Wed.Aug 29, 2018

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Building an Innovative Company Culture

Taivara

Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Building an Innovative Company Culture. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first.

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Innovation means different things to different people. Sometimes it’s hard to have a good conversation about innovation, because people understand the concept in very different ways. Let’s start with a general definition that states “Innovation is something new and useful ” incorporates both the concepts of novelty and value. Of course questions arise: What things?

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Ten Tips for A Successful Pitch

Destination Innovation

Henry de Zoete and Will Hodson, co-founders of Look After My Bills, secured the best ever deal on the BBC show Dragons Den (equivalent to the US TV show Shark Tank). They received offers from all five investors on the show. They ended up selling just 3% of their business for £120,000 ($160,000 US). The pair met at Bristol University. Look after my Bills , the firm they founded, will find the best gas and electricity deals and switches people automatically when their deal runs out.

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4 Things To Know Before You Move Your Business To The Cloud

Digital Tonto

Moving to the cloud isn't just about adapting new technology, it's about transforming your business Related posts: Why The Cloud Will Be Like The PC All Over Again. Cloud Computing Just Entered. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Successful Companies Innovate Faster

Sopheon

It’s no longer good enough to sit in an ivory tower and dictate a 5 year strategy without fully understanding consumers and the highly fluid state of technological change. The post Successful Companies Innovate Faster appeared first on Sopheon.

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Man and Nature:  Perspectives on Sustainability from East Asian Philosophy

InnovationManagement

This article provides a conceptual rationale for environmental sustainability derived from Taoist and Buddhist philosophies. Our goal as a society should be to jointly enhance the quality of human lifestyles and the natural environment, not just one or the other. Innovations in this area can have a nonlinear or exponential impact.

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Nurturing Intrapreneurship for Innovation Success

Taivara

Taivara Blog Post by Michael Shuchter. Nurturing Intrapreneurship for Innovation Success. Engage and develop the people who can help you disrupt your business and industry, before they leave to do it elsewhere. Innovation is necessary to stay alive and drive business forward. It’s commercial Darwinism. Those who can rapidly adapt to changing markets are the ones who survive and thrive.

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Take More Risks

Innovation Excellence

In this two minute video clip we will explore two important questions relating to risk in your life: 1. What is the biggest risk your have taken which has succeeded? 2. What is the biggest risk you have taken which failed? Wait! Before you go… Choose how you want the latest innovation content delivered to.

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Top 5 Blog Posts of Innovation Management Expert Paul Hobcraft

HYPE Innovation

Paul Hobcraft has been a contributor to this innovation blog for so long, that over the time he became an integral part of it. Tackling a broad range of topics, from digital transformation to design thinking he's a highly-regarded expert in the innovation industry.

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The Simple Approach to Employee Engagement

The Human Factor

News flash! Creating an engaged workforce where employees bring all their skill, talent, passion and energy to work every day isn’t rocket science. It doesn’t involve brain surgery. And you don’t need a Ph.D. in human resources development. Which leads to the question, if employee engagement is so simple, why do so many companies struggle to get it?

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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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#1,367 – Body Odor Detector

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Didn’t know who the smelly kid was growing up? It was probably you. Not sure who the smelly kid is in your workplace? There’s now a device that can help with that, letting you know if you’re in danger of alienating your co-workers or if you’ve been unintentionally warding off potential mates this whole time with the noxious fumes emanating from your personal space.

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XMind Tips: How to Enable Rainbow Color Branch?

xMind

Colors are important. Forests and beaches are calming and relaxing, restaurant logos like McDonald and IN-N-OUT naturally make your stomach growl. Colors can be very effective in learning, marketing, communication etc. There is even research with Alzheimer’s patients showing that color cues improve memory. In XMind: ZEN with just a few clicks, you can enable multi-branch color , making your mind map creative, informative and more Colorful!

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Mean Business?

Idea Champions

Illustration: gapingvoid. Idea Champions.

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XMind tips: How to enable rainbow color branch?

xMind

Colors are important. Forests and beaches are calming and relaxing, restaurant logos like McDonald and IN-N-OUT naturally make your stomach growl. Colors can be very effective in learning, marketing, communication etc. There is even research with Alzheimer’s patients showing that color cues improve memory. In XMind: ZEN with just a few clicks, you can enable multi-branch color , making your mind map creative, informative and more Colorful!

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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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Indian innovations that captured the world’s imagination

hackerearth

Mark Twain, a premier 19 century American author whose carefree writing was famous for its satire and realism, said this about India: “So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.” We do agree, don’t we?

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Collaborating Robots Build Concrete Structure

IdeaConnection

Businesses have long valued the many benefits of collaborations such as sharing costs and knowledge, improving efficiencies and boosting productivity. Well, now robots are taking a leaf out of the smart business playbook by working with each other. Specifically, a team of mobile robots has collaborated to 3D print large structures quickly. When we say mobile robots we actually mean robotic arms on mobile bases, but that’s still pretty darn exciting.