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Generate Great Ideas from a Cluster of Strangers

Destination Innovation

I recently ran a workshop for a group of CEOs of small companies from different sectors and industries. We ran the following exercise. Each person started with a blank sheet of paper on which they answered the following questions about their organization. What are your main products or services? List three or four. What are your main markets? These can be industry sectors, types of customer or geographical markets.

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True Transformation Isn’t Top-Down Or Bottom-Up, But Side-To-Side

Digital Tonto

A leader’s role is not to plan and direct action, but to inspire and empower belief. Related posts: Transformation Is Always A Journey, Never A Destination. A True Transformation Takes More Than. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Steve Jobs Leadership Masterclass – in Four Words

Innovation Excellence

We love to complicate leadership in countless books, articles, and insights, but there is no formula. However, there is this gem that guides all great leaders. I’ve got a leadership challenge for you. You can do better. Read on. If the rift in popular sentiment around political leadership tells us anything, it’s that we still.

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Taking Teams Seriously

Bill Fischer

What an amazing few weeks this has been for teams, both dysfunctional and exceptionally successful, yet what are the lessons regarding team performance? Here are a few conclusions to ponder when considering what makes for a high-performing team.

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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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Overcoming Challenges Through Continuous Learning

Innovation Excellence

Last week, I went to a fantastically informative event, hosted by the Churchill Club, Melbourne. It was about “Developing the Tech Talent of the Future”. New technologies and shifting customer expectations are shifting the business game. In the same way, new platforms, products and services, business models and other emerging creative surprises are, disrupting the learning.

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Don’t Do Your Best!

helloFUTURE

Stop Trying to Excel! If you watch anime or read manga, you’ll come across pretty common phrase – when a character is about to complete a task or do something that they might find challenging, their friends or family who are encouraging them to say “ganbatte ne,” which loosely translates to “do your best.” Its… The post Don’t Do Your Best!

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How One of the World’s Largest Wineries are Fermenting Groundbreaking New Ideas with Qmarkets

Qmarkets

In 2017, an Innovation Strategy Manager at a major vineyard was tasked with finding an efficient system for streamlining ideation. This system would need to be used to overcome departmental communication barriers, as well as drive the innovation that would help protect the company from wine industry disruption. The solution came in the form of an employee innovation hub powered by Qmarkets.

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Amplify Your Design Thinking

Values Centered Innovation

“Design thinking” has swept the world. While there have been many methods for finding innovative yet practical solutions to business and social challenges – such as the “Creative Problem Solving” process of Osborn and Parnes – somehow “design thinking” has caught the world’s fancy like no other. In part, its popularity has grown because “innovation” has been named as a top-3 strategic priority by thousands of executives over the past decade.

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How the Owners of One of the World’s Largest Wineries are Fermenting Groundbreaking New Ideas with Qmarkets

Qmarkets

In 2017, an Innovation Strategy Manager at a major vineyard was tasked with finding an efficient system for streamlining ideation. This system would need to be used to overcome departmental communication barriers, as well as drive the innovation that would help protect the company from wine industry disruption. The solution came in the form of an innovation hub powered by Qmarkets – designed to give employees a simple, engaging, and collaborative method for submitting innovative ideas.

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Turbo-Charge Your Design Thinking

Values Centered Innovation

“Design thinking” has swept the world. While there have been many methods for finding innovative yet practical solutions to business and social challenges – such as the “Creative Problem Solving” process of Osborn and Parnes – somehow “design thinking” has caught the world’s fancy like no other. In part, its popularity has grown because “innovation” has been named as a top-3 strategic priority by thousands of executives over the past decade.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Crowdsourcing Challenge to Better Locate Objects on the International Space Station

IdeaConnection

An algorithm that improves the way NASA locates tagged items on the International Space Station.