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4 Steps to Supercharge Your Next Brainstorming Session

IdeaScale

If you use the right brainstorming tools, you’re more likely to get better ideas. You know that brainstorming isn’t just thinking. It’s more than that. It’s coming up with different and novel ideas that will hopefully lead to a better solution to your problems. However, knowing what it is and being good at it are two different things. What kinds of brainstorming tools can help you come up with more and better solutions?

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Why context is more important than ideas

Jeffrey Phillips

Everyone has ideas - they are like the air, everywhere and ubiquitous. People who say they don't have any ideas are merely referring to their lack of ideas about a specific issue or in a specific setting. Everyone has ideas, all the time. What they often lack is context. Few people understand the value and importance of context when creating new ideas.

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Innovations in ROI for Customers: the Environmental Edition

InnovationManagement

Value propositions are a key element to success. In the modern business climate, the environmental value proposition, in particular, is uniquely effective. The post Innovations in ROI for Customers: the Environmental Edition appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Take Your Biggest Problem…and Skip It

Daniel Burrus

Every business runs into issues that can or will halt progress and cause the company to stagnate. These include slow cash flow, out-of-date technology, and long sales cycles; you name it, it likely exists. Often , when trying to “fix” the problem, the company gets even more mired in the challenge and can’t seem to get past the roadblock. They focus on the problem and either shift into crisis management mode, letting the problem dictate their every move, or perhaps they solve the problem, but 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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Unearthing Your Customers True Core Desires

helloFUTURE

In our paper, Doing Digital Transformation Right, we talk about how most companies focus on the digital-first, looking at transforming their businesses by using technology. This technology first approach works for some things but doesn’t effectively transform your business. You see, we feel that the transformation needs to occur first, and then you can apply… The post Unearthing Your Customers True Core Desires appeared first on hellofuture.

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3 Tips for Measuring the Impact of Your Innovation Platform

Planview

From aerospace to retail, every industry is impacted by disruption, whether it’s from new technologies, new customer experiences, or even new business models. Many companies have responded to these threats by reinventing themselves—often from the inside out. When the metamorphosis includes an innovation platform, leaders are typically left to determine not only how to leverage the solution, but also how to measure its impact.

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5 Reasons Your Brainstorming Sessions are a Waste of Time

Stephen Shapiro

The traditional approach to brainstorming is wildly ineffective. Fortunately there is a better way… Brainstorming sessions are often the lifeblood of many corporate innovation efforts. But do they work? Not the way they are typically conducted. Here are five reasons they are typically ineffective, along with some possible solutions: 1. Poorly defined challenge.

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What Do Top Corporate Innovators Get Right?

Idea to Value

In our line of work, we get to talk with hundreds of leaders around the globe, and from virtually every industry. Most of them seem to intuitively understand the importance of innovation , but there’s still a lot of fluff, ambiguity and uncertainty regarding innovation as a topic. As a result, most leaders aren’t seeing the results they were expecting from innovation.