Wed.Nov 08, 2017

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Don’t Be Fooled By These 3 Overhyped Trends

Digital Tonto

Our love of patterns is so great, in fact, that once we notice one we are often unable to disregard it Related posts: 5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology. 5 Smart Technology Trends For. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Agile Learners are Ideal for Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Agility holds a special interest for me. I named my consulting business Agility Innovation Specialists and constantly am looking to emphasize that agility is really important to managing innovation. Today, I share an article by the Korn Ferry Institute and my top line thoughts as important for advocacy of innovation.

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Can creativity and innovation be managed?

hackerearth

Peter Drucker once said, “Above all, innovation is work rather than genius. It requires knowledge. It often requires ingenuity. And it requires focus.”. Can innovation be managed like a business process? Does “managing” innovation limit creativity, thus stifling innovative ideas? Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, said, “We treat innovation as if it were magical, not subject to guidance or nurturing much less planning.

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First Robot Citizen Highlights Innovation in AI and Automation

Innovation Excellence

In a turn of events that seems reserved for science fiction, Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a humanoid robot.

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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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4 Industries Poised to Benefit from AI

Daniel Burrus

For many of us, our experience with artificial intelligence (AI) may be, for lack of a better way to put it, “helpfully cool.” That can mean asking Amazon’s Alexa to play a particular song or querying Google’s Home to see if butter is a suitable replacement for vegetable shortening. But the potential for AI goes far beyond cool. Its application in businesses and industries of all sorts will exponentially revolutionize how we both think and work.

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The Power of Surprise

Mike Shipulski

There’s disagreement on what is creative, innovative and disruptive. And there is no set of hard criteria to sort concepts into the three categories. Stepping back a bit, a lesser but still important sorting is an in-or-out categorization. Though not as good as discerning among the three, it is useful to decide if a new concept is in (one of the three) or out (not).

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BMI Lab goes West.

The BMI Lab Blog

Our CEO, Felix Hofmann, gives a lecture to the study group in San Francisco. During this last September and October BMI Lab organized the Second Senior Management Experience Study Trip with Covestro, a Bayer company spin off created in 2015 (formerly Bayer Material Science division). We interviewed Katharina, one of BMI Lab´s consultants, about this experience.

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Communities Count – Diving into Doncaster

100%Open

However you cut it, communities matter; we’re all part of at least one (probably more than one) and on a good day we love our communities. Communities burst with creativity, devising things they love, fighting to defend and protect things that are threatened. The power of the community is a constant inspiration to us. At 100%Open we work with many communities in our online crowds where people constantly surprise by their contributions, ideas and passion.

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Five Things You Should Measure about Your Innovation System

The Inovo Group

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. – J. Paul Getty. Innovation measurement is difficult because the future is inherently uncertain. Current actions and decisions are necessary for, but not determinative of, outcomes that may be realized many years in the future.

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‘Underground’ Executive Roundtable in New York

Innovation Leader

We brought together 16 innovation and R&D leaders at MasterCard Labs in New York City for a roundtable co-hosted with our partner, Deloitte. Here are some photos.

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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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8 Innovation Leaders in Singapore Share their Corporate Innovation Advice

Collectivecamp

Singapore is currently ranked as the sixth most innovative country in the world and it is home to some of the biggest corporate innovation programs.

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Inhaling Innovation

100%Open

The larger an object becomes the smaller the ratio of it’s surface area to volume. The same is true of organisations. The bigger an organisation becomes the less exposed it becomes to external ideas and more absorbed it becomes in internal processes and politics. This is why organisations become less productive as they grow. Conversely cities, become more productive with size.

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Driving force, thought leader, and entertainer

ITONICS

Let’s start today and get things done! It is finally here: Mike’s speaker site ! As a keynote speaker, workshop moderator, and consultant, Michael Durst is THE expert for disruptive change and innovation management fighting for the vision of a digitized and open-minded future. With 8 years of experience in technology and innovation management and as a paragon of digital pioneering, entrepreneurship, and science, Mike will show you which trends drive your business and which technologi

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Last Chance to Submit to the 2017 Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

The deadline of the annual Innovation Management Awards is now upon us and we are still accepting submissions. Just a reminder about the three categories that we want to hear about: Best Engagement Strategy. Every year, we ask our customers what topics they would most like to see discussed at IdeaScale’s Open Nation and almost every year, our customers ask to hear about new and creative strategies to engage the crowd in the ideation and innovation process.

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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