Wed.Mar 07, 2018

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other. Maybe it is a “digital – innovation twin” that shapes the physical world with digital understanding- think about the current Industrial Digital Twins for IIoT solutions.

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The Data Economy & GDPR – Innovating around Regulation!

IdeaScale

When you hear the word “regulation” – the first thing that comes to mind is bureaucracy. Especially, when it comes to the European Union! The EU directive of data-protection, privacy and general regulation of its data-economy is largely tied to the upcoming launch of the GDPR regime in May 2018. As with every regulation, there are perceived winners and losers – and ample room for innovation within the regulatory framework.

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Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool

Exago

You can save time and money by having your employees contribute ideas for the cost-cutting strategy, as well as cost-optimisation ideas that can transform and impact the company positively. Examples from our clients' innovation management programmes show just that. The post Optimise your cost-cutting strategy with the right innovation management tool appeared first on Exago.

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How To Solve A Really Tough Problem In 3 (Not So Easy) Steps

Digital Tonto

The key to solving fundamental challenges is to go both wider and deeper Related posts: The Uncertainty Problem. How to do a Turnaround in 5 (not so easy) Steps. Top-down vs. Bottom-up Strategy. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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What’s New In Corporate Innovation

Imaginatik

Hello everyone! The world of corporate innovation changes quickly. Our “What’s New” blog series keeps you up to date with all the latest news and views of interest in the space. We hope you enjoy this next instalment. ‘Smart Thermometres’ Track Flu Season in Real Time. This winter has seen – and many of us have experienced – a particularly nasty strain of the flu’ virus sweeping across the globe.

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How Collective Impact Can Empower Innovation Challenges in Higher Education

HYPE Innovation

What do you do when the problem you face is overwhelming in its complexity? What do you do when the experts you need are in every corner of the world? What happens when no individual or group has all the answers?

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Cultures that Inspire!

Innovators Alliance

There is no doubt that attracting talented people is one of the latest challenges that business leaders are facing. Let’s define talented people as those that have options – they have skills and experiences that are viewed as attractive and therefore can command a premium in terms of pay or at least in terms of interest. We might assume that the most important thing to these people is compensation and while a report titled Talent Wars from Development Counsellors International (DCI) shows that

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Four Myths About Innovation That Gurus Love To Tell

Innovation Excellence

Go to any innovation conference and you’re sure to be amazed. Someone will stand up on stage and show you how to unleash creativity in your organization, develop pathbreaking products and run circles around your competition. Step by step, you will be walked through the principles by which you will achieve success. This won’t be.

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A Healthy Dose of Heresy

Mike Shipulski

Anything worth its salt will meet with resistance. More strongly, if you get no resistance, don’t bother. There’s huge momentum around doing what worked last time. Same as last time but better; build on success; leverage last year’s investment; we know how to do it. Why are these arguments so appealing? Two words: comfort and perceived risk. Why these arguments shouldn’t be so appealing: complacency and opportunity cost.

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How Have the World’s Biggest Entrepreneurs Made Their Money?

InnovationManagement

In the modern age, we're arguably more obsessed with wealth than ever before. This probably has much to do with the fact that it's becoming increasingly difficult to save in the current climate.

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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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Innovation or Not? – Flyboard Air

Innovation Excellence

For those of you out there who are comic book aficionados, you might be familiar with a super villain from the Spiderman series called the Green Goblin. One of the trademarks of the Green Goblin in addition to hand grenades that he liked to throw at people was a personal flying machine that he stood.

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Work Less, Get More Done

The Human Factor

Are you working longer and harder but accomplishing less? One of the great ironies of our times is that the more we learn about the importance of uninterrupted focus in human performance, the more distractions and interruptions we face on a daily basis. Voice mail. Email. Telemarketing. Spam. Tweets. Snapchats. Texting. Instant messaging. Popup ads wherever we go on the Internet.

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Concept Development: An Exercise to Make Idea Investment Decisions Easier

Planview

Recently, a client shared a story about presenting some very intriguing ideas from a crowdsourcing challenge to decision makers and being met with “Yes, great ideas, but we can’t decide which of the good ones to pick or what to invest without knowing a lot more.”. In that organization, like many, moving fast and choosing investments that are likely to be successful are table stakes – they’re must-haves.

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Green Belt grading – New York City

Innovation 360

In the Green Belt Licensed Practitioners will learn more on strategy, organizational development and especially change. And access to our new strategy tool for analysis: PESTLED360.com. Green belt. Day 1: 8.30-18.00 including lunch and dinner. Day 2: 8.30-15.00 including lunch. Purpose. 1. Develop your strategic skills linking innovation and strategy. 2.Mastering advanced innovation analysis. 3.Accredited to sell the Innovation Playbook to your clients. 4.Learn how to use InnovationIQ.

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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.

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How Johns Hopkins is Turning Doctors into Entrepreneurs

Innovation Leader

Within Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Technology Innovation Center serves as a hub for budding innovators, helping them build, deploy, and test clinical solutions…

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#1,271 – Generating Power From Temperature Changes

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Anyone who has ever worked in an office knows that the number one challenge facing knowledge workers are the temperature swings. First you’re hot. Then you’re cold. Then you’re hot again. Same thing goes for commuting to work in the summer time. Going from air conditioned house to warm air outside, to air conditioned car, to warm air outside, to air conditioned office building, etc.

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Tech Scouting in San Francisco at Our Deep Dive

Innovation Leader

For our Deep Dive, we dropped in on LinkedIn, Autodesk, and Target’s Open House, and heard how companies approach the challenges of scouting.

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Women In Data Science 2018

Linda Bernardi

I was very honored to speak at the 2018 Women in Data Science conference. There were so many inspiring women doing great things. The topic of my talk was about women’s leadership opportunities in AI. You can watch the full talk below. (Begins at 28:51) I also greatly enjoy this short interview afterwards with Alex Brogdan. @Linda_Bernardi , Author, Entrepreneur, & AI expert talks about women, leadership, & the future of #DataScience [link] — SAP Silicon Valley (@SAPsv) March

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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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What’s the Value of Privacy?

Daniel Burrus

Consider these interesting statistics when it comes to privacy: Google commands 77 percent of search advertising revenue in the United States. Between them, Google and Facebook control 56 percent of the mobile advertising market. At first glance, they sound like monopolies, don’t they? And, if that’s the case, why hasn’t the government pursued action?

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#1,270 – Graphair

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve been hyping up wonder material Graphene for years. Waiting for that moment when the light weight, stronger than steel graphite offshoot would go mainstream. Well. That moment is finally here for we now have a remarkable product that could quickly and easily revolutionize society in a simple and straightforward manner. Say hello to your new best friend, Graphair – a water filtration system unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

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