Mon.Dec 17, 2018

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Why Don’t You Have Enough Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Nearly every company’s strategy these days is to grow through innovation, yet many fall short. We all know the standard reasons: innovation is hard, innovation is uncertain or innovation grinds against the gears of the operating organization. They are all more or less true, but they are also simplistic, not really guiding executives on how to actually get more innovation.

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A Future of Software Without Code

Innovation Excellence

Early digital computers weren’t very useful. Sure, they were far more powerful than the punch card tabulating machines that they replaced, but they were devilishly hard to program. Instructions needed to be written in assembly code, which was time consuming and difficult.

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Latest Interview with Voltage Control’s Innovation Series

Braden Kelley

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Douglas Ferguson of Voltage Control, to speak with him for their Innovation Series about my work as a popular keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and thought leader on the topics of continuous … Continue reading →

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The yearly pulse of healthcare innovation

Board of Innovation

We took the yearly pulse of healthcare innovation. Here are the results of the checkup and our prognosis of the future. Healthcare is one of the industries that has the greatest potential — and need — for a sea change in innovation in the coming years. Startups are riding the crest of the medical technology. Continue reading. The post The yearly pulse of healthcare innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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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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Nominate the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2018

Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.

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Brussels Airport holds an Innovation Challenge to improve passenger experience

Board of Innovation

Employees at Brussels Airport help passengers' airport experience take off through a customer-centric ideas contest. The post Brussels Airport holds an Innovation Challenge to improve passenger experience appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How Will Consumer Products Change in the Next Decade?

InnovationManagement

Our products have come a long way in 100 years. Looking back at 1918, the most popular toy in that decade was Lincoln Logs , this year, the most popular toy to get your kid for Christmas is the Kano Harry Potter coding kit.

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One Genius Initiative That Ends the Generational Divide

Innovation Excellence

Generation bashing is tearing organizations apart. Here’s a simple way to put an end to it. Iconic CEO Jack Welch came up with a way to bridge the generation gap in 1999 and yet almost 20 years later 86% of companies still haven’t caught on. In the late 1990’s GE’s iconic CEO, Jack Welch, did.

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Happy Holidays from Innovators Alliance

Innovators Alliance

To our member organizations, sponsors, and all Ontario business leaders, we wish you and your employees a wonderful holiday season! We hope you enjoy a relaxing, joyful time with your loved ones, and we look forward to the new innovations 2019 will bring. Holiday Hours. We will close the office at noon on Friday December 21 st and reopen at 8:30am on January 2 nd , 2019.

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6 Ways More Sleep Makes You a Better Innovator | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Listen to the likes of leadership coach and retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, and you will be up at the crack of 4:34am, you’ll proceed to splash some cold water on your face and “get after it”, despite every fiber in your body, more likely than not, willing you to go back to sleep.

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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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Connect the Dots (or Don't Lose Track of Key Strategic Assumptions)

Focused Momentum

In the last blog post , I discussed how necessary it is to set strategic context repeatedly during the early stages of implementing a new strategic direction. Reviewing the core concepts of strategic thinking and digging deep into long-range goals at the start of detailed planning, at decision-making milestones, and when results are visible is vital to ensuring a new strategic direction is well understood and embraced.

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Ten Rules for Building a Good Company

Rmukesh Gupta

Today, I stumbled upon a book – “ Tree-Ring Management” by Hiroshi Tsukakoshi. Hiroshi san is the Chairman of a kanten manufacturer far from the bustle of Tokyo , amid the natural beauty of Nagano prefecture in Japan. In the book , he argues that the primary purpose of a business is to make its employees happy. Their management philosophy also indicates that slow, controlled growth is better than rapid growth and in fact fast growth is the enemy.

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8 Successfactors of Organizing a Global Hackathon

Be-novative

From the Facilitators’ point of view What does it take for a team to win? Best practices from the Global Aegon Hackathon, 2018 As innovation SaaS platform provider, our goal is not just to support companies in making better products and services for the future. As a founder, CEO with a psychology background, for me it is just as much about the experience and learning we can provide for the participants.

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6 Lessons for Corporate Innovation Teams from the Downfall of Theranos | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Here are six key learnings from the downfall of Theranos for corporate innovation teams.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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#1,414 – Implosion Fabrication

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A new breakthrough from M.I.T. researchers could have HUGE implications for the future, even if it does involve shrinking things down to the nanoscale. The innovation, known as implosion fabrication, involves adding a liquid solution to polyacrylate, the absorbent polymer typically found in baby diapers. Lasers are then used to bind molecules to the polyacrylate in various patterns to serve as anchor points which in turn enable researchers to shrink anything they want by affixing those things