organization do in terms of products or services, there’s inevitably someone else offering a competitive alternative. Your goal is to “beat” those competitors, however that might be measured—greater sales, more customers, whatever the benchmark.

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Three Hacks for Becoming an All-Star Delegator

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Do you find it difficult to trust others to perform as well as you do? Do you end up checking every deliverable your team produces? Do you assign projects to people who struggle to handle the work? These are all signs that you are not delegating well. By not delegating well, you are not only making your own job more difficult, but you’re also negatively affecting your employees.

Project 40
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Taking the path to digital transformation

ImagineNation

It is becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a moment of profound possibility and enormous disruption. Where the old business paradigms are dying and innovative new ones are emerging, especially creating new ways of integrating people and technology through taking the path to digital transformation. What matters most in our VUCA landscape and business environment is how we pay attention, adapt and transform whatever roles we play and organizations we are in.

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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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How IBM Is Preparing The Enterprise For The Cognitive Age

Digital Tonto

It’s not enough to simply apply algorithms. You need to create data driven business models. Related posts: The New Era Of Cognitive Collaboration. Why Social Skills Are Trumping Cognitive Skills. We. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Taking the path to digital transformation

ImagineNation

It is becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a moment of profound possibility and enormous disruption. Where the old business paradigms are dying and innovative new ones are emerging, especially creating new ways of integrating people and technology through taking the path to digital transformation. What matters most in our VUCA […].

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Taking the path to digital transformation

ImagineNation

It is becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a moment of profound possibility and enormous disruption. Where the old business paradigms are dying and innovative new ones are emerging, especially creating new ways of integrating people and technology through taking the path to digital transformation. What matters most in our VUCA […].