Tue.Oct 30, 2018

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Innovation Fear

IdeaScale

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and the conversation pulled up short for a moment when the interviewer (after hearing us talk about the possibilities afforded by an innovation management system) asked us why people are sometimes afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program. So we wanted to take a moment to talk about some common innovation fear that we see from first time innovators.

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Why Your Organization Needs to Invest in Innovation Capital

HYPE Innovation

Innovation capital is one of the primary catalysts to value creation. And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building innovation capital lacks the focus it deserves. In fact, it isn’t even on most people's radar. If you Google “innovation capital” for instance, you tend to get venture capital companies as search results offering financial capital and hijacking this term.

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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The answer is a resounding yes. A nonprofit is essentially a multisided model made up of users (beneficiaries) and customers (donors). The main difference, from a modeling perspective, between a non-profit and a for-profit is that the former reinvests all its profit towards impact.

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Why Good Ideas Don’t Fly and What To Do About It?

Innovation Excellence

Every leader talks about the importance of innovation to their business. In public, every leader talks about how they and their teams are at the fore front of innovation. In private, the very same leaders confess that they are nowhere near the level of innovation that they would like to be at.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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How to Drive Engagement with Employee Feedback

Tembosocial

The other day I came across a picture that struck me as funny but also a little sad. It was a picture of a typical Employee Suggestion Box.only it was attached directly to a paper shredder. Unfortunately this is the way people often experience employee feedback program at their workplace. Yes the leadership team asks for feedback - but who knows where it goes after it is collected?

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Digital Biopharma: Is it safe, effective and cost-effective?

Innovation Excellence

Digital health has converged with biopharma. It has happened because digital health technologies are making it easier for biopharmaceutical companies to discover, develop and launch new drugs faster and cheaper and improve the patient and doctor experience, in what is being labeled “after the pill”, U.S. regulators have approved the first digital pill with an embedded.

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Digitizing the Process of Co-Creation

Svava

Through Interactive Workshops, Bringing Them Into the Modern Era.

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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The answer is a resounding yes. A nonprofit is essentially a multisided model made up of users (beneficiaries) and customers (donors). The main difference, from a modeling perspective, between a non-profit and a for-profit is that the former reinvests all its profit towards impact.

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What’s Digital Transformation, Anyway?

Innovation Leader

What’s the right strategy for making digital transformation? To find out, we interviewed Patrick Bass, the CEO at thyssenkrupp North America, and Marcelo De Santis, formely of Mondelez International and Pirelli.

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4 Ways to Beat Innovation Management Anxiety- How to Get Past the Fear and Find Your Next Big Idea!

Qmarkets

The philosopher Aristotle diagnosed fear as ‘pain arising from the anticipation of evil’. Over 2000 years later, C-suite executives at major companies the world over are certainly feeling this specific pain when it comes to innovation. Many anticipate the possibility of leaping towards news heights, only to plummet down to unknown depths…. However, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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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 Digital Transformation, Anyway?

Innovation Leader

What’s the right strategy for making digital transformation? To find out, we interviewed Patrick Bass, the CEO at thyssenkrupp North America, and Marcelo De Santis, formely of Mondelez International and Pirelli.

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How to get more good ideas and avoid the bad ones?

Viima

As we’re in the business of helping our customers manage ideas, one of the questions we often get asked is “How do we get more good ideas and avoid the bad ones?”.

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#1,390 – ShapeScale

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For some people, losing weight or gaining muscle, isn’t something that happens overnight. The changes, if there are any, might show up more gradually over time. If you want to stay motivated and know for sure that your hard work is paying off then you may need the ShapeScale , a new device capable of generating a 3D image of your body to help you better visualize your fitness.

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Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe

InnovationManagement

Zebra stands for Zero Evidence but Really Adamant. Zebras are people who see things in black and white. They are sure of their own opinions and they disdain information or science which undermines their beliefs. The king of the Zebras is Donald Trump.

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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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#1,389 – Apeel

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

One third of all food produced every year goes to waste. Spoiling before it can even make it to market or getting thrown out once it gets there for not meeting our standards. Meanwhile millions of people around the world are starving to death. This is a logistical nightmare. Technically we are creating enough food to feed everyone. We’re just not doing a good enough job of getting it to them.

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