IdeaScale

MAY 16, 2017

From sea to shining sea, America’s real promise is innovation. Where does the US stand in terms of innovation? While headlines bemoan middling academics and economic struggles, it turns out that innovation, tracked by the number of patents filed between 1977 and 2015, rules the roost in America. In fact, if states were independent countries, certain US states would push entire countries off the list for most patents filed.

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Innovation System Culture Creative Thinking 140

BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Are you involved with the strategic planning process for your organization? That could involve leading it, participating in it, or trying to influence the strategic planning process so it delivers more value and better results for the organization? 7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix! Typical complaints about a strategic planning process.

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Stephen Shapiro

MAY 16, 2017

Your observation is correct especially with the United Airlines fiasco, most companies learned their lesson pretty well. Customer experience is now the new marketing and social media is a very accessible channel. Customers today know what they want and they’re not afraid to vent their dissatisfaction over Facebook and Twitter. Most organisations also built their own alerts whenever someone mentions them online.

Marketing 45

Marketing Learning Company 45

Innovation Excellence

MAY 16, 2017

In his new book, Greg Satell debunks innovation myths and looks closely at what innovation “is”. Greg offers a powerful innovation matrix to navigate the innovation space, and then walks us through the challenges of innovating in the digital age.

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Technical Review Disruption Innovation Tools 44

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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100%Open

MAY 16, 2017

Last week saw the conclusion of the Mobilize New York challenge. We were delighted to welcome finalists, judges, partners and members of the public to the FordHub in the Westfield World Trade Centre on Wednesday for a busy and buzzy Grand Final event. This was the culmination of a huge amount of engagement with our online community of over 1200 people who have been sharing ideas, insights and experiences of travelling around New York City in response to two challenges: The Travel Smarter Challen

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 16, 2017

When it comes to allocating time for innovation its easy to fall into the trap of declaring the time allocation and assuming that everyone knows what it means.

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Idea Champions

MAY 16, 2017

I know you have no time. YOU know you have no time. I know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. YOU know you're not gonna do anything you don't wanna do. We both know you're not going to read this blog post. It's too long and you have more important things to do. What follows are 100 other reasons why you won't read this blog post. 1. You don't want to. 2.

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Brainstorming Policies Creative Thinking Creativity 24

Innovation Leader

MAY 16, 2017

“Active visualization” has been a big emphasis for Suffolk Chief Innovation Officer Chris Mayer, creating new ways to envision projects, whether using AR or VR.

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Michael Roberto

MAY 16, 2017

New research by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor examines the impact of sitting next to a high performer at work. They discover important "spillover" effects. In fact, these spillover effects can occur in both a positive and negative direction. Here's an excerpt from Kellogg Insight about their research: Researchers looked at the 25-foot radius around high-performers at a large technology firm and found that these workers boosted performance in coworkers by 15 percent.

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Idea Champions

MAY 16, 2017

As a former student of the martial arts, I have noticed a curious phenomenon in corporate America that is becoming increasingly troubling to me -- especially among "creatives" who aspire to become masterful brainstorm facilitators. I call it the "Bruce Lee Syndrome" or perhaps more correctly, the "I-Took-a-Karate-Lesson-at-My-Local-Shopping-Mall- and-How-Come-I-Still-Can't-Break-a-Brick-Yet" syndrome?

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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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