IdeaScale

AUGUST 8, 2019

Intrapreneurs are people who are dedicated to their employer yet know how to apply basic principles of entrepreneurship within their roles at work. Sometimes your best “entrepreneurial” ideas come from people inside your organization. There may have been a time when people with characteristics of intrapreneurs were discouraged or outright forbidden to innovate, even within their areas of responsibility.

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Innovation Programs Case Study Entrepreneurship Innovation 174

CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

Military strategy is thousands of years old but the field of business strategy has only been around for about fifty years. Because this field is so new, there’s still a lot of disagreement about how business strategy and business models should be defined—and often among those who write about these topics the most! Given these challenges, is it even possible to answer the question, “What is the difference between a business model and business strategy?

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 8, 2019

Looking for inspiration and guidance on how to make your company more conducive to innovation? Here's some food for thought and action -- Idea Champions' ten most popular postings on the subject. HOW TO FOSTER A CULTURE OF INNOVATION. 1. The Garden of Innovation. 2. 50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation. 3. 56 Reasons Why Most Corporate Innovation Efforts Fail. 4.

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Culture of Innovation Culture How To Innovation 27

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2019

Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web was never fully realized. Now he says it’s time to finish the job. For Tim Berners-Lee the past is prologue, and not a very good one at that. Several months ago I had the chance to sit down to dinner with Tim Berners-Lee at an event we were both.

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Innovation 61

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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Ankush Chopra

AUGUST 8, 2019

This 4 step change model explains why change is hard. It explains why some change efforts succeed while many fail. If you want to know why people stop going to the gym by February after starting on January 2nd it tells you why. If you want to know why you stopped writing that novel after starting it with so much energy it explains. Look at stage 2 as the reason why change is hard.

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InnovationManagement

AUGUST 8, 2019

The scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change only grows stronger. The most recent word from scientists is that the present warming of the globe is "unprecedented" in the last 2,000 years. Some 99% of scientists stood in agreement on this in 2011, and now the scientific community has declared there's "no doubt left" that human activity is warming the earth.

Innovation Management 51

Innovation Management Management Change Innovation 51

Tembosocial

AUGUST 8, 2019

I spoke yesterday with a global insurance company that had built their brand (in part) on how they treat their employees and the high value they place on employee # wellness. PROBLEM: employees weren't aware of what wellness really looked like.

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Company 40

Innovation Leader

AUGUST 8, 2019

Using just a pen and paper, Dan Roam shows you how to tell your innovation story under 10 minutes — even if you can’t draw to save your life.

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 8, 2019

I recently read a great interview, conducted by Wharton's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, with accomplished entrepreneur and angel investor David Kidder (author of the new book, New To Big ). Kidder talks about how to create an environment conducive to growth and innovation. He explains the keys to "productive failure" as part of that culture.

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Company Innovation Management Culture Learning 39

Carla Johnson

AUGUST 8, 2019

August 8, 2019 Everyone’s grumbling about customer experience getting worse. Is it our imagination? Nope. It’s a real thing. At least that’s the findings from a report from Oracle and Customer Experience Expert Jeanne Bliss. The new study, One Size Doesn’t Fit All, highlights the lousy experience consumers have with brands. In fact, 82% give brands the thumbs down.

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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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