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What are the good and the bad costs in your innovation agenda?

Exago

When introducing a cost-cutting strategy in your innovation agenda, you should first have a clear view of your company’s strategy and map out good and bad costs for programme intervention, at macro and micro levels. Both macro- and micro-level-oriented strategies have value and they often make more sense combined. The post What are the good and the bad costs in your innovation agenda?

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What to Do with an Idea Ahead of Its Time

IdeaScale

There are no bad ideas, but there are ideas you may not be in a place to pull off. We’ve all heard the stories. A teenager walks into a record company in the 1970s with a brilliant idea to sell music over connected computers. Microsoft pioneered the smartwatch before the iPhone was a glimmer in Steve Jobs’ eye. There are just simply ideas that are so advanced, so brilliant, that they turn out to be in the door too early.

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How to Skip Your Biggest Problem (And Still See Results)

Daniel Burrus

Often, when confronted by problems, we have a tendency to work the problem. Then work it some more. And, from there, work it even more. But does working, reworking and working at it harder uncover a solution? Often, the answer is no. Instead, I like to recommend an alternative that may seem a bit outlandish to some, but is a remarkably effective strategy: Take your biggest problem and skip It. .

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Imagine a Bigger Better World: An Innovative Leap by Sir Tim Berners-Lee

InnovationManagement

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He created its three fundamental components: the formatting language HTML, the address system URL, and the HTTP system for linking sites. He was born in 1955 and grew up in London. As a schoolboy he was an avid trainspotter. He learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway.

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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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The Undeniable Power of the “Garage Experience”

Innovation Excellence

If you’re like me and a lot of other entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs around the world, then you’ve likely romanticized – at least at some point in time – about what it must have been like in great companies like Apple, HP, Google, and Cisco when they were just getting their start – in their founders’.

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Client Case: Green Innovation of the Paper Industry

Innovation 360 Group

At last year’s GADDEN Conference, one of the top career fairs for business, law, logistics and environmental science students in Northern Europe, CellMark connected with 140 young potential entrepreneurs who were fired up by our vision of sustainable manufacturing for the paper industry. CellMark is working to become a global meeting place for entrepreneurs who strive to surpass expectations by introducing environmentally responsible global innovation initiatives.

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The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy

Linda Bernardi

Had a great time speaking at this fireside chat at MIT Enterprise Forum with my co-author Sanjay Sarma and talking about The Inversion Factor. Excellent moderating by Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-chief at MIT Technology Review. You can watch the full talk below. The post The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy appeared first on Linda Bernardi.

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Micro-Learning for Storytellers

Idea Champions

Time-crunched as you are, I know you don't even have two-minutes to read this. So thanks for your 119 seconds. I'm not going to sell you on the power of storytelling. You already know it's powerful. What you don't know is how to make it real in your organization. I know how to do that. That's what my Micro-Learning for Storytellers service is about.

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Doing Less, Then Obsessing

Michael Roberto

My former colleague, Morten Hansen, has written a terrific new book titled, "Great at Work: How top Performers Work Less and Achieve More." Hansen built a dataset of roughly 5,000 individuals from all levels of organizations, from the C-suite to the factory floor. He examined their performance, as well as their habits, routines, and work practices. In the book, Hansen describes seven principles that characterize the approach of top performers.

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A New Integrated Innovation Engagement System

Paul Hobcraft

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense? We have this compelling need to have a new cycle of innovation design.

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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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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

Qmarkets

In 2013, Bank Leumi embarked on a journey to make innovation one of its prime strategic goals. In order to achieve this goal, the Bank undertook an initiative to change their corporate culture, so every employee would see innovation as part of their daily work; an aim they should constantly aspire to. As part of the new corporate strategy, Leumi realized that it would need an innovation management software engine to support the initiative.