Wed.Sep 06, 2017

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Lunch Thoughts: What to do with Recycled Glass?

IdeaScale

Our office kitchen only has one microwave and I always get hungry at peak lunchtime. I place my Pyrex glass container of leftovers at the end of the microwave queue of different shapes, sizes, and brands of glass containers, and wait my turn. From Mason jars at weddings, to glass water bottles at the gym, and glass carafes for endlessly cold iced coffee, it’s clear that glass is being used in just about everything.

Marketing 150
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Innovation lessons from Lego

Jeffrey Phillips

In television, an outlandish episode that seeks to introduce revive a series often signals the eventual downfall of the show. Those old enough to remember the TV series Happy Days will remember the episode when Fonzi jumped the shark on water skis. This gave us the expression that something had "jumped the shark", an event signalling an inevitable downfall.

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Build For The Few And Not The Many

Digital Tonto

Your idea is always wrong in some way. The key is to find a visionary customer. Related posts: 4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture. What is a Business Model? What To Do While. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Creative Thinking Skills Test – Can you bend it like Chuck?

BrainZooming

I don’t remember the exact year, but our Marketing department hired Chuck Dymer to speak to our team during a quarterly meeting. At some point during the talk, Chuck pulled out a copy of that morning’s USA Today and made a connection between an article and his pre-planned talk. That moment influenced me tremendously. I wanted my creative thinking skills to be strong enough to do the same thing.

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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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Wisdom Within Dichotomy

Mike Shipulski

To create future success, you’ve got to outlaw the very thing responsible for your past success. Sometimes slower is faster and sometimes slower is slower. But it’s always a judgement call. We bite the bullet and run expensive experiments because they’re valuable, but we neglect to run the least expensive thought experiments because they’re too disruptive.

Project 49
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As Corporate Innovation Evolves, Past Lessons Are Being Ignored

InnovationManagement

This article provides a personal perspective to the ongoing evolution of corporate innovation efforts, along with an overview of how some past mistakes are being repeated.

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Global Catalysts: The World’s Most Innovative Cities – Past, Present and Future

InnovationManagement

The latest view on which cities are the most innovative – from yesterday, today and tomorrow has just been shared.

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6 Principles to Deal With Business Challenges in a Complex World

The BMI Lab Blog

Learning to face uncertainty is a significant advantage for businesses in the current world. Nowadays, in times of uncertainty and change, business challenges are not a possibility, but a reality that every business will face sooner or later. In periods of Great Acceleration, the kind of problems that most companies face are more complex, wicked and entangled than any time before.

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How MetLife Asia Finds Startups Focused on Its Challenges

Innovation Leader

The insurance industry, says Zia Zaman, has "lost its way by not focusing on the customer." Here's how Zaman of MetLife Asia, is working to change the status quo.

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We Dwell on the Negative

Michael Roberto

New research from Stanford Professor Zakary Tormala and graduate student Aaron Snyder examines how individuals weigh the pros and cons when making a decision. They found that people tend to dwell on the negative. According to their research, "People feel more conflicted when faced with many positives and a few negatives than they do when faced with many negatives and a few positives.

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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.