Fri.Oct 06, 2017

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We could all use a little Sharknado thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

I saw a sign in my Twitter feed recently that spoke volumes about innovation culture. Let's contemplate the audacity of suggesting an idea about a movie full of sharks in tornadoes for just a moment. Creativity and Combinations To suggest a movie about sharks in a tornado demonstrates creativity. Good innovation often happens when you combine two unexpected attributes or components together to create something new.

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The 30 Year Rule – How Long Does Innovation Take?

Innovation Excellence

“Agile” has become the mantra for the digital age. If you don’t move fast, so the thinking goes, you can never be any good, because your competitors will get there first and you’ll be left in the dust. In many circles, this notion has become so well established that no one even thinks to question.

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Business Model Innovation is not a one-way road, but a crossroad.

The BMI Lab Blog

All around the world new companies are both developing new business models and innovating current ones, with great success and without the help of new revolutionary technologies. These companies teach us that business success and innovation does not only rely on technology, but also on a rational understanding of business models and how to improve them.

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9 Ways to Put Dynamic Tension in an Innovation System

Innovation Excellence

There is a growing need for having some dynamic tension within the innovation system; this helps generate the better conditions for innovation to thrive. We are learning more on the better tools, techniques, and approaches available but here are some general thoughts to put some opening stakes in the ground for my (our) future thinking around.

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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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How Open Innovation Could Help Improve a City’s Future

IdeaConnection

Marikina City in the Philippines is beset by two major challenging situations: 1) natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods due to overflowing rivers and 2) manmade problems that are common to many cities around the world. These include social welfare issues such as a lack of maternal healthcare. To help give citizens a brighter future seven innovators from all over the world flew into the city to come up with solutions via open innovation.

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The Corporate Innovation Trade-Off | Collective Campus

Collective Campus

More often than not, senior management and the C-suite assume that exploring disruptive innovation is incredibly risky, and it is. It’s often a key bugbear to getting senior management buy-in for corporate innovation initiatives.

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Innovation 360 Group is on the ground in UAE, and Dubai is leading the charge in the pursuit of innovation

Innovation 360 Group

As a force for change behind most industries and a catalyst for development in the public and private sectors, innovation is undoubtedly one of the keys to economic development and diversification around the world. The UAE, and Dubai especially, has set its sights on achieving the highest levels of innovation. The leadership of the UAE has emphasized its importance across all sectors through UAE Vision 2021.

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Best Practices for Scouting Emerging Technologies

Innovation Leader

How should companies work with startups, tech vendors, and academia to scout emerging tech? Mona Vernon of Thomson Reuters Labs shares best practices.

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Why Don't More People Share Their Best Practices with Each Other?

Idea Champions

If you are a member of a team, business, or volunteer organization, there's a good chance you want whatever project you are working on to succeed. Yes? Towards that end, you work hard, think hard, generate ideas, go to meetings, fight fires, get pissed off, recover, and (hopefully) learn from your mistakes. If you are like most people, you sometimes get together with your team and talk about ways to increase your odds of success.

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Why Thomson Reuters Rotates Talent Between Labs

Innovation Leader

Mona Vernon, Chief Technology Officer of Thomson Reuters Labs, explains why the company began rotating employees between its innovation labs.

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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.