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Taking Final Ideas to Market is the Hardest Part

Paul Hobcraft

It seems so simple doesn’t it – “bringing final ideas to market”. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achieve. Everything we should be aiming at is ‘successful execution’, it’s the last, hard five yards of all the work that went into something, which can be finally realized and come to ‘commercial life’. Here in Europe, it is often suggested that “Europe is the cradle of creativity”, perhaps but I think the United States is “the crucible of innovation”, it forges ideas and tak

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Podcast S4E71: Dan Toma – Innovation Accounting and Key Performance Metrics

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with author Dan Toma about the concept of Innovation accounting. Dan is the founder of Outcome and the co-author of the Corporate Startup. We go through how companies should measure innovation performance, and which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) actually make sense for these types of projects.

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Western Power: A Principled Approach to Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Australia’s Western Power sits in a unique place. One of its innovation hub’s leaders, Brendon Nicatee, describes it as “half public, half private.” While it’s entirely owned by the West Australian government, and is the sole power operator for the region, by necessity, it needs to please any number of stakeholders. They range from the … Continued.

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How To Measure Your Knowledge Management Performance

InnovationManagement

With a clear understanding of knowledge management success, executives can make more effective managerial decisions. The post How To Measure Your Knowledge Management Performance appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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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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A Unique Thank You for Tech Scouting

Yet2

How do you say thank you in business? Do you send a gift basket? Do you send a written thank you note? Do you just send an email? In our role as technology scouts, we get a lot of thank yous. Most of them come from clients for completing projects quickly and successfully. Sometimes we get thanks from the startups, innovators and inventors we connect with our clients.

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Ethnography and applied anthropology for innovation, and branding with Selva Gaberscek (Labbrand)

Rapid Innovation in digital time

With Selva Gaberscek, we understand how ethnography and the understanding of imagineries builds the ground for meaningful innovation and branding.

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#1,837 – Leave The Big Four Alone!

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Yesterday I was in a lot of pain and it had nothing to do with the fact that I fell off my bike and may have broken my arm or torn an elbow ligament. Rather, It was because I tried to sit through a congressional hearing on Antitrust that saw the leaders of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google get grilled awkwardly by members of Congress who don’t know the first thing about technology.

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Re-Designing Your Virtual Meetings

Innovation Leader

If you’re suddenly spending the entire day convening with colleagues in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting, or another meetings platform, you already know the challenges of making them feel engaging and productive. As a host, how can you create the context for everyone to contribute, rather than tuning out or multi-tasking?

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The UNDO Button Part 7 of 7

Innovation 360 Group

Once you have gathered enough data from experiments, you can deploy a radically new tool for innovation management we call clustering, based on the technology the CIA used to.

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What Object Represents How You Work?

Innovation Leader

This exercise from our “Upgrade Your Online Meetings” workshop encourages participants to break out of the box and find a new format for facilitating online meetings. Watch the video above for a detailed explanation from session leader Suzi Hamill, former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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The Key Steps For Starting A Cosmetics Business

The Human Factor

There are some industries that will always be profitable. While some businesses can come and go depending on the state of the economy, some seem to be more or less recession-proof. These are the industries that people value, the ones that offer something that’s important to the buyer. While cosmetics may not be as important as, say, healthcare, there’s no denying that it is something that people value in this day and age.

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Upgrading Online Meetings: Doodling to Communicate

Innovation Leader

This exercise from our “Upgrade Your Online Meetings” workshop asks participants to reflect on how they have adapted to working remotely during COVID-19. In order to share there stories, she asks that attendees draw their experience. Watch the video above for a detailed explanation from session leader Suzi Hamill, former.

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New Old Ways To Market Your Biz

The Human Factor

Are you interested in exploring new ways to market your company? Upgrading your marketing tactics is a smart choice and will potentially help you reach more customers. It could also provide the competitive edge you need to beat out other companies offering services or products that are remarkably similar to yours. You might be tempted to explore the latest in marketing innovation to do this.

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Upgrade Online Meetings: Virtual Whiteboarding

Innovation Leader

The final exercise from our “Upgrade Your Online Meetings” workshop teaches particpants how to make the most of the whiteboarding software Mural, and gives suggestions for redesiging work. Watch the video above for a detailed explanation from session leader Suzi Hamill, former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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How Legal Professionals Can Make Money And Beat Stress

The Human Factor

The legal sector is one of the most stressed of any in the world. Professionals in the industry get fat paychecks, but they also have challenging jobs. No two cases are the same. And making it through the week without a major catastrophe is a victory. . The problem in the industry is now so bad that leaders are organizing specialist wellness services.

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Upgrade Online Meetings: Why Do We Meet?

Innovation Leader

Exercise Length: 5 minutes

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Tips That Will Help You Improve Your Business in 2020

The Human Factor

Doing your best to run a successful business in 2020 is something that needs a lot of work and attention. There are a lot of things that will play a part in this, and it is so important to try to get this right as much as possible. You need to think about what it takes to achieve success in the world of business, and work on these factors moving forward. . 2020 has been a tough year for businesses everywhere, and if you are serious about achieving success, you need to know the best way of approa

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WILL KODAK SUCCESSFULLY PIVOT INTO PHARMACEUTICALS? I DOUBT IT.

Adam Hartung

Strategic pivots can lead to success for agile companies. But, the pivot must be pointed at an unmet consumer need to increase growth.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.