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What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge

Exago

The clock is ticking. Most managers (86%, to be precise) believe transformation in their companies is imperative to guarantee unrelenting success. However, one in five companies has failed in its innovation attempts, and three in five have not yet made any effort in this area. The post What we’ve learned about the idea management challenge appeared first on www.exago.com.

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These guys built a beautiful scale version of our solar system

Idea to Value

Sometimes it takes my breath away what some people can do with a little imagination, careful planning and some hard work. In this short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, they recreate the actual scale of our solar system, taken from the perspective of the Earth being the size of a marble. The sun and all the other planets are created to the same correct scale in the Nevada desert.

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Visual two heads… different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. We must learn to explore and exploit at the same time, both in parallel and where needed, in separate ways, or entities. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same process we lose so much.

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Dyson’s newest innovation: an Ultra-powerful $400 hairdryer

Idea to Value

James Dyson has just revealed what his engineering firm has been working on for the past four years: the world’s most advanced hair dryer, called the Supersonic. Known best for its high-end vacuum cleaners, Dyson has consistently entered new markets which make use of its digital motor technology to get more airflow through smaller areas. It achieved this to great effect with its hand-drying solution, and to a lesser degree with its bladeless fan.

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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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Collaboration Is The New Competitive Advantage

Innovation Excellence

In truth, neither view fully represents today’s business environment. Certainly, companies like Apple and Southwest are still able to dominate their industries, but the source of advantage has changed. We no longer compete in a resource economy, but a semantic economy where firms that can build, manage and widen connections win out.

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Social Media Strategy – How to Sponsor Bomb the World Series

BrainZooming

Today at the Social Media Strategy Summit, along with Kaite Stover, Director of Readers’ Services at the Kansas City Public Library , I’m presenting a fun case study. The presentation is about how the Kansas City Public Library was able to “sponsor bomb” the 2015 Major League Baseball Playoffs and World Series with a book spine poetry campaign.

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9 Ways to test your MVP

Svava

After building an MVP it is important to gather customer feedback and see whether you should have be building the MVP in the first place and if it´s solving a problem for customers or not. Most of the ideas people have can be realised from the technical point of view but the question is always if there is a demand on the market and this is sometimes difficult to find out.

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When Art and Science Combines for Innovation

Innovation Excellence

The powerful combination of designing and providing something that pushes our existing knowledge, our boundaries, understanding or expectations — and capturing it in thought, explanation, or detailing the discovery makes up the art and science of innovation. We just need to find even better and consistent ways to combine them continuously.

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Comment on Introducing the Innovation Minute by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, the author of Listening for Success is a different Steve Shapiro, and he sadly passed away many years ago. However, his work continues to inspire.

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What will or should happen in GOTR Season 6?

Svava

Who will sit on the Iron Throne?

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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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Comment on The Innovation Minute #2: Differentiation by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro

Thank you!!