Tue.Mar 27, 2018

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

I have written a fair amount about the new innovation era, offering a view on its future design. One that is jumping to a fresh cycle of innovative design. We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect.

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Don’t Forget to Write Back

IdeaScale

Did you ever have a pen pal in school? I did. I remember sitting down to put pen to paper and always being uncertain where to start the conversation. The format was different than a diary, but I hadn’t yet been introduced to the concept of blogs. It was always so hard to get rolling, but once I had started writing and there was something on the page I felt I could usually write for awhile.

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Drive Innovation with a Culture of Ownership, Not Blame | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on.

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How to Expand Your Brand Attributes in Smart Ways

BrainZooming

We were working with a client’s C-level team to develop its strategic plan. To help them articulate the organization’s strategic direction , we used several branding exercises. These branding exercises focused on identifying: The organization’s strategic foundation. Its best current performance areas. Future strategic aspirations. The pairing of brand attributes that best describes its market position.

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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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Can Innovation Save Traditional Retail?

Yet2

For Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the stores of their youth are disappearing. While Toys ‘R’ Us is the latest major retailer to liquidate and close, the U.S. retail market has also seen Sears and J C Penney close many locations. Claire’s, a mainstay of many shopping malls, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. There’s a widespread perception that malls across the U.S. are dying.

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Innovation training day: Exago team updates its facilitation skills

Exago

With the aim of improving our team’s skills as innovation workshop facilitators, several Exago employees are attending a certified Workshop Facilitation Training in Lisbon, Portugal. The post Innovation training day: Exago team updates its facilitation skills appeared first on Exago.

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Cultivating an Innovation Mindset

eZassi

Cultivating an Innovation Mindset — Actively Pursuing Innovation. At this point, most businesses are keenly aware that it is imperative to their survival, in a competitive business world, to actively pursue innovation and cultivating an innovation mindset within their organization. The real challenge becomes how to create a culture of innovation where individuals, and the team as a whole, are motivated and inspired to drive the company forward.

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Cities and Innovation: A Zen Perspective

InnovationManagement

This article applies a perspective derived from Zen philosophy to issues of life and innovation within cities. Two major, holistic realms of urban existence are identified—the socio-economic and the ecological. These two spheres do not always coexist in a state of mutually sustainable balance and urban well-being.

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Why Burt’s Bees is Lending Market Knowledge to Startups

Innovation Leader

The Natural Launchpad at Burt's Bees is an annual grant program for natural products. Ten startups each receive $10,000, mentoring, and access to the other entrepreneurs.

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How to Make Product Roadmaps not Dangerous

Innovation Excellence

My 12-year old son recently got a belt sander from his Opa. Opa is a German name for grandfather. My son is making a bookshelf and has a lot of sanding to do. The belt sander will do the work quickly. It is the right tool for the job, but only if it is used.

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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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Innovation Circle in Madrid – How Ready Are You To Innovate?

Innovation 360

Innovation Circle – How Ready Are You To Innovate? Innovation Circle by Sofie Lindblom. In this interactive workshop and round table discussion you will get the opportunity to understand your organization’s strengths and weaknesses in order to guide strategy, decisions and resource allocation. To put it simply: increase the chances to succeed with your innovation efforts.

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Can we fix our broken economy with a guaranteed income?

Innovation Excellence

Automation, robotics, displaced workers, outsourcing, offshoring, near-shoring, smartsourcing… These are all words that strike fear into the ordinary working man and woman, American, or otherwise… Now comes a new set of words from the intelligentsia promising to fix it all for the common person, phrases like “guaranteed income” and “universal income” have emerged into the.

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#1,278 – Proton Battery

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

One of the hallmarks of human ingenuity is our never-ending quest to one-up ourselves. To make modes of transportation from cars to planes that go faster and faster. To create rockets and spaceships that can take us farther and farther into space. To create phones and computers that follow Moore’s Law, cramming more and more transistors onto chips as the devices themselves get smaller and smaller.

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50 Awesome Quotes on Possibility

Idea Champions

1. "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi. 2. "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll. 3. "The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility." - Charles Kettering. 4. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes. 5.

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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