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Five key dimensions for building your innovation challenges

Exago

In the process of setting objectives for your business goals, you should always think SMART – as management guru Peter Drucker applies this expression. To make your objectives easy to understand and monitor, they need to be specific, measurable, assignable, realistic and time-related. This mnemonic can be useful when establishing innovation challenges.

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Brainstorming with IdeaScale

IdeaScale

In my previous blog post , I discussed blue sky ideation. In this blog post, I’ll discuss how we can draw from brainstorming techniques to configure IdeaScale to support your organization in generating and collecting fresh and novel ideas. Last week, I enjoyed the latest episode of the Stanford Innovation Lab podcast about effective advance planning for a successful brainstorming session.

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When to Call an Innovation Firm

Idea to Value

Change is difficult, and changing for the better rarely happens out of virtue. When prospects reach out we know only one fact: They want to change something in their organizational mix and grow and want help. Often the need is an unexpressed and even unconscious urge for the company or nonprofit. Sometimes the board demands innovation. Other times, Wall Street needs to see innovation in the pipeline to ratchet up the market value.

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Five key dimensions for building your innovation challenges

Exago

In the process of setting objectives for your business goals, you should always think SMART – as management guru Peter Drucker applies this expression. The post Five key dimensions for building your innovation challenges appeared first on Exago.

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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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Brainstorming with IdeaScale

IdeaScale

In my previous blog post , I discussed blue sky ideation. In this blog post, I’ll discuss how we can draw from brainstorming techniques to configure IdeaScale to support your organization in generating and collecting fresh and novel ideas. Last week, I enjoyed the latest episode of the Stanford Innovation Lab podcast about effective advance planning for a successful brainstorming session.

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Disruptive Innovation Strategy – 13 Exercises for Disrupting Thinking in New eBook

BrainZooming

Whenever we discuss using questions to foster disruptive innovation strategy , it prompts objections. The objections center on the idea that questions do not create disruptive innovation. The point these individuals (who are usually innovation experts that comment on other companies’ content without ever generating any innovation strategy content of their own) make is that a whole variety of factors contribute to disruptive innovation.

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4 Ways Agility Protects the Status Quo (And 5 Reasons Anticipation is Better)

Daniel Burrus

Organizations that have adopted an anticipatory mindset and culture enjoy a variety of powerful advantages over those that rely on strategies that simply aren’t as effective as they once might have been. Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with.

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6 Reasons why a Design Thinking and Lean Startup hybrid is essential

Board of Innovation

As technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, it might be interesting to take a step back and reflect on the approach we are taking to achieve innovation and if, by any chance, we could speed up the process even more. In this post, I discuss two of the most widespread methodologies for innovation used in business today: Design Thinking. Read More.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was. Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Throughout the conference, which included exclusive innovation strategy workshops for Spigit customers, there was no shortage of useful insights attendees walked away with.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

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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How Qmarkets Partnered with NHS to Create the Most Sophisticated Healthcare Innovation Exchange Platform in the UK

Qmarkets

Tammy Holmes, Innovation and Adoption Programme Manager for the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN), talks about the changes in the healthcare industry in England, the challenges in implementing innovation, and how Qmarkets' idea management platform has helped the WMAHSN effectively manage and implement evidence-based innovations to improve health and create wealth.

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Try 3 Techniques to Improve Your Business Pitch

Innovation Excellence

Mastering a wide range of techniques to deliver a business pitch is something every entrepreneur must do before they even start. By trial and error, I learned which types of presentations work out under which circumstances, and I’m happy to share some of these tips with you.

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How to Motivate Staff

Wazoku

How do you motivate your staff? How do you keep your employees engaged? If you do a search for “ How to motivate employees” you’ll get a long list of articles written by HR professionals, social scientists, employee engagement specialist et al. The common theme that resonates through nearly all these articles on employee motivation is recognition.

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Solving Business Problems with Artificial Intelligence

Innovation Excellence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems? Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Wazoku nominated in the 2017 Enterprise Awards

Wazoku

Wazoku is proud to announce that we’re a finalist in the 2017 Enterprise Awards. The seventh Enterprise Awards in association with the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is celebrating and recognising the very best of the UK’s technology entrepreneurial talent with what they like to call ‘The Oscars of the Technology Industry.’.

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Podcast #013 Takashi Kudo – How an artist collective is creative as a team

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we talk with Takashi Kudo, who is the Communications Director for TeamLab, a renowned art collective from Japan. Referring to themselves as ultratechnologists, the group aims to go beyond the boundaries between art, science, technology and creativity, through co-creative activities. TeamLab is best known for its ingenious art installations based on light and projection, and in contrast to many traditional collectives, is made up of not only artists b

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PBTO53: Deep Work: How to do work that Matters with Cal Newport

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Cal Newport. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to studying the theoretical foundations of our digital age, Newport also writes about the impact of these technologies on the world of work. Why is he on the show: His most recent book, Deep Work , argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace and that the ability to concentrate without distraction is becoming increasingly valuable.

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