Thu.Dec 20, 2018

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Idea Management Defined – The What, Why and How

Viima

As we’re in the business of helping our customers with both idea and innovation management, we get to discuss these topics quite extensively.

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How the Internet of Things Drives Innovation

Wellspring

Within the innovation space, one of the key points of expansion is the application of leaps in information technology to the physical world. Just as the internet revolution brought about change by networking computers, another similar revolution seeks to bring about change by networking and digitizing the physical world. As such, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main drivers of innovation within a number of fields, as it seeks to digitize, analyze, and automate numerous consumer and in

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

Education is about more than going to class. In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students.

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Innovation Resolutions For 2019: Choices You Can Make To Be More Innovative

Bill Fischer

Innovation is inherently a social phenomenon; it's who you talk to, and when, and where that can make the difference. By choosing to change the pace by which we work, the spaces that we spend time in, the partners who we converse with we can improve our propensity to be more innovative.

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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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An Innovative Culture: Define It, Cultivate It and Use It to Enable Transformation

Wazoku

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. If these mark the beginning of the journey, how do you then take the innovative culture you’ve put so much effort into building, cultivate it for sustainability and use it to drive business transformation?

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Top 5 Consulting Firms for Innovation and Digital Transformation in 2019

Moves the Needle

Digital transformation is more than saying “We are doing business in the 21st century, using 21st century tools.” As a concept that originated in the ‘90s as a synonym for “digitization,” it has since evolved into the process by which companies update the source code of their people as well as their business. In 2018, digital transformation brought AI into the mainstream, blockchain to the supply chain and the concept of “fast-failure” to the C-suite.

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A More Innovative Europe? Think Different About Innovation!

InnovationManagement

In Brussels, the Research & Innovation Program Horizon Europe (FP9) is the talk of ‘EU town’. Horizon Europe is hoped to be the great leap forward of Europe to close the innovation gap to the US and stay ahead of the emerging innovation giant China in the coming years.

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The Truth About Diversity

Innovation Excellence

“Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game,” Lou Gerstner wrote in the memoir of his historic turnaround at IBM, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? “It is the game. What does the culture reward and punish – individual achievement or team play, risk taking or consensus building?” Culture is, in many ways, is how an enterprise.

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Marketing Mix Modelling: Maximizing the Impact of Marketing Spend

Acuvate

Marketing teams in most CPG organizations mostly use primary and secondary research data available, to optimize their marketing strategy. While this is important, you may be missing an important piece of the puzzle if you’re not taking into consideration the effectiveness of your marketing outreach too. A holistic and effective marketing strategy would also measure and track parameters like: The type of media used.

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Top 5 Consulting Firms for Innovation and Digital Transformation in 2019

Moves the Needle

Digital transformation is more than saying “We are doing business in the 21st century, using 21st century tools.” As a concept that originated in the ‘90s as a synonym for “digitization,” it has since evolved into the process by which companies update the source code of their people as well as their business. In 2018, digital transformation brought AI into the mainstream, blockchain to the supply chain and the concept of “fast-failure” to the C-suite.

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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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Atlanta Innovators Discuss Idea Generation and Execution

Innovation Leader

The latest roundtable dove into the challenges of sourcing ideas, moving those ideas through pilots, and eventual releasing them into the world. See photos inside.

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Mastering Business Expansion

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. If you are keen to run your business well , you will want to know some of the better signs to be on the lookout for, so that you know for certain when you are doing well and can be truly proud of what you are achieving. One of the surest signs of all has to be when you are finally able to expand your business in one way or another.

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Boards of Directors: What Happens to Female Dissenters?

Michael Roberto

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery Juan Ma and Ithai Stern of INSEAD have published a paper titled, "Gender's Impact on Directors' Career Trajectories." They examined the disparate impact on men and women of an expression of dissenting views during board of director meetings. They explain their results: We find that directors, male and female, are significantly less likely to continue serving on the focal board after issuing a dissenting opinion.

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Can You Learn To Be A Leader?

The Human Factor

image source. Contributed post –. Leadership qualities, we are led to believe, should be innate, natural, and instinctive. According to this common belief, people are either natural born leaders as described by [link] , or they’re not. There is some truth to this belief, too. Leadership is not something that comes easily to many people. For some people, the idea of being a leader doesn’t gel with their personality, and they would always prefer to follow rather than lead.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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.