Thu.Apr 04, 2019

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Why taking your best shot is all wrong in innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I was speaking with a prospective client recently and was dismayed to hear them talk about innovation in a manner that seems to suggest innovation is a "one and done" activity. Then a good friend introduced me to the book Loonshots, which I haven't read, but did listen to a podcast about. I'm not here to review Loonshots, but I do want to debunk the idea of innovation and its connotation to "shots" of any kind.

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How Crowdsourcing Can Enhance Innovation Performance

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly popular in today’s business world. Defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, it clear to see why a company would want to engage in the use. One of the main reasons why crowdsourcing is increasing in popularity throughout the business world is due to the positive influence that it has on innovation performance.

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Fix the Planet – Protect Our Species

Innovation 360 Group

“I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire. Because it is.”. –Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist and youth leader. What are your plans for raising awareness and taking action on Earth Day, April 22? This year, your ideas alone can make a real difference. On March 14, the same day as the One Planet Climate Summit in Nairobi, Cyclone Idai slammed into the South African coast, leaving the port city of Beira shattered, and impacting 2 mil

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The Future of Innovation: Learning to Lead with Heart

InnovationManagement

Design Thinking (DT), (also known as human-centered design) is an innovation process used to evolve products and services in business and social impact sectors. World-renowned companies like Apple, Google and GE use DT for business solutions, and top-tier colleges like Stanford, Harvard and MIT teach DT to students looking to solve the world’s biggest problems.

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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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Taking advantage of free publicity

IdeaSpies

When social media started to become popular free publicity was freely available. Many online businesses spread awareness by growing followers, particularly on Facebook. More recently Facebook has been taking advantage of its market leading position by charging businesses to reach their followers. This has led to the need to find other ways of getting free publicity.

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Four Things You Need to Know About Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Innovation Excellence

In the seven years since IBM’s Watson beat two human champions in the game show Jeopardy, cognitive technologies have gone from a science fiction pipe-dream to a platform for essential business initiatives. Clearly, if you don’t have a plan for cognitive transformation, your chances for survival will be somewhat dim. Yet progress to this point.

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Even Entrepreneurial Projects Must Fit the Brand

Innovation Excellence

To meet ever-increasing growth objectives, established companies want to be more entrepreneurial. And the thinking goes like this – launch new products and services to create new markets, do it quickly and do it on a shoestring. Do that Lean Startup thing. Build minimum viable prototypes (MVPs), show them to customers, incorporate their feedback, make.

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Visual Management Software Features that Excite Executives

Kainexus

As I prepared to write this post, I did a Google Search of, “Visual Management Software,” just to see what popped up. The top 4 posts were about visual project management software. So, it’s not surprising that lots of folks think that’s all there is to visual management technology. Project management software is something that executives will often approve for other people to use, but not something they get excited about for their own use.

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Assess Your Innovation Program

Planview

In today’s world of work, disruption—whether it’s from new technology, new business models, or customer experiences—is the new normal. Such disruption, impacting companies regardless of industry, is fueling the sense of urgency behind innovation. Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat.

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What the Future Holds for Digital Marketing Innovation | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Product, price, place and promotion – the basic tenets of marketing have remained the same for decades.

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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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How to Find Insights

Carla Johnson

April 5, 2019 by Carla Johnson Hiero was a tyrant who believe that his goldsmith was cheating him. He didn’t know to prove it – he suspected the goldsmith was swapping out gold with silver – so he hired Archimedes, a local mathematician and engineer, to prove it for him. This was an important assignment. The object in questions. The post How to Find Insights appeared first on Carla Johnson.

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LumApps unveils new integration with TemboSocial

Tembosocial

TORONTO - APRIL 4, 2019. TemboSocial is proud to announce our partnership with LumApps. This new solution integration is available as of now. Thanks to TemboSocial, LumApps Social Intranet is even more interactive, rewarding and engaging for your employees. Find out how these integrations enable businesses to build a strong culture of dialog, recognition and engagement, all inside the LumApps digital workplace.

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The Power Of A Single Word For Business Owners: The Many Faces Of ‘Transport’

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. There are a number of different ways of thinking about business. There’s the old school ideas that have stood the test of time, newer innovations that have taken the business world by storm, specialist advice led by industry gurus, a multitude of entrepreneur-focused books, and much more besides – but what if you could actually improve your business by focusing on something simple, perhaps just a single word?

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LumApps unveils new integration with TemboSocial

Tembosocial

TORONTO - APRIL 4, 2019. TemboSocial is proud to announce our partnership with LumApps. This new solution integration is available as of now. Thanks to TemboSocial, LumApps Social Intranet is even more interactive, rewarding and engaging for your employees. Find out how these integrations enable businesses to build a strong culture of dialog, recognition and engagement, all inside the LumApps digital workplace.

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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