Fri.Jul 21, 2017

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The Pressures Placed on the Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

nd There are multiple “stretching and straining points” that make the life of the innovator increasingly uncomfortable. These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. So why is that? It is only when we can truly understand the constraints innovation works under, can we provide more robust solutions to reduced all these frictions and pain points that innovators are under.

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Bridging the Gap between Large Innovation Centers and Small Design Teams

Qmarkets

Innovation centers have captured significant attention in recent years for their role as formalized institutions for driving innovation within large businesses. Digital design teams are their natural counterpart, driving innovation on a more personal level. They are almost a perfect match, but there are some large differences between the two. How can you bridge the gap, using them both in unison?

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Idea Hunt Receives a Boost from Our newest Developer

Svava

Idea Hunt Developers Get a Boost From our newest summer addition Idea Hunt is growing and now able to offer more updates and more new functionality than ever, due to some brand new developers joining our team this year. This summer, we are thrilled to have the help of a talented young developer, Sebastian Callh. […].

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2 days of innovation at Unbound Festival

Idea Drop

We met many interesting people, many inspiring startups and influential industry thought leaders. We were overwhelmed by a number of people coming to our stand and giving us feedback, asking questions and injecting an enormous amount of confidence into our blood. Having so many smart people under one roof we thought to ourselves, what could be a better opportunity than this to launch an open challenge and collect some bright ideas on how to solve it.

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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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Idea Spotlight – new features!

Wazoku

Wazoku is proud to announce the launch of quite a few new Idea Spotlight features! Here’s a quick summary of what’s new and improved: Enhanced Interface. The enhanced interface offers an easier way to view content across Challenges, Ideas and Idea Spaces. Now, all content is categorised into corresponding tabs, including tabs for overviews, ideas, evaluations, tasks, outcomes and analytics.

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Anxiety Hits Middle Managers the Hardest

Innovation Excellence

“What are the metrics?” We get this question all the time from nervous managers, directors, and VPs who are struggling with the philosophical underpinnings of front-end innovation. They are eager to launch an innovation program, but want to be able to foresee the outcome before embarking on a journey of discovery.

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How Intel Is Transforming Hiring and Work Habits

Innovation Leader

Jennifer Monnig spent the past three years leading an innovation team within the HR organization at Intel Corp. that sought to create a more collaborative culture.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit.

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Idea Hunt Receives a Boost from Our newest Developer

Svava

Idea Hunt Developers Get a Boost.

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Networking Inside & Outside the Firm to Drive Innovation

Michael Roberto

Linus Dahlander, Siobhan O’Mahony, and David Gann have conducted a fascinating new study regarding researchers at IBM. They studied more than 600 technical experts at IBM, people responsible for many of the firm's patents. They paid attention to how these experts networked with others both inside and outside the firm. In an HBR digital article , the scholars summarize their findings: We measured the breadth of each person’s external social network by the different types of external sources they

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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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Idea Hunt Receives a Boost

Svava

From our newest summer addition.

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The 3-Step Guide to Better Task Management

Bolste

The rise of task management over the last 50 years has been widespread across all types of businesses and organizations. It would be hard to find successful global and domestic companies anywhere that do not use task management within their organizations. However, without the right plan in place, task management efforts can definitely fall short. Often, this is due to organization issues and challenges that are preventing it from having the expected impact.

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Why You Need to Ask Why

Idea Champions

Some years ago, there was a big problem at one of America's most treasured monuments -- the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Simply put, birds -- in huge numbers -- were pooping all over it, which made visiting the place a very unpleasant experience. Attempts to remedy the situation caused even bigger problems, since the harsh cleaning detergents being used were damaging the memorial.

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Entrepreneurship: The “Trump Effect” is scaring away startups as Germany beckons (in German)

etventure

Fewer and fewer German founders are motivated to move to the USA. Whereas just a year ago 32% wanted to launch their startup there, according to a current Bitkom survey this figure declined by more than one-half to only 15%. By contrast, Germany is becoming increasingly attractive as a startup location. “Trump Effect” scares away potential founders.

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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