Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

For many companies, I think there is a relatively significant gap between what they actually generate as compelling new products and what they wish they generated. We could call this the "innovation gap". The gap is real, and it means that many companies aren't as profitable or as competitive as they'd like to be. Many of have (in some cases for years or decades) advocated tools and methods as a way to improve the innovation funnel, to create more innovation more readily that had value as new pr

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Braden Kelley

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Every so often something comes along that is super funny, super cute, and super functional, all at the same time. Check out the video below and then we’ll dive in to the innovation potential of The Rocketeer Pack by ZuGoPet.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

“What am I missing? What is the insight I’m not seeing that could make our content marketing strategy make sense?” An attendee at the 2018 Social Media Strategies Summit conference in San Francisco made that comment. She works for a major non-profit organization. She’s trying to manage through three strategic expectations the senior management team and board have regarding a content marketing strategy: They want to keep everything on one Facebook page.

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hackerearth

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital technologies, and digitalization, in general, are completely changing the face of business. Embracing digital transformation is the only way to adapt to today’s digital era and transform your business to stay ahead of the competition. One of the vital contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors, is innovation management.

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In my 25 years of playing in the innovation space and partnering with both Fortune 500 and start-ups, I’ve come to realize that the most successful leaders say “I’m wrong” more than they say “I’m right.” Truly successful leaders that seek to build a culture where innovation thrives don’t try to have all the answers.

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Leanstack

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Over the last nine years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with thousands of entrepreneurs from all over the world, giving me some unique perspectives that I’d like to share with you today. The stereotype of the entrepreneur has changed. It’s no longer just two guys in a garage. Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and transcend age, gender, and geography.

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Viima

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

When you innovate, you improve on the old. When you innovate, you discover something ground-breaking. When you innovate, the outcome benefits both you and the users of your product.

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Idea Drop

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Every business faces challenges and sometimes it just requires a different perspective. Crowdsourcing ideas is a cost effective way of solving these problems and gathering invaluable insights. To get the most out of your crowdsourcing initiative and to ensure structured, appropriate responses, it is advisable to post an innovation challenge. Whether you choose to share your challenge internally or whether you employ an open innovation strategy, the same guidelines will apply.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We are caught in a real tug of war within much of what we do in business today; in our responses and reactions to many of the dramatic business conditions we are facing, many deteriorating or being challenged by greater global competition. We are facing a very uncertain future if we base our actions on.

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hackerearth

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital technologies, and digitalization, in general, are completely changing the face of business. Embracing digital transformation is the only way to adapt to today’s digital era and transform your business to stay ahead of the competition. One of the vital contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors, is innovation management.

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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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Information Playground

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This week I was invited by Technet to speak about Blockchain at the Texas State Capitol. It was a different type of talk for me. Instead of focusing on the technical aspects of Blockchain I was asked to discuss what Dell sees from a regulatory perspective. The audience was made up of legislators and staffers.  It ended up being a great experience.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I enjoyed speaking at the inaugural TEDx Bryant event on Saturday, February 10th. I look forward to sharing the video via YouTube as soon as it is posted. My talk addressed the topic, "Does the Devil's Advocate Kill Creativity?".

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Information Playground

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This week I was invited by Technet to speak about Blockchain at the Texas State Capitol. It was a different type of talk for me. Instead of focusing on the technical aspects of Blockchain I was asked to discuss what Dell sees from a regulatory perspective. The audience was made up of legislators and staffers.  It ended up being a great experience.

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Michael Roberto

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Leaders often assume that people at all levels understand the organization's goals and objectives. Is that presumption correct? In too many cases, it is not. What happens? First, leaders do not recognize that they must communicate those goals repeatedly - in different ways, through different channels, and using different media. It is not sufficient to address goals once or twice at the outset of the year.

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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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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I didn’t that I would be writing about innovation in fruit this week. But that is exactly what I found when someone told me about a new type of banana from Japan. D&T farms has found a new way of cultivating bananas which appears to have two very useful perks. This is achieved through a special propagation method involving keeping the plant at sub-zero temperatures of below -60 degrees Celcius.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Idi Amin. Yitzhak Rabin. On June 27 1976 Air France flight 139 from Tel-Aviv to Paris was hijacked following a stop at Athens airport. Security at Athens was lax and four terrorists boarded the flight. Two were German, Brigitte Kuhlmann and Wilfried Bose and two were Palestinian. The plane was forced to fly to Benghazi, Libya, for refuelling and then on to Entebbe in Uganda where President Idi Amin showed his full support for the terrorists.

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InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

When I say “innovator,” what image comes to mind? A brilliant, but misunderstood figure hunched over a drawing board by the light of a single lamp in the middle of the night – cup of coffee dwindling slowly, pages of crumpled notes on the floor?

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Back in the late 1990s, in New York City, there lived a world-class architect who had just spent the last two years of his life designing and building what many people were claiming to be the best inner city housing project ever conceived. Although the world stood up and took notice, the architect's friends were totally baffled why a man of his stature would have taken on such a seemingly mundane project.

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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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