Wed.Feb 07, 2018

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Driving Innovation in Higher Education – Insights From an LSE Report

HYPE Innovation

There are a variety of forces impacting colleges and universities today: economic and demographic, financial and ideological. Even forces related to how higher education is “consumed”. In response to this fast changing environment, institutions in higher education are changing too.

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5 Innovation Engagement Best Practices

IdeaScale

More and more companies are inviting their employees to participate in company-wide ideation. Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. But with this opportunity comes new challenges. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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Silicon Valley Can’t Build The Future Alone

Digital Tonto

The days when the digital world could stand alone in blissful ignorance of how the rest of the world does business are clearly waning Related posts: Could Ukraine Be The Next Silicon Valley? This. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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5 ways to improve your Customer Journey

Board of Innovation

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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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Use These 7 Hacks to Become a More Successful Entrepreneur

InnovationManagement

Why do most small businesses fail within their first year? The answers you'll get will vary depending on who you ask. I think it comes down to one thing - habits. Successful entrepreneurs engage in the right behaviors on a consistent basis, while struggling entrepreneurs practice limiting behaviors on a consistent basis. Here are 7 things to incorporate into your routine to make you a better entrepreneur.

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How the Law of Opposites Propels Business Forward

Daniel Burrus

Being anticipatory often boils down to the ability to see what everyone else misses. How can you do that? One way is to simply look where no one else happens to be looking. And how and where you look can help broaden both your and your organization’s capacity for being anticipatory. Leveraging the Law of Opposites isn’t just about being contrarian or being different just for the sake of being different.

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Innovation Needs Exploration

Innovation Excellence

In Sapiens, Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argues that it was the exploratory mindset that led to European dominance over the world. Other empires, such as the Chinese and the Ottomans, had far greater military and economic power in the 18th century. Yet, it was the Europeans quest for understanding that made the difference. To.

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Hey Interface, What’s New?! – Conversational Commerce: People, Problems and Pitfalls

InnovationManagement

Apple’s anticipated addition to the Smart Speaker conversation will be released on Friday. Much as been said about this speaker and the broader commerce implications resulting from the confluence of voice recognition and AI technology. A confluence dubbed as conversational commerce by Uber’s Chris Messina in a piece published on Medium in 2015.

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Podcast: How Innovation Groups Build Resilience

Peer Insight

How do innovation groups build resilience and what does it mean to them? Clay Maxwell dives deep on this question and others as he reflects on learnings he’s had from conversations with innovation leaders in our second podcast on corporate innovation group wins and woes. See the first podcast here , where we talk about the role leadership plays in safeguarding breakthrough innovation.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Herbalife CIO Chris Morris

Planview

Recently, we had an opportunity to catch up with Chris Morris, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Herbalife, who will be sharing his insights at Spigit’s Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd. With Ignite just months away, we wanted to get Morris’ views on the latest innovation trends that are on his radar, what he has learned from spearheading Herbalife’s innovation program, and get a sneak peek at what attendees can expect from his session at the conference.

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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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Increase Your Company's Ability to Innovate in 15 Minutes Per Week

Idea Champions

OK. It's true. We've belled the cat. We have. We've figured out how your organization can spark employee's ability to innovate in just 15 minutes a week. No trainings. No workshops. No online courses. We call it "Micro-Learning for Innovators." Click here to learn more. And if you're interested in raising the bar for organizational storytelling, click here.

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Innovation – Words vs. Actions

Mike Shipulski

Innovation isn’t a thing in itself. Companies need to meet their growth objectives and innovation is the word experts use to describe the practices and behaviors they think will maximize the likelihood of meeting those growth objectives. Innovation is a catchword phrase that has little to no meaning. Don’t ask about innovation, ask how to meet your business objectives.

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One Step Beyond

100%Open

Just before my one and only bungee jump, from the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge in Queenstown New Zealand (pictured), the guy attaching the cord to my ankles told me something that has stayed with me ever since. Namely that all you have to do is have the courage to take one single step. Somehow that was reassuring despite the fact that there is a long drop that follows.