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Podcast S4E84: Uli Weinberg – How Design Thinking has changed

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Prof Uli Weinberg, Director der HPI School of Design Thinking and President of the Global Design Thinking Alliance. We speak about how Design Thinking has changed over time, where it is going and how it needs to be taught in a different way to stay relevant. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – His history in computer animation and video game development. 00:04:00 – How Design Thinking began at the HPI more th

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Reversing your thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

I was speaking with a good friend whose vacation home was threatened by wildfires out west. We spoke about issues like climate change, and controlled burns and other issues that lead to more fires, and more destructive fires. His parting shot to me was - you are an innovator. What can innovation do to change issues like climate change that lead to these destructive fires?

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How NASA Coaches Its Community to Overcome Challenges

IdeaScale

Innovation and NASA are synonymous. The agency is famous for quite literally fitting a square peg in a round hole to rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts. Yet, most of its innovation is on a much smaller level, if no less dramatic in its overall impact. That’s why it won Best Innovation on Ideascale’s 2020 Innovation Management Awards, and … Continued.

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Meet HYPE's Head of Social Impact and Sustainability

HYPE Innovation

Sustainability and social impact are extremely important here at HYPE. So important, in fact, that we decided to put somebody in charge of these crucial topics. Meet Sandra Fernholz, HYPE's first Head of Social Impact and Sustainability. Sandra has worked at HYPE for many years, but as of September of 2019, her focus has been solely on sustainability and social impact matters.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Acquire Customers with Online Ads that Connects to Your Value Proposition Canvas

Strategyzer Innovation

After developing your Value Proposition Canvas you need to design an experiment to test whether what you have designed is accurate. Online ads are a great experiment to test and validate problem-solution fit and determine whether the value proposition you have mapped out really resonates with your target customer segment.

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How Can Enterprises Confront AI Risks

Acuvate

How Can Enterprises Confront AI Risks Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly the most revolutionary technology of the 21st century. There is hardly a month that goes by without the announcement of a new AI product or trend. McKinsey estimates AI to add an additional $13tn to the global economic output by 2030. Businesses are increasingly looking […].

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Five Leadership Qualities that Motivate Others During a Crisis

CMOE

Even in the best of times, being a leader can be challenging. Now the shock generated by the COVID19 virus has produced new and unexpected challenges that have left many leaders struggling to adapt. Moments like this have multiple and varied impacts. Some organizations and businesses are experiencing unsurpassed demand and it has taken an unparalleled effort to keep up with it.

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How to Set Continuous Improvement Goals to See Real Results

Kainexus

We all identify goals to improve ourselves in some way. Whether our goal is to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our family, or increase our productivity, we all have something we're striving for. Although in too many instances, we lose sight of our goals and fall back to old behaviors and the same results. Continuous improvement is no different.

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#1,983 – The Shape Of Food To Come

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Mind control is a scary premise. None of us would willingly allow ourselves to have our thoughts controlled. And yet mind control is all around us in the form of advertising campaigns, subliminal messaging, celebrity endorsements, slanted news coverage, misleading headlines, the spread of fake news, peer pressure, societal norms, etc. And mind control is especially prevalent in the food industry where fancy restaurants obsess our how their plates are arranged and fast food joints try all sorts o

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Innovation Programs & Entrepreneurship: Busting Myths

InnovationManagement

A lot of companies aspire to implement successful innovation programs but the programs fail surrounded by certain myths. A seasoned entrepreneur has bust those myths in the article based on his personal experience. The post Innovation Programs & Entrepreneurship: Busting Myths appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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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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#1,984 – Super White

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Previously scientists had created the blackest black ever. Now they’ve created the whitest white ever and it could lead to free air conditioning. According to Science Alert : Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to Vantablack’s yang. While ultra black materials can today absorb more than 99.96 percent of sunlight , this new super white coat can reflect 95.5 percent of all the photons that hit it.

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Sony Launches a New PlayStation App

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Chat with friends, gets the latest new, and use it to remotely download games to your PS4 or PS5.

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Innovation Series: Dhananjay Singh, Chief Innovation Officer at Beyond Stay

Collectivecamp

Dhananjay Singh is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at Beyond Stay, a travel company. Founded in 2019, Beyond Stay is a hospitality start-up based on a passion to break through the clutter, instil trust and ease the travel choices of consumers.

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How J&J Targets Racial Biases with Personal Accountability

Innovation Leader

With the recent surge in protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement across the US, companies across the world are looking deeper at their role in promoting equality.

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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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“If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing."

Michael Roberto

Source: Fibre2Fashion.com Suzanne Kapner has written a great article about The Gap in the Wall Street Journal this week. She describes in great detail the formidable challenge facing new CEO Sonia Syngal. The long-running troubles at The Gap are summarized most eloquently by Ivan Wicksteed, former chief marketing officer at Old Navy (one of the retail chains operated by The Gap Inc.).

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Eco-innovation: Creating an innovation and sustainability strategy

mjvinnovation

At best, this awareness can produce innovative responses that gradually move society on a path to more sustainable growth. That is where the concept of Eco-innovation is gaining more and more weight among governments, universities, and organizations. The struggle to create strategies that combine innovation and sustainability is an effort that must be embraced.