Tue.Oct 16, 2018

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Improve Your Innovation Process with Innovation Journey Maps

Innovation Excellence

The Customer Journey Map is a popular management tool. It is a visual representation of customer interactions with a company and a tool to investigate, analyse and thus improve customer experiences. Let’s borrow the tool and adapt it for our purposes. The Innovation Journey Map (IJM) is a similar concept showing the journey that an.

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Can You Think Out Of The Box?

Michael Michalko

In the graphic above, 9 toothpicks are arranged to form a 100. Can you change 100 to form the word CAT by altering the position of just 2 toothpicks? Take a few moments and see if you can solve it. One of the many ways in which our mind attempts to make life easier is to solve the first impression of the problem that it encounters. Like our first impressions of people, our initial perspective on problems and situations are apt to be narrow and superficial.

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There Is a Secret to Creative Success for Everyone

BrainZooming

One Friday night, I forced myself to leave the office. (This is more impressive than it might seem, at first: you entrepreneurs will know what I’m talking about.) I’d made my way to the couch and was parked there, watching Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Wembley or Bust on Showtime. (And yes, most of the songs were, in fact, from the soundtrack of my youth.).

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Stop the Innovation Theatre

Innovation 360 Group

The world is changing faster than ever and it will probably never change this slowly again. This means that organizations around the world need to organize for constant change, for always exploring new opportunities – in parallel with successfully running their current core business. . A common approach to do this is to organize events with the purpose of spurring innovation.

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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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5 Things that Are Slowing Most SMBs Down

InnovationManagement

On your path towards success, your business will encounter numerous bumps, however, some of these problems tend to hold your business more than others. Most of the time, the entrepreneurs behind these SMBs are first-timers, which means that they lack the necessary experience to recognize the gravity of the situation in the given moment.

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Are you a good strategic thinker? 5 Signs You Could Be.

Focused Momentum

Strategic thinking capabilities are a huge asset to an organization. Finding good internal strategic thinkers and leveraging them in our planning projects significantly strengthens the strategic plan our clients adopt. Maybe you are just the stimulating thinker that is needed to produce your organization's next great plan.

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How to Create Cluster Clutter

Innovation Excellence

Digital health ecosystems have spread around the world.

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#1,381 – Zit Vaccine

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The other day I was watching an episode of Zach Morris Is Trash , the Funny of Die series that hilariously revisits Saved By The Bell’s Bayside High to prove just how horrible our hero truly was. In this episode, Zach and Screech accidentally invent a zit cream in science class and use it to cure Charlie “Crater Face” Coburn and Homecoming Queen hopeful Kelly Kapowski as part of a get rich quick scheme.

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How Has Idea Management Changed Since IdeaScale Launched?

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was recently interviewed as part of the 97 th Floor Mastermind Series. The questions ranged across a variety of subjects like how we hired our first few team members to our thoughts about the future of innovation management. But some of the questions made us think how has idea management changed since we launched? Remember when the app looked like this?

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The Effect of Competition on Creativity

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay Daniel Gross has published an interesting NBER working paper titled, "Creativity under fire: The effects of competition on creative production. " Gross writes the following in describing his key findings: This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals’ creative output, exploiting a unique field setting where creative activity and competition can be precisely measured and related: tournaments for the design of commercial logos and branding.

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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.