Wed.Apr 18, 2018

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Celebrating Women’s Leadership in IP Management

Anaqua

By Alexandra Letts, General Counsel of Anaqua. This year’s World Intellectual Property Day celebrates the important contribution women have made and continue to make to the innovation and creativity that helps shape our world. As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says: “More than ever before, women are taking up leadership roles and making their voices heard in science, technology, business and the arts.”.

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Join Us at the Scale UP Growth Series This Spring!

Innovators Alliance

This 4 Session Program, Sponsored In Part by Innovators Alliance, Will Be Held in Burlington Starting in May. We invite you to be part of a gathering of entrepreneurs and leaders. Join us for our Growth Series, broken up into four jam-packed sessions, where you will learn how to prepare and support your organization for long-term, sustainable growth.

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Start with Feeling

Innovation Excellence

People ask me often about Innovation. No one has a clear definition. Innovation is one of those words that mean something different to anyone who hears it. Similar to other words that are filled with misunderstanding, such as creativity or strategy, innovation, requires a refining conversation to demystify and better understand. The first task is.

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Corporate ‘Scaling-Up’: Joining the Peer Group to Solve the Challenges

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Internal startups and corporate intrapreneurs are facing difficulties to scale, just like usual startups struggle at transforming their first customers in large business.

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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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A Manager’s Guide to Disruptive Innovation – Part 1 of 2

Innovation Excellence

Philippe Silberzahn, a consultant, keynote speaker, and associate professor at EM Lyon Business School, works with large companies confronted to disruptions in their markets: it was natural that he summarizes the mechanisms of disruption, in his book A Managers’Guide to Disruptive Innovation capitalizing on the various books of Clayton Christensen.

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Messy Beats Tidy

InnovationManagement

In his book, “Messy,” economist Tim Harford argues cogently that we are wrong to strive for order and tidiness because openness, adaptability and creativity are inherently messy. We should appreciate the benefits of untidiness.

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Dell Boomi for Blockchain Data Anchoring

Information Playground

There are many integration aspects to consider when deploying new blockchain applications onto an existing IT architecture. Many of them are listed here. One of the more intriguing challenges is the integration of existing data assets with a blockchain. Many people consider blockchain a trusted platform for value exchange (e.g., cryptocurrencies).  I like to think of it as a trusted data exchange (with cryptocurrency as one form of data).

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Here’s How To Keep Your Data Project From Running Of The Rails

Digital Tonto

You can’t expect the road to a cognitive enterprise to be a simple straight line. The important thing is to keep moving forward. Related posts: If Big Data Is To Live Up To Its Promise, We Need To. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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#1,288 – Plastic Eating Enzyme

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Some of the greatest discoveries of all-time have happened by accident. The Microwave. Play-Doh. Viagra. The list goes on and on. And now there’s a new entrant: plastic eating enzymes. When it comes to serendipitous inventions, plastic eating enzyme doesn’t sound that sexy. On face value it pales in comparison to the Pacemaker or even the Slinky.

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Dell Boomi for Blockchain Data Anchoring

Information Playground

There are many integration aspects to consider when deploying new blockchain applications onto an existing IT architecture. Many of them are listed here. One of the more intriguing challenges is the integration of existing data assets with a blockchain. Many people consider blockchain a trusted platform for value exchange (e.g., cryptocurrencies).  I like to think of it as a trusted data exchange (with cryptocurrency as one form of data).

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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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#1,287 – Talk to Books

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

For centuries books have been talking to us. All we had to do was listen. But now, thanks to Google, that conversation goes both ways. Now we can talk to books too. It’s all thanks to a new app from Google that lets us search 100,000 books in under a second. All we have to do is type in a search query and Talk to Books will find relevant passages from its vast library of books that match our inquiry.

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Mona Lisa – Apple: Brands To Icons!

Linda Bernardi

Last week, between meetings in Paris, I had a short break and decided to go to the Louvre Museum to answer one question. Something that has fascinated me since I saw the Mona Lisa for the first time as a child. But now with a twist. How did Mona Lisa and Apple become icons? You might wonder, why Apple? Louvre is the world’s largest museum, why would anyone go there to think about Apple?

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Mergers and the Winner's Curse

Michael Roberto

We often hear people talk about the winner's curse. What does that term mean? Imagine that people are bidding in an auction, and they do not know the market value of the item being sold. Each bidder consults experts to provide them estimates of the value of the item. Naturally, the experts will provide a range of values. Who wins the auction? The highest bidder, of course.

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The future of explore and exploit

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last two posts I examined the origin of explore and exploit , and where it has taken us so far in the innovation space. In this post I want to explore why everything we believe about explore and exploit from a strategic and business model perspective is increasingly wrong, and what innovators and strategists need to do now in order to compete effectively in the future.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Is Your Innovation Program Changing Employee Sentiment?

IdeaScale

Many people launch an innovation community as a way of improving their employee engagement scores. But how do you know if you’re moving in the right direction? Many IdeaScale customers are interested in gathering sentiment analysis. This is actually possible directly within IdeaScale using the survey tool, which can pose questions to every member of the community, but before you do that, you might want to think about what it is that you want to measure in order to find out how people truly feel