Mon.Aug 06, 2018

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What Role Does Research Play in Innovation?

InnovationManagement

A lot of innovation programs have naturally grown out of research and development groups, but most true innovation is a departure from what’s come before so what role does the “research” in “research and development” play in innovation?

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5 Innovative Agricultural Practices That Are Changing the World

Innovation Excellence

Digitization in the modern age means that almost every contemporary field or industry is becoming more and more reliant on hardware connected to and, in some cases, controlled by software. These industries are being transformed from the inside out by innovative technology and practices, and even traditionally analogue ways of life are finding it difficult.

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Building a Culture of Innovation: A Lesson from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Planview

Can the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum really teach you a thing or two about building an innovative culture? You bet. Read on. In an article on Innovation Leader, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO, Greg Harris, shared his thoughts on what innovation means to the nonprofit organization. One notable insight that Harris mentioned was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s adoption of the minimum viable product (MVP) approach to driving continuous improvement.

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How the mind makes new ideas: Bending, breaking, blending

Rmukesh Gupta

In this short video David Eagleman shares how all new ideas originate by bending, breaking or blending existing ideas. . Watch the video here. . Simple, yet profound. Once we know this, there is an amazing array of things that we can create. . Also reminds me of a post that I had written long back – 3 Ways to Systematically Come Up with Breakthrough Ideas.

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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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Product Development Process Lessons from BOSE’s Innovations

Innovation Excellence

I had the good fortune to work with Dr. Amar Bose and with the great company he founded. I helped to bring into the world two blockbuster products – BOSE’s Noise-Cancelling Headphones and the BOSE® Wave® Music System. Here are seven product development process lessons learned from our experience creating products enjoyed by millions of customers. Lesson.

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Inside Baker Hughes’ Energy Innovation Center

Innovation Leader

Four years ago, Baker Hughes opened its Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City. This July, the company reinvented the facility, unveiling the Energy Innovation Center.

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Fall 2018 Corporate Innovation Events

Your Ideas are Terrible

The Enterprise Entrepreneurship Series. August 16th. Atlanta. CFO Rising Midwest Summit. Sept 6-7. Chicago. Future Trends. Sept 24-25. NYC. B2B Next Conference & Exhibition. Sept 24-25. Boston. BrandGarage Summit. October 3-4. Sonoma. Atlanta Techstars Demo Day. October 15th. Atlanta. Atlanta Corporate Innovation Summit. October 18th. Atlanta. WebSummit.

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The art of creative conversations

ImagineNation

This is Part One of two blogs on The Art of Creative Conversations, focusing on the first phase, which is around Preparing for a Creative Conversation. We all know that you can’t innovate if you don’t collaborate, yet how do we make the time to have the candid and creative conversations that true collaboration and innovation […]. The post The art of creative conversations appeared first on Imaginenation.

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Constant Pursuit of Equilibrium

Rmukesh Gupta

All things naturally move towards and want to exist in an equilibrium of sorts. So are we as humans. We seek out and continue to move towards a higher level of productivity until we reach an equilibrium when our capability matches the expectation from us. Once we reach this point, we need to make a choice. Do we settle at this level or do we want to take this to the next level of equilibrium?

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Big Data Solutions for Porsche Driverless Technology

IdeaConnection

Software to make it safer for autonomous vehicles to drive on wet and slippery road surfaces.

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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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SPEAKER TUTORIAL: How to Stop Saying "Um", "Ah" and "You Know"

Idea Champions

Very useful article from Harvard Business Review on the power of longer pauses when speaking in public. MitchDitkoff.

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Innovation 101: A Municipality’s Guide to Working with the Startup Community

CREATORS

Image from [link] 7 Steps to a Successful Collaboration In 2016, the City of San Francisco welcomed the startup community with open arms as it searched for answers to one of its most pressing civic challenges. Through involvement in a 16-week collaboration program matching municipalities with startups to solve civic issues, the city was fortunate enough to be introduced to the startup “Binti”.

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#1,346 – Worldwide Dating Database

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve never believed in the idea of a soul mate. Even if they existed, the likelihood of anyone actually finding their counterpart on a planet filled with billions of people when they are only searching in the general vicinity they happen to already reside in, is probably slim to none. Just think about it. Your soul mate could be driving a rickshaw in suburban China or working in an antique shop in Bangladesh.