Wed.Jul 05, 2017

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Yet it is this recognition that the present is not working anymore with existing innovation systems, you do need to search for a real lasting change that does transform and connect all the parts into a new innovation designed ‘whole’ There are a number of intersecti

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. The turn around in its fortunes has been spectacular. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach.

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IBM Is Using The Crowd To Help Advance Its Quantum Computer

Digital Tonto

As the current era of digital technology comes to an end, we are entering a new age in which possibilities expand once again. Related posts: The Very Strange—And Fascinating— Ideas Behind Quantum. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Learning 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons as an Entrepreneur

BrainZooming

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation. Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons.

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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 Swiss Post’s Partnership with Qmarkets Achieved Award-Winning Results

Qmarkets

Lorenz Wyss, head of ideation at Swiss Post and the recent recipient of a prestigious international idea management award, talks about the major transformation efforts the 60,000-strong company has undertaken, and how Qmarkets’ innovation platform has helped manage and guide the process. . Swiss Post is a diversified group with five main subsidiaries – PostMail, PostLogistics, Swiss Post Solutions, PostFinance and PostBus – operating in communications and logistics, retail financial services, an

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6 Reasons Why You Need Docketing Software

Wellspring

With docketing being one of the most crucial functions for intellectual property management, offices need an effective IP docketing system that can reduce spending and labor needed to process and maintain intellectual property claims. Fundamentally, IP docketing software functions like a virtual assistant: keeping track of deadlines, reminding the team at regular intervals about upcoming deadlines while tracking payments and other actionable items.

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How Open Innovation Can Be Used in the Financial Sector

InnovationManagement

In a recent article, The Financial Brand discussed the biggest threats to the financial and banking industry. They included a long list of everything from profitability to making good hiring decisions. However, we thought that there were a few problems that could be particularly fruitful when applied to open innovation systems.

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Charting Change for Product Managers and Innovators

Innovation Excellence

Adding change management tools to our product management toolbox is wise, which is why I interviewed the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit. He also wrote the book, Charting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick.

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6 Reasons Why You Need Docketing Software

Wellspring

With docketing being one of the most crucial functions for intellectual property management, offices need an effective IP docketing system that can reduce spending and labor needed to process and maintain intellectual property claims. Fundamentally, IP docketing software functions like a virtual assistant: keeping track of deadlines, reminding the team at regular intervals about upcoming deadlines while tracking payments and other actionable items.

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Seven Good Reasons Not to Innovate

Innovation Excellence

If you want to stop your organisation from trying to develop significant new products or services then here are seven solid arguments you can rely on.

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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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Digital Work Hubs: The New Online Workspace

Bolste

What is a Digital Work Hub? In a different time, work was considered heading to one office, where all of your colleagues also worked from. However, times have changed and with a remote workforce that’s on the uptick, teams are considered way more than simply those one shares an office with. Teams not only include colleagues in different parts of the country and world, they also encompass partners, vendors, consultants, boards of directors, customers and more.

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Why Aren’t You Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. These “hacks” (as they called them) had the greatest potential to improve a company’s capabilities and functions.

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Breakthrough Innovations

Rmukesh Gupta

Introducing Vycle : Vycle is a human-powered vertical transport system for our expanding cities. It’s a cross between a cycle and an elevator. This enables us to use the concepts of riding a cycle but instead of going forward, we go up. This idea also combines the idea of allowing us to do a little bit of exercise over the course of the day, without having to take time out to exercise from our schedules.