Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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Defend, Extend, and Create: Innovation for Growth at Evonik

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Dr. Daniel Witthaut is Head of Corporate Innovation Strategy at Evonik Industries AG, a global leader in specialty chemicals. He completed a brilliant presentation at R&D Innovation Strategies & Process Excellence Summit last November in Berlin.

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Top 6 Reasons Why Customer Experience Mapping Efforts Fail

Innovation Excellence

Before we can talk about how to improve customer experience maps, let’s start with a definition. Customer Experience Map: A large, colorful chart that impresses leadership for a few weeks and then gathers dust in the corner. A complex visualization that requires a user manual in order to identify anything productive. A user-centered process that, once.

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Innovation Metrics

Econic

What should you be measuring? One of the most important topics regarding innovation metrics is what, exactly, you should be measuring to get the most out of your innovation efforts. When we talk to organizations we typically see that the metrics measured fall into three separate categories. First, there’s metrics that measure the overall innovation ecosystem.

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7 Things Every CEO Should Know About Their Patents

Anaqua

by Erik Reeves, CTO of Anaqua. We are awash in data – beyond our capacity to absorb and integrate intelligently. Even in the most extreme cases where there is a perfect intersection of data, analytics, valuable metrics, and huge incentives to utilize and optimize, we see both surprising catastrophic failures, and stunning opportunites in markets. To give two stark examples, we turn to the market crash of 2008 – caused by a cascading failure in financial markets that devastated our economy and de

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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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Boeing Engaging Employees via Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

When Boeing wanted fresh ideas on how to spend $100 million, which was the result of the benefits of tax reform legislation it turned to open innovation. The American multinational corporation solicited ideas from its workforce via surveys and mobile “ideas stations” Open innovation is not just for attracting external smarts and ideas. It can also provide ways for companies to engage their employees in the innovation process or in making important decisions.

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PBTO S2E8: Empathy – The Super power of a Successful FBI Hostage Negotiator or an Entrepreneur

Rmukesh Gupta

Who is on the show today: James “Chip” Massey is the CEO of Plowshare Communications, which advises business leaders on strategic negotiations and how to accelerate the sales process by building strong, powerful, and trust-based relationships. . Why is he on the show: . . For more than two decades, Massey served as an FBI Special Agent and hostage/crisis negotiator.

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