Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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Why Risk Innovation?

Imaginatik

Have you ever heard of Google Video, Google Lively, Google Notebook, Google Answers or Google Wave? Do you use Google+? One of the axioms spoken time and time again by leaders in Silicon Valley is that failure is a good thing. In fact, Silicon Valley leaders will tell you that failure is not just unavoidable, but integral to achieving new heights. Google has been a standard bearer for innovation since its founding in 1998 to bring the world Google Maps, Google Books, Gmail, amongst many other pr

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Absorptive Capabilities for innovation: What Really Matters

HYPE Innovation

ca·pa·bil·i·ty ˌkā-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē - the quality or state of being capable (an ability); a feature or faculty capable of development (a potential); or the facility for an indicated use. Capability to outsmart (or outspend) the competition ; capability to put the Business Model Canvas to some good use; capability for new product or service development – like making a Ghostbot , a bot that “uses artificial intelligence to help daters gracefully exit undesirable situations, without having to deal with

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White noise vs. Pink noise: Which sounds helps you concentrate, and which makes you more creative?

Idea to Value

Have you ever wondered why you find the sound of raindrops relaxing, or why some background sounds can help you concentrate? It’s all about how your brain gets distracted, and how certain sounds can prevent this. You might well have heard of white noise before. It sounds a bit like static you used to get […]. Originally published at White noise vs.

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Startups studios, a new kind of startups and innovation accelerators

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Startups Studios are a new kind of accelerators for innovation: instead of accelerating startups previously settled, like traditional incubators and accelerators do, they participate to the set-up of the start-up. A start-up studio is a company that starts companies!

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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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PBTO35: Peak – The Secrets to becoming world class with Anders Ericsson

Rmukesh Gupta

In this episode, we host Dr. Anders Ericsson. He is the world’s foremost expert on how to become an expert. He shares a lot of actionable information about what forms the core of expertise. He also shares about purposeful and deliberate practice. He also talks about how success it is not about achieving our potential but building our potential as we go along.

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To Succeed with the Internet of Things, Start Smart

Innovation Excellence

The potential value of the Internet of Things (IoT) varies as widely as the definitions of the term. If your approach to IoT requires that every last thing be connected before you can claim victory, or realize a return – you have a daunting task ahead of you. As Charlie Peters, Senior Vice President of.

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Innovation Strategy Power Tools

Gregg Fraley

Challenge Mapping & IdeaKeg. Do you want to cut through the clutter when it comes to innovation strategy? Are you sorting through plans for year-end strategy and ideation sessions? Are you at the very front end of innovation and not sure where to go, where to start? Are you asking questions like these (you should be!): What projects might we get started before the end of the year?

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Why Your Organization Needs to Create a Culture of Storytelling

Idea Champions

Why create a culture of storytelling? Storytelling videos, interviews and articles. Sparking innovation via storytelling.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Valuation: an off-label use of innovation management technologies

Imaginatik

Many people will read this title and immediately ask, how can you come up with a viable valuation from a bunch of people sticking their fingers in the air ? Well, in terms of innovation valuation, you can and you should. Increasingly we find that companies want to go beyond idea collection to rigorously vet these ideas against barriers to implementation, in order to develop the most robust ideas quickly.

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Key Metrics to Benchmark Innovation Performance

Innovation Excellence

Top performing companies are now launching almost three times as many successful new products as bottom-performing organizations! Over the last decade the performance gap has grown significantly.

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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.