Tue.Sep 24, 2019

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Innovation Metrics: Ideation Rate vs. Implementation Rate

IdeaScale

Measuring innovation isn’t the same as measuring traditional business metrics like market size, gross margins, or return on investment. Good innovation management requires its own set of metrics. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t measure innovation success. You simply have to know which measuring sticks to use. Though good innovation management operates at all the different stages of the innovation process, the three innovation stages that are most amenable to measurement are the “ideation” s

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Why We Should Fear and Hail A.I.

Collectivecamp

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Neil Sahota for an episode of the Future Squared podcast.

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40 food innovations you should know about

Board of Innovation

Discover new developments in food science and explore the emerging technologies and strategies that are shaping the way we eat. The post 40 food innovations you should know about appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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The Impact of Beliefs on Living Your Ideal Life

Tullio Siragusa

The Impact of Beliefs on Living Your Ideal Life. It’s been said that you are what you believe. What does that mean exactly? The difference between success and failure in life can very often be traced to what we call beliefs, and the appeal beliefs have on our lives. . By success or failure, I am talking about living the life you desire, not the one you may have defaulted to as a way to survive.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Scenarios for Smart, Sustainable, Human Cities

Innovation Excellence

Intelligent, Connected, and Mobile – By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, April Koury, and Maria Romero How might technological advances in data management, artificial intelligence, and energy help shape the future of cities? A vision of the “city of the future” is often presented as a compelling symbol of the direction in which society.

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The Limits of Positive Thinking

InnovationManagement

The magical potency of positive thinking has been a common theme among motivational speakers for a long time. In 1952 Norman Vincent Peale published his seminal book, The Power of Positive Thinking. He advocated that you should always be optimistic. You should build a mental picture of yourself succeeding. The post The Limits of Positive Thinking appeared first on Innovation Management.

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How Can Failures Fuel Learning?

Innovation Leader

Failure in some of your innovation initiatives is, more often than not, inevitable. The lack of visibility into the ROI of innovation activities and the fact that today’s duds can sometimes become tomorrow’s commercial successes tells you everything you need to know about this problem. Innovation remains the most elusive.

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How SOS Alarm applied a structured process to their hackathon

Innovation 360 Group

At the award event that concluded the SOS Alarm hackathon, CEO Maria Khorsand announced that the company would move forward with all five concepts presented instead of just the winning team’s concept (which was the original plan). When was the last time you were at a hackathon where top management cared about the ideas presented and had an internal system in place to take care of them?

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Seven Techniques to Tell a Great Innovation Success Story

Innovation Leader

Everyone loves a good story. Stories are a great way to inspire, engage, and share lessons learned, and this is especially true for companies that want to step up their innovation game. There are many stories of creativity and perseverance by lone inventors or small teams who beat all the.

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Startup Lessons from Netflix Co-Founder, Marc Randolph

Collectivecamp

I recently had the pleasure of reading Marc Randolph’s That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

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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 Do You Launch a New Business?

Innovation Leader

Through waves of technological change, the Bose brand has remained synonymous with state-of-the-art sound.

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#1,564 – Bill Gates and the Reinvented Toilet

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A couple of years ago I went backpacking for the first time, trekking through the Grand Canyon to the Havasupai Indian Reservation, a lush waterfall infused oasis in the middle of the desert that features some of the most tranquil, crystal clear water you will ever see in your entire life. It was heaven on Earth. There was just one problem: the bathrooms near the campsites were virtually unusable.

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IIoT Myth: IIoT Requires Long-Term Production Shutdown

Taivara

ARTICLES & RESOURCES. IIoT Myth: IIoT Requires Long-Term Production Shutdown. by Taivara , Technology Innovation. Common Myth: IIoT Requires Long-Term Production Shutdown. This is a common concern we hear. When talking to manufacturers about adding sensors to their production lines, almost always the first concern (besides security ) is how long they’ll have to shut down production to get things going.

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#1,563 – Sushi Singularity and the Future of Food

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

People living a hundred years ago never could have predicted the invention of the microwave and the rise of the TV dinner. Nor could people living twenty years ago have predicted the Impossible Burger and other lab grown meats that are currently hitting supermarket shelves. When it comes to predicting the future of food there’s only thing that we can be certain of: it’s going to be vastly different than it is now and we’re probably going to think it’s weird.

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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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Finding Your Innovation Allies

Innovation Leader

How can you find innovation allies?

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Shortcuts Combo of XMind: ZEN

xMind

Inspiration is once in a blue moon. You miss it once, you miss them all. That’s why you need Shortcuts , to capture them at a blink. Get ready for the next level of efficiency by maneuvering the hidden tricks on your keyboard. XMind: ZEN provides 4 types of Shortcuts : File, Edit, Insert and View. File. Shortcuts for File refers to the general operation of the current file, including but not limited to save, save as, open and new file.

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5 Corporate Innovation Trends of 2019 Set to Disrupt the Business Landscape in 2020

Qmarkets

2020 is shaping up to be a truly generation-defining year across the spectrum – from politics, to sport, to science and beyond. I mean, we’ve got the U.S presidential elections, the Tokyo Olympics, NASA’s Mars rover mission, and even the completion of the world’s tallest building – a cavalcade of truly colossal events crammed into 12 months.

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#1,565 – Joshua Seth and the New Era of Creativity

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Joshua Seth understands the importance of creativity. As a best-selling author, accomplished public speaker, world famous illusionist, and the voice of nearly one hundred different animated characters he has made a career out of acting and thinking creatively. A skill that is suddenly in high demand thanks to the new Era of Creativity that we suddenly find ourselves in.

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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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‘No Code’ Chatbot: uncomplicating the creation of a bot

mjvinnovation

However, building a bot seems to be extremely complicated, a process that requires many professionals, a lot of code, plenty of IT development, a multidisciplinary team and primarily a massive investment, correct? Nope, Wrong. Thanks to No Code (and Low Code) platforms, you can build a chatbot yourself even if you have little or no IT knowledge, and in the following paragraph we’ll explain how: What are No Code and Low Code platforms?