Wed.Apr 11, 2018

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Designing Workspaces To Solve Problems

Innovation Excellence

Apple’s new campus, Apple Park opened to both adulation and criticism. The Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic, upon seeing the original design, called it a “retrograde cocoon.” USA Today pointed out that opening up a glitzy new headquarters is often a signal of impending decline. Wired isn’t sure if it’s insanely great or just insane.

Design 51
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Musings of an Apprentice: Business Thinking Meets Design Thinking to Create a Design-led company

InnovationManagement

Abstract: A perspective of a redesigned, reformed and transformed business design professional. The author shares her journey, experience, progress, and point of view on today's often discussed "design thinking or building a design-led innovation culture.".

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Exploring and Exploiting for Innovation (part 1)

Jeffrey Phillips

In so many ways it often feels like innovation is both wholly new, and ancient at the same time. Tools that we use to innovate aren't new, in fact many are very old, but put to appropriate use they help us create miraculous new things. Too often we distrust old tools or methods, thinking that newer tools or methods are more current, more viable, but fail to realize that some things are simply grounded in truth, no matter hold old they are.

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Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

Steve Blank

If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I want to work on tough problems that matter.” “I have a vision and want to see it through.” “I saw a better opportunity and grabbed it. …”. It never crossed my mind that I gravitated to startups because I thought more of my abilities than the value a large company would put on them.

Company 78
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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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IBM’s “5 for 5” Highlights Secure Digital Solutions For The Physical World

Digital Tonto

Identifying meaningful problems and setting goals to solve them are the first steps in transforming ideas into reality Related posts: The Digital World in 2020. The Biggest Problems Facing The World. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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30 Ways to Boost an Audience’s Energy Level

BrainZooming

We have a call with a client about an upcoming Brainzooming innovation workshop. One question (which we think MAY have been included by mistake on the list of topics they sent us) is what we do when energy is diminishing during a workshop. Photo via Shutterstock. Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentat

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Engage your team with design thinking

Be-novative

We held our 2nd webinar out of the 3-part series with Integral last week and talked about how to engage team members for innovation, and how to integrate design thinking into the process.

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The Alphabet of a Champion

Innovation Excellence

“Do this for 60 days and you will always think like a champion.” Champions, those people who define success on their own terms, know that they can make choices that create and shape their lives; sometimes simple choices which each day move them closer to their goals. It’s not rocket science but it is a.

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Basic Accreditation – Sydney, Australia

Innovation 360 Group

Get accredited as an Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioner and learn how to use the i360 approach : assessment of innovation capabilities with InnoSurvey® to make evidence-based recommendations how an organisation can become more innovative. InnoSurvey® is the most comprehensive strategic tool for growth and innovation allowing you to assess innovation capabilities, strategy and culture.

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How Campbell’s Soup Launched a New ‘Buy One, Give One’ Product

Innovation Leader

Direct-to-consumer products are rare at Campbell’s Soup. Here's a look at how the Soulfull Project launched one.

Project 40
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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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Two Simple Steps to Sell Anybody on Your Vision

Idea Champions

You are a visionary. Or, if that word feels too inflated for you, then at least someone with an inspired vision of the future for your organization. To you, it's obvious. To others? Not so much. Your challenge? Communicating your vision in such a way that that people not only SEE it, but embrace it. Here's one thing to keep in mind as you proceeed -- some words of wisdom from Fast Company Magazine.

Company 22
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PPM software user experience and rising star awards

Bubblegroup

Bubble Innovator Earns Two 2018 Project Portfolio Management Software Awards. Bubble, is awarded ‘Rising Star’ and ‘Great User Experience’ awards by FinancesOnline Business Software Directory. Bubble is pleased to share news that our PPM Software Bubble Innovator has received the ‘Rising Star Award’ and ‘Great User Experience Award’ from FinancesOnline.

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Strengthening Democracy using Real Time Governance

IdeaScale

What is real time governance? Real Time Governance is an ideal democratic and citizen empowerment process where citizen involvement is amplified using online feedback platforms such that “opinion” translates into governmental policy. The first such initiative was launched by the the Obama Administration in 2009 under the name of Open Government Initiative (OGI).

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