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16 Creative Thinking Questions from the Most Innovative Companies

BrainZooming

The 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies issue arrived Saturday. It’s always a wonderful inspiration for strategic and creative thinking questions (plus it’s exciting that we have a current client among the companies recognized). In the spirit of the first Agility question below, rather than trying to imagine questions from across all the companies listed, we limited the focus to creative thinking questions inspired by the top ten most innovative companies’ innovation journeys

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3 effective ways to attract innovators to your company

Board of Innovation

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Ask These 4 Empathetic Questions When You’re Struggling To Listen

Faisal Hoque

Losing your patience and beginning to tune out (or line up a snide rebuttal)? Try this instead. The post Ask These 4 Empathetic Questions When You’re Struggling To Listen appeared first on Faisal Hoque :: Entrepreneur | Author.

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The prerequisites for trust in teamwork and creativity

Innovation Excellence

Creative and collaborative teamwork will only take place if there is a high level of trust among team members. Trust allows members of the team to do three things that produce true collaboration. The first is to be vulnerable with each other, ask stupid questions, and propose stupid ideas. Without this vulnerability, team members are reserved and will keep.

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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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3 IP Trends to Watch in Asia Pacific in 2018

Anaqua

By Karen Taylor, General Manager of Asia Pacific at Anaqua. Asia is home to many of the world’s most innovative companies… as well as some of the most ingenious imitators. It’s a region where highly developed, sophisticated intellectual property (IP) systems and regulatory frameworks in some markets co-exist with relatively immature IP regimes in neighboring countries.

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How to Capture Your Strategy in a Single Sentence

Innovation Excellence

If I were to ask you what your company/unit/team strategy is, could you answer in a single sentence? Is that even possible? And even if it is, why would you want to (other than to respond to some smart-aleck strategy facilitator)? I know it’s possible, and there are several worth reasons for stating strategy in.

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Going Nuts

Gregg Fraley

A quick note to those who follow this blog. Gregg Fraley is fine, in fact, better than ever. He’s also busier than a one-armed paper hanger. Training and ideation projects have him traveling and away from his desk. He will be sharing thoughts with you about MoshPit Innovation in the near future. That concept has evolved and is proving to be a winning new method for his customers.

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Coffee with a Futurist (Or, The New Leadership Literacies)

Swarmvision

Growing up in Silicon Valley, my favorite place to go for milkshakes was the Creamery. The Creamery is one of the few things that hasn't changed here since I was a kid. Ir o nically, across the street is t he Institute for the Future , folding past and fu tur e in mind-jangling proximity.

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Nestlé Shares Advice from its Global Hunt for Big Ideas

Innovation Leader

The open innovation initiative HENRi “is all about taking on projects that matter,” explains Gerardo Mazzeo, Global Innovation Director at Nestlé.

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Innovation: Is Nature or Nurture More Important?

Swarmvision

A client recently asked us, "What are the differences between innovative firms and more traditional firms? Well, we know that innovative firms have higher Swarm scores. That's because a higher proportion of their people have Swarm scores in the 50th percentile or higher.

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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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Scale and Profitability: The Link is Not As Strong as Many Executives Believe

Michael Roberto

James Allen, co-leader of Bain Consulting's strategy practice, has written a short article for the Wall Street Journal about the scale advantages (or lack thereof) of industry leaders. Allen reviews the findings from research the firm conducted across 45 industries. Certainly, scale had its advantages in many of these industries. However, it's far from a guarantee of success.