IdeaScale
JUNE 26, 2018
It’s June and that means it’s thesis season! Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. It is fascinating to hear their project titles and pitches and we try and take the opportunity to share as much information as we can from our IdeaScale resources.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 26, 2018
In 2006, Blockbuster Video launched Total Access, a service that allowed its customers to rent videos online and return them to stores. The strategy was an immediate hit with customers and before long its online unit was making big gains against Netflix. It seemed that the video giant had finally cracked to code to renting.
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Stephen Shapiro
JUNE 26, 2018
In a post last week, I shared with you my most recent demo video. Over the years, I’ve had several different versions. In this post, I share my four primary demo videos from over the years. Although I’ve had other videos for specific purposes (e.g., a Personality Poker demo video), they aren’t included here. I’m sharing this to help other speakers evaluate their own demo videos.
BrainZooming
JUNE 26, 2018
I participated in the City Partnership Workshop yesterday at the 2018 Gigabit City Summit. Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. My answer? Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later.
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.
Yet2
JUNE 26, 2018
The death of the mall – and traditional brick and mortar retail – may or may not be over-exaggerated. But today’s environment certainly creates an opportunity for traditional retailers to change how they approach their business, and even possibly change their entire business model. For the most part, brick and mortar stores cannot compete (and win!) with online retailers based on price or convenience.
Exoplatform
JUNE 26, 2018
This post is part of a two-part article about the gamification of a digital workplace in order to generate employee engagement. We recently observed how employee engagement is a fascinating subject to study. The post The gamification of a digital workplace to support employee engagement (1/2) appeared first on eXo Platform Blog.
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Innovation Excellence
JUNE 26, 2018
Estonia is known for pushing the boundaries as it tries to establish itself as a haven for innovation, and out of Estonia comes the latest in a string of interesting electric car projects. This one is super sexy for those of us that think that cars have gotten BORING. Check out the video to see.
Innovation Leader
JUNE 26, 2018
Alongside the release of our Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018 report, sponsored by KPMG, we gathered 16 innovation professionals to discuss the report's findings. See photos.
Innovation 360
JUNE 26, 2018
José Moreno. Based in Mexico City, Mexico. Background : José Moreno has served for over 30 years in the federal public sector as General Manager and Head of Department of specific expertise areas in the IT field: Statistics, Demography, Geography, Electoral Processes and Social Sciences, mainly — but also in allied disciplines such as Geomatics, Geointelligence, and the Data and Knowledge’s Society Program, which he developed in 2008.
Idea Champions
JUNE 26, 2018
1. "I want to put a ding in the universe." - Steve Jobs. 2. "Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead. 3. "Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk. 4. "If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." - Charles Kettering. 5. "Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller. 6.
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.
Michael Roberto
JUNE 26, 2018
Several years ago, journalists far and wide heralded college dropout Elizabeth Holmes for her bold vision, innovative strategy, and charismatic leadership at her well-funded startup, Theranos. Holmes proclaimed that she had invented an entirely new blood testing regimen for patients. Journalists drew parallels to Steve Jobs, even noting that she dressed in a similar fashion.
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